sping

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also been UK law for a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pulsar, the best code editor⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it’s not modal by default. It is if you want it to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes I want to call malloc, just as a treat⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Though as a non-embedded dev who has interviewed embedded candidates I like to ask them to talk about the issues around C vs C++ for embedded and the first point 8 out of 10 of them make is C++ is bad because dynamic allocation is bad. And while they could expand to almost sort of make their point make sense, they generally can’t and stumble when I point out it’s just as optional in each.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can have anything you wan...⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m used to non-software managers thinking knowing a language is knowing how to make software systems, but other programmers? It’s like saying if you know every language now you’re a novelist. Knowing the language is just a basic necessary fundamental from which you can start to learn how to design and create software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favourite font for code ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ubuntu Mono since it was in beta and I heard the designer from Dalton Maag — the typeface design studio commissioned to design it — give a talk about how excited he was to be able to create a comprehensive, carefully thought out, and truly free/libre font.

  I’ve never seen another one that I prefer the look of, and now it’s imprinted in my brain. People love to crap on Shuttleworth / Canonical / Ubuntu, but there are a lot of great things they’ve contributed over the years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We did this to ourselves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that’s why we use typing, to get better working code more easily. That’s why I use type annotation and enforced checkers in Python. It makes it so much easier and quicker to create good systems of any significance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What open source solutions do you use or want to use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Still climbing that learning curve after decades now, and the payoffs keep building.

  It’s a real programmers’ environment. One you code to grow and mold to your needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Maps partners with TfL to prioritize safer cycling routes in London⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s close to useless in my city, in stark contrast to the quality of its driving directions. It loves to ignore quiet roads too send me to chaotic large busy intersections without bike lanes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What non-IDE tekst editor do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest irony is it’s often told by vim fanboys, who apparently don’t realize a very comprehensive emulator of vim it is one of the editors Emacs offers. But mostly it seems to be told by people who don’t even know what Emacs is, they just know they’re meant to disapprove of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What non-IDE tekst editor do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If call that an IDE, but also one that makes using a non-IDE EDITOR SUPERVISOR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your most obscure binding?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. The primary advantage of keyboard control. It stops being something you engage your conscious brain for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which software do you mostly use for programming, and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Emacs includes vim though. So what would it need to include to have a good text editor of vim isn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which programming language is hard to understand?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am just regurgitating one of my favorite Perl jokes for a laugh. Though for me the joke contains some truth. Most of the Perl code I’ve ever seen is pretty impenetrable for non-Perl programmers. I quite literally have returned to my own Perl efforts after just a couple of weeks and had some trouble working out what the code is doing (in ways I do not experience with other languages).

  When Python was trying to unseat Perl, that in my view was reason alone to prefer it: I didn’t know Python but I could read Python. Though at that point Perl had the benefit of loads of libraries and ubiquity, and Python hadn’t got there yet. But it was enough to have me cheering for Python’s success at the expense of Perl. I get that Perl has many virtues, but they’re nullified by the ugliness and relative inaccessibility of its code in my eyes.

  I really hate the magic side-effect variables where you do a pattern match or something various obtusely named variables now have meaningful values with relation to the last match. To me that’s just flat out bad coding, and it’s built into the language.

  The above was my second-favorite Perl joke. My favorite being:

  Perl is the vise-grips* of programming languages. It’s a tool that can do most jobs, and it’s the wrong tool for all of them.

  *BrEng: mole-grips

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite programming language?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, as long as you just type annotation and checker-clean code.

  Asyncio programming is a delight, context-based constructs can make sophisticated code safe, robust, and clear. Anything mildly popular you want to interface with probably had a library… There are major advantages to swimming in the mainstream.

  Yes it may have grubby and suboptimal corners, but the real world making things happen problems are easy to avoid usually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which programming language is hard to understand?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Perl is a write-only language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chris Kaba: MoD offers military support after armed Met officers turn in weapons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  their oath to serve and protect the public

  Their what now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8 Months and Counting: The (harsh) reality of building a product from scratch.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I blame the easy-to-use guis

  All the people I’ve worked with seem to use the command line. They just don’t know much beyond “commit everything” and basic push/pull/branch/merge.

  Conversely I learned most of what they don’t know direct from the magit GUI. So I often don’t know the specific command arguments. Not a good thing, but only a problem communicating what to do to others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8 Months and Counting: The (harsh) reality of building a product from scratch.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t there a magit-alike putting for vscode. I have found it so frustrating working with devs who don’t use magit, because most seem to find slightly more advanced git like squash and fixup and cherry picking to be impossibly hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Kids often don’t know the difference between “wifi” and the Internet. It’s not an age thing these days.