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2,549karma·798submissions·November 19, 2014
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They are, but it's not as natural as A specializes B that specializes C.
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I'm a contrarian here. I really wished we had inheritance in Elixir for GenServers - because those are objects, interacting out of messages and not just glorified structs with associated functi…
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I miss static typing for two separate and quite opposite cases: * trivial errors, that still cause a crash and waste my time ("foo(:yo, 7)" but was "foo(7, :yo)") - sometimes spot…
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Not sure I understand then, the OTP library says "This library is experimental and will likely have many breaking changes in the future!". So you can use untyped OTP as you would from (say) …
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They seem to have rewritten/wrapped OTP, but it's not production ready. https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp YMMV, but a BEAM language without OTP severely limits its appe…
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Is this "rebus" logo any good? I find it pretty bad-looking (while the striped IBM logo is definitely elegant). Done by an intern in an afternoon? I'd understand that, but as a work of …
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I can only think "first world problems".
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Same.
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Why do we need a language that creates a text page by compiling to JS? the same set of goals are handled by AsciiDoc. Real publishers (eg Oreilly) use AsciiDoc as their input format to create books an…
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What is the state of NX on Apple hardware?
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A dedicated 10 Gigabit internet link at a data center will cost you around $1,000 per month from any of a number of providers. A 10 gigabit link can transmit 3240 Terabytes of data in one month.
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I work in telcos, and literally all of them are pay-to-win. When I see those badges on a website I consider them "badges of demerit".
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Can you trust any "industry awards" at all?
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...and you can add generation-time markdown while they are created, so e.g. you can have graphs generated and inserted in the documentation (see https://hexdocs.pm/stoker/Stoker.h…
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That's 6 Mbytes per second.
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Of all the reasons why the NPM ecosystem sucks, the compression of archives is but a side note.
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Who cares about how large a NPM library is? the issue is what you send to your clients, not how monstrous is what you download once on the integration server.
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2:331/113
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The reason why I posted this, was that I find it kind-of interesting for the "culture wars" that plague public discourse - especially in the US, but with a global fall-out - where a number o…
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About the number of bytes a signature was supposed to be....
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I'm a typography fan, but let's admit it - 90% of the world population could live in world where Courier and Comic Sans would be the only fonts avaiable and would not notice a thing.
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Yes definitely. Currently in four languages, for the record.
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I believe K&R is a wonderful introduction to C - "wonderful" as in "let's open the editor and try this". It's well written, simple, and you are left with the feeling …
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...and pictures in a format the journal likes....
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Decade? My team once happened to maintain a file that was originally checked-in in the 1970s... (edit: Not sure if I'm more in awe of the fact that the procedure was still used or because mainfra…
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Welcome to academia.