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Re:Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary
on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @11:35AM (#14901808)
That's a retarded takeaway.
Re:Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide
on Saturday July 29, 2017 @10:16PM (#14884051)
You just gave me a new frame for thinking about a few things I'd already learned, as well as some interesting leads on questions I didn't even know to ask. Thank you!
Re:Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs
on Friday July 28, 2017 @09:47AM (#14874222)
Cities are cool to think about for that reason. They're formed because it's more efficient logistically for all these economic actors to come together. However, they're unpleasant (in some ways, but not others) to live in because of side effects of the same processes: concentrated noise, pollution, etc.
Re:Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to t...
on Thursday July 27, 2017 @01:13PM (#14867328)
I'd love more contributions to cross-platform native UI toolkits and frameworks. Write once, run anywhere native apps have a place.
Re:Buying time promotes happiness
on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @07:31AM (#14846887)
Even if I accepted these calculations, I still have to work a 40 hour week. I can't optimize time spent on my profession, time spent on life maintenance, and leisure time. So I just work with what I have left over, and given these constraints I choose not to change my own oil, sure as I am I could do it.
Re:Mechanical Turing Machine in Wood (2015)
on Friday July 21, 2017 @11:00AM (#14821056)
Ah, so you've encountered jQuery.
Re:The long arrow operator in C++
on Thursday July 13, 2017 @01:11PM (#14763052)
this is beautiful AND insane
bravo
Re:Analyzing GitHub, how developers change programming languages over ...
on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @06:40PM (#14757290)
Some possible confounding variables:
what if certain language users are more likely to squash commits?
what if certain language users are more likely to have private repos?
Re:The Beauty of Programming (2001) [pdf]
on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @10:40AM (#14752865)
I enjoy programming games and other things as a hobby, but the work can fall short of your points especially in my experience in web development:
2. After days of work, your entire branch can be discarded when the feature spec changes 4. Repetitive tasks abound 5. Not so much creating from pure thoughtstuff, but rather intractable legacy codebases on top of bothersome system configuration
Your last quote sounds nice, but ignores the reality of coding. Even good coders have to write ugly (hard to maintain regardless of data structures) code sometimes. The real world just introduces edge cases which make even the most beautiful system have warts in places. Web development exposes concurrency, scaling and other things which can lead to tradeoffs against code cleanliness.