dblotsky | 1 year ago | on: Greppability is an underrated code metric
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dblotsky | 5 years ago | on: Predictions Scorecard, 2021 January 01
Aren't these effectively lab tests of robots that can navigate a home?
[dancing] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw [cleaning clutter] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8-w9eF24gU
dblotsky | 5 years ago | on: Getting rid of NPM scripts
Those all sound plausible! But...
1) I suspect GNU Make will be installed on any system where node code will run.
2) You don’t have to .PHONY anything that will never be a real file.
3) My bet is the Makefile will be shorter and clearer, but I am of course biased since I’m used to the syntax.
dblotsky | 5 years ago | on: Getting rid of NPM scripts
Is there any design decision of Make that makes it not suitable for executing programs?
dblotsky | 5 years ago | on: Getting rid of NPM scripts
The `./make` shell script kills me. Why not just use Make?
dblotsky | 5 years ago | on: Please – A cross-language build system
Yeah, that tradeoff between generality and correctness really seems tyrannical.
It kind of feels like the best trajectory is to start small with a general build system, and upgrade as needed? And then if you are confident the project will grow, starting with the specific build system fine too.
dblotsky | 5 years ago | on: Please – A cross-language build system
I am personally not convinced that any build system can be correct and general, but perhaps that’s my lack of experience speaking.
On that 30 minute note though: so, how big does the project need to be in order for Make not to be enough? And at that size, why wouldn’t the project invest the extra week it takes to get the Makefile correct?
dblotsky | 5 years ago | on: Please – A cross-language build system
How big does the project have to be in order for this system to have benefits over Make?
dblotsky | 5 years ago | on: E. B. White’s “Plain Style” at 75
It sounds like the last point, about disobeying the rules when appropriate (my reading of it), was meant exactly to cover these corner cases.
dblotsky | 5 years ago | on: E. B. White’s “Plain Style” at 75
Reminds me of Orwell’s Politics and the English Language: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel....
dblotsky | 5 years ago | on: Baumol Effect
Can this all be explained by the cost of labor being uniform (since humans are humans in all industries)?
So if one industry demands more labor, all others will feel the rising price of labor?
dblotsky | 6 years ago | on: Programming trick questions
This looks like the Post Correspondence Problem at first glance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_correspondence_problem.
dblotsky | 6 years ago | on: Programming trick questions
They inserted spaces though, between characters and words. In this problem, all spaces are removed.
dblotsky | 6 years ago | on: Comma Two Devkit
You’re missing the huge “works incorrectly” space of outputs.
dblotsky | 6 years ago | on: Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler
Facetious answer: Are there any good examples of projects using Parcel for a web app? ;)
Real answer: probably, but a ton of production code is closed-source.
But why restrict to web apps? Most influential software projects in the world use Make.
dblotsky | 6 years ago | on: Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler
Make can run all the tools like babel, uglify, etc.
dblotsky | 6 years ago | on: Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler
Just use Make.
Takes just as long to learn, and is transferrable everywhere.
dblotsky | 6 years ago | on: Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow
He’s called for some disciplines (e.g. women’s studies, anthropology) to be boycotted by students and ultimately removed.
dblotsky | 6 years ago | on: Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow
I find objectionable his “slippery slope” argument about pronouns and his calls for silencing disciplines with which he disagrees.
dblotsky | 6 years ago | on: Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow
Peterson said many other things that are objectionable. If he only said what Zhukov said, Peterson would also be in a more favourable light.
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I think the benefit of having one symbol exist in only one domain (e.g. “user_request” only showing up in the database-handling code, where it’s used 3 times, and not in the UI code, where it might’ve been used 30 times) reduces more cognitive load than is added by searching for 2 symbols instead of 1 common one.