fedesilva
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7 years ago
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on: Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview
At least for me, webapps are just 1 in a thousand tabs open in 500 browser windows (ok, I exaggerate a bit). For an app with it's own window I can just hit a shortcut and said app gets focus.
Disclaimer, not an Elektron fan.
fedesilva
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7 years ago
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on: Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview
About 6k+ people use it in my org - the vast majority are not devs.
fedesilva
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8 years ago
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on: 42-inch yacht still hoping to become the smallest boat to cross the Atlantic
Many people cross the Atlantic every year in relatively (not like this) small boats every year. There are common procedures and knowledge available to people that do that, see here for example:
http://www.yachtingmonthly.com/archive/arc-safety-checklist-...Examples of gross negligence: being dismasted in low or moderate wind conditions because lack of maintenance to the rigging and/or motor failing because of lack of a fuel filtering system, departing when conditions are obviously not favorable (wind against current in the Gulf Stream off the US coast).
There is no such thing as a clear line but it can be established for each case I think.
fedesilva
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9 years ago
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on: Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
The lazy approach is probably way cheaper. Unless the social media shit storm is too big in which case they can correct after the fact.
Not saying it is ok to do it. Just that business will always pick the cheapest option they can get away with - that is, that does not affect the bottom line.
fedesilva
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10 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How to take personal care when you are in front of screen for 16 hours?
In my case its the contrary; it's the changes in patterns that distract me; the brain can move repetitive sounds to the background.
I don't play the same song but play repetitive music, also I use mid-tempo and up so I don't get sleepy.
fedesilva
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11 years ago
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on: Scala: Where it came from, Where it's going
"Knowing LinkedIn is saying "enough" is a real breather for me. At this point, I can stop. Hopefully it will trigger a chain reaction, and leave Scala for the academics."
You later speak of "hate" while justifying on the decision of one company your dismissal of a whole ecosystem. The chain reaction comment was tasteless and in no way looks like an opinion trying to make the platform better as a community.
If you don't like it, drop it.
Also FWIW in my experience with academics, most of them use Python, go figure.
-- EDIT
I don't usually reply to comments like this one but this time I could not resist. Sorry.
fedesilva
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11 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Scala usage?
I would say that is because neither you nor the original authors had an idea of how things work (thread scheduling, etc).
Good for you if you rewrote it and it did solve your problems. Obviously it was not such a huge task, if it was, learning how to control those things would have been wiser.
In this specific case 'dispatchers' is what you were looking for (http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/dispatchers.html) and it is quite flexible.
fedesilva
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11 years ago
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on: Scala.js no longer experimental
But this applies to any javascript program (or compiled to javascript). If you have specific requirements then scala.js is not the tool. Scala is.
fedesilva
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11 years ago
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on: Avoiding Complexity with Go
I agree with you. There is a difference between simple and simplistic. Easy is not always simple.
fedesilva
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11 years ago
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on: Scala: the Case for Correctness
It's true what you say about libraries and turtles. Still it's rare the event when I get an NPE from my/our code.
Sometimes think I would love to have a layer between us and Java. Some sort of FFI which returned everything on an Option.
Probably too cumbersome, but still ...
fedesilva
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11 years ago
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on: Scala: the Case for Correctness
You can always use Option() as in:
scala> Option(System.getProperty("kaboom"))
res1: Option[String] = None
then map, getOrElse or fold at will.
(edited format)
fedesilva
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11 years ago
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on: Official Go support
In my experience most people won't even learn the ins and outs of the "for those who can't" languages. Worst yet, it's not about the language: most people won't grasp more important concepts that maybe "for those who can" languages force them to know upfront. And clearly while not knowing upfront some things is easier in the short term, it is a recipe for disaster as problems get more complex. So maybe it's about problems "for those who can" and "for those who can't".
fedesilva
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11 years ago
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on: Announcing Calibre 2.0
Open source does not mean "Accept All Patches At All Costs", it does not even mean accept any patch at all.
fedesilva
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11 years ago
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on: MySQL: Why “My”?
My experience tends to be that distro packaged software is not always what one ends up using in production. Except for some base packages when you start doing more sophisticated deployments. Distros may backport bug fixes and specifically security fixes but they tend to be several versions behind.
fedesilva
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12 years ago
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on: Why do dynamic languages make it more difficult to maintain large codebases?
Why did you have to write the same function again and again? I guess polymorphism would have helped, would it not? Not knowing too much c++ I can't really comment so I guess I am asking for a clarification.
fedesilva
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12 years ago
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on: Nimrod: A New Approach to Metaprogramming [video]
I hear people saying this all the time. Why? For me they are similar to type-classes+records but without polymorphism. Care to elaborate?
fedesilva
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12 years ago
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on: Nimrod: A New Approach to Metaprogramming [video]
No. It has polymorphism and metaprogramming, things that Go (at least parametric polymorphism) eschews.
fedesilva
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12 years ago
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on: Nimrod: A New Approach to Metaprogramming [video]
If I understand correctly once you stop using the GC, Nimrod is not memory safe. Rust is.
fedesilva
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12 years ago
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on: Web Framework Benchmarks Round 7
There are several servlet containers listed, that is as plain as JEE can get, isn't it?
fedesilva
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12 years ago
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on: Facebook is using D in production starting today
I wrote a simulation software to test a product in my previous job which used akka mostly but also used AHC which is a plain java http client library without problems. Size-wise the code would periodically get more features but by refactoring often it never got beyond 2500~3000 LOCs. Readability was never harmed; Scala - contrary to what some people think - allows for very clear code. People that inherited the code is working on adding features. Obfuscated code can be written in PHP if you want (or are unable to do otherwise). Another piece of scala software was an internal web service written using unfiltered on jetty. It's so stable sometimes I just forget it's there.
