rjrodger
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@rjrodger
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Comment · 18 days ago
My first web app in 1995 was also built like this!
Except I had no idea malloc existed and the whole thing was static arrays...
Comment · 1 month ago
fabulous!
Comment · 1 month ago
OMG This how I got 3D wireframes working on my zx spectrum in 1989! Linear Algebra - what's that? I got it working by pure experimentation - no coding high has ever quite reached the same level since...
Comment · 1 year ago
null != nil !!!
It is good to see some partial solutions to this issue. It plagues most languages and introduces a nice little ambiguity that is just trouble waiting to happen.
Ironically, JavaScript with its hilarious `null` and `undefined` does not have this problem.
Most JSON parsers and emitters in most languages should use a special value for "JSON null".
Comment · 2 years ago
Good to have a name for this!
My favourite debugging technique is "introduce a known error".
This validates that your set of "facts" about the file you think you're editing are actually facts about the actual file you are editing.
For example: is the damn thing even compiling?
Comment · 2 years ago
Any chance you'd Open Source it?
Comment · 2 years ago
You did say philosophy of engineering, right?
Look no further than “The Specialist” by Charles Sale
“YOU'VE heard a lot of pratin' and prattlin' about this bein' the age of specialization. I'm a carpenter by trade. At one time I could of built a house, barn, church, or chicken coop. But I seen the need of a specialist in my line, so I studied her. I got her, she's mine. Gentlemen, you are face to face with the champion privybuilder of Sangamon County.”
Sometimes the best books are also the shortest.
https://www.toiletrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Spec...
Comment · 3 years ago
To me this looks like a Jevons Paradox situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox [1]
Increased developer productivity will lead to a lot more software development, at all levels, rather than less.
1. "In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress or government policy increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced."
Comment · 3 years ago
Well each of our microservices is also a Node package, so we also do that ourselves for the Lambda deployments - load 'em all up in the one Lamdba!
Comment · 3 years ago
fs.watch is definitely a high priority in order to support day-to-day dev as a build system.
(Hey Jarred - Let’s get that zig package thing done soon!)
Comment · 3 years ago
This is pretty fun - used it to generate diagrams for my book!
Comment · 3 years ago
Not really safe to assume there's a decent one. Better to install directly from https://nodejs.org/
Comment · 3 years ago
I will hire the founders of a failed startup any day of the week over just about any other category of candidate. They are "salted" horses of the finest calibre.
In my last shop, we had 8 (I think) former CEOs on staff. All made very significant impacts to the business.
If you are staring into the Valley of Death, remember that it is a valley, and you do come out the other side, and that makes you rare and valuable.
Comment · 3 years ago
Salty, but a true classic. Having read easily several hundred "business" books, this one is my desert island book.