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Ask HN: Why doesn't math look like a programming language?

I'm a 10x developer and I hate it. Around the time I turned 38 years old I felt competent. My code started to become defect proof. I'm now 42 years old, my code continues to have minimal amount of defects

Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore

Whenever I run the npm install command to install dependencies, CPU usage is getting too high, so I get a CPU alarm from my companies' infra. I want to reduce CPU usage even if I compromise on memory or speed. Is there any way to reduce CPU usage of npm install process?

Typescipt is making me want to quit my job and become a farmer

Thank you stranger. Shows the award.

Most people have managed to killfile Jon Harrop but many are still having trouble unreading him.

CS Majors shouldn’t be forced to learn math or logic

Just as a Vim user would scoff at being forced to write in Notepad, a mathematics PhD would scoff at being forced to express their ideas in Kindergarten-level mathematical notation.

The absurd complexity of server-side rendering

It’s actually okay to be a 1x programmer. Or even a 0.7x programmer. Programming is a tool, little more

It just seems like the [Haskell] community is far too focused on making more ego-inflating advanced features, and not focused enough on teaching it to others so they can share its advantages. There is no point in baking a cake if nobody is going to eat it.

"We should stop using Unix time. Instead, we should calculate the number of seconds from the Big Bang to 0:00 UTC time 1st Jan 2000. It won't be 100% accurate, but it will be within 20 million years. Finally, we should take the last 10 digits."

Why do rust people tell other people they're wrong?

I can use C, C++, Rust, Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective C, Python, OCaml, and Scala […], and I’m well regarded as an extremely good software engineer amongst my peers. I’ve worked on some hairy code out there. I state that so that my following statement has the context.

I think the catch is that 99% of the population doesn't have the brainpower to be a software engineer, as I briefly majored in computer science in college and it was the hardest class I ever took with a failure rate of close to 50%.

Screenshot: imagine, if you will, text on a screen, next to names in a selection of colours.

vocal detractors worry about the added complexity. They fear the inescapable evolution of Go towards either a verbose and Enterprisey Java-lite with Generic Factories or, most terrifyingly, a degenerate HaskellScript that replaces ifs with Monads

When you come across a feel-good thing.

Use the right tool for the job - if you care about generic overhead, golang is not the right thing to use in the first place.

At [OVH's] price point it should be perfectly fine if a datacenter burns down occasionally

Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs

My biggest force-multiplier is my fish shell history, going on 7 years of command line history.

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Generics!!! I can't wait for all the different data structure libraries to embrace it. It will make Go adoption in Data Science use-case easier.

And that is the exact joy of using a language like C or Go; [..] I don’t want to use a bunch of generic structures, I want to use the ones that solve my particular use case best.

  • By - cmov

Goodbye HTML. Hello Canvas! or: How I stopped caring about end-users and learned to recreate the DOM

"If you're using a statically typed language you've already bought into types helping you across your codebase being worthwhile." Let's say you have a gun at home. This doesn't mean you have to shoot it every time the door bell rings.

  • By - cmov

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