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That article was clearly written by AI, based on data from 20 years ago.

Yeah, it doesn't work with keyword arguments. In the playground I tried a simple keyword with default value, and it converted to the wrong thing, as if "someone" was a valid type. …

This is really cute and heartwarming. Back in the day, a lot of people including me reported feeling more comfortable in Ruby after one week than all their other languages with yea…

Wow. You are me.

I see posts like this one pop up from time to time. I love it. Based on my 30y of exp that's also the workflow I converged on. It seems to me like every experienced and skilled dev…

Actually you're right, it is an implementation detail. The original isn’t mistaken, it’s just showing the lo-to-hi partitioning pass rather than the from-both-ends version I had in…

I'm pretty sure the swapping is a fundamental part of the quicksort algorithm, not a mere implementation detail. That's the reason quicksort is an in-place algorithm.

This is cool, but missing a LOT of details between steps 4 and 5, which is the meat of the quicksort. Actually, the first and last elements of step 4 would be swapped, which means …

This article really resonated with me. I've been trying to teach this way of thinking to juniors, but with mixed results. They tend to just whack at their code until it stops crash…

Reading this, I couldn't help but think these guys really know where their towel is. The opposite of enshittification?

Beautiful. I had that exact computer model 30 years ago.

> Don't we have decades of research about the improvements in productivity and correctness brought by static type checking? Yes, we have decades of such research, and the aggregate…

> This is incorrect, according to this comment from the Firefox implementer who delayed the feature. He intended the roll back to be temporary. [0] I see no such thing in the link …

No, please, just no. The idea of using PUT, DELETE, or PATCH here is entirely misguided. Maybe it was a good idea, but history has gone in a different direction so now it's irrelev…

grep has a --line-buffered option that does the job fine in most cases. Just set in your aliases grep='grep --line-buffered', that way you get the correct behavior when you tail lo…

I'm 47 and I also have never heard this in my life. So I don't think it's just a matter of younger generations.

An order of magnitude is a bit much. I'd say quick and dirty gets you 3 shots, while slow and beautiful gets you 1. And if you succeed, it means the result is dirty/ugly code that …

It's the first time I hear "Mikado" but it's pretty much the commit policy I established for work, and we call it micro-commits. http://lucasr.org/2011/01/29/micro-commits/ https:/…

I can't believe such satirical gold is getting downvoted.

Yep, this is pretty much what I've settled on myself. GET for read, POST for write. And a url made of a slash-terminated "resource" followed by an "action" verb. user 123 + edit = …

Thank you for saying that, it save me the trouble of writing it. This apples-to-oranges comparison (strawman? motivated reasoning?) unfortunately makes me mistrust this entire arti…

Fully agree. When the user selects a file via the file selection dialog, that automatically implies s/he has given permission to read that file. So the Flatpak libportal approach h…

I wonder what would be the performance characteristics of using the top 2 bits to mark 63-bit integers. So 00xxx are positive integers and 11xxx are negative integers. That way all…

Oh, that's very close. And a Steve Yegge blog post fits the era I'm thinking about. I think what I read was less rambling, with a narrower topic, but it was very very close to this…

That's interesting. A bit all over the place, but that's expected of C2 :-)