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Most of the effort in making a language a production language is on the tools and libraries end of things, and LSP is sort of the tip of the iceberg in terms of getting into that s…

The silver lining of this cloud is that it acts as a selection force on institutions, too: If people are harder to pacify, institutions have to step up their game and deliver, or f…

1. Philosophers derive measures of truth from theories of truth. To accept the measure you have to accept the theory. If you question all the theories you simply arrive at well-tro…

The thing I've seen with estimation practice last I researched it is, it works best if you can calibrate. That's something an established shop can do by extrapolating from their pr…

I believe most of the FUD is, in fact, coming from those rivals. Brave proposes cutting out a bunch of middlemen through the token market and making the browser something like an a…

Here, watch this: https://youtu.be/ffryiLmQb1U This is Fortnite build battling. BR as a whole just refers to a game ruleset that forces and encourages a last-man-standing situation…

I think this one is mostly reflective of the risk/reward payoffs of aggressive and unusual play in any particular game. Play to win means - force the confrontation, take gambles, p…

Although I'm not intimate with the BBC hardware this kind of thing doesn't necessarily indicate a hardware mode switch - the renderer could use double width pixels in the HUD simpl…

What you are looking for here is primarily a feedback mechanism issue. This is something that is a hard problem , since good, useful feedback is never quite as simple as just askin…

I literally sat down last spring and focused on this problem with a bit of brainstorming and philosophizing. My goal was to figure out what parts of me added up to being a coherent…

It's a big step, both assets and codepath have to change to make full use of it. It's possible to change some effects to work in a forwards-compatible way, but this isn't a free lu…

I think the devil is in the details of this one. The shop coder may have never heard of a formal method and thinks it is something that must be "slow" or "too complicated", but the…

Honestly, direct pay for attendance would be a great incentive for the poorest demographics. A few dollars can be make-or-break at the margin and even greedy parents that misuse th…

We've had runs spanning a week plus this season where the AQI never gets under 50...SF is not really safe when it's wildfire smoke from the north because it ends up recirculating. …

This looks like it takes influences variously from Haxe, Rust, and Haskell, which are all great in my book. But the first thing that crossed my mind was, "could it compile to other…

Another "too many programming languages" comment. God! I have no idea - what's happening to the world? Are people not skilled enough to evaluate new languages? There are new type s…

Lua is emerging as a "everything compiles to it" source target - you can have Lisp style syntax, you can have static types and JS style syntax with Haxe - it's designed to piggybac…

I took the approach of bolting a second compiler on top of Hugo(a custom Python script) to get the extra things I wanted in Hugo. It still took a while, but I did get to leverage t…

The folding scooters(which do come in e-form) strike a good balance between transportation and transportable: You can take them on transit, and carry them inside. Folding and unfol…

In short: sum types. If behavior is controlled from the top level(as is suggested by the cases where the main loop grows to 10's of thousands of lines) your behavior branching also…

In phases, this is roughly how I learned: 1. Cute hacks like using the eval function in Python and rewriting the string before passing it in. This is basically metaprogramming by m…

Although browbeating does have a lot of value, especially when there are already some bounds on what the problem is and how it can be solved with your product, you will hit a point…

The pattern of "stay silent and look dubious to make the candidate feel dumb" is a really common interview hazing strategy in my experience. I think the next time I see it, I'm jus…

It's associated with an older style of "white tablecloth" dining that has faded away since the midcentury. If you go to the right kind of small-town diner you'll see liver and onio…

Although I wouldn't argue against unit testing(I use it too), I'm a little more hesitant about incentivizing test quantity. Many times when this comes up having been tried it gets …