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billrobertson42
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About billrobertson42
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Comment #46061001
I wanted to suggest Fernflower. I have a lot of experience with it, because it's what Jetbrains uses in Intellij. I have only seen it generate sensible code. I took a quick peek at…
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Comment #45553562
I took it as sarcasm.
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Comment #45521109
What is react doing that appears to make it so much slower? Where does it spend its time?
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Comment #44615201
When you're writing a release, or about some detail of your project, you need to directly give new readers background, or at least provide some navigation to something else that pr…
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Comment #37404803
This is amazing. Thank you!
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Comment #37239098
zmq is a challenge to get to work for sure. It's super low level.
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Comment #37143041
Good news! It's in rubles.
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Comment #31416489
Awesome!
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Comment #31415092
A simple font selector would be nice. I have some seriously impaired vision w/o correction and monospaced fonts really help when I have to look at a screen that way. That and abili…
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Comment #26459907
Good for them. Bug, mistake, bad data, or whatever. Glad they fixed it.
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Comment #26459279
It doesn't appear to be locked now.
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Comment #23114621
If the expose category and tags then passing through the ability to filter based on that would nice too.
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Comment #20161540
I started in the 90's and I realized early on that non-tech people in the company viewed us as cogs.
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Comment #20137406
Realizing that "coder" is largely a pejorative term and most people have no idea and appreciation for what you do.
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Comment #18749986
Have you tried seeing if you're connected to anyone there through LinkedIn?
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Comment #18507878
The reason that there is a conference for X is because somebody makes money running a conference for X. Be it directly or indirectly.
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Comment #18397245
core.logic hasn't really seen any updates in such a long time. I don't think it's maintained any more.
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Comment #18049525
Thanks. That's very interesting. I don't suppose you're going to tell me that it has Clojure's amazing data structures too. :-)
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Comment #18047428
What about run-time safety? e.g. are the pointers? does it have builtin in array bounds checking? (Heck, does it even have arrays?)
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Comment #18047267
Excel w/o vba is the ultimate in functional programming.
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Comment #17941358
Crazy talk here, but do you have control of the database? Can you get history added to it?
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Comment #17848789
Well, that's unfortunate. DGraph seemed like it was pretty cool. I wish them the best of luck.
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Comment #17839484
Could that be the nature of Github? Doesn't it give credit to whomever merges pull requests?
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Comment #17832126
I assume more testing will occur after the four bugs are addressed. Will that be published on the Jepsen blog?
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Comment #17782240
> Our proof ... demonstrates the absence of implementation bugs. It's definitely a strong statement, and thanks for the qualification. When I saw the words on the page I began to w…