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brennvin

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    Comment #37275128

    > The problem is they can’t justify your cost if you go outside the planned work load Cost? It's a freebie. I'm still doing my tasks, in addition to saving them tons of money with …

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    Comment #37275110

    > but it’s one you made up. You just made a bunch of things up.

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    Comment #37275083

    > Creating new work I am not talking about creating additional work, I am talking about solving problems not on management's radar screen. Some problems are only visible from the f…

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    Comment #37274375

    I suppose it varies a lot from one organization and industry to another. My experience is that managers don't like it when people rock the boat, they prefer their subordinates to j…

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    Comment #36851177

    I assumed it was meant to evoke William of Occam.

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    Comment #35005606

    Tokenizing everything in one go is usually the right approach. The typical case is the error-free case, so you won't actually tokenize more characters than necessary, but you will …

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    Comment #34399654

    Random tidbit: Wasavi sounds like Swedish for "what did we say".

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    Comment #34379503

    Good idea! If we do away with f strings entirely the problem does not occur.

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    Comment #34379216

    What if the compiler issued a warning if the f was missing and let you suppress the warning with an r?

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    Comment #33063487

    "Codes" is correct when the intended meaning is access codes and the like, but not for source code, which is a non-countable noun. I think the uptick is due to the increased number…

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    Comment #32851554

    > Then why haven’t you? I found another product opportunity that will be faster and cheaper to build. That I believe I could out-compete Figma were I rich does not mean I _am_ rich…

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    Comment #32851379

    I'm surprised Figma is worth that much. For a while I was considering bootstrapping a business in this space and I was never very impressed with what I saw of Figma. Does not look …

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    Comment #32012703

    I have never understood why (some) people want to write lexerless parsers. Lexing lets you approach two different concerns separately. What is not to like?

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    Comment #31693675

    > Last indigenous people of Europe There are still many Swedes, Finns, Germans, French etc around.

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    Comment #31293593

    - A tracing garbage collector - Tail call optimization - Closures

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    Comment #31225239

    I am a niche programmer too and make good money just like the author. My expertise is in customizing a software product made by a former employer. The drawback though is that the j…