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You can use [ratchet]( https://github.com/sethvargo/ratchet ) to manage your GH action pointers.

When I was a CS undergrad, I used to love to write string libraries.

The amazing part to me is that SPAs are so much harder to do right compared to old-school server-side rendered HTML. One could be forgiven if they think a "simple" SPA is a good st…

Yeah. I feel like this is some sort of social experiment.

Java is statically typed. Clojure is not. To me, this is the biggest difference and the reason to choose Java.

As an expat living in Zurich, I can say that it is difficult to explain to American's what they're missing.

You are correct from one point of view. But, the point I was making was that the class definitions for bg color can be contained within a single file in your application. Using `st…

There's a big difference between class="u-bg-red" and style="background: red;". The big difference being that the class make it so that it is first-class application idea. And I th…

I used this technique in my previous startup. I even had shell scripts that generated my LESS files. One of the driving philosophies was that when one saw a CSS class, they should …

I generally agree with all of this.

As a software engineer, you should be building a platform on which the product can exist. I rarely, if ever see this done. Probably because it takes a big risk as an engineer to ac…

I don't have a problem with future-proofing. I do have a problem with half-solutions (which is mainly what I see in the industry). E.g. if you need to run some code before or after…

Honest question. What is so annoying about that code? It's handling (in an application-specific manner) the special case of dividing by zero (which the `/` operator doesn't handle)…

I know nothing about pony, but if it does have an optional type, this would be a much better choice. You lose information by returning 0. Returning "none" would keep the informatio…

I've lived in Zurich for two years now. It would be very difficult to explain to an American who only lives in America how nice real public transit is. Or a good education system. …

I live in Zürich and just met a gentleman who goes to Sweden and Russia every winter to skate on frozen lakes. I had never heard of this, but was fascinated by his videos, pictures…

I've worked at a couple of the top tech companies and have been co-founder of a startup with a successful exit. Pros: * Low stress. I find the most stressful thing at work is tryin…

Tough to answer w/o more info. FWIW, I've used Lucene, Solr, and Elasticsearch and have ended up settling on Lucene being the best interface for me.

This seems pretty simple to me. You can either use null, and force checks before any reference to a nullable value (of course, these checks are usually skipped). Or, you can not us…

Do you still feel the same way if you consider the option type a container type.

I've got a side project, and I'd like to see if it has legs (image-scale.com). It's a SaaS business. I would like to charge customers for use i.e. get a credit card at sign-up. Aft…