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> I like their TLI ideas, but I am honestly a bit alergic against designers who lack the phantasy of realizing that sometimes a UIs complexity is a reflection of the complexity of …

Hey, thanks for asking! My interests in it are primarily for quota management -- in my experience, this is inevitably a hierarchical concern, in that you frequently run into the ca…

I suspect I'm in the minority on this, but I would love for k8s to have hierarchical namespaces. As much as they add complexity, there are a lot of cases where they're just reifyin…

Sibling commenters got it. Sorry for the jargon, I've clearly been here too long!

> The whole exercise felt like taking attendance. In my experience, almost anyone who insists on synchronous, in-person standups is doing so because they want them to function this…

> Errors are on your face, instead of having exceptions performing invisible gotos to somewhere far up in call tree. Implicit error handling is more code, but your error handling i…

I have a music degree but have also engaged in a lot of self-study, so hopefully I can still make good recommendations for someone interested in learning on their own. The general …

The Midwest is far ahead of at least the West Coast on this. I saw much more variety of brewing methods, beer styles, and flavor profiles when I lived in St. Louis than I do here i…

One of the biggest conceptual moments in my life was taking an intro class to complex analysis in high school (not through my school itself, this was at a nearby university that ru…

To stick to the more theoretical interpretation of "computer science," and with a focus on theory of computation/programming languages: - Discrete Mathematics And Its Applications,…

If you're able to, would you mind linking to some resources about the case you describe in point three where the kernel need deal with an invalid stack pointer? I'm very curious ab…

Oh, certainly. My assumption was that the GP meant that functors aren't useful on their own _in general_, rather than in the particular context of someone just getting into the typ…

Functors enable the Fix functor and, from there, the whole universe of recursion schemes, so I'm not sure that I agree that they're not useful on their own.

There are substantial differences between Clojure's constellation of protocols/records/multimethods and CLOS, but at least the feature of CLOS that you cite is exactly what multime…

No, thank you for that!

This is wonderful, but I am a little disappointed that it wasn't about mechanical watch movements.

After having gotten a Switch and noticing that I basically never play games on my phone anymore since having done so, I idly wondered if the Switch's release has had any observable…

> The points in the article are valid , but quirks you learn and get past the first time. I still shoot myself in the foot sometimes even though I don't have a single bare new/mall…

Right, I didn't mean to say that they've made it totally impossible, but that the form factor they're trying to push as the "next thing," wireless audio, is not actually a replacem…

I don't think they will, or at least they ought not to, because the situations aren't equivalent. At the time that Macbooks started shipping without CD drives, every use case facil…

For what it's worth, I don't particularly have a cross to bear with respect to Java. I cited it just because its invocations as a Bad Language bogeyman are common in the Go-focused…

This attitude, which I'll paraphrase as "needing any feature that I personally consider unnecessary is a code smell," is endemic to the Go community and a big reason why I still fi…

I grew to really hate annotation-based magic when I worked on a project that used Jackson for JSON serialization. Not only does it circumvent the type system entirely, it also make…

I feel the same. I keep Chrome around, though, because it seems to be the new IE in the sense that I frequently encounter sites that simply don't work properly in either WebKit- or…

I don’t remember where I saw it, so it could be apocryphal, but I saw an admission from an Ableton developer that the difficulty in implementing MPE support is down to the fact tha…