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You can do a lot of the codeblock stuff with JavaScript's Function prototype (bind, apply, call): const someBlock = function () { console.log(this.a + 2 + this.c); } const myFunc =…

Their future success is heavily tied to that set of opinions being correct and drumming up further investment. Even with the best will in the world, this type of quantitative opini…

From my limited knowledge, Rust's type system is quite close to the ML family-- so perhaps F# would be a general-purpose GC'd language equivalent? I am mainly interested to know ho…

For web work, are there benefits to using Rust over a garbage collected language that also benefits from a similar type system?

Yes, if you're an application developer that has to build the latest feature to come out of a spin-the-wheel product management meeting. E.g., you're tasked with adding arbitrary c…

I was under the impression OOP with classes is not cache performant when doing common game engine tasks like mass updating the velocity or position of objects.

Our industry has a few standard formats that we rolled our own for. It was a relatively large amount of work.

Three month notice periods are relatively common in the UK, don't worry about it -- and don't quit before you have another job lined up. Your proposed course of action is predicate…

Yeah, it's great

Biodiversity is not about enjoying nature. It is key to the stability of how humanity currently lives on Earth. The term to research for why biodiversity is useful in a utilitarian…

I don't think anyone who uses Clojure in anger would put it on the same level as JavaScript when it comes to letting through a ton of runtime errors. The integrated tooling around …

I disagree on Clean Code. It puts too much importance on superficial "5 easy steps" points that put too much priority on the wrong things. Reading quality open source code is a bet…

Pretty much everything in CI is driven by YAML or JSON or YAML string as a value in a JSON property and they uniformly suck. So I think GP is correct.