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prospero
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ztellman@gmail.com @ztellman
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My point is that the creator/user dichotomy exists at every level of software.
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Comment #44282924
Show me a software developer who isn’t an end user for someone else’s code.
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Comment #43111399
Here’s one in Java: https://github.com/lacuna/bifurcan/blob/master/src/io/lacuna...
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Comment #41626852
Yes, and that is used as an example for the general point: a network transparent API doesn’t help us understand the network when it inevitably fails.
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Comment #41622261
The point is that an interface should help you to both ignore and understand the underlying implementation. I'm not sure I understand your point about data and transport, since mos…
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Comment #23686505
It's very plausible that these techniques could be used to fix the output of a CSG library that uses floating point math, but I'm not sure what the specifics would look like. If an…