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Paul Snively
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Paul Snively
@JustDeezGuy
Just deez guy, you know?
Earth, for now
Joined March 2024
Replying to @moonsandhues“I have a type and I like it, but I married the best one” is kinda a W, IMO.- Replying to @meaning_enjoyerYou know you’re dealing with a different kind of action movie when the protagonist’s first words under stress are “THINK, John! THINK!”
- Replying to @politicalmathBesides that, "a gay man's satire on masculinity" is literally "Fight Club."
- Replying to @memeticsisyphusIf you watch the documentaries for “The Incredibles,” you learn Brad Bird was inspired by overhearing neighbor ladies insult his stay-at-home wife and mother of their children, when it was clear to him she was a hero. A backyard BBQ version of this got as far as storyboards, and
- "We do CI/CD with GitHub Actions:" insta-red-flag.this is my first experience with github actions and it's like they say: sometimes free is the most expensive option
- Let’s also reflect on the fact the Firefox team were very experienced C++ developers, had the ability to hire the best, had a 250KLOC+ C++ CSS engine they tried to make concurrent because CSS benefits a LOT from it, suffered from massive memory-management issues, and decided itthere is a surprisingly large amount of people that think not being able to write memory safe C/C++ is a "skill issue" I want all those people to watch & listen to this video of Azure CTO very carefully Google, Microsoft and others are very open that C/C++ is a problem
00:00 - Replying to @EmmaTolkinYes. Also because it’s easier to PRETEND to eat from an opaque container. Virtually all scenes involving eating are simulated, to avoid full mouths, digestive issues later, etc.
- Haskell doesn't make I/O hard; it reveals that I/O is hard. Rust doesn't make manual memory management hard; it reveals that manual memory management is hard.People think Rust is hard and makes you less productive. But I think when you grow comfortable with Rust, you‘ll learn that theres a lot less mental overhead involved in writing Rust code than other languages. The compiler is a safety net, not your enemy.
- Replying to @ItsMarieMcCurdy*checks notes* Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino has entered the chat.
- Haskell doesn't make I/O difficult; it reveals that I/O is difficult. Rust doesn't make manual memory management difficult; it reveals that manual memory management is difficult.One time Dijkstra was accused of making programming more difficult and responded that he was only revealing how difficult programming is. x.com/AlgebraFact/st…
- Replying to @credenzaclear2ngl, I love that she stops herself from saying "I'm just fucking with you."
- Related: "Haskell doesn't make I/O complex. It reveals that I/O is complex."Rust surfacing hidden complexity and making it explicit is part of its superpowers
- I asked one interviewer about Fizzbuzz a decade and a half or so ago. He told me it was to weed out candidates who were lying about being able to program. At all. I thought he was exaggerating then. I was wrong.The bar for technical interviews continues to fall lower and lower I have taken to asking candidates what version of Python they write (so I can ask them some version-specific questions) Then they tell me nonsensical version numbers, which is sometimes indicative that they're
