@mattly I was wondering if there was some kind of Unicode Hijinx in play...
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 07:09:39 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 02:54:15 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
Comapny interviewing you: where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Where do you see this comapny in 5 years? Your leadership isn't think past next quarter's financial results and your engineering managers are replacing juniors with Chat GPT to save a few cents now.
Are any of you fuckers thinking 5 years into your future?
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 07:17:34 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
@mattly @technomancy well I'm not saying LISP isn't best.
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 07:15:09 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
@mattly @technomancy I agree with you about trying to design languages to make it harder to make mistakes though and that's why I like the Pony approach.
I'm honestly not sure any way of assigning precedence of binary operators is good.
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 07:11:50 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
@mattly @technomancy I agree with the principal. But I honestly don't know which way is better.
There are established conventions for the math operators yes. But those aren't the only binary operators in most programming languages.
What the fuck does order X + Y & Z apply in? (PS: fuck Ruby and whoever else though &&/and have different binding priorities was a good idea).
Once you move past the rules we learned for arithmetic, "go left to right for everything" actually is better, I think.
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 06:54:56 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
@technomancy @mattly well as a fellow Smalltalk lover, I can't fault you there. And frankly just evaluate left to right is still better then trying to remember binary operator precedence.
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 06:43:35 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
@technomancy I'm not 100% sure it's what @mattly was thinking of, but I think so.
Anyway, a language called Pony makes it a syntax error to mix operators without parens: i.e. 1+2+3 is fine but 1+2*3 is a syntax error.
PEDMAS or BODMAS or whatever can go eat a bag of Dick's (meaning the burger place, of course).
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 03:09:46 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
@krono Alacritty seems worth a look. I know some Linux users who use it. I've never seriously contemplated anything other than iTerm until today, but it has got a macOS version.
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 03:09:43 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 04:25:12 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
@mattly well... yes. In a word.
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 03:20:38 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
@mattly well your former employer (my current) switched to it recently. Surely that signals its impending death.
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 02:28:52 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
@reiterator @thomasfuchs the statement probably applies to all jobs.
But the software industry is up there with oil and gas in our ability to pretend externalities of our job don't matter and we are all really sure that software is, in fact, a purely technical endeavour.
Most fields know they are social actors.
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 14:05:17 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
@mattly heh. That's a pretty good point.
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 13:49:54 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
I have questions. Chiefly: Is this joke funnier if you know the two pictured men are or funnier if you don't?
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 03:50:11 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
@mattly well shit then.
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 03:43:30 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
@mattly are your mutual funds actually positive?
I think 0.5% growth is better than I've done the last few years.
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 02:16:42 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
@mattly that does make sense actually. Its beginnings were very focused on gamers.
It's a gamer lifestyle brand first, communication tool second (fourth?)
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 13:32:06 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
@mattly you mean all those techno-futurist how-to guides?
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 09:08:29 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
@mattly I like spice-hot food a lot. Extra hot wings. Extra hot curry. Lots of stuff. I regular mix my own spice blend for burritos that my friends fear.
But spicy granola still seems really weird and probably not good.
And even if it was good I would absolutely expect that to be called out explicitly.
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Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 04:47:17 JST Jon (Snarf) Mason
Don't make me tap the "A phone number is bit something you own and SMS is not good 2FA" sign. You know I'll do it.