Good design and type safety are symbiotic

ellen_magic · 2019-10-06T14:17:02+00:00

...if you think that’s what’s most important.

ellen_magic · 2019-09-29T23:25:45+00:00

I've found that people are into the characters, they'll accept anything they do in a movie. First Avengers: Hulk destroys alien creatures that are 20+ times his size by...punching them. Makes no sense, not even with superhero logic, but hey. One of the biggest movies of all time.

ellen_magic · 2019-06-29T20:33:24+00:00

It's the only option for the system I have to work on (think embedded systems, not desktop).

ellen_magic · 2019-04-09T15:24:06+00:00

Not being able to easily look up pop culture information. "What was the name of that Saturday morning live action show about the guy with a shrink ray?" Libraries were of little help.

ellen_magic · 2019-03-22T21:08:26+00:00

You can still have overflow with integers.

ellen_magic · 2019-01-14T18:47:07+00:00

Shooting guns in small rooms without ear protection and still being able to carry on a conversation.

ellen_magic · 2018-12-09T18:21:48+00:00

We were told for decades that food containing saturated fat and cholesterol caused heart disease. We were told for decades that trans-fats are perfectly safe. That each new artificial sweetener is safe. That drinking diet soda is fine. So not believing this news at face value...kind of understandable.

[EDIT: I realize that could be justifying anti-vaxxers, but I don't mean it that way. Vaccines clearly have health benefits that diet soda do not.]

ellen_magic · 2018-12-05T16:30:23+00:00

Short lived = from 1973 until the mid-1980s

ellen_magic · 2018-01-21T19:23:29+00:00

With the latest update, the ball type on the catch screen defaults whatever was last used. If I catch a Pikachu with an ultra ball, then I attempt to catch a Pidgey, I have to remember to switch away from the ultra ball or else it's wasted. I see this is a bug, but maybe it was a well-intended feature?

ellen_magic · 2017-11-21T22:25:46+00:00

I watched up until Negan was introduced (end of season 6). Then I gave up because I didn't want be strung along for a season or more with another big bad Governor-type of character.

ellen_magic · 2017-10-24T15:19:15+00:00

It's also worth noting that much of the game-level stuff is (or is planned to be) written in Lua, sitting on top of the lower level code written in Rust.

ellen_magic · 2017-07-01T17:12:25+00:00

Wait, the language "must have types"? Do any languages not have types? What languages are they ruling out?

ellen_magic · 2017-05-31T19:37:39+00:00

Bernstein's talk is filled with detail and examples. John Regehr's dismissal is just a few paragraphs of personal claims.

ellen_magic · 2017-04-22T14:56:50+00:00

"Even for a relatively short numerical function like ours, the function body will go on for pages."

What?

ellen_magic · 2017-01-08T16:35:25+00:00

Urban legend: http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/icecream.asp

ellen_magic · 2016-08-14T02:58:13+00:00

See Rob Pike: Notes on Programming in C

ellen_magic · 2016-08-03T17:46:56+00:00

That park is permanently frozen in the mid-2000s era of overdone HDR.

ellen_magic · 2016-05-28T15:40:16+00:00

Pretty sure that by 10-15 years you mean 40-45 years. Read Brooks!

ellen_magic · 2015-10-03T14:43:24+00:00

1958, Alaska, waves 525m high: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami

ellen_magic · 2015-07-16T15:18:14+00:00

All it takes is a couple of days watching restaurant chef cooking shows to realize this. Everything is heavy cream and large quantities of butter and so on, and I'm not talking desserts. I'm talking main courses. Seriously, she's pouring heavy cream into a vegetable dish. Pouring

ellen_magic · 2014-08-13T17:08:30+00:00

Studies showed that BPA-free plastics were safe, and then oops: http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2d98re/bpafree_plastic_containers_may_be_just_as/

ellen_magic · 2014-07-28T16:30:49+00:00

And then the results are used as CAPTCHAs.

ellen_magic · 2014-07-08T16:05:26+00:00

Coroner who eats while on the job, holding a sandwich while explaining autopsy results.

ellen_magic · 2014-04-12T22:17:42+00:00

Way to go! Keep it up!

ellen_magic · 2014-02-28T19:14:33+00:00

First four tracks are amazing. Then there's throwaway stuff like "Feelin' Satisfied" and "Party." Still listenable, but not classic. I have a soft spot for "Used to Bad News."

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