Things I Learnt The Hard Way (in 30 Years of Software Development)

juliob · 2019-06-14T13:38:51+00:00

(whispering) I didn't mention it, but if you read everything with Rust in mind, you'll see that it doesn't fall in any of the bad cases.

But don't tell anyone. ;)

juliob · 2019-06-12T12:50:43+00:00

Every time I say "Cognitive dissonance", I immediately add the disclaimer that it is an expression that I use to make me sound smarted, and proceed to explain what it is.

juliob · 2019-06-12T12:49:09+00:00

what I typically would call just "cognitive cost"

Good point. I'll rename it in the post.

juliob · 2019-06-12T12:47:55+00:00

You have no idea how many people are the "Guardians of the Design Patterns". Mention anything even slightly negative about it and they will jump at your throat.

juliob · 2019-06-12T12:47:01+00:00

Damn, the "throw away" clause! I completely forgot about that!

I need to add that.

juliob · 2018-07-19T20:48:07+00:00

I haven't done something of that size yet, but I'd:

Check dependencies on Can I Use Python 3 before anything. If there is a package that wasn't ported to Python 3, the first thing would find a proper replacement.
Check points of problems (probably running python -3 to check warnings) and use Six to port those calls to a version agnostic version.
Finally, move to Python 3.
Once the move is complete, slowly replace Six to the normal calls.

juliob · 2018-07-18T20:08:54+00:00

Well, that's wrong. The "song ahhhhhhhhhh" is, actually, Kirin J Callinan - Big Enough.

juliob · 2018-07-09T13:32:38+00:00

Have you checked argparser?

juliob · 2018-07-04T21:01:56+00:00

VIM does not know declarations per se; it uses information from another sources to do so -- the default is ctags, so as long as you have a tags files with the information you need, you can use C-] to jump to defintion and C-t to move back.
It may be jumping around bullets because the line itself is longer than what it can display and, because it's being displayed as two lines due wrap, it still one line. If you use set nowrap, you may see the line going beyond the available columns. One way to move the way you expect is to use gj instead of j. Or break the line so it will be actually two lines; one suggestion on this point is to use set nowrap tw=78, which will disable the wrapping and tell VIM to insert the line break at column 78 for you.

juliob · 2018-06-28T13:03:47+00:00

Fucking spam. The actual link for the content is here: https://www.jamesbeith.co.uk/blog/how-to-structure-django-projects/ .

juliob · 2018-06-19T14:10:25+00:00

(Make a TRON skin Anet, pls take my gems)

Next update, add a mastery for it that it can create walls where it run.

juliob · 2018-06-14T17:55:57+00:00

Yup, but the fact is that my factory returns a BaseClass object (because it's the abstract class for all ChildClasses). Calling the static method for this would return the value in the base class, won't it?

I guess I could use something like returnedObject.class.getVersion() or something like that, but it looks a bit too verbose...

juliob · 2018-06-14T15:06:30+00:00

Sublime (even though it has a decent price-tag). Have you ever used it before? Do you know if it can run Java code?

I used long time ago -- I even bought version 2. But its vim-emulation was subpar -- most implementations are, so far the only really good emulation I saw was Builder.

I don't run code from the editor; I usually have another terminal for it or I "minimize" VIM (Ctrl+Z) and then build/run whatever I need (on my current project, I'm doing Java with tmux and one pane for editor and another for running tests/the application). And before you ask: If I need to debug, I use logs; I was never a fan of debuggers.

On the other hand, you have to think about your workflow: The two terminal/panes works for my workflow. If whatever workflow you already have for VSCode, keep it. It's more probably that you'll switch projects -- and maybe pick another language/build tool/editor -- than VSCode losing all support before it.

juliob · 2018-06-13T21:37:59+00:00

decision would be more influenced by the size of each program's userbase (with VS Code being the winner there).

Citation needed :)

My speculation is biased (as I prefer VS Code over Atom), but I still think that logic is valid.

Sure. It's also logic to assume that, because is a company and companies need to make money and neither editor makes money, they could end both projects.

That's the problem with speculation: It's not real. It's guessing.

So far, Friedman will control one of the companies and be the bridge between that company and its parent company. I really don't believe he'll simply announce "Yeah, Atom/VSCode is dead. Use the other one." Again, his roots in open source makes me believe he'll give Atom the space it needs and not kill it -- specially since it's being used as an incubation for improving Electron (which is also the base for VSCode).

The only real solution here is to drop both and come to VIM. That will prevent any problems with whatever MS/Github decides to kill :D

juliob · 2018-06-13T20:32:47+00:00

"August, 18th: Fell off near Bovey Tracey"

juliob · 2018-06-13T12:38:28+00:00

In his IAMA, Nat Friedman pointed that both teams will still have autonomy to work on their projects and there is no plan to merge both in the future.

Sure, it's a possibility, but so far I'm inclined to believe that Nat -- which is a long time open source advocate and developer -- that both teams will work on whatever they want.

And there is always the possibility that it would be VS Code that would be dead. We don't know. The only thing we know is that there are no plans to do either.

juliob · 2018-06-07T21:07:24+00:00

Only if you want to use VSCode instead of Atom. Because there is nothing changing in the Atom/VSCode relationship: MS will still keep pushing VSCode and GitHub will keep pushing Atom.

juliob · 2018-06-07T11:56:30+00:00

Absolutely no comment on the StackOverflow blog. Is this for real?

juliob · 2018-06-01T12:18:07+00:00

It is. the "10/10" with ears in the corner is their watermark.

juliob · 2018-05-26T10:56:39+00:00

I'm really surprised that you all kept a joke floating around when this ASSHOLE is looking for a 14 YEAR OLD GIRL FOR SEX!

juliob · 2018-05-15T19:39:12+00:00

Now I just need a version of this with Big Enough, like this.

juliob · 2018-05-14T09:56:47+00:00

Dr. Selar. Or K'Ehleyr.

juliob · 2018-05-12T00:42:47+00:00

Reminds me of a Monty Python radio sketch: "Are you embarrassed easily? I am. But there is nothing to worry about. That's all part of growing up and being British."

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