It’s very new to the standard library (latest version of GCC this year was the first version to support it). Additionally, I’ve found that println adds 30+ seconds to my compile time even for hello world so I’ll be avoiding it unless I need it
True, but Hylo is so new that it's not even an established language. Plus using this should serve to higlight the differences the author actually cares about between the languages.
What machine / compiler are you on where the difference between these are 30 seconds? GCC is also quite a bit faster based off a quick tests in godbolt.
I missed the "Hello, world!" mention, but otherwise you only need to have 10 prints in your whole project to have the 30 second increase. That is pretty significant.
Although they’re cheating, I give them props for trying. I abandoned Android when even Samsung didn’t make an honest effort to make their phones responsive. It’s nice that Apple consistently values responsiveness because then Google, Samsung and Microsoft have some incentive to address their bloated products.
I was scripting on a windows machine which didn’t have WSL setup and decided to learn PowerShell. After a week or so of scripting with PowerShell and seeing how intuitive and robust the syntax is, something changed in my brain and I decided I never again wanted to deal with bash and its endless quirks and brittleness. It’s unnatural to have to wrap every variable access with “${}”, that unnatural key sequence always caused a break in my flow. Anyway I reach for Python sooner and really hunger for a clean, robust nix shell. I hope powershell has instilled this in many people and it drives adoption of something better
I have tried to do the same, but i have opposite experience. I just can't grok the syntax, it always seems like a magician pulling out another "Haha! I bet you haven't seen this one coming !"
Like, i can't even construct the abstract model of how it's supposed to work
Yeah JIRA doesn’t appear to cache any of its information and doesn’t appear to make it’s information cache-friendly for a browser, so you end up accidentally clicking on another issue and then having to click back costing you 30 seconds (on work network).
I think this is a key insight with some details: there isn’t an entire shadowy org that operates without jira but there are teams of people, usually small who do amazing things without jira. I imagine the manhattan project ran this way but you still have elite teams like this in every org. Eventually they need to hand it off to a jira crew and that’s unavoidable.
Agreed, I think the key here is that the Game of Life is structured enough that many computational steps can be elided in this way. If it was more chaotic, this couldn't happen. The realization that GoL can be used to run one GoL cell in isolation is the brilliance here I think. Once you can decompose one single cell into GoL, you can also compose GoL into one cell and save computational cycles. Then suddenly it can be GoL all the way down.
Every so often I log for a way to have git log only return tagged commits and commits where the commits you’ve requested come together. In general more tools for seeing simplified graphs would be nice
I agree that sublime is a fad and maybe atom. Sublime’s biggest mistake imho way their proprietary model combined with a plugin system, it’d probably be better to either make it free or make it very ease to use. I don’t see eclipse or VSCode as fads though. To my knowledge eclipse is the only way to develop Java code on Linux platforms without paying for richer tools (let’s face it, eMacs or vim doesn’t have much support for Java). Also Microsoft seems very invested in VSCode
Nailed it, the biggest issue imho is those state transitions. Why make a state that can’t transition to all others? It takes forever to tease out the intention behind it. State machines are notoriously difficult in code, why add them into something unnecessarily?
Hugely agree that if in practice it’s just an extra click by the same person that’s a bad pattern. And you see it a LOT. Hard to justify even using a bespoke workflow when it just adds “digital paperwork.”
OTOH Jira does support a way to force you to build a process you’ll honestly follow — there’s a validator that says the person who transitions from Y to Z must be a different person than from X to Y (or say, that it must be a member of a certain team). :)
As an EM I think it is my job to ensure as little paperwork as possible, so I monitor this to make sure workflows don’t waste people’s time, using automations, context-sensitive paths through the workflow, etc. for instance I have a transition that skips past ALL of the steps and doesn’t even need to prompt the user, for when an issue needs to be resolved as “working as intended.”
We got that from the last audit. They don't like it if everyone could set the state of some ticket and thus circumvent the required workflow. A lot of companies develop certified software and thus have the same requirement.
Agreed, using the paths makes it feel like a conventional toolchain. I haven’t tried this but it sounds like if I execute the python executable in the venv directory I get that shell. Only issue from there is writing executables that invoke the venv path in a deployable way
