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1 year

You've seen Advent of Code, now get ready for Ramadan of Code. It's 30 days of no coding.

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Bike Fall via @imgflip

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@ohmypy @adamwathan Look. C claims to solve a number of problems. All of these problems can be solved without C, by using pure Assembly and a sensible approach to working with registers and interrupts. So why use C?

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Put this in your shell init script: function rm () { mv "$@" /tmp } Thank me later.

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@watherboi @ISASaxonists Would legit watch this show

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@FrauW_Inklusion @SpiritofLenin Her family continues to be allowed to remain 'royalty' and figureheads of the state in exchange for never once lifting a finger or speaking out against Britain's Government no matter how blatant their crimes. They made that choice every day for decades. Hope that clarifies.

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@RachelMComedy @mayeezus ‘It’s Christmas Eve, not Christmas Steve’

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@Matthaber @juliakite Probably the air in the bottle dissolved in the coke, decreasing the pressure inside the bottle below atmospheric pressure, making the bottle cave in.

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4 years

@MaraWilson Radcliffe right now:

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@LoganAtlGA @turtlekiosk 'Mr Anderson, I want you to go up to the rim of Mount Doom and drop this in there'.

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htmx gets criticized for being 15 KB minified+gzipped. Meanwhile, websites today:

JavaScript Bloat in 2024

What is the average size of JavaScript code downloaded per website? Fuck around and find out!

tonsky.me

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4 years

@Mayaaa_48 @colynelliott Blackberries don't exist. They're not real. (j/k, in case the Internet is reading this)

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@tef_ebooks 'Yes we read the license but we believe it doesn't apply in our case because we really need your free labour'

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@JaimeHartless @calebscoville @DromiShai Then the right approach is probably to set expectations that emails will not be answered outside of working hours, not to 'forbid' people from sending them outside working hours.

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@Majorna_BK @katherinemzhou Correction--she never had any problem that she told you about--if she's real, that is

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@mujahidtalib786 Bro, how do you know what OnlyFans women dress like?

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@CryptoMoonBoys2 @fasc1nate Not everyone makes it their mission to moon passersby

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@mujahidtalib786 If you know Twitter is full of them, why are you using it? 🤔

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9 months

OCaml is like the 80% of the Rust language that you really like, without that last 20% that just fries your brain

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A bit smarter version: function rm () { for f in "$@" do mv -f "$f" "/tmp/$f" done } This moves even non-empty directories.

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@d_feldman When he started 10 months ago...hardly enough time to launch a medium-sized project, let alone modernize an entire fleet's operational software.

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@GitHubPolicy Like we say in software dev (and you’ll find in your tech blogs about any production incident): an incident never happens because of just one person. It happens because of the systems and processes that allowed it to happen. Firing the HR person is the equivalent of firing the+

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3 years

@_Padraig__ @HamillHimself I think there's a cool symmetry to Mark's version.

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6 years

@crimpy13 @daumkeziah Firstly, where did you get the impression that I think it’s racist? I think it’s extremely poor etiquette to treat minority cultures as buffet lunches one can just pick and choose from. Just shows thoughtlessness about what minorities have to put up with in the west about culture

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5 years

@DanTilkinKOIN6 @iwilsonq Oh wow. I was expecting some fisticuffs. Did not expect this.

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I love dynamically-typed programming languages. They keep me employed (rewriting projects in statically-typed languages).

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@MishToTheK @johncusack You have no arguments left now. Only hatred

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@GitHubPolicy +guy who accidentally wipes the production database, instead of examining what systems and processes allowed one person to wipe the production database. It’s a collective responsibility.

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4 years

@hmemcpy Looks like he’s logging too much

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4 years

@carissacancel @Mayaaa_48 @colynelliott Well thanks for the fruitful discussion 😎

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7 years

NASA is hiring for a Haskell role

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@SharminaraH Now that's salesmanship!

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@crimpy13 @daumkeziah What about if people made fun of you for liking potatoes and then turned around and instagrammed potato-based delicacies?

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@GalvinAlmanza I did not have 'Keanu Reeves actually becomes Neo' in my bingo card.

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@molly0xFFF @FT In the brave new world of blockchain and crypto, they're tracking everything in a spreadsheet

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@GergelyOrosz Lol so much for the mythical genius Tesla engineers

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@chris__martin OK but don't overdo it

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#RealWorldTypeErrors

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@jon_roelofs @migueldeicaza No, that's the _price_ of something. Value is a different concept--expectation of future economic output. Cryptocurrencies have none.

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4 years

@JefferyRThomas @tyleroakley I’ve been known to go for a tiramisu...

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1 year

@cherthedev Tbh browsers should not respect the 'disable paste' functionality. They are supposed to be 'user agents', why are they taking agency away from users 🤦‍♂️

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4 years

@Girlsville @nytimesbusiness It's illegal to fire people for trying to unionize. So of course Google is firing them for 'security breaches'. This needs to be tested in court. My hope is that they're made to pay punitive damages for trying to circumvent the law so blatantly.

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'I used to write OCaml at a FAANG' Bro, just say Facebook

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5 years

@elizabethkons @AncientAurora @PittsburghPG Or this guy

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@johncusack He's got guts. Called out a bunch of powerful people and made himself a persona non grata in those circles. But he'll achieve big things because conviction can't be bought and sold.

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6 years

. @reasonml protip: in VSCode, set: "": ["bsb"] This turns off Merlin error reporting and turns on bsb error reporting (more accurate). Bonus: runs bsb on every save so you don’t need ‘bsb -w’ any more—just webpack etc. in your terminal.

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4 years

Know JavaScript but not sure how to get started writing ReasonML / BuckleScript bindings? Here's a quickstart cookbook that translates common JavaScript code patterns into BuckleScript bindings:

GitHub - yawaramin/bucklescript-bindings-cookbook: Task-oriented guide to writing JavaScript...

Task-oriented guide to writing JavaScript bindings for BuckleScript - yawaramin/bucklescript-bindings-cookbook

github.com

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4 months

Me: static typing is good, actually Rando: what about when the user creates new types at runtime? Me:

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1 year

While it's interesting that Jane Street uses OCaml, I think it's more interesting that a pretty significant portion of all United States stock market liquidity is driven by OCaml code. That's a lot of money.

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2 years

@wtoalabi @vboykis Pulls in 12 mil a year Budget is really tight Management are eating that money. They're getting exactly what they deserve 🙂

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4 years

Hello ReasonML & OCaml friends, I built a demo app showing code sharing between a native-compiled backend Reason web server, and a ReasonReact webapp: Would be happy if you would try it 🙂

GitHub - yawaramin/fullstack-reason: A demo project that shows a fullstack ReasonML/OCaml app–nat...

A demo project that shows a fullstack ReasonML/OCaml app–native binary + webapp - yawaramin/fullstack-reason

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@thatclarafied @fingerlump 'Twas a scrumptious scream

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@ceciliaalvar633 @AllahuAkbarAzpi @realDonaldTrump Oh we don’t want them either. Maybe Europe.

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3 years

@ajpiano This joke makes less sense if one pronounces 'GIF' properly 😁

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4 years

OCaml is at the heart of cloud computing infra. Every time you spin up an EC2 instance–it runs OCaml code.

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@TippingOddsLV @Shayan86 You don't and can't believe because believing would force you to accept the truth that you have become inhuman and monstrous, that the deaths of infants means nothing to you, that you don't regard Palestinians as human

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@NeeedlesEye The one weird trick where instead of cancelling people we talk to them

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5 years

@litonico_ Ah, la vie on rose

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@larastapleton @Monika_Dutt I'm a brown guy. Tbh, this seems like a simple verification check to me, not an assumption that brown people can't be doctors.

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@ObiomaUgoala @kidnoble My God. He acted out his own death and afterlife in these scenes. While facing the prospect of his own death. What a giant soul. A great spirit.

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@SCUngureanu @AMaltmanWrites @QasimRashid You are literally replying in a thread of a video that shows a guy resisting arrest and not getting killed by cops.

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@__phantomderp You really caused a lot of reflection in the Rust community.

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2 years

@aminAKActs @skhanyz @beequammie He said 'customary', not 'prescribed' 😉

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@migueldeicaza @jckarter git checkout Islam

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@money_sacs @julian_west @TrustNobis @JenSemDem07 @CaseyNewton 'Elon is a billionaire. His process of firing people and then asking them to come back after realizing he needs them can't possibly be a mistake. You just don't realize how smart he is.'

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There is a non-zero chance that some folks at Microsoft Research will implement the Perceus precise reference-counting algorithm for the OCaml 5 runtime, which could result in Rust-like performance without needing any language syntax-level changes:

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@ElBuffaloLoco @_celia_bedelia_ @CanadianDee2019 @clapifyoulikeme @chick_in_kiev Miss Rona does NOT discriminate.

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@1876Takaho @copperwormUK @RuthHHopkins @erik_farm The United States actually refused to ratify the United Nations resolution on genocide for many years after WW2 because they thought they would have to face consequences for genocide against Native Americans. They remember—even as they want us to forget.

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@trader35235432 Seethe with jealousy for the rest of your life while Mark enjoys his without knowing you exist 😂

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3 years

@Workshopshed @adrianbowyer @CityPolicePIPCU You can, and someone else can, and then another person can ... at some point it’s not scalable.

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People trying out OCaml for the first time

humans without context

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@RandallKanna @cherthedev At least partly ageism. I’ve been working recently on an interview question set that actively rejects the ‘data structures & algorithms’ style and asks specifically about topics that will be used daily on the job.

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@allenholub @naren_legha Why do you think that teams must not have a culture of quality if they experience difficult bugs? Do the magic words 'culture of quality' solve every issue?

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Rust marketing is amazing. People are convinced it’s a great high-level language for writing line-of-business apps.

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A lot of people have complained over the years that OCaml's and other standard library functions were not tail recursive (stack safe). Well, now they are. Using a very cool technique that just does TCE of straightforward recursive code that uses ctors.

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Using Rust is the programming experience of a lifetime

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@stolinski @AndyJessop33500 Personally I think this industry way overestimates how much interactivity is needed for a good, efficient, UX. But trying to bring that up seems to set people off

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@NotThatKaren @Adequate_Scott @sncrlynotsorry @barbarikkizzle She also said the wedding was held in the neighbour's _tennis court._ What part of 'fanciest house on the street' and 'tennis court' tells you they're not richer?

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@JoeMaristela @RepAOC The international community _is_ 'up in arms'. What do you think it means when the ICJ plausibly finds that Israel could be committing genocide?

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You ever see all the OCaml love on here and think, 'Where's the drama?' The OCaml folks are mostly drama'd out. They had the mother of all dramas in the '80s when they split from ML, and it was a messy divorce. There are people nursing wounds about that to this day.

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Wirth's philosophy: yes, X is better than Y; but is it _sufficiently_ better than Y to make up for the increase in complexity of using X?

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'htmx is just using JavaScript, checkmate!' 'Postgres is just using the file system, checkmate!'

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@Crell @afilina Really any software funded by taxpayers should be mandated to be open source.

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@briantylercohen @mehdirhasan Isn't he the 'based on current trends covid will be over by March 2020' guy?

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Huge news: OCaml 5's Eio library has shipped v1:

Eio 1.0 Release: Introducing a new Effects-Based I/O Library for OCaml

The OCaml 5 update brought much-anticipated support for programming on multiple cores. It also introduced support for concurrency via effect…

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@Sab_xz24 @lovethundernews @nportmanbr Cause she’s playing The Mighty Thor

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@solomonstre Really? We shouldn't loudly protest against a massive campaign of indiscriminate killing–a genocide–because it might be embarrassing to go to lunch later? Is human morality supposed to be 'loose beliefs, loosely held'?

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@arshia__ Also, ‘that’s orthogonal to this discussion’

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@kahntra @Alonso_GD @ProfDBernstein The article also quotes factory owners as saying 'The industry is at a complete standstill and is only 30% productive', that seems to indicate that Palestinians are doing 70% of the work while being compensated with peanuts relative to their contribution to Israel's GDP

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I wrote about how the ReScript change might affect ReasonML and OCaml users

How does ReScript affect me?

A guide to what the ReScript project means to you

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OCaml is like Haskell but, like, if you don't like grabbing a coffee for every build

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@TheRealPayne747 @mozilla Nonsensical article. The banking and gold sectors are orders of magnitude larger than the crypto sector. The real comparison would be energy cost per transaction. But they carefully avoid that comparison.

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@GitHubPolicy Making it about ‘personal accountability’ isjust weaseling out of solving the real problem. This is a corporate incident within GitHub, not a personal incident between two private citizens on the street.

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Since OCaml is trending on Twitter (for several days now!), periodic reminder that the original plan was to write a significant part of it in OCaml...but Ruby on Rails was too compelling for the startup to ignore.

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Originally I was going to program twttr in Python, C, & Ocaml. But, I got @florian who was a core contributor to Ruby on Rails. #twttr

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Jane Street: we hire only the best of the best, our interviews are legendary Also Jane Street: we hired SBF

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Kinda funny that everyone is excited about Google using Rust. I remember the good old days when the received wisdom (from Rob Pike) was, 'The key point here is our programmers are Googlers,…They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language...'

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Developers: use the right tool for the job! Also developers: the right tool for the job is the one I'm already familiar with

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@philoserf @EmilyKager Well that’s the magical thing about agile. If it doesn’t work for someone, they were Just Doing It Wrong. Agile itself can never be wrong, it’s a miracle handed down to us by the Agile Gods.

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You, a manager: failure is not an option. Me, a statically-typed programmer: of course not, it’s a Result. The other case is Success. You: ...

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