thalesmello

2개월 전discuss

Still Apple keeps shooting their foot with their software. I'd love to see an update to iOS and Mac OS that doesn't feel sluggish. They nailed hardware, software is sorely lacking.

thalesmello

2년 전discuss

I'm happy that exists as an alternative for those who care about this.

I (meat-eater) am done with leather alternatives for now. A while back, I bought the official leather-alternative case for my everyday-carry Roav sunglasses, but it didn't last me very long. Frustrated with that, I ordered a custom made case with real leather, that cost me double the price, but it has been aging really nicely.

For me, paying extra for good leather, that will last longer and is byproduct of meat I already eat, seems to be the best decision in terms of sustainability. Hopefully technology will improve so that we have more options in the future.

thalesmello

2년 전discuss

That's based on relevance.

Same goes for: Portuguese -> Brazil flag; Spanish -> Mexico flag; German -> Austria flag; Italian -> Switzerland flag

;)

thalesmello

6년 전discuss

Finally! The perfect language for my spaghetti code!

thalesmello

6년 전discuss

There's a bit of misunderstanding in your statement. Most of the money made by companies in payments systems comes from transaction fees, not from interest. When companies offer you better rewards, that's them competing to have you use their credit card rather than the competition's.

thalesmello

6년 전discuss

Most people I interact with in the US actually use SMS or iMessage, that's why I have hold this view. It might be a bit dated though.

thalesmello

6년 전discuss

They already have Facebook Pay on messenger, and WhatsApp is mostly unheard of. Maybe it doesn't make sense to launch it in the USA.

WhatsApp is however overwhelmingly used in Brazil, and highly lacking good Venmo-like apps. I did not like the Brazilian Fed getting in the way with regulations before it even launched. Sends the wrong message to foreign investors considering Brazil.

thalesmello

8년 전discuss

Just to make sure, my "ninja trick" was meant in an ironic manner. In my opinion, it sucks JavaScript has two equality operators, and it's inexcusable for it to have two different null types. That fact that you can use the forer to check for the latter with less code doesn't make either okay in any sense.

thalesmello

8년 전discuss

> You'll have to show me one inventive and useful "ninja" trick revolving around the use of '=='

Sure! For starters, you can write

    if (foo == null) { ... }

Because `undefined` gets coerced to `null`, it saves you from writing:

    if (foo === null || foo === undefined) { ... }

And, because it's shorter, it's even allowed by [some JS linters](https://standardjs.com/).

There you have your JS ninja trick to handle two distinct null types^TM .

thalesmello

8년 전discuss

Mathematics require the exact type of abstract thinking machines suck at. Machines can execute things fast, learn things fast (provided we have well stablished rules), but than can't (at our current moment in time) come up with useful abstractions to help solve new problems.

So I think it's going to stay relevant.

thalesmello

8년 전discuss

As the one who implemented Airflow at my company, I understand how overwhelming it can be, with the DAGs, Operators, Hooks and other terminologies.

This looks like a good enough mid-term alternative. However, I have a few questions (which I couldn't find easily in the homepage, sorry if I skipped something):

- Do you have a way of persisting connection information? I saw an example of how to create a connection, but it isn't clear if the piece of code has to be loaded every time you execute the ETL

- How easy it is to implement new computation engines?

- Plans of creating a command line to make it easier to execute operations?

thalesmello

8년 전discuss

`->` is a bad practice? I like to use it at the end of a long `%>%` pipe. Reading the whole thing feels a lot more natural.

thalesmello

8년 전discuss

I actually find R to have the elegant parts of List, with a more traditional language syntax. I frankly like a lot.

thalesmello

8년 전discuss

Pipenv solved the most annoying problem Python had before: inconvenient version isolation. Dependencies were installed globally by default, and virtualenv was too cumbersome to use easily. Pipenv solves all of those headaches.

thalesmello

9년 전discuss

I was delighted to find out Nintendo took the care to approach this issue the way they did.

If I had children, I would definitely buy a Nintendo Switch for them because of their focus in this aspect. Since I don't have any, I bought the Switch for myself instead. =)

thalesmello

9년 전discuss

As much as I love Vim and R, I think the experience is pointless without embedded graphs. It would be perfect if it was possible to view a graph in a Vim split.

thalesmello

10년 전discuss

I particularly don't find the problem it solves appealing. The power of Node comes specifically from its everything async programming model, Javascript is just a detail.

So what's the point in taking away the good part, and keep the cumbersome one? If you just want to program a Synchronous server in the JVM,just stick to Java.

thalesmello

11년 전discuss

learnxinyminutes.com solves your problem about how the language works, but doesn't give you problems to work with.

thalesmello

11년 전discuss

For me, a lot of things simply make more sense. For example, in Sublime, the system configuration files can be modified, but you shouldn't do that. Instead, you have to write on your user settings. On VSCode, you can't modify the system files, and there is a handy reminder and shortcut at the top of the site that configuration files should go in the user settings.

Also, I like the way it handles open files (they are held on a workspace area where you can discard changes) and it also come with git integration.

You can rely on plug-ins to do this kind of work on sublime, but you have to put a lot more effort in configuring it, whereas VSCode comes with better packages right off the box.

thalesmello

11년 전discuss

OCaml is a nice language and it surely has advantages. But don't treat that as a competitive advantage. All of the benefits mentioned can be easily found in other programming languages, except for maybe pattern matching, but that can be easily replaced with similar constructs.

Using a not very popular programming language can actually make it harder for you to hire people.

thalesmello

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