Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?
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@antiquarian said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
If you really are new here, one thing you need to know about blakeyrat is that he puts forward his own personal opinions about how software should work as if they were universal, objective truth.
Well, at least he's consistent. I've always wondered how he could hate non-graphical user interfaces and at the same time be a software developer (which involves a lot of non-graphical plain text editing), but with his arguments on source code storage in this thread, all pieces fit together.
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@RaceProUK said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
@pydsigner said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
I will concede Eclipse as trash but I'm not a Java programmer so I give not one iota about its lossage.
Have you tried IntelliJ? I've heard that's meant to be good.
It is. Definitely much better than Eclipse. Probably on par with VS for Java stuff.
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@antiquarian said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
@pydsigner said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
Touché.
If you really are new here, one thing you need to know about blakeyrat is that he puts forward his own personal opinions about how software should work as if they were universal, objective truth.
So I find.
"We hold that all code is created unequally crappy yet always crappy, that it is endowed by its creators with certain inalienable characteristics, that among these are bugginess, failed intents, and the pursuit of angry users."
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@dkf said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
To be fair, lots of commercial games seem to be mostly ripoffs of other commercial games.
And not all ripoffs are bad. Some are even better than the original.
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@pydsigner said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
@antiquarian said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
@pydsigner said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
Touché.
If you really are new here, one thing you need to know about blakeyrat is that he puts forward his own personal opinions about how software should work as if they were universal, objective truth.
So I find.
"We hold that all code is created unequally crappy yet always crappy, that it is endowed by its creators with certain inalienable characteristics, that among these are bugginess, failed intents, and the pursuit of angry users."
YOINK
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@sloosecannon said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
Definitely much better than Eclipse.
It depends on what you're doing. They're definitely not better in all areas (the git integration in IntelliJ sucked once you did anything other than the most simplest things, which caused us significant problems when we tested it out last autumn) so whether it is “much better” is highly workflow-dependent. That it supports your workflow is great but it just crumbled on ours, whereas Eclipse works fine.
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@dkf said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
@sloosecannon said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
Definitely much better than Eclipse.
It depends on what you're doing. They're definitely not better in all areas (the git integration in IntelliJ sucked once you did anything other than the most simplest things, which caused us significant problems when we tested it out last autumn) so whether it is “much better” is highly workflow-dependent. That it supports your workflow is great but it just crumbled on ours, whereas Eclipse works fine.
Which is why I didn't say something like "strictly better". Eclipse has a few advantages, but overall I find IntelliJ to be a much better IDE...
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@dkf That must have really sucked, yeah.
And before anyone asks (not that I really expect it), Xanadu isn't so much about being a structured file system as it is about being a destructured data storage, in the sense that the data isn't all locked up in files. Not that I expect Xanadu itself to ever really work, but like with a certain programming language, I am already seeing bits and pieces of it show up in other new systems, so the ideas at least have some relevance.
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@pydsigner said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
<Ctrl+S><Alt+F4>
is more keystrokes than<Esc>:x
FWIW. That's measurable. I've done things with a few keystrokes in vim that I previously would have written a one-off script for. I don't consider Vim the best overall editor, but I do consider it the king of console editors. Of course if you think that all other software is terrible then it follows that Vim is as well.Vim might be great for the initiated but it has a learning curve shaped like El Capitan, and I'm saying that as someone who built a Vim clone as a hobby.
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@ScholRLEA said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
And before anyone asks (not that I really expect it), Xanadu isn't so much about being a structured file system as it is about being a destructured data storage, in the sense that the data isn't all locked up in files.
I find that an odd concept, since filesystems these days just have files as bags you put data in. Yes, there's some metadata attached to the file as well, but you'd better consider putting that sort of metadata on anything you try to replace files with too. Files by themselves also don't impose organisational rules on the data, which is good because there's some many possible sets of rules that you might use. That a file contains plain text, or an image, or a database, that's all by convention. This system works pretty well overall…
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@Polygeekery said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
You need sharp minds, not just warm bodies.
I prefer warm bodies to sharp things of any kind
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@ben_lubar I'm not sure all of those are quite as popular as you think...
Though certainly more popular than Warsow.
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@ben_lubar It really is flat once you get up there. Magma pistons, punching through aquifers, the dwarven checkerboard. Complex to do, certainly, but with preparation and attention to detail not too difficult.
Stockpile organization and minecarts i think are the hardest part because they scale in difficulty with the size of your fortress.
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why can't someone be both a genius and a potential disaster?
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@blakeyrat said in Is this candidate a genius or a potential disaster?:
Most diff tools are open source, and open source software sucks shit.
When VS runs diffs for C#, it not only ignores pointless whitespace changes, but it actually does some heuristic evaluation of the language itself and ignores meaningless changes that don't involve whitespace. But Visual Studio was written by intelligent people who cared about creating a quality product.Sorry this is bullshit, until very recently the VS diff was one of the worst offenders for whitespace and then TFS through a fucking fit.
KDiff3 is fine, I use BeyondCompare out of habit.
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@lucas1 Yah; there's not enough new topics to call me an idiot in. So go back a month and start calling me an idiot in old topics. Good strategy.
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@lucas1 I don't know what version is considered early in VS, because with can't use reasonable tools in my job. Probable explanation os this:
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@blakeyrat Don't say stupid idiotic things then