Programming

• Some Language Relationships Just Don't Work Out Jul 30, 2023 - 1 min read

  Bloody hell. I thought I’d learn me some Elixir this weekend. The second example you type in from their “Getting Started” page is this:

  iex> "hello" <> " world"
  "hello world"
  

  <> is the string concatenation operator? Wtf? That’s the inequality operator in at least 4 languages including SQL.

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• Perseverance vs Laziness Jun 19, 2023 - 1 min read

  15 minutes before I was due to start work this morning, I finally got some code working in a personal project that I’d been wrestling with for hours over the weekend.

  Nothing I do is that important but it got me thinking that it would be difficult to estimate which was a more important trait to human progress: bloody minded perseverance or laziness. The latter of which is often the impetus for finding a different/better way.

• 2023 Developer Survey Results Jun 17, 2023 - 1 min read

  I landed on Stack Overflow a few minutes ago looking for an answer to something and I saw that the 2023 Developer Survey came out this past week.

  I thought this new metric or representation was interesting:

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