Evbn

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by Evbn 14y ago
"More-or-less", or "less-or-more"?
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by Evbn 14y ago
Folks keep saying a certain phrasing is "natural", but that is a funny word. It isn't innate/instinctive. Grammar comes from years of exposure to other speakers of language.
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by Evbn 14y ago
That's what linguistics is . Grammar is as natural as walking. Almost everyone does it, and no conscious understanding of the rules is required.
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by Evbn 14y ago
In this day and age, why not watch a YouTube video or read slideshare, instead of snowballing the judgement of people you have never met?
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by Evbn 14y ago
You may be interested in research into how some groups are more productive when they work collaboratively rather than competitively, and how women are disproportionately better in collaborative environments. I don't want a team full of the
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by Evbn 14y ago
This is not true, in practice. Women report having better experiences when there are many women around, vs being the only one in the group.
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by Evbn 14y ago
And here we see how ridiculous is the claim that technical and educational issues are the drivers of a conference.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Pause for a moment to reflect on the extreme assumptions you are making.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Your assumption that a total ordering of paper quality exists, that is holding you back.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Your comment is so thick in assumptions (students objectively know who is better at whatever metric you have in mind?) that you are proving the case that traditional metrics are untrustworthy for selecting meritorious candidates.
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by Evbn 14y ago
You are misunderstanding what "egalitarian" means.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Conferences are for mingling. Education is far off the low end of the agenda.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Of you don't care whether your CI tool works, I won't care either, because I won't use it.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Tests certainly interfere with your ability to ship shit.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Or that the tests are correctly telling you that your proposed change will break your clients.
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by Evbn 14y ago
If you have 140k compile errors, you might need to factor out repeated idioms into functions.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Sure,not important if your in-house backend database backups work. Customers never see that.
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by Evbn 14y ago
If the tests aren't critical, is the feature critical?
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by Evbn 14y ago
Apply the same thinking to the feature code you write as well.
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by Evbn 14y ago
If you have a general feel of the community, your community is very small. Is your community full of laptop researching prototypers, or million request per second distributed system operators?
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by Evbn 14y ago
Yet is still better in general to solidify your gains into repeatable tests, instead of throwing away all your research. To the GP, yes, the less you write tests, the more your code base rolls up into a giant ball of hair and wax, and you c
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by Evbn 14y ago
That severely underestimates the intelligence and wrath of their highly technical customer base.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Sure, but that isn't the former owners problem. Are you thinking of expired cards? That is different.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Go try calling SuperClass's method on Subclass, and tell us the two problems you face.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Inheritance is implicit delegation, in any language. The "implicit" is what makes it inheritance.
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by Evbn 14y ago
To be clear: a broken product that was actively annoying users and that no one knew how or had energy to fix, got fixed by a Go dev, and you are saying that is NOT a point in Go's favor? Maybe if Reader were written in Go, it wouldn't have
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by Evbn 14y ago
If I were charitable, I would say that the Go version supports horozontal scaling and external caching and queue buffers in a way that the BIND does not.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Do you know whether Go is compatible with Google infrastructure? With protobufs and stuff like SwIG/JNI, why would it not be?
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by Evbn 14y ago
Accidental NoTrueScotsman alert. If a Googler thinks Go is awesome and builds a bunch of stuff in Go, what happens to that Googler? They become member of the core Go team!
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by Evbn 14y ago
Well, we could have, say, evolved a hand shape optimized for carrying our young, despite suboptimal tool weilding. But we didn't (according to this research anyway). So the headline correctly states the claim of the research.

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