MAGZine

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by MAGZine 10y ago
While I agree that directly pulling things out of superglobals is dangerous, I disagree that it should be removed, lest you end up with a python2/python3 situation. You can't just run around breaking BC of the language every time
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by MAGZine 10y ago
FULL TEXT == Snap Inc. is working on an initial public offering that could value the popular virtual-messaging company at $25 billion or more, in what would be one of the highest-profile debuts in years. The company, formerly known as Snapc
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by MAGZine 10y ago
How does repeating the same tasks every day for 20 years make someone a better software engineer? There are better and worse candidates in either camp. I developed software professionally for about two years before graduated. Is it 20 years
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by MAGZine 10y ago
No, OP is right. Regular, baryonic matter (protons, neutrons, electrons and their respective sub particles) only make up about 4-5% of what is "the Universe". The more we learn about the universe and matter, the more we realize ho
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by MAGZine 10y ago
Just today we found the closest star to us to have a planet in the habitable zone. The closest star. But, we struggle to observe it in any capacity. Indeed, only today we did. And that's nothing to say of the next closest star, or the
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by MAGZine 10y ago
I think the surface book looks great. what's your hangup with its aesthetic?
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by MAGZine 10y ago
For those who work at corporations with password rotation policies, it may actually be a good way to get creative. This guy changed password rotations into a lifehack: https://medium.com/the-lighthouse/how-a-password-ch
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by MAGZine 10y ago
I don't speak French but would love to put my kids in a French-only school. They pretty much learn a second language for free. Why not?
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by MAGZine 10y ago
I had turned auto-update off ahead of the new instagram UI update because I prefered the look of the old Instagram. I'm now glad that I did. I don't need stories slowing down the experience, taking up more real estate, or eating m
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by MAGZine 10y ago
anyone who has launched titles on a gaming-platform-to-be will be able to tell you about half-baked APIs. :-) A buggy, half-baked API is better than no API at all, though.
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by MAGZine 10y ago
Nintendo has historically never made adjustments to the pricing of their products, except for when the games enter a "nintendo selects," classification, or only after extended periods of time (Mariokart 7, 2011, is worth $29.99) T
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by MAGZine 10y ago
Yes, FarmersEdge (disclosure: I know the CTO) is a big player. I think, in a roundabout way, Monsanto is one of their competitors through acquisitions, though I'm not sure of their market placement wrt FE. I think ag is an underrated s
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by MAGZine 10y ago
If it were common sense, then why is the idea so radical, shocking, and/or controversial?
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by MAGZine 10y ago
I'll take a gander at drawing the distinction. Minimalism as an aesthetic is certainly luxurious. It implies that it was well thought out and contains only the necessary elements for a high-standard of living. It doesn't necessari
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by MAGZine 10y ago
Canada already has a reciprocal firefighting agreement with America, so if we need external help, we have it. Inviting a totally foreign country in which you're in a) fighting a proxy war with in yet another part of the world; and b) f
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by MAGZine 10y ago
This is the correct answer. From a forestry management perspective, you don't want the forest to live forever, and trying to prevent old, dead trees from burning is a nightmare. Let the fire burn, protect the property, and the forest w
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by MAGZine 10y ago
While it's bad manner to complain about downvotes, you're probably receiving them because your post comes across as speaking from a place of authority ("you have this condition," without any credentials "I am not a
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by MAGZine 10y ago
> Because lord knows there will be a moment down the road where there's a line of code that doesn't quite make sense. This is that code reviews and code commenting are for. You shouldn't need to dig into the nitty-gritty o
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by MAGZine 10y ago
Detached homes will not fall in price, pretty well ever. Since San Francisco is pretty well "out of space," when it comes to developing land, building up is the only option and will come to the detriment of detached housing. This
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by MAGZine 10y ago
> The point of science is doing it many times, at large scale, in a repeatable fashion. That's when we have confidence in the way things work. Science says nothing about scale, only repeatability. Unless if you're going to cons
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by MAGZine 10y ago
The people I seeing decrying degrees as credentialism are invariably those out of bootcamps. I get that people may be satisfied with the level of education they received, but why do they attempt to cheapen others' experiences? People a
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by MAGZine 10y ago
I'm so sick of having to take off my shoes at US airports. WHY? This has ought to be the most useless security measure ever. Now that I'm a Nexus Pass holder (US/CAN border) and eligible for TSA pre-check it's not such a
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by MAGZine 10y ago
> You're very rarely forced to do anything in life. My family has been in small farm agriculture for multiple generations. > Coincidentally they don't smoke pot and drive, because they're not inconsiderate, life endange
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by MAGZine 10y ago
> If your lifestyle makes you a danger to others, then you need to change your lifestyle. If that implies moving to a large city, then that trumps your desire to remain in a small municipality. Sorry—desire? Some people may chose to live
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by MAGZine 10y ago
> Driving is not a right, driving is not something everyone should be able to do. I think I would be a sub par driver, and so I don't drive. I pay more money to live in the city close to public transit. I don't say "it wil
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by MAGZine 10y ago
Similar to GP, if one of these sites throws something in my face I'd rather just leave the site. Not only is it often (though not always) indicative of other nearby antipatterns, but it's my small way of protesting the lightboxes.
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by MAGZine 10y ago
Interesting, though especially for the entries in the list that are frameworks, you could conceivably just bury all of the ugly stuff in a `framework` folder, and have only one ignore.
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PlanGrid’s Product Vision(medium.com)
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by MAGZine 11y ago
One could reasonably make this same point about EULAs. From time to time, I'll read the EULA and, no, it doesn't take so long after you skip all of the "PRODUCT OFFERED WITHOUT WARRANTY," and "COMPANY CORP MAY HEREI
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by MAGZine 11y ago
Regardless of whatever moral card you want to play here, the fact of the matter boils down to Gabe Newell's famous insight on the matter: Piracy is almost always a service problem[0]. People value their time. Make the experience easy f

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