Shacklz

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by Shacklz 5y ago
There's a difference between "sitting on their arses" and "trying to grab every single customer possible". TeamSpeak didn't bother to acknowledge that a lot of people often just want to write some messages to o
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> Pacifism = "if you attack me, I will not stop you" Yeah but the Taliban (or the the Afghanis in general, for that matter) didn't attack anyone. A bunch of radicals made 9/11 happen, and as it happens, the main guy b
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> This equipment was purchased by Afghanistan from the US (using US funds, obviously) As someone with a slightly pacifist streak and a very strong dislike of the military industrial complex, this statement, as obvious as it is, somehow s
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> Most people don't care that it takes an extra 10-100 milliseconds I probably wouldn't care about it too much if they didn't mess up the rest of their apps into the dogturd that they currently are. Doing bad UX is one th
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> remember the same Taliban sheltered 9/11 terrorists and is still allied with al Qaeda! But when the Saudis presumably financed some of the same/similar bad guys it wasn't even worth much of an investigation? I find such
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> We speak German The Germans might see that a bit different than us ;) Jokes aside, the article was of course in German.
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Here's also a statement by the HSG regarding the article in the NZZ: https://www.unisg.ch/de/wissen/newsroom/aktuell/rssnews/camp... According to the statement, the student tried "to force
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by Shacklz 5y ago
You can skip the "checkout master + pull" part by using "git fetch origin master:master", or by using just "git fetch origin" and then "git rebase origin/master". Other than that, that's pre
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by Shacklz 5y ago
I had this opinion for the longest of times as well, but me and all the other devs I know who started using a rebase-based approach just don't want to go back. I think it's also a bit a question of team size. If your project has j
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> Unfortunately, it always results in scary conflicts. I think you're referring to what I call "conflict cascades"? E.g., you're 4 commits ahead of "master", and want to rebase on top of it - but you have a
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> I really am not sure if you were being sarcastic I was not :P But the commenter also said in the linked comment that they "understand how git works", so I took the liberty to make a few assumptions ;) > But the fact that G
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Aren't the plastic bags mainly a problem because they tend to end up in places where they don't belong at all, like oceans etc.? They can't really decompose or anything like that, they just shred to tiny little pieces that me
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Regarding your first point (and I think some of the commenters in that thread also address this already) is that as long you don't have uncommitted changes, you're safe. You're right that a lot of git-commands mess with uncom
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> Figuring out what "properly" means is the whole problem with git. I think you've missed OPs point by focusing too much on a single word ('properly'). Yes, there's no clear-cut way on how to use git, no sil
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> Cryptographically verifiable identification is not a good idea, regardless of intentions. Technically not an identification, but Zero-Knowledge-Proofs might be the solution to that. If I remember correctly, some countries in the EU ar
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Same here, on Android. But I mostly receive email and almost never send out emails on the phone; so I can see that others might need features that are totally irrelevant for me.
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Hey look, I'm not saying that it's not possible. I even believe you - in a lot of big companies, there are so many "bloat"-teams that don't really do all that much, that just drift around in the currents that flow w
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> and then wrote an entire system! Yes yes. And this was of course very maintainable, up to todays standards, easy to onboard new hires in, not falling apart in edge cases that weren't part of the demo, code that was audited by mult
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> I really want to put the 'enough is enough' point before worrying about a good looking commit history. I see where you're coming from, but I'd like to add a counter-argument to that. I'm currently working on a
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Oh c'mon. Of course a blog on the website of a company is ultimately trying to pitch their product, one way or another. That does not invalidate the points they bring up per se. It obviously needs a bit of critical thinking when readin
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> like an ancient, cockroach-like anti-pattern that is impossible to stamp out. I feel like you just described email (or rather, "the" email spec, as if there was a single one) in general. Yes it obviously still serves its purp
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by Shacklz 5y ago
I really understand your sentiment, and I've been there for long enough myself - but once you have a somewhat decent understanding about gits internal data model, the commands that allow you to clean up pretty much any mess (reset &amp
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> Linux kernel history has lived without it, so I'm guessing the "our code is so complex we need it" is a false idea. Those guys are still sending commits (patches) to each other by mail, I think they willingly live in suc
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by Shacklz 5y ago
This is kind of the approach that Switzerland is taking (disclaimer; I'm Swiss), although I would not formulate it as drastically. It depends a bit on the region but school is required until 14-ish, after that there's a split for
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Public schools work well throughout the majority of the developed world - the US seems to be a notable exception. Anand Giridharadas addresses this in his infamous google-talk quite nicely I think: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by Shacklz 5y ago
I think private fields will come in very handy for libraries. Yes, people should not access fields marked as internal/private, but they often do anyway (at least I've seen it often enough) just because it's the easiest way to
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by Shacklz 5y ago
I'm a very happy customer of protonmail. They're consistently extending their offering (VPN, Calendar, Drive is up next), their pricing seems fair, albeit not exactly cheap, but to be honest though, I almost consider this to be a
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> And many would then ask, what's the motive for generating wealth if it's just going to be taken away from you? The same motivation that drives some folks to study e.g. philosophy, even though it's perfectly well known th
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by Shacklz 5y ago
I think this is more a case of "What actually happend": https://xkcd.com/538/
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> For all the complaining, “neoliberal capitalism” has made it the best time to be alive there has ever been That really depends on your point of view. For the average person on HN, upper middle class income or above? Sure thing, 100% ag

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