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by Shog9 11y ago
If you have promises OR you have coroutines, your life is good. Either way, you don't have to choose between writing fragile sequential code and writing error-prone synchronization logic. If you don't have either, then you'll
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by Shog9 11y ago
It's probably difficult to convey the scope of Stack Overflow's development in the span of a talk; I strongly encourage you to read the blogs of past and current developers, as they often go into far more detail about the concerns
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by Shog9 11y ago
Apples and oranges. You're describing a platform where it's considered acceptable for programs to block on IO and jump through hoops in rare cases where that's absolutely not ok. A set of assumptions that maybe still made s
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by Shog9 11y ago
Quality means many things... When it comes to the experience of the people using the site, performance - how long it takes the requested page to display - is critical; the vast majority of Stack Overflow's page requests are someone req
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by Shog9 11y ago
Sounds like a leaky abstraction. Easier to get started with maybe, but woe betide the legion of programmers who make assumptions based on the appearance of synchronous execution only to be left stranded when those assumptions don't hol
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by Shog9 11y ago
You'd probably enjoy reading Spolsky's announcement for the Stack Overflow project from back in '08: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/04/16.html > But here's the concept: > P
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by Shog9 11y ago
Everyone enjoys seeing someone else get their comeuppance (which may or may not be the word you were looking for). Is that something to be proud of? Certainly not, but neither should it be particularly shocking. If you wanna wage a campaign
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by Shog9 11y ago
The lead pipes are highways. Not "information highways"; literal, people-bearing transportation systems. For a relatively short period in human history, it has been easily possible for just about anyone with a small amount of weal
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by Shog9 11y ago
The bit you overlooked was Freedom. Freedom to live and work in one small area, or to do otherwise. Freedom to go where you want, when you want. Is there a cost to that? Hell yeah. But for an awful lot of people, it's worth it. Too man
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by Shog9 11y ago
Seems like an argument in favor of domain-specific languages: identify the domain, and create something just powerful enough to suffice. Indeed, most of the arguments made are the same that were used as justifications for DSLs a while back:
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by Shog9 11y ago
It's an opinion piece from a guy who... apparently... wants to put image carousels into emails and is upset that GMail doesn't let him, and yet dares to intrude upon his beautiful iOS. Hopefully no one exposes him to the ocean of
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by Shog9 11y ago
Yeah, possibly. I saw an awful lot of favoriting immediately after the introduction seemingly meant as sort of a commentary on the change itself - explicitly favoriting to show support for favoriting. But either way, interesting to see if
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by Shog9 11y ago
A week in, could easily be attributed to the Hawthorne effect; [0] if the trend continues after a month or longer, might be worth talking about. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
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by Shog9 11y ago
Certainly makes it more conversational. If I had a nickle for every time I've heard someone mutter "damn hg"...
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by Shog9 11y ago
Fold to the right length, pin, remove, sew? Google found: http://www.themodestman.com/how-to-hem-dress-pants/ which says pretty much this but makes it sound complicated somehow. Might be a problem if you can't rea
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by Shog9 11y ago
If you want an apples-to-apples comparison, why not look at the actual physical devices that Google is selling? To the extent that Google and VW are "competing for the same workforce", the folks writing code for the Nest, OnHub,
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by Shog9 11y ago
So... 6 years ago when it was just Stack Overflow the site? https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/welcome-new-community...
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by Shog9 11y ago
This is one of my pet peeves as well; an awful lot of questions should be closed, but with a few exceptions it really doesn't do much good to close them years after the fact - that should be reserved for questions that time has prove
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by Shog9 11y ago
You realize this is the Stack Overflow blog, right? The site that hosts millions of posts written in Markdown every day? The one that's been sending templated emails written in Markdown for years? Separation of presentation and con
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by Shog9 11y ago
This was one of the first programming books I read as a kid, after Brodie's "Starting Forth" and a bunch of not very memorable books about BASIC. It remains the standard to which I hold all programming books I read. The autho
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by Shog9 11y ago
There's something to this... Good BBQ tends to be very time- and labor-intensive. Once a place gets popular enough, something has to give - city joints can't so easily just build another pit and drop a few more picnic tables out i
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by Shog9 11y ago
And this is why it's web stack: there are no better alternatives. For decades of trying, this is the best we've managed to do for cross-platform UIs. It ain't great, but it soundly beats the alternatives.
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by Shog9 11y ago
If you could find real developers via Streetview, they wouldn't be very private offices, now would they...
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by Shog9 12y ago
That only works if the framework actually does work as a complete platform, though - that is, if you can get away with forgetting (or never learning) the underlying platform once . To go back to Angular, it would mean forgetting all about
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by Shog9 12y ago
IME, this tends to be a problem with frameworks in general: the goal, after all, is essentially to create a new platform on which to build, but that implicitly invalidates a whole lot of knowledge your potential users have of the underlyin
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by Shog9 12y ago
Short answer: most users can do exactly that. There's an automated process that confirms the request via email and starts a timer that, if not cancelled, removes the account. For accounts with a non-trivial number of posts we hold th
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by Shog9 12y ago
Protip: if you really want prompt action taken, just write what you need in the email and leave it at that. The folks doing support for stuff like this handle hundreds of emails a day, and every time we need to wait for a reply from someo
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by Shog9 12y ago
Interestingly, this "textbook for modern programmers" usage was one of the explicit goals for the site: > Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. The market for books on programming topics is miniscule compared to the n
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by Shog9 12y ago
FWIW, I personally scheduled his account for deletion weeks ago; not sure why it wasn't removed, other than that the system thought he canceled the deletion (which we allow, because deletion is permanent). We're working with him n
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by Shog9 12y ago
Can't speak to your specific experiences, but it's worth noting that this can also be a downside of the Eternal September crowd: even reasonable questions get lost in the noise. The Soup Nazi wanted to feed people and lost the o

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