Singletoned

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by Singletoned 9y ago
I haven't seen a Marquee/Ticker on a website for quite a few years. The "Background to Open Banking" page made the fans start running on my (fairly good) laptop. If this is a sign of the technology behind it, it's n
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by Singletoned 9y ago
> Technical literacy in the broader population can be approximated with the Thanksgiving test: what sort of questions do you get at Thanksgiving? That's the ambient level of literacy. I didn't understand this one (perhaps due t
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Object Models(eev.ee)
1 points by Singletoned 9y ago|0 comments
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by Singletoned 9y ago
It's like someone has looked at Python and thought "Python is too easy to read. Let's add LOTS more syntax to it".
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by Singletoned 9y ago
> The key is organizing collectively. The key is collectively agreeing on something. After that, everything else is an implementation detail.
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by Singletoned 9y ago
I think we are starting to see that free-speech has a tendancy to destroy itself, in the same way that free-markets do. True free speech will end up in a system being exploited by those who can make the most noise the most often. True free
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by Singletoned 9y ago
> But I really can`t explain to myself why it seems to be so hard for many. You should always remember that this says nothing about those people and says a lot about you. Your failure to understand them is your failure not theirs. If yo
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by Singletoned 9y ago
You are not wrong. There are lots of people who feel and act like you, and when they get together on the same team they can be very productive. I feel that a lot of places have a culture of agreeability. They are focused on fixing disagre
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by Singletoned 9y ago
I used to hate them to a phobic degree, now I just hate them. I really dislike how much people are dismissing this. If I hated spiders, people wouldn't say "Oh you're just covering up an anxiety disorder".
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by Singletoned 9y ago
Anything but pytest is good. Pytest is full of magic and can be horrendous for a newcomer to your team. You can't work out what is happening just by reading the tests, you have to know how pytest works. Also, when something breaks in
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by Singletoned 9y ago
There's defintitely room for an advanced spell checker that can say "This is valid, but probably wrong".
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by Singletoned 9y ago
Sometimes I think of this as being trapped at a local optima, where striving to improve can't take you anywhere better. You have to make a jump to somewhere different and then start trying to optimise again in order to reach a more op
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Happiness Traps(hbr.org)
2 points by Singletoned 9y ago|1 comments
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by Singletoned 9y ago
Also lying. If there's no comeback, then there's no real downside to heavy exageration.
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by Singletoned 9y ago
That which DOES adapt will also perish sooner or later.
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by Singletoned 9y ago
Yeah, that was pretty tenuous. And assertion that women buy Apple products to deter "romantic rivals from poaching [their] relationship partner" seems almost ridiculous. I would say that iPhones and MacBooks are almost mass-marke
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by Singletoned 9y ago
He also states: > There is no scientific evidence to suggest fasting does any of the above... You can never know that there's NO scientific proof for something because you can't even know for sure that you've read all the
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by Singletoned 9y ago
Yeah, maybe Magit is also the killer app for the 'package' system as well.
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by Singletoned 9y ago
> i know its supposed to be a general truth, that regulation raises costs. i mean how can it not, since in the absence of regulation costs would be minimized. There's lots of cases where a lack of regulation causes higher prices.
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by Singletoned 9y ago
I'd be genuinely interested to find out what you feel is real about the money compared to the nothing you got in exchange? Also how does the system work from your point of view?
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by Singletoned 9y ago
"Language X allows you to be more undisciplined" doesn't sound like a great selling point for those languages.
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by Singletoned 9y ago
I find quite the opposite. Having worked as a permie and as a contractor, I have found that contractors can be much more likely to push back. They are much less susceptible to the group-think that afflicts permanent developers, and (possi
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by Singletoned 9y ago
It's a small data point, but the in-game market in Fifa17 suggests that there's 3 times as much PS4 activity than Xbox One activity. Given that it's one of the biggest games on either platform, that would suggest that yes, t
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by Singletoned 9y ago
Do you have any evidence for this or is it pure speculation?
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by Singletoned 9y ago
> don't forget philosophy includes includes silly topics like "Is truth the same as beauty, and beauty the same as truth", or the nature of God. That's like saying science includes silly topics like homeopathy and &qu
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by Singletoned 9y ago
We tend to use tests for just this case. You change anything you want, then see which tests break, and fix all the places. I definitely agree that dynamic typing doesn't scale as well as static typing, though.
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by Singletoned 9y ago
I think people are downvoting it because you are ranting. A general heuristic that is useful in life is that if someone is foaming at the mouth and shouting, the things they say probably aren't that useful. (And you definitely come ac
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by Singletoned 9y ago
I strongly suspect that it is possible for a language to be too powerful. The more capacity a language has to let you do wonderful things, the more capacity it has to let you do truly awful things as well. ("With great power comes g
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by Singletoned 9y ago
Which Imposter's Handbook do you mean? I've looked and found a couple, and both look interesting.
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by Singletoned 10y ago
> "It's about as close to objectively true as you can get" I read that as you saying that "Human life is precious" is true, though maybe I have misunderstood. (Don't take this as that I agree with the other

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