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by Tainnor 6y ago
Because "calculate_vat" is more abstract than the exact sequence of calculations performed?
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by Tainnor 6y ago
"Big pull requests" that are unannounced are always problematic because who wants to be the person saying "all of this work you've done is wrong"? In such situations, it's good to get buy-in from other people b
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by Tainnor 6y ago
You're mostly right, but even in typical LOB applications, there are some low-hanging fruits you should really pay attention to. One common example are N+1 queries. And if you do find yourself writing an algorithm (something which ha
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by Tainnor 6y ago
I find statements such as this to be profoundly anti-intellectual. It suggests that we can't become better at what we do and need to be stuck at the level of "a beginner can understand that". Now, I agree that simplicity is a
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by Tainnor 6y ago
I agree that many issues with bad code could really be avoided by first thinking about the solution a bit, of which the code is just an expression. I'm not advocating weeks of architecture astronauting without code feedback - because p
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by Tainnor 6y ago
I think there are a couple of things at play here. One is the use of code quality tools like CodeClimate. It's true that those can sometimes be extremely aggressive when it comes to duplicate code to the point that I find their complai
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by Tainnor 6y ago
Sure, but some comments on here are literally saying that. Not as a rule of thumb (although such comments can be found here too, which is ok), but as a "as an engineer I always enforce this rule" thing.
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by Tainnor 6y ago
I disagree, and this is one of the things where it's really hard to get to a shared understanding because I don't know what kind of problems you've worked on and what kind of code you've seen and vice versa. But in my da
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by Tainnor 6y ago
I feel some people here are misunderstanding the blog post. Sandi Metz IMHO doesn't claim that the problem occurs at step 2 or 3. She doesn't claim that it's wrong to introduce abstraction when there is duplication. What she
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by Tainnor 6y ago
Is quinoa partition tolerant?
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by Tainnor 6y ago
Hm, I think we have to be a bit careful about the legacy of the classical world being "interrupted". This may be true in part (wasn't it that central heating was lost to Britain even though it had been known in Roman times?),
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by Tainnor 6y ago
Fair enough, I was just adding to the parent's comment about different cultural viewpoints, but I failed to consider your own perspective on its own. I think your point of view is valid. That said, to get back to one of your original e
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by Tainnor 6y ago
When google uses AMP which allows you to read news sites without loading gigabytes of ads, they're "breaking the free internet". When Apple try to become the arbiters of how businesses should bill their customers (or, how the
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by Tainnor 6y ago
In addition, hackers from the US probably tend to lean more libertarian than the general US population. By contrast, the hacker scene in e.g. Germany, while of course being government-critical, tends to lean more traditionally left
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by Tainnor 6y ago
This is just misinformation. Of course, in most places, Germany has speed limits. For example, the speed limit within cities is generally 50km/h, around schools and in residentials areas it's 30km/h and outside of towns, it&#
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by Tainnor 6y ago
It hasn't sailed yet. We'll have to see what comes out of the antitrust litigations in the EU and, if I'm not mistaken, also in the US.
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by Tainnor 6y ago
Remote work has its advantages and disadvantages, objectively speaking. Subjectively, remote work doesn't work for me. It's depressing and I feel disconnected. I need physical human interaction.
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by Tainnor 6y ago
Fun fact: as a kid in 8th grade or so, we were supposed to read and summarise a book for English class Most picked easy books, I picked 1984, probably out of a desire to be edgy. Little did I know that my level of English at the time was n
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by Tainnor 6y ago
While not wanting to downplay the marketing and design genius of Steve Jobs who created a brand identity so strong that for a while, "smartphone" became synonymous with "Apple", Steve Jobs really stood on the shoulders o
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by Tainnor 6y ago
I didn't claim that it could be true, as I did in fact state that I know of no logic that accepts "A or not A". The argument was solely about what the law of the excluded middle is. IOW, law of the excluded middle != law of n
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by Tainnor 6y ago
Yes, this. The point was that you can reject the law of the excluded middle without getting into the absurdity that would result from accepting "a and not a".
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by Tainnor 6y ago
I don't know. There is some truth to this, but it's the same kind of argument I've heard from Rails people, EmberJS people, maven people, and many others; it's the famous "you're holding it wrong" argument
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by Tainnor 6y ago
No, you got that wrong. The way you do it is: "As previous research indicates, the sky is blue ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9])." Of course you haven't actually looked at all those 9 sources, except maybe the abs
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by Tainnor 6y ago
Totally a tangent, but: the law of the excluded middle ("tertium non datur") doesn't state that "a and not a" is always invalid, it states that "a or not a" is always valid. This is a somewhat important di
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by Tainnor 6y ago
This is one of the things most mathematicians usually don't care much about. Unlike programming (or automated theorem proving), mathematics can tolerate slight ambiguities that end up not mattering for the argument at hand, because it&
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by Tainnor 6y ago
How is the French revolution an example for this? That went from a somewhat absolutist monarchy (maybe we could call that "tyranny"? but the king never had sole power) to something that looked like it could have been a constitutio
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by Tainnor 6y ago
Typically, linear algebra is understood to be the study of finite-dimensional vector spaces, so functional analysis is not necessarily part of it. However, things like the vector space of polynomials of degree at most n, the vector space of
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by Tainnor 7y ago
Have worked at Chegg. I'm not in the least bit surprised.
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by Tainnor 7y ago
The proof of the characterisation of Eulerian graphs is really neat and one of my favourites. It basically just starts with "choose a maximal trail" and the rest writes itself if you think about it long enough.
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by Tainnor 7y ago
That's not the sole reason for avoiding too many integration tests. The main reason for that IMHO is combinatorial explosion of code paths which you'd have to test for if you wanted to be thorough.

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