VBprogrammer

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   by VBprogrammer 14y ago

   I love driving. I find it incredibly enjoyable. I don't think automatically driven cars will change that because I'd happily give up 80 - 90% of my real world driving to a computer. Driving on a congested motorway (highway) or in a busy tow
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   by VBprogrammer 14y ago

   Not if all of the cars can do it just as easily.
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   by VBprogrammer 14y ago

   Best way to do this is to init the remote repository using: git init --bare
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   by VBprogrammer 14y ago

   I strongly disagree. I suspect you are looking at this from the 'American Dream' capitalist point of view. Our tax rates might be higher, but this is more than balanced out by our strong social security and healthcare systems which allow us
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   by VBprogrammer 14y ago

   There is very little that annoys me more than mobile applications, or worse mobile versions of a website, which are feature crippled. I'm sure it can't only be me who finds this completely infuriating. A simple example is not being able to
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   by VBprogrammer 14y ago

   Throw in free Pizza and a few beers and I'll be there. I would relish the opportunity to meet new people and work on something different.
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   by VBprogrammer 14y ago

   I don't think so but I'm not an expert. The ruling in this case would be that no own could implement the same API without violating the copyright on the GPL code. For example you couldn't create a GPL free glib etc. I would be willing to be
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   by VBprogrammer 14y ago

   Asking the free software foundation their opinion on this is pretty much like asking the turkey if it's looking forward to Christmas. The idea of an API being copyright runs so contrary to their ideals. That being said, I'd hate to think of
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   by VBprogrammer 14y ago

   Do you regret suggesting it? I mean, sure, there would have been some immediate pain involved in finding a new job but surely that was balanced out by not working in a inefficient toxic working environment.
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    by VBprogrammer 14y ago

    Does anyone know the significance of 315475 as a password? I can't immediately see what would make this so popular. Unless of course as other people pointed out its just the same person who registered a large portion of these accounts.
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    by VBprogrammer 14y ago

    My experience in Spain is that drivers won't yield unless the alternative is hitting you! In that regard not much will change with self driving cars.
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    by VBprogrammer 14y ago

    > Updating a customer's winnings and recording a win are definitely things that should be together in a transaction - if one happened and not the other, that's a failure. Yes, they these clearly do belong in the same transaction. Insert
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    by VBprogrammer 14y ago

    I'm not sure I really get what you are trying to say. I know what a transaction is, and I know it wasn't the fault of transactions. It was the fault of our poor use of transactions, in the same monolithic transaction pattern that the OP app
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    by VBprogrammer 14y ago

    The idea is that a transaction starts when a request starts, and it’s automatically rolled back if there’s an exception. This is behavior you want from the start! It’s half (err, ¼) the point of using a database. I mostly agreed w
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    by VBprogrammer 14y ago

    Interesting observation. I'd also add that learning Prolog would be a much more self expanding experience than the languages listed. I've yet to encounter another paridigim with such a leap in it's learning curve.
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    by VBprogrammer 14y ago

    A lot of his complaints remind me of a situation I'm sure everyone here is familiar with: Client / Non-technical Manager: I looked it up on the interwebs and we should use [MongoDB / Node.js / Java / C++ ...] for [Completely inappropriate p
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    In my experience it is far more likely that the Bulgarian and the Spaniard would communicate in English than in either native tongue.
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    In the UK I often fly Ryanair who due to falling under the Irish Aviation Authority have been allowing the use of electronic devices while the fasten seat-belt light is of (although, not phones) for several years.
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I've enjoyed reading and even learned a fair bit from the blog posts on 37signals. Much more than you're average X is considered harmful post or the top 10 Y tips. If the best of their posts weren't on HN I'd add their blog to my RSS. To me
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. Sorry if the sarcasm didn't quite carry. I know these things can and do happen. I've come across one or two of these strange ones before, but too often I've seen people jump to the conclusion that someone
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I would go as far as to say 'finding' bugs in the Compiler / Optimizer / OS / Hardware is a warning signal of a poor programmer. Always expect you are doing it wrong. It will so rarely be the case that this expectation is wrong that you can
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    You aren't French are you? I seem to remember that being considered a big issue with the French medical care system.
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I'm not sure about at other businesses but the Software Development company I work for has native speakers of what must be nearly every major language (the only one I haven't come across is Portuguese, and I'm sure that is just because I ha
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I think if I were an employer, I would be looking for an employee with more of a sense of humor! Seriously though, I really think the atmosphere in a work place is really important. I can't imagine working with people who wouldn't consider
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I think the lesson in this case should be teaching your kids not to be a twerp to people they do not know. Not teaching them that they could accidentally be caught by information leakage while acting like a twerp.
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I know what you are saying, and I strongly agree. But in comparison to chopping $75k off of you're bottom line then I think you are going to struggle to find a way to be less efficient. Depending on the size of the company it might just mak
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    Interestingly, as someone else afflicted with red-green colourblindness I didn't really struggle that much with the colourblind assist off. I think it is because when the colours are displayed exactly side by side it isn't nearly as difficu
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I really like this idea, but with current technology its a non-starter. 3D printing would need materials which improve in orders of magnitude upon the strength, the heat resistance, the hardness and the printable accuracy. Not to mention th
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    My first reaction was a hearty chuckle. I know vigilantly justice is wrong but in this case I'll let that slide. None of these targets actually lost much given that they are mostly just for information sites.
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    Good to hear it is working out for you, if I had any inclination towards having a standing desk at home I'd certainly consider doing it that way.