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by __jal 10y ago
Yes. And PL/Perl is perversely fun. I don't think I've ever seen other languages used in production, though[1]; I think folks tend to stick to PLSQL because of defaults. [1] I'm sure people do, but this discussion has an
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by __jal 10y ago
When I worked in magazine production (90s, California) we used the term for both whitespace and other patterns. Other patterns are a lot less common, because whitespace is the most common "character", but they happen.
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by __jal 10y ago
Maybe I'm a weirdo. I find it massively distracting. About the only time column-alignment is helpful is when scanning for typos, but that's handled pretty capably in other ways by most editors more sophisticated than Text Edit.
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by __jal 10y ago
ORMs attempt to bridge object and relational models. (With results that vary from "works fairly well" to "screw it, give me a DB handle and I'll just write SQL".) I see what you're saying, but they operate at a
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by __jal 10y ago
You're not the only one, but I wish you were, because then I'd have to read a lot less of it. I doesn't eliminate your commenting problem, it moves your commenting problem from the last line of your list to the first. Also, i
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by __jal 10y ago
Yep. Same here. I find screaming one's reserved words far more distracting than the highlighting helps. Another SQL habit that seems to far more annoying than helpful is putting commas at the start of next line. Great, they line up. Di
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by __jal 10y ago
> take these cretins out of the gene pool Keeping them locked up for 25 to life does no one any good. It does if they're found innocent after conviction, as has happened at least 347 times so far[1]. It should also be noteworthy to
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by __jal 10y ago
The water's still very pleasant over here.
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by __jal 10y ago
I decided not to read this after the page scrolled back to the top twice while I was reading, and then threw a popup demanding an email address when I dared move the mouse. That's when I closed the window. I've had about enough bu
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by __jal 10y ago
> If someone hacks my light switch all they can do is turn the light off That depends. If your light switch runs an out of date stack, it can be compromised and used as a beachhead to attack other things on your network or to run whatev
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by __jal 10y ago
Great, so you've discounted one tradition of food advice, although it is far from clear whom, exactly, you're discounting - you start talking about what sounds like dietitians, but end talking about what sounds like processed food
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by __jal 10y ago
The GP was the one making the complaint. I have no interest in the device. But if it is important to people, then it is important to people. And even if it is perfectly suited the the rest of the hardware and any additional RAM/perform
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by __jal 10y ago
Pro tip: When you have to explain to people why they shouldn't be disappointed by something they've thought about, you've almost always already lost the argument. And the video is outdated, period, no air-quotes. There is sim
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by __jal 10y ago
The partners used to just recycle underperforming minions into cafeteria slurry. What you're seeing is them going soft. ('sa joke.)
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by __jal 10y ago
> I'd guess the opposite. Might depend on how trendy the new feature is. Because I still see newish Java programmers who apparently don't know that java.date.util exists, and who also don't know that rolling your own date
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by __jal 10y ago
But I think that's part of the argument. Reasoning about edge cases in code full of nested loops and conditionals is hard. Eliminating branches and opportunities to hide fencepost errors (for instance) goes some way towards reducing co
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by __jal 10y ago
> Most ISPs don't start to see a return on their investment 10-15 years after the fact. I think a fair amount of the anger at the huge ISPs is that they don't invest in many areas' infrastructure while raising rates, red
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by __jal 10y ago
Everyone has preferences, I guess. I far prefer honest and curt to the kind of anodyne, contentless word-payloads pumped out by so many corporate communications departments. Say, generating corporate communications seems like a promising di
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by __jal 10y ago
I'm sure there were more than one person who liked it, so yes, I suspect it is true to say 'people' rarely regretted it. I know I did, when I joined them on a lark in college. They were literally a joke (several, actually) at
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by __jal 10y ago
Seriously. How many times has Comodo displayed terrible judgement? Bugs happen. Stupid bugs happen. Stupid systems with stupid bugs even sometimes happen. What I don't see is Comodo learning anything from their serial screwups.
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by __jal 10y ago
Startpage is nice, too. I personally really like DDG, though. I think people react that way to it because it is more literal, a la Google several years ago. I prefer that; I'm used to it and find that Google frustrates the hell out of
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by __jal 10y ago
People need to start thinking of web forms, solicitations for email address, etc. like people used to think of the Columbia House record/CD club. There may be an instant-gratification payoff, but you'll regret it at leisure. Or, w
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by __jal 10y ago
Correct. And the parent was asking a different question.
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by __jal 10y ago
If that were so, "left" and "right" would reflect similar inclinations across polities and evolutionarily-short time periods. They don't. Or at least, I'd be highly amused to see someone attempt to square the T
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by __jal 10y ago
Dunno why you're getting down voted. Sounds like great news to me! Will you have a Linux client? (I'm sure that's the least favorite question new services like this get.) I ripped Dropbox out by the roots on all of my systems
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by __jal 10y ago
Yeah. I'll never interview with Google again. I've got friends who work in (mostly nontechnical) roles there who had very different experiences, but my interview was such a hot mess of disorganization, cluelessness and arrogance t
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by __jal 10y ago
I love the "VirtualPC" application. Recursive metahumor for the win!
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by __jal 10y ago
Ignoring any arguments about tone, I also agree that not providing at least a link to the actual paper is a puzzling omission. If the goal indeed is to aid paper comprehension, limiting the ability to read it is a weird choice. And not the
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by __jal 10y ago
ZFS is native in FreeBSD, so it is exactly as straightforward as the above.
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by __jal 10y ago
Nope, you have it right. Mongo is a lot of fun to play with out of the box. Once you have nontrivial data models, redundancy and load, not so much.

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