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by agentgt 10y ago
I still think Social Psychology was one of the most useful classes I ever took in college. Sure some if it is probably dated by now but the cognitive biases theories really helped me further in life. I remember telling some class mates to t
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by agentgt 10y ago
This sort of very loosely reminds me of boom [1] which I used briefly before writing my own piece of bash shell script garbage. For some reason a majority of my note taking revolves around links. There are also times like looking for clothe
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by agentgt 10y ago
Learn how to write good tests. This includes writing tests for code that doesn't have tests (often requires refactoring or some careful engineering) And possibly writing tests before you even have the code aka TDD (although I'm no
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by agentgt 10y ago
I completely disagree that SBT or any non declarative build system is that much superior long term over Maven. Maven is not a really like any of the other build systems. I would say most build systems are glorified Make. Maven is not. SBT,
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by agentgt 10y ago
What other interests do you have that are not technology related. For example what kind of music do you like? Do you like art?
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by agentgt 10y ago
I pretty much agree entirely but have been too ashamed to say it :) The build tools in Rust are incredible (given the maturity of the language). OCaml is also rapidly evolving as well (after a brief period of stagnation). I think those two
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by agentgt 10y ago
Well in fairness Java does have the excuse that the cloud, and virtual images didn't exist and it was basically a Windows world. Linux/Unix was barely known to most developers. Java also pretty much brought the idea of dependency
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by agentgt 10y ago
Actually I think it is a continuously declining by generation. For example my grandfather absolutely hated credit cards with a passion. He was convinced the credit card companies were an invasion of privacy as well as the antitrust acts (th
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by agentgt 10y ago
They are even doing it in the rich suburbs of MA like Wellesley. Wellesley and Newton are trying to stop tear down McMansion mania and our passing laws that you can't knock and rebuild unless you have lived there for a while or have an
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by agentgt 10y ago
I live in Waltham... I can tell you Waltham is not far off from Somerville. With Waltham we have the added complexity of having lots of mixed commercial and residential zones (Somerville on the other hand is mainly residential). Waltham is
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by agentgt 10y ago
We sort of do this for a JVM with the exception that it is the JVM and you really can't be rebooting it all the time. What we do is use a message queue and extreme thread isolation. Are internal framework is sort of analogous to an act
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by agentgt 10y ago
For me it boils down to variant types (also known as Algebraic Data Types but I prefer the ML nomenclature) and the corresponding pattern matching that comes with it. This is IMO the major feature that makes FP languages so damn safe. Every
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by agentgt 10y ago
Programming with PHP is sort of like eating/buying McDonald's food. Yes it gets the job done and you can argue it is readily available, a calorie is a calorie etc.... ...but the reality is even "new" McDonald's is
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by agentgt 10y ago
It might nice if there were some cloud vendor specific addendums. For example on rackspace you almost always want to install the monitoring daemon (it's actually fairly decent and small foot print).
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by agentgt 10y ago
This sort of reminds me of fasd[1]. The thing is I think I would prefer a menu instead typing "e6". Typing line numbers to go somewhere seems to be an inherent Vim user trait that I just haven't picked up (ie typing the comma
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by agentgt 10y ago
I bought linkedin a couple of months ago at like 108 or so... I'm debating whether or not to sell half or all my stock... needless to say the wife is thrilled that I finally did some investing right :)
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by agentgt 10y ago
There are probably some confounds to why some brands may not do as well particularly brands that make mini vans and/or all wheel drive cars. AWD is just inherently more complicated and thus requires more maintenance. Thus Subaru probab
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by agentgt 10y ago
I don't know much about contract management so take most of what I have to say as an ignorant opinion. I'm trying to figure out how ContractBeast's problem of continuous usage is any different than almost all the business too
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by agentgt 10y ago
This is one of the reasons I still enjoy paper magazines and yes even catalogs. I remember being on a plane trying to read some article and just giving up and reading the SkyMall magazine the whole flight. The damn SkyMall magazine foisted
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by agentgt 10y ago
It seems like one of the problem is that the place "is not a place of honor" . In modern civilization memorials and/or historically significant places are continuously safeguarded and most importantly remembered. Yes they ca
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by agentgt 10y ago
I think because everything is immutable and because lexical scoping I can't figure how this would happen other than a direct cycle which I think the reference counting might be able to figure out. I am curious as well though. Maybe you
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by agentgt 10y ago
I think the reason he sounds preachy even more so than Stewart is that he uses a lot of over the top analogies over and over again. I think he (Oliver) is funny but I prefer the Colbert and Southpark satirical model as well. For some reason
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by agentgt 10y ago
I have noticed there are a lot more companies on the east coast (including my own company) that are like this. Yeah I won't be a billionaire but I think you can make a pretty darn good living with lifestyle businesses. I have wondered
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by agentgt 10y ago
I think I understand the eager confusion. You mean eager because it is a push model and not a pull model like iterator which is lazy. They are eager once Subscribed . The lazy part that I and the previous poster was alluding to is that mos
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by agentgt 10y ago
Personally I'm a huge fan of Observables or (Singles which is a single item Observable). One of the most confusing things with Promises vs Observables or any sort of deferred value is whether it is " hot " or " cold &quo
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by agentgt 10y ago
After reading the bug report I am surprised so many people are using a remote package repositories for their build machines builds... then again I'm not too surprised I guess. I'm not that familiar with Docker but I am of package&
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by agentgt 10y ago
It probably doesn't need reiterating but not having Travis like config is my biggest issue with Jenkins as well. While Pipeline looks awesome for sophisticated entities that have complex workflow it seems overly powerful for most I thi
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Opera’s shareholders greenlight $1.2B sale to Chinese consortium(techcrunch.com)
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by agentgt 10y ago
We use varchar for UUID (on postgres) which surprisingly hasn't been that terribly performance wise. And yes we do use varchar(36) although on postgres it doesn't really matter because I think almost all varchars are text. I would
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by agentgt 10y ago
I think I agree with that idea. However I have also wondered if it is because more explicit/verbose languages take longer to physically write and thus the verbose pattern is sort of repeated through out. For example in Java it is typic

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