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by ahallock 8y ago
You definitely didn't help with this broad pessimism and hopelessness.
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by ahallock 8y ago
I'm on step 4. Already feeling liberated. On Twitter, I unfollowed any political accounts or accounts which were overly toxic. My mood is better and I feel far less distracted.
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by ahallock 8y ago
Money might not buy happiness, but it's a huge stress reducer. Not having to worry about bills or checking finances before making purchases feels amazing.
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by ahallock 8y ago
This study shows that video games activate reward regions of brain in men more than women. https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2008/02/video-games-a... "Reiss said this research also suggests tha
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by ahallock 8y ago
Interesting. I'd have to see some concrete examples to understand better. Where I've seen it used caused issues because it was masking data integrity issues.
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by ahallock 8y ago
I find the Null Object Pattern and hiding nulls to be dangerous. Why pretend or give the illusion that something exists when it doesn't? I prefer explicit checks. I don't mind `Maybe` because that's still explicit and enables
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by ahallock 8y ago
> ...in order to write effective tests, a programmer had to know all of the ways that a piece of software could fail in order to write tests for those cases That's impossible. You reason about the problem as best as you can and crea
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by ahallock 8y ago
You can easily run Rails on Windows via Docker. We have a few devs doing that where I work to much success.
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by ahallock 8y ago
Yeah, that is just pandering to a crowd that loves this trendy self-abasement nonsense, like white guilt, which is just another version of original sin. It's a con as old as time. While I don't think it's the root cause of hi
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by ahallock 8y ago
Taking breaks from social media, particularly Twitter, has increased my happiness. Social media platforms are blackholes of negativity. They're also addictive and very empty because of lack of real interaction. Sometimes I feel like I&
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by ahallock 8y ago
'Hate voices' -- could you think of a more nebulous term? That surely wouldn't be abused to punish political enemies.
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by ahallock 8y ago
Twitch is more like live-sports, at least the streams I watch, which are Soulsborne (Dark Souls, Bloodborne, etc) speedruns. I'm self-employed, so it makes watching easier, but definitely not every night. Some of these streamers will p
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by ahallock 8y ago
I've been interested in clojure spec for a while, but I'm stuck in JS land. There's a port called js.spec, and I think it works really well for validation.
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by ahallock 8y ago
No more fun.
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I don't think you reverted to a monolith. I think you built a singular service with more cohesion than when it was split into 140 repos. And it sounds like the split wasn't because of the microservices architecture but because you
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by ahallock 8y ago
To save time. Same reason you use Sendgrid or any other SaaS
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by ahallock 8y ago
The road to our house was awful and in disrepair. The plowing was decent, I'll give them that. I know your answer: we need yet more taxes. It couldn't be that these taxes enable all sorts of non-essential and wasteful programs, wh
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by ahallock 8y ago
Why can't other taxes pay for that? There are surely plenty of other tax revenue streams. My parents, who were on a fixed income, had to move from upstate NY in part because of property tax increases. You never truly get to own your ho
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by ahallock 8y ago
The problem with ORMs is that they make DB calls seem cheap, and when your application is young and you don't have a lot of rows, everything works wonderfully. Then all the N+1 problems start adding up and the SELECT COUNT(*) performan
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by ahallock 8y ago
The State is extremely punitive, especially when inconvenienced. So many people are happy about handing power to these institutions, but get in the way of them, inconvenience them, and they'll stomp you out of existence. They have a my
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by ahallock 8y ago
It could be a draw for the novelty and consistency. I hate having an amazing experience destroyed by the follow up visit, where someone decides to check out for their shift.
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by ahallock 8y ago
I'm not very impressed with this. It automates some steps, but they need to take this to the next level, where everything is prepared in a compact, self-cleaning machine. I know people love the art of cooking and there's the quest
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by ahallock 8y ago
Arguments like this annoy me. Someone has it figured out so it's OK for these complex tax implementations to exist. No, it's not OK, and it's not a solved problem. We recently implemented sales tax collection using the TaxJar
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by ahallock 8y ago
> perhaps there's more room for self-hosting your content You still need to drive traffic to your content. That's the entire point of places like YouTube: discovery. The fact they host and process your video content as well ju
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by ahallock 8y ago
Apex Up, Express.js, and DynamoDB for the API, and then React for the front-end
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by ahallock 8y ago
> Th EU should make a law requiring HTML versions of pages with no JS. I know this is well-intentioned, but so is most authoritarianism. We don't want to go down that road. Your personal preferences don't get to become law.
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> Stop logging the IP address then. Hopefully default settings in web servers will change. But in legal matters, you need to identify people and have some kind of audit trail, especially if they tried to breach your system. That makes no
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Regulations absolutely raise the bar for new companies and give an unfair advantage to established companies who can afford the legal costs and additional staff. If I were a strategist for a large corporation, I would push for regulations t
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by ahallock 8y ago
Disregarding all the recent privacy issues, I think FB is poised to become the best dating site out there. The personal data it's been collecting for all these years--the likes, shares, comments, events, groups, etc.--could be used to
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by ahallock 9y ago
Because that's an overly complex solution. Why not just fix the server capacity problem (or whatever is causing the outage)? Seems much simpler and they've been able to handle this in past years.

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