alien_at_work

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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>most engineers simply don't take that initiative, and many of the ones that do are thinking of features for resume driven development more than for the company's health. There's no money in caring about the company long t
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>it’s sad to see a promising technology (in limited use cases) turn into a buzzword The same thing happened to REST. Every "web interface" is supposedly REST now, yet the client and server are even more coupled than they would
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Ok, that makes more sense. I guess the problem, as always, is "people on the internet" using it like "that sounds more complicated so it must be wrong".
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>If Apple was serious about protecting privacy it would move operation to a different place where law actually still offers some privacy protection. Do you appreciate what your asking? You're honestly saying if they do something th
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>In a free system, the users could have done this themselves years ago instead of waiting for Apple. Is this satire? If there's one thing the open source movement has proven, it's that without the backing of a business very li
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>so that's a straightforward violation of Occam's razor. I'm probably missing something but I don't get this objection entirely. I've long considered Occam's razor just a thing you can say. It doesn't
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>It's not obvious and also fragile (maybe the sort changes at some point its constant or even asymptotic behaviour?) Tome pointed out that "sort" in haskell is a merge sort, but I have to say I strongly disagree with this
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I also don't have a degree. One thing that could be done would be something closer to how doctors are handled in most (?) countries: you need to pass some kind of certification and you need to recertify on a regular basis. A doctor,
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>Bob the engineering manager who committed a quick but insecure fix years ago Unacceptable. Software development needs to be treated as engineering. We need to finally rid ourselves of the concept of "quick and dirty". If th
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
That is certainly the idea in general but it will depend on how badly it affects worker productivity. It's just strange to see a company do a study, prove that offices produce the best results and still go with a measure that presumab
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>I'm pretty sure most experienced software architects would not approve this as a robust approach. What approach? Not caring which sort is used? I explicitly stated that in actual practice I wouldn't do that. I simply took a
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
That's discouraging. MS did a study to determine offices improved productivity, so what happened?
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>I consider it very inelegant to sort a list only for extracting the largest element. Which I explicitly stated would not be happening in my example. In reality, you couldn't just use "sort", you'd need to make sure
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
How does that work? With Keychain I literally have a different password on every single site I visit. If someone hacks Facebook they'll have... my Facebook password (and whatever sites use OAuth and won't let me opt out of it).
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I would disagree with your impression. Laziness made lots of things very elegant but things like IO initially very hard. Eventually elegant solutions were found for IO as well. An example of the elegance is a simple function that takes so
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>forced by its unfortunate choice of being lazy Being lazy is what makes the language so elegant. Even a high level game developer (Carmack?) said, at one point, that his ideal language would be lazy by default.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Well, the data sending is (AFAIK) about the OS, not the phone itself. So if did they made this policy change for iOS 11 [1] then all phones that run iOS 11 get it. And honestly, the 6 is probably fine. They stopped updated 5C and before
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
It's good that they have that, but most of the OO API's (including the web server stuff AFAIR) is single dispatch.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I'm an apple user, perhaps even a fan. I don't have a clue why your comment was downvoted. Is it a lot? Maybe it's a misclick.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Don't know why people are downvoting this, but the 5C just got "obsoleted" so that could mean the 6 is right on the brink of update oblivion. So that could be a reason.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Racket is interesting, but what turns me off about the language is that they decided they needed OO for some things and they... implemented a single dispatch based system. Why would you limit yourself this way if you don't need to? S
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>I don't think it is like that because behind each job there's a life. Labor is a market. It's a shockingly inefficient one, but it's definately a market.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I don't understand what you're saying here at all. Are you under the impression that money someone needs to live has something to do with compensation? Labor is a market like any other. A sales salary has nothing to do with how