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by asark 7y ago
Having spent a lot of time on legacy Rails codebases that need new features and fixes, existing ones coming in from clients, and so on, I'd consider it practically write-only as soon as eyeballs are off it for a couple months or a hand
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by asark 7y ago
Is it? A big chunk of the "developing world" is (generally) Christian—pretty much all of the Americas, big chunks of Africa. The Philippines. Russia and some of the former Soviet bloc states. Meanwhile everyone agrees Japan, South
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by asark 7y ago
OK, if the exceptions are quite exceptional and hoping, as you note, this doesn't represent a trend, I'll keep it in consideration. Thanks for the insight.
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by asark 7y ago
I've come to the conclusion that my brain's "algorithm"y, rather than "equation"y. My scores on (especially) spatial reasoning tests are excellent so one would think I'd have a leg up in mathematics, but t
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by asark 7y ago
I've been planning to try out Rust for a side project, and this decision is so principle-of-most-surprise that it's got me reconsidering, wondering what other unpleasant weirdness lurks in the language. Looking down their other op
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by asark 7y ago
Familiarity, tons of features, existing well-worn supporting libraries for lots of languages and ecosystems, and depending on which one also safety/reliability and, for a variety of common query patterns including many that look pretty
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by asark 7y ago
If I'd limited my writing practice and technique to what was required and taught in K-12 school I'd have been unable to do that, too. It seems ridiculous but arguing on the Internet taught me how to write lean, clear arguments tha
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by asark 7y ago
> burglars don't want any of our crap, and the equivalent to a burglary today would be dumping a truckload of stuff in someone's house. There's a Chuck Palahniuk novel in there somewhere.
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by asark 7y ago
OTOH I'm not sure why stalking is legal, provided you do it in bulk.
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by asark 7y ago
Does it follow that dramatically reducing the volumes available in university libraries is the right way to respond to this? Seems to me that might lead to a death spiral for the library by killing its remaining utility to students and rese
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by asark 7y ago
I've been repeatedly surprised and disturbed at how quickly one can hit "go get one of the five copies of this book if you want to know more" on any given topic, when researching online. You don't even have to go that
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by asark 7y ago
Books are damn good interfaces for reading long-form text. Footnotes, end notes, indices (sure search is handy—indices are better for some things, though, by excluding invalid partial matches and other irrelevancies) glossaries, integrate
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by asark 7y ago
Yes. That should make it possible for such pages to be faster. In practice, the opposite is usually true.
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by asark 7y ago
Been here for just about all of this "web" thing. When I'm pleasantly surprised by how fast & light something is it's almost always server-side rendered or static. Only benefit of SPAs is that at least they're m
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by asark 7y ago
I get why they want it, but I think it's a case of false improvements from adding more computers. If the reports to management are such BS that they don't usefully resemble reality they should be able to figure that out before lon
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by asark 7y ago
Managers are often looking for ways to fill their calendar. Meetings, calls that could be a two-minute Slack exchange, et c. Some will hop into meetings like that if they can. They love the recurring ones, especially, bonus if they can apol
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by asark 7y ago
My (related) experience has led me to believe reporting to management should be strictly separate from any tools or processes used to track actual work, specifically to avoid dumb shit like this. Team task-tracking should be a team communic
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by asark 7y ago
Whatever the other qualities one may assign to 300 , it's the most accurate depiction of the Iliad's action I've seen (yes I know it's not the story of the Iliad). The action portions of the text are basically a series
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by asark 7y ago
Oof. When I read the headline I though it was a call for app developers to stop making a bunch of custom-themed BS when the built-in widgets and styles will do, saving themselves money and the users headaches. This is the opposite of that,
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by asark 7y ago
IIRC Google Cloud, Azure, and (least certain of this one) AWS have machine learning driven adult image detection (among other things, like recognizing famous people's faces) as a service.
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by asark 7y ago
The one place I worked that tried to do this, the developers mostly ended up doing things easy to measure. Turns out it's super-easy to measure views and shares so content marketing it is! Not exactly a good use of our particular abili
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by asark 7y ago
There's even a tag for it. Not that anyone cares about what HTML can do anymore.
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by asark 7y ago
I think 70% is quite optimistic.
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by asark 7y ago
This goes for so, so many things I've seen where it's not even big data, but crap like some small part of their total dataset being a graph (unlikely to ever go beyond a thousandish nodes for any given connected set, and even th
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by asark 7y ago
> Can you explain this differently? I don't understand how you would launder profits through yourself (or why you're laundering them at all-tax reasons?). Same as licensing your name to "another" company that's a
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by asark 7y ago
I think three eights or four sixes (24 worked hours a week, either way) is a good goal to aim for, since it's the tipping point at which something other than paid work might dominate one's waking hours, while still leaving time fo
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by asark 7y ago
Graeber asserts it's specifically a reaction to changing notions of career trajectory and adulthood as feudalism gradually turned into industrial capitalism and the normal life path, for practically everyone in society, of: 1) work for
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by asark 7y ago
I finally read that book a few weeks ago, and one idea Graeber raises in it is something that'd been bugging me for a while: it seems like adding computers to a large proportion of activities and processes makes them less efficient,
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by asark 7y ago
That BeOS didn't become a serious, long-term contender in the desktop OS market is a sure sign we're not living in the best of all possible worlds.
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by asark 7y ago
Screenshots of 90s operating systems are so relaxing . I miss interfaces that looked like interfaces, and distinct from content.

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