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by asplake 6y ago
Further to the “self-riffing” section, the advice you sometimes hear to avoid repeating words in paragraphs is terrible – it takes you down a path towards over-writing. Repetition doesn’t have to be done as knowingly as in the example; if i
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by asplake 6y ago
Can anyone say how this would work with pattern matching? Something for that page to address perhaps
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by asplake 6y ago
Read it multiple times, finished the audiobook in just the last few days. One of those rare books you wish didn’t have to come to an end.
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by asplake 6y ago
Eccentric anomaly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccentric_anomaly
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by asplake 6y ago
I get this for a Bluetooth speaker. Apple needs at least to either fix their database or let the user do it. Also, I’m hearing impaired...
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by asplake 6y ago
Leaky abstraction? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction
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Archegos Capital fallout may wipe $6bn from global banks: Report(aljazeera.com)
3 points by asplake 6y ago|0 comments
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by asplake 6y ago
Who are you quoting? Not the article as far as I can tell
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by asplake 6y ago
I'm using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and you're not supposed to point a naked domain at the load balancer. On reflection though, it's a problem Amazon could solve there. None of this is super hard but it is annoying, some complex
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by asplake 6y ago
Potential source of frustration: naked domains on http that upgrade to https after redirect to www or some other subdomain. It’s a problem to me now - if I name my naked .org site in GMail it assumes https. At some point I will have to host
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by asplake 6y ago
Any clues as to what new physics might be out there if this gets confirmed?
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by asplake 6y ago
Erm, the characteristic stone in the Peak District is sandstone, but yes. My last house was built in the 1760s and I describe it as the heaviest object I have ever owned.
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Methodolatry (New Word Suggestion)(collinsdictionary.com)
1 points by asplake 6y ago|0 comments
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The EU Vaccine Bungling(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by asplake 6y ago|0 comments
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by asplake 6y ago
Which processor? A lot of this is just rehashing Mac vs PC
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by asplake 6y ago
“Python 3 only”
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by asplake 6y ago
“They said that Uber had said minimum wage and holiday pay would accrue from when a trip was accepted to when a passenger was dropped off, not the whole time drivers were logged on to its app – the working time laid out by the supreme court
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by asplake 6y ago
I’m jealous of Haskell’s ‘where bindings’ [1], even if only to push what in (say) Python would be an assignment to below its use, so that more important things come first. You could have multi-line functions that look like ‘return...where:’
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by asplake 6y ago
Is your approach scalable, sustainable, resilient, etc? What happens when you can’t be there? What happens when you’re no longer there? If I were your manager (and I have been a manager of managers), I’d be concerned.
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by asplake 6y ago
Make it case-sensitive, case denoting which one of two stacks to use? Curious: Does that make the language easier to use in any way? (“Easier” here being very relative of course)
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by asplake 6y ago
If the alternative is you making every decision, well good luck with that. Somehow you need to get from prejudice and mistrust to 1) the curiosity to find out what people are capable of, and 2) accepting responsibility for the scalability a
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Gordon Hall has died(bbc.co.uk)
190 points by asplake 6y ago|69 comments
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by asplake 6y ago
From the top of the spec: > String serialization and interoperability via standardized formats Is that expanded on anywhere? I couldn’t find it. Any recommendations yet with regard to JSON?
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by asplake 6y ago
Then you exclude other forms that might exist (or might have existed) elsewhere
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by asplake 6y ago
keypusher on Feb 25, 2014: If only there was a system for fixing the code l yourself instead of having to post about it to a widely read tech site.
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How to Give a Status Update to Executives(jacobian.org)
2 points by asplake 6y ago|0 comments
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by asplake 6y ago
What makes you so sure that they don’t understand? And how are we ever to make progress if everyone’s problems have to addressed from the beginning?
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by asplake 6y ago
> If you’re a bureaucrat or a politician, and you ever wonder: “man, have I been subject to regulatory capture?” Well, here’s a hint. If a press release shouts you out by name, it’s probably a pretty good sign you’re in deeper than you s
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by asplake 6y ago
Can’t beat the kinds of feedback that reinforce meaning in relation to needs, outcomes, purpose etc. When “done” is someone’s need met.
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by asplake 6y ago
His third point - “Dialog, not Dictation” - I agree with, but the other two are false dichotomies. Process (or at least the service levels enabled by process) is part of the whole product. Management and leadership are two sides of the same

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