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by astine 6y ago
I've written enough Clojure over the years to think that this is probably not the case. The reason this problem doesn't happen as much with Clojure is that the Clojure data structure is closer to JSON (and when using EDN instead o
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by astine 6y ago
I quit caffiene about a decade ago before taking it up again six or seven years later. Quiting wasn't really that great a decision. A lot of the problems that I had attributed to caffiene or caffiene withdrawl such as migraines and per
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by astine 6y ago
Broooks framing does apply when you can avoid programming altogether. He specifically mentions that as is prefered solution to the problem. Rather than coding systems from scratch, in which case you have to deal with the essential complex
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by astine 6y ago
This essay badly misinterprets Brooks original essay. Brooks was talking specifically about the problem of building new systems from scratch.He was speaking about programming productivity. This essay is talking about operational tasks. Of c
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by astine 6y ago
I'm trying to figure out what kind of code duplication that you'd be dealing with that you can get around by avoid stored procedures. Unless you're relying on an ORM to construct your queries for you, you're going to hav
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by astine 6y ago
"“Database should store data not logic!” — well, no. This is called data-base, not data-bag. Databases are specialized engines to deal with, you guessed it, data. And they are extremely efficient at it. Not to mention - majority of th
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by astine 6y ago
"When I see these complaints I see people talking about how they want other people to use the Internet and computers. That smells like authoritarianism." Complaining about social, political, or economic trends is not authoritaria
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by astine 6y ago
I know too many of those people in my personal life to believe that they are a tiny minority. Trump has built himself an effective cult following. People turn off their brains in order to follow him and start to believe most of what he says
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by astine 6y ago
San Francisco is a well known culture hub. The startup industry started source of it in Silicon Valley but shifted north because of the appeal of living in San Francisco.
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by astine 6y ago
People definitely complain about merging difficulties with Git. The idea with Git is that the data model is simple enough that you can basically manually fix issues that come up. That unfortunately means that you have to take the time to un
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by astine 6y ago
Because that's traditionally how open source has been done? For decades? Especially if you're in a Unix/Linux environment? Eventually we started getting package managers and the distro maintainers started creating binaries of
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by astine 6y ago
There were over a dozen largely incompatible definitions of fascism on the page you linked and you cherry picked the one you happened to agree with. I feel like that sort of proves the author's point when says the word is applied too o
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by astine 6y ago
" That depends on people believing polygraphs work though " Are you sure that's true? In medicine, apparently placebos have an effect even if you know that it's a placebo. I imagine that even if you know that it's t
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by astine 6y ago
Just a guess, but I wonder if a polygraph is useful as an intimidation tactic? Maybe you can't detect lies with any sort of accuracy but you can intimidate people into making more mistake when answering questions and that can be used t
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by astine 6y ago
" Alas, it appears I can no longer read it, got flagged. Must have been even worse than the bit I did read :/ " Nope, that was the only unfriendly thing I said. Just turn on showdead if you want to read it.
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by astine 6y ago
Yeah they needed a lot of big paving stones which I'm guessing were a relatively scarce resource, Not to mention that road building was a military practice done by the army to facility the moving of large armies. Travel time took prior
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by astine 6y ago
Fun fact about Roman roads: The Romans would build roads as straight as physically possible. Unlike the modern day, where we will wrap a road around the landscape to keep it relatively level, the Romans would direct their roads straight up
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by astine 6y ago
Scott does not live in Michigan and has not for years.
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by astine 6y ago
Ah, I have a keyboard with two separate halves myself. I did try putting the halves further apart but found I didn't like it. It's probably relevant that 'hunching over' is something I tend to do even if I'm not at
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by astine 6y ago
If you weren't making an argument then I'm sorry for assuming you were. I'd suggest that you are probably dismissing political alignment too quickly, however. Even if they seem similar to you, the difference might seem import
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by astine 6y ago
It took me a moment to realize that the poster is trying to use a different definition of ad-hominem which isn't actually a logical fallacy. He's just criticizing the fact that the OP is bothering to criticize article's autho
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by astine 6y ago
You might prefer a looser definition of ad-hominem, but I think that the technical definition holds value. This looser definition reads like a means of implying that the poster's intent was different that what it was.
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by astine 6y ago
SSC has been critical of the way the news media works in the past. Just because they might fit in the same ideological bucket in your schema doesn't mean that the NYT would see SSC as a friend. I'm not saying that's why we&#x
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by astine 6y ago
I looked up his name a few weeks ago after the blog was brought down. It took be a couple of days to find it and even then I only found it because I've seen him in person. People here are discussing tracking down his old blog through a
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by astine 6y ago
Uh, no. " You made a bad argument and therefore you are stupid " is not an ad-hominem argument " You are stupid and therefore your argument is bad " _is_ an ad-hominem argument. The OP's comment clearly follows the
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by astine 6y ago
Right, that's why he's trying to stop the NYT from publishing his name. The game isn't that he thinks that by deleting the blog he'll prevent people from finding him even if he's mentioned in the NYT, it's that
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by astine 6y ago
It's to keep your wrists straight. Bad wrist positioning is one of the bigger causes of major discomfort or repretive strain injury. Unless you have a keyboard that is wider than you are, your hands are going to be closer together than
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by astine 6y ago
Attacking at-will employment whenever danger of Internet hate mobs is pointed out is a bit of a whataboutism. Not everyone worried about Internet hate mobs is otherwise a supporter of at-will employment. But that's really a distraction
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by astine 6y ago
Nah, it feels very different because Instagram et al has gamified the whole thing. Bob's labrador page is its own space, separate in a way from the rest of the internet. Bobslabs on Instagram is implicitly competing with celebrities
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by astine 6y ago
The Tea Party was not a separate political party. It was a faction in the Republican party that was focused and non-compromise with the Democratic party.It's hard to argue that this would be the same dynamic with a true third party.

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