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by awj 9y ago
That's quite possibly the most inefficient way to handle such a thing. As a reminder: there's a very good chance that, with healthcare, inefficiency => people die. Beyond that, it's an insulting way to avoid having a real
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by awj 9y ago
Go ahead and make a five page resume, but: A) Make it dead simple to visually distinguish between jobs/entries. B) Put your most important things in the first two lines, because that's all I'm reading until I decide you'
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by awj 9y ago
Holy crap, you weren't kidding. Loaded their main page, 12MB transferred in the first minute before I noped out of there.
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by awj 9y ago
> Not that I want crumbs on my phone, Turn one bag inside out, put it inside another, put your phone inside both. Problem solved, with bonus stronger shielding. > but how does one ground a snack bag with a phone in it? I would imagine
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by awj 9y ago
> prior to the rule change in 2014 did we have such a problem? No, we didn't, mostly because ISPs didn't have the technical capability or demonstrate the intent to violate net neutrality. We didn't need rules to stop peopl
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by awj 9y ago
> and will be one day stripped from the history books ala Robert E. Lee. So, not at all because he was a central figure in that piece of history? I'm really not sure what point you're trying to make here...
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by awj 9y ago
> It's difficult to accept that they truly have the best interest of their constituents in mind. Then ... don't. If someone's actions contradict their words, don't believe their words.
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by awj 9y ago
If we run out of all of this other stuff, I'm going to be really worried about the scotch shortage too...
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by awj 9y ago
Have anything you can cite to expand on this? That seems like an incredibly basic thing for native applications to not have access to on OS X. (note: not iOS)
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by awj 9y ago
> I'm reasonably confident none of my friends read Mozilla's blog. The point, though, is that they could. If you wanted to drop links to them with more details about why the should be excited about Firefox again, Mozilla is a
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by awj 9y ago
Except that's exactly the expectation people have of news, and Google calls what they do news. It absolutely isn't a category error on the part of consumers when Google puts themselves in the category .
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by awj 9y ago
You mean like every human-curated news source since the beginning of time?
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by awj 9y ago
I find it appalling that you don't even confront the question of "why are we using algorithms to promote news"? Unless Google can somehow find a way to reliably present factual content, what they're doing here is funda
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by awj 9y ago
> The fix for this can't be trying to appeal to their morals. A public corporation doesn't have morals. It isn't a thing that thinks and feels, it's a social construct designed single-mindedly around the creation an
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by awj 9y ago
They used it as weird sound an alien makes in the PBS show "Read Jet Go" (which is a fantastic kids show, btw). It was so strange having my kids laugh at this strange noise that was a deep part of my childhood and eventual profess
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by awj 9y ago
I started using Emacs like twelve years ago. At this point I'm hopelessly lost to it. My fingers natively speak a language that other editors don't understand.
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by awj 9y ago
Web service architectures are like shoes. You want what fits now, not what you hope will fit later. Chances are very good that preemptive scaling will just result in unnecessary development overhead and an architecture/set of abstracti
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by awj 9y ago
1. Write web application with little to no idea how an RDBMS works 2. Run into inevitable performance problems 3. Decide that your database is at fault, rewrite in NoSQL 4. Buy into NoSQL hype, push 5x resources on your NoSQL solution 5. P
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by awj 9y ago
> I'm sure part of this is the fault of the language. "Fault" is a pretty loaded word here. Pretty sure my old TI-86 also would struggle to run GitLab...
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by awj 9y ago
Gzip format has: 10 byte header, 8 byte footer, optional additional headers, and DEFLATE compressed content. So, yeah, +25 bytes seems reasonable.
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by awj 9y ago
> The left's reaction to DJT has pushed me closer to the Republican party than I could've ever imagined. Do you think it's a good thing that your political opinions are so profoundly influenced by shitposting you see onlin
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by awj 9y ago
> Many city news channels have their own radar and forecast teams. While this is true, it's probably also worth pointing out that those forecasts likely depend on NWS data in some fashion.
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by awj 9y ago
So ... highlighting that this "brink of failure" is a staffing problem isn't as important as pointing out that the labor union is the one making the statement? Ok then...
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by awj 9y ago
> "Most applications today run on a database technology that was introduced in the 1970s. We built ours on ideas that were tried and discarded in favor of that technology." Not entirely true, but nuance often precludes persua
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by awj 9y ago
> I'd rather have the time, money and energy go into a free software commons. Anyone contributing to LLVM is enabling proprietary software. Am I clear in understanding that you're statement is "people contributing to this
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by awj 9y ago
> There may be a good answer for how we can know our fishing impact with so little data We know it experientially, based on how external factors in previous overfishing have played out. When nearly every aspect of technology should enabl
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by awj 9y ago
I think the concern is in the way it obscures the target. Replace "Moby Dick" with a Chuck Tingle (warning, probably nsfw) book. Now that second link is a serious problem.
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by awj 9y ago
That's great if you need to do some kind of crawl through the DB for background work, but fails to support key elements (filtering, non-primary-key sorting) that are probably hard requirements at the API level.
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by awj 9y ago
Ehh, semantics. "How do you ensure that your constraints are correct?" is effectively the same question. Any nontrivial set of constraints will need to be validated, and validating those constraints is a pretty big challenge that
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by awj 9y ago
No, I think his point is valid. Some of the biggest errors are subtle failures in the implementation of business logic. Cases where what the code does and what it looks like it does fail to line up. Static typing can be brought to bear on

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