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by awj 16y ago
I have come to use the term "frighteningly thing" to describe most of the math and comp sci textbooks I decided were worth keeping. They are tiny, polished, beautiful gems rather than a ton and a half of rock studded with some promising cry
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by awj 16y ago
Maybe it is, but to the rest of us (read: "to me") it sounds pretty condescending.
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by awj 16y ago
School is awesome in that it helps show you things you should know about, but otherwise wouldn't be aware of. So far as ignorance of a subject's existence prevents you from self-teaching, there are subjects that cannot be self taught.
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by awj 16y ago
All that, and yet you refer to the people you work with as "cow-orkers". At least in that one narrow respect you could stand to be more clever, if not more polite.
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by awj 16y ago
That actually is (sort of) addressed in the article's initial example. Your class extension can turn someone else's class extension into a monkey patch. Worse, your extension may not match calling semantics of the other extension, so you
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by awj 16y ago
I think we definitely are spiraling. My argument is about how the stance MySQL took on parameterized queries has affected the product's community. I don't disagree with you on the technical issues. Well, except that providing useful tools t
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by awj 16y ago
> It is not unreasonable to assert that SQLI defense is a framework concern, not a database issue. Sure, but it is unreasonable to assert that SQLI defense is not also a database issue. Using the provided apis in a way that prevents S
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by awj 16y ago
> I have never heard someone say parameterized queries were "useless enterprise bloat". I have. Usually from people with no idea what they're talking about, maybe one of us has been (un)lucky in our experience. Hopefully it's me. >
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by awj 16y ago
You're arguing against the periphery of his point. By waiting so long to provide parameterized queries, MySQL helped foster the attitude that they were "useless enterprise bloat". The lack of parameterized queries was likely an influencing
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by awj 16y ago
I have no idea what the GP meant, but here's my take: Set a minimal threshold of cyclomatic complexity. Below this threshold, function are assumed "so simple there are obviously no defects". Above this threshold you need tests, roughly prio
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by awj 16y ago
What are your thoughts on an option/setting for partial fade on the navigation elements? I like the general thrust of the idea, but removing them entirely puts navigating wikipedia a little too close to mystery meat.
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by awj 16y ago
I didn't know there was a website where I could borrow and lend physical books to random people across the world with the click of a button, absolutely no shipping fees, and a rock-solid 14 day return policy. Does that site exist, or are yo
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by awj 16y ago
So far as my personal experience can be extrapolated, it's not just advertising. Sometimes it is lost sales. That said, so far as my personal experience can be extrapolated, the lost sales are an almost insignificant slice of the new sale
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by awj 16y ago
Diversity? Maybe. Widely available diversity? No, not really. Going out to any random (non-brewery) bar, I see the same local breweries: Widmer, Deschutes, and Rogue. They all make rather hoppy beers (roughly in that order of increasing h
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by awj 16y ago
I suspect many of them view it as a psuedo-hobby, where at least part of the business costs can be discounted as "personal time". For those more invested in the platform than just a hobby, possibly they see running multiple apps as diversif
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by awj 16y ago
Life is also too short to eat crappy food. I kid, I kid. I love in Portland, Oregon, and am jealous of your beers that are more than hops + alcohol.
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by awj 16y ago
> With all that said, anyone know of a way I could use my experiences and ability at social engineering online in a legit manner? See if Chris Hansen is hiring?
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by awj 16y ago
What, realistically, is the difference between knowing how to mangle URIs vs. knowing what content types are available for negotiation?
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by awj 16y ago
> esp if you've read Christensen? I haven't, but now kind of want to. Links?
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by awj 16y ago
Yeah, in that respect the choice of 99c is interesting. Amazon switches from taking 70% of the price to taking 30% of the price at $2.99. Granted, we're now coming down to "what do you mean by coffee", but that's still less than your averag
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by awj 16y ago
This is api-level backwards compatibility for a library that is bundled with the games. Microsoft is fanatical about BC when the alternative is to break a piece of software. When the only people they're inconveniencing are developers, the
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by awj 16y ago
It's node.js' equivalent to a Haskell monad tutorial.
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by awj 16y ago
Yeah, unfortunately as you ramp up on art assets to get to the level of "crazy 3d graphics", the people holding the money tend to want more and more of a sure thing. 'DOOM clone v 29345.2' will inevitably sell boatloads. 'Toasty the toaster
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by awj 16y ago
So ... they make money through in-app purchases and advertising? Maybe that's the problem on iPhones? Seems like any time you ask people for cash after subjecting them to ads they get seriously pissed. On Android the market is smaller, so
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by awj 16y ago
You're both right.
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by awj 16y ago
> I think that there is conceptually no superior way of scrolling. ...which means you should go with the mechanism people have already internalized. I thought that was a key principle of UI design: if you don't have a good reason to vio
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by awj 16y ago
Exactly. For me, every client-facing defect is an embarrassing personal failure. Having them caught in QA simply lessens the shame, and allows me to dedicate all the time I would spend freaking out about the newfound emergency to figuring o
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by awj 16y ago
No, that you're blind to because it's in the nature of software development. Spotting flaws in something you've spent the last $X hours convincing yourself is correct is hard to do. It's easy to make invalid assumptions and internalize th
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by awj 16y ago
So ... Quora doesn't want legitimate users? It's a pretty sad troll that can't figure out they need to make "real-sounding" names. Basically you're filtering out the twelve year olds that will try to write 'fuck' and 'shitcock' everywhere.
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by awj 16y ago
...sounds like you worked in a 70's sitcom.

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