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by awj 9y ago
Premature abstraction is generally worse than immature abstraction. Write the most straightforward thing you can, and wait for that feeling that it won't work out. Then, ignore that feeling until you get proof. If you've kept your
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by awj 9y ago
Personally, I don't remember all of those experiences, but Aladdin was one that stood out. Mostly because of the crushing disappointment of playing the Genesis version at a friend's house then begging to get the SNES version ...
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by awj 9y ago
> How would you implement a deep pagination like "go to page 107" You wouldn't. Keyset pagination forces the user to do the exact same thing people complain about you doing to the database. Want page 10 of results? Too b
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by awj 9y ago
If "being sued into oblivion" is such an existential threat to these corporations, why does this keep happening? Nobody is getting sued into oblivion, so I don't see why that's part of the argument. It's not "s
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by awj 9y ago
or C) (at least in regards to unlocking devices) encrypt it so even they can't retrieve it.
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by awj 9y ago
> The pro privacy stance that Apple is taking is wonderful to see. Yeah, it is. Welcome to what it feels like to be wholly the customer, instead of partially the product.
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by awj 9y ago
I need to be licensed to drive because my incompetence could ruin people's lives. Why is that commonly accepted, but it's horrible to contemplate regulation of Equifax for the same essential reasons?
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by awj 9y ago
So did Equifax, and Target, and Home Depot, and... I don't see the point you're trying to make. If we're going by "who has made the news for hacks lately", the private sector is by far the worse choice.
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by awj 9y ago
Can anyone point me to a single instance where North Korea has used a nuclear weapon in combat? No? Why are we worried then...
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by awj 9y ago
> It's also the case that DNS gets cached and not all users create the same load It's also, also the case that DNS gets cached and propagating the removal of a broken server could take ages .
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by awj 9y ago
> The syntax is bad (just like ruby) Any interest in qualifying that opinion?
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by awj 9y ago
> If you want to know what it was like you could take a look at Wikipedia, where you still can get lost in a never ending deeper web of links. I would have said TVTropes, but the core point is the same. I remember having to restart my co
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by awj 9y ago
> Have you met any trust fund babies who don't have to work? Do you think it's wise to create more of them? What is your basis for believing that UBI would create more of them? UBI would be ... universal , so A) society would
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by awj 9y ago
They probably will be, long term. Short term either everyone will support the market leader's charger, or the market leader will patent the charger and charging stations will become pluggable/universal. I can see no reality in whi
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by awj 9y ago
Cf. "Windows 10", which had to a version number because people were looking for a "Windows 9" (i.e. Windows 98 & Windows 95) prefix in a version name string despite it being available as direct numeral values. Feel f
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by awj 9y ago
> The current number of 230 employees is already about ten times too many. What the hell do they need the additional staff for? What Alexa top ten site have you run off a crew barely large enough to field a softball game?
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by awj 9y ago
> Especially if Gif searches sometimes have intent. ...they do? I'm not sure I've ever seen a Gif posted that was not a pithy reaction to a conversation. Seems kind of hard to come up with meaningful context from "sponge
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by awj 9y ago
> The techmeme results are not representative of the framework. I've seen several instances of this, now. Some Rails benchmarks jumped up pretty high as well when they managed to get someone to competently configure Puma. Practicall
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by awj 9y ago
Emacs is relatively pervasive. It runs everywhere , including plenty of platforms that Rust does not support. Either due to current support priorities or lack of LLVM support. That makes it something less than a drop-in replacement from th
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by awj 9y ago
For service startup time? Sure it is. How often are you booting your webservers that 500ms isn't fast enough?
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by awj 9y ago
...it's documentation, not a news article. 90% of the page content is going to be under the fold regardless.
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by awj 9y ago
Sure, and I can see that, but my argument is that natural keys which depend on business logic are subject to definitions that can change given a long enough time frame.
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by awj 9y ago
The ultimate problem with natural keys is that their uniqueness is a property of business rules . Unless you live in some magical fairytale land where business rules are stable, sensible, or both, depending on them for uniqueness is askin
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by awj 9y ago
Not trying to be rude, but why would someone build a V4 API and plan to keep the V3 API alongside it long term?
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by awj 9y ago
> The implication of this comment only holds if the replacement FBI Director drops the investigation. How can you possibly trust the authenticity of an investigation headed up by someone hand chosen by the person being investigated, who
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by awj 9y ago
When you consider "trivial" to mean "only if you ignore all kinds of edge cases that most languages implicitly ignore" ... then Haskell has plenty of paper-worthy trivial problems.
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by awj 9y ago
Where in all of this did you get that someone saw it as an "acceptable problem"? Hell, where did you get that dehydration isn't a problem for soldiers? I grew up in Texas. Literally everyone I knew, and absolutely everyon
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by awj 9y ago
> Say 4 of the high earners stop working as much (since their marginal rates are so high). I have literally never once heard or even heard of someone deciding to work less because they don't want to pay as much in taxes.
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by awj 10y ago
> Companies seek to be viable in the future. Companies seek to outperform themselves relative to the last quarter and year. Long term strategy like this takes a backseat, if it gets attention at all. It certainly doesn't get the lux
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by awj 10y ago
You do realize you're comparing an amalgamation of software companies to a Linux distribution vendor, right? Oracle hasn't just been a database company for ... probably decades.

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