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by bakhy 11y ago
some have already commented here that author maybe complains too much (e.g., calling .get() on an Option<T> is a deliberate move, meaning that the developer explicitly took on the risk of that exception. that's very different tha
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by bakhy 11y ago
apparently, she should be white too.
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by bakhy 11y ago
disgusting text. could not finish reading it. the author should try appreciating the fact that IT is an industry where one can choose between jobs. many people do not have that luxury and must swallow a lot of shit to earn a living. the aut
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by bakhy 11y ago
upvoted for the angry Bruce Lee comparison!
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by bakhy 11y ago
doesn't this "solution" here actually still leave wide open the possibility of reading inconsistent data?
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by bakhy 11y ago
you can replace the word "inconsistent" with "incorrect", and many uninitiated people will shit their pants on that too :)
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by bakhy 11y ago
they are both a catastrophe, i never implied that inconsistency is not one. i'm merely involved in semantic bickering here :) both are bad in their own way, but which is worse will depend on the case. bear in mind that programmers make
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by bakhy 11y ago
i'm kinda surprised by the prevalence of that attitude. in theory, yes, you are right. but that's really a bit of programmer purism. in practice, a DB that stops working can mean a sudden stop in doing business, which is a huge ca
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by bakhy 11y ago
i am not saying it's not a problem, nor that it's always easy to fix. but it is fixable. banks will keep double records, and solutions will be found for corner cases (in the end, even write-offs). but it's simply a very diffe
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by bakhy 11y ago
good points, but it all depends on the actual situation. for starters, i was not thinking about blindly replaying it in the same system. of course that makes no sense. rather, after you find the bug, you use an alternate source of the same
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by bakhy 11y ago
oh, but it is an important difference, i believe. any experienced developer will keep an audit log of transactions somewhere. a corrupted database can be completely lost. an inconsistent one can be later corrected by using the audit trail.
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by bakhy 11y ago
that's a good idea, but on second glance, it's none of their business. people should value their own work, and not throw themselves at the first smooth-talking jerk in the gamblers' hope of earning some hilariously unlikely w
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by bakhy 11y ago
you're both right, IMO. because there's a whole world between being a jerk and being a push-over. and btw, opposites typically have way more similarities than differences. (it actually says so in the definition of opposites in cla
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by bakhy 11y ago
the author might want to tone down the pretentious comments about ruling the world. sorry, but world rulers don't get screwed like this. although i believe that the Billy guy is a jerk (but no, BTW, does not really seem a bully), i kin
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by bakhy 11y ago
i'm curious, how enforceable is that? what kind of proof would one need?
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by bakhy 11y ago
> we’ve found that teams who don’t spend time addressing this issue until it actually matters (i.e., there is a tangible product to have ownership of) are much more productive and successful than those who do. OMG! i was just about to as
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by bakhy 11y ago
sorry, but you presented it very weakly. i checked wikipedia in the meanwhile, and it does it much better justice. i certainly don't have the time or will to read a 200 page book for the sake of an HN discussion. this should not be a s
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by bakhy 11y ago
this is ridiculous. "in all of recorded history"? hundreds of thousands of deaths? in Australia?! :D but i guess if you read it in a book, it must be true! there's also a book out there claiming the Nazi regime was all the wo
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by bakhy 11y ago
did you notice that this site is called "Hacker News" - maybe they should change that name to "People News" :D
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by bakhy 11y ago
excuse me, but you are being very discriminatory. > If we're not talking about sex, why would you bring up your sexual orientation? because it's a big part of who i am. to give a simple example of just how thoroughly oblivious
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by bakhy 11y ago
> diversity is good/desirable -> minorities are more valuable than white people at your company (since you clearly already have enough white people) seems to be the point of a lot of blog posts/conversation. when blog posts
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by bakhy 11y ago
it's difficult, and multi-faceted, and still it must be tackled. the system is the crux of this issue, there would be no issue if the field were not uneven.
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by bakhy 11y ago
> but it's also divisive to make it seem like a group is inherently more valuable for no reason other than the color of their skin, or life choices, or whatever. it is also the truth, and it is a problem. labelling is like a joke co
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by bakhy 11y ago
> If the ground really is that uneven maybe the problem is not the founders, but the system (again, how to change that is a super complicated discussion) don't avoid this discussion, it is essential. it's not complicated. we ar
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by bakhy 11y ago
first of all, i AM a gay guy, and anyone who wants to know me must eventually know that as well. i do not find the idea of hiding it or avoiding discussion about it attractive. in an ideal society, it should be as you say - everyone free to
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by bakhy 11y ago
so, affirmative action should not be done, and structural racism should not be combated, just so that we do not offend the pride of the discriminated by labelling, or? this is ridiculous. by this logic we might have to ignore racism complet
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by bakhy 11y ago
would this be an example of the Nirvana fallacy? actual good work is being done, and you're saying that it's bad because it's not better? but then again, your suggestion is not really better. you can't fight racism by pr
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by bakhy 11y ago
why do you think the lines are the problem? certainly, race is a thing. the problem is IMO in the asymmetry of power and opportunity between the slices of the pie chart. that races exist is undeniable, but racism does not stem just from ack
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by bakhy 11y ago
i disagree with the anti-identification claim. if we indeed do not "see race", then how can we even talk about racism, let alone fix it? this may seem trivial, but it is important. as a gay guy, i've heard similar arguments f
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by bakhy 11y ago
when certain groups are underrepresented, then doing something proactive to improve that is not racism, it's fighting against it. IMO social context is key. it's asymmetric, and to fix it, you need asymmetric action. if the scale

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