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by ballenf 5y ago
Absolutely, yes. Someone has to write the parameterization libraries. That is, whatever abstraction layer you want to employ, in the end SQL queries are strings. And the passing reference to the potential misuse here can be a big bold state
512.
by ballenf 5y ago
Maybe we haven't come that far from Roman Coliseum days and are basically still throwing people to the lions after they start to bore us with their performances.
513.
by ballenf 5y ago
My lesson learned was "don't listen to what they say, watch what they do". As in, don't trust them to tell you what they're looking for, understand that figuring out what they're actually testing is also part o
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by ballenf 5y ago
The acceptance of fiat in a transaction is not enforced. People selling an item can refuse dollars and require the use of pesos or Monopoly money if they wish. Currencies in some countries are required to be accepted by creditors, but trans
515.
by ballenf 5y ago
If the phase changes happen on any kind of non-random schedule, however, it would still be introducing information into the system. And therefore violating know laws. Right?
516.
by ballenf 5y ago
There are places to ask the question "I think I need X. Is there a better solution?" But the answer to the question "How to do X?" really shouldn't include more than a passing reference to "Here's how to d
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by ballenf 5y ago
It still feels so strange to me to criticize an entire race or gender lump for a perceived trait of that group (here, the trait of not calling out sexism enough).
518.
by ballenf 5y ago
Your example makes the opposite case: it seems trivially easy to see whether a failure is the result of user error (legitimately invalidating the warranty) or inherent defect/failure.
519.
by ballenf 5y ago
100x is probably conservative in an enterprise pure waterfall development environment, regardless of application.
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by ballenf 5y ago
I made the mistake when learning a second language of thinking that because those people were so comfortable swearing in English that they were just comfortable with swearing in general. So I threw around their swear words the same that the
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by ballenf 5y ago
He calls "corruption" "one of the worst parts of capitalism". Maybe I should have paid more attention in class and less to Civilization, but I did think that corruption was not generally seen as much of a problem with ca
522.
by ballenf 5y ago
Would "fundamental" be a valid translation?
523.
by ballenf 5y ago
Was just watching Youtube video Veritassium about the non-existence of learning styles yesterday. I wonder if similar studies would show that there really are no introverts vs. extroverts in the sense that all people really have roughly the
524.
by ballenf 5y ago
Yes, thanks. Somehow that's always been backwards in my brain. Maybe I'll remember it this time.
525.
by ballenf 5y ago
I think both are fair readings here. There's even a strong case for a third problem: copyright itself is a tool fundamentally one-sided and OP. Three different things can all be true at the same time without detracting from each other.
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by ballenf 5y ago
A big disconnect I see is that some offices and teams are much more pleasant to be around in person. There are companies that feel like prisons -- windowless open office setups with oppressive noise and distractions. There are others with a
527.
by ballenf 5y ago
Maybe the reason it feels impossible to stem the tide of link rot is that it's takes tremendous energy to constantly increase the entropy of a system. And that energy has opportunity cost that no one really wants to talk about. The art
528.
by ballenf 5y ago
I think the distraction is against how disconnected reality is becoming from copyright/intellectual property regulations. It's still amazing to me that (US-centric context here), it's well established that instructions how to
529.
by ballenf 5y ago
I thought it was pretty well established that the Santa Clara story was one of a rogue sheriff shaking down Apple for some free iPads. In return apple would get their security staff approvals greenlit.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Why not use hashing with locality for similarity? That is if the two samples above "hashed" to a similar value it might be helpful to find similar code. Hashing was created to prevent collisions and ensure small changes have big d
531.
by ballenf 5y ago
Seems like the best testament to a well-done rebrand is that you don't need a thousand word blog post explaining it.
532.
by ballenf 5y ago
Or simply a delta off the last delta (or mean of last n deltas, I guess), so you can do the compression in a stream.
533.
by ballenf 5y ago
Lack of human contact is a form of trauma -- it's used as the basis for almost all forms of torture and punishment.
534.
by ballenf 5y ago
The propaganda that metadata isn't a privacy threat is one of the biggest PR wins for the surveillance economy ever.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Some types of high productivity are easily visible, some aren't. The dev who can whip out tons of stable code is easily measured. The dev who fights to stop an unneeded re-architecure or veto feature requests that would have maintenanc
536.
by ballenf 5y ago
The wind conditions would have been different?
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by ballenf 5y ago
> Host kicks me out same day leaving me stranded for the night and changes the locks, but says will refund. I really wonder what would happen if you got a locksmith to open the house and just went back in for the night in that situation.
538.
by ballenf 5y ago
But there's one fundamental truth about URLs: there is a single owner of a URL that decides what content appears at any particular address. So it's less a street address and more of a mobile phone number. Your grand should probabl
539.
by ballenf 5y ago
Yes, it makes about as much sense to talk about the ROI of a soon-to-be-winning lottery ticket before and after the winning numbers are announced while ignoring the losing tickets.
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by ballenf 5y ago
That mirrors my experience. It's not POs or PMs that hear about some new niche browser feature only supported by Chrome. It's devs that want to play with the latest toys and kind of look at you weird if you use Safari. There'

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