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by bct 13y ago
Back in the old days (2005) we used to call this Do the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work.
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by bct 13y ago
My understanding is that frozen strings (unlike Symbols) are garbage collected. This is useful because symbol construction can be used to DOS an application. (I agree that it's a weird, low level detail to have to think about.)
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by bct 13y ago
It's not sending a message - that would defeat the purpose. It's constructing a frozen string, reusing an existing one when possible. Prior to 2.1: def foo "bar".freeze end does these things every time
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by bct 13y ago
broostoryco, you are hellbanned.
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by bct 13y ago
blindhippo: You are hellbanned.
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by bct 13y ago
You are incredibly out of touch with most workers' reality if you think that wage theft is low cost or low probability.
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by bct 13y ago
Thinking critically is a barrier to shipping. It's much better to plunge blindly ahead! When it all falls apart we'll just claim that nobody could have predicted it.
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by bct 13y ago
anotherbadlogin: You have been hellbanned for a long time.
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by bct 13y ago
There is absolutely luck, it's in the timing. The Green Revolution happened to arrive before we hit Malthusian limits, but that wasn't guaranteed. If an asteroid is going to strike tomorrow the only solutions that matter are the o
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by bct 13y ago
There's no law of nature that says technological advance will solve every problem in time. There are many examples of societies that destroyed themselves.
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by bct 13y ago
If you're going to take cheap shots at RMS at least make them accurate. You may not agree with his reasons, but they have nothing to do with sin.
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by bct 13y ago
Show your work. Why do you expect the power consumption of the Bitcoin network to go down? When specific costs of a technology decrease it's for reasons specific to that technology. Yes, cell phones have gotten smaller & less expen
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by bct 13y ago
jnycs: you have been hellbanned for no particular reason.
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by bct 13y ago
Somebody needs to do the management work, but they don't need to be "higher" in the org chart than the people they're working with. The best managers I've had are more like facilitators than bosses.
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by bct 13y ago
It's totally standard in Canada now. Usually when a place doesn't take chips it's a US-owned chain.
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by bct 13y ago
> The point is that the HTTP server isn't the same entity doing the application work.
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by bct 13y ago
This is one of the worst articles I've read on the subject, and that's a pretty strong statement. > “Let’s say you’re searching for Renaissance Painters”…. Really? Who searches for that?" It's an example that happens
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by bct 13y ago
Maybe there are better examples, but removing parentheses and renaming a field are so trivial that I would not refer to them as refactoring.
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by bct 13y ago
The worse is the enemy of the better too.
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by bct 13y ago
> Anybody who buys TWTR is making an informed decision If only.
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by bct 13y ago
That paragraph isn't talking about a wifi card, it's talking about a software defined radio.
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by bct 13y ago
In my experience Canadians don't perceive the same differences between universities that Americans do. Fewer differences between our universities is a plausible explanation. So is the possibility that Americans perceive differences tha
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by bct 13y ago
Rural areas come with other benefits. Urban and suburban areas that are too car-centric are the worst of both worlds.
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by bct 13y ago
> You can even see it in the imaged on the amazon product page he linked. Olive oil is listed under "Other ingredients" on that bottle. I presume that means it's not the main ingredient. According to http://ndb
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by bct 13y ago
I'm in Edmonton, which sounds pretty similar to your climate. Except for those few -40 days I've found winter biking to be fairly comfortable once you get moving. In my experience you don't want to be using a bike lane after
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by bct 13y ago
Somehow after installing clean and using the system for less than a day I got into a cycle of BSoDs (maybe caused by a buggy RAID driver?). This required a reinstall. Sometimes my monitors go blank and won't come back on. I still can&#
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by bct 13y ago
Having recently started using Windows after years of using Linux exclusively, I'm confident that you can only make this comment with a straight face because you're intimately familiar with one system and not the other. I feel just
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by bct 13y ago
Of course it will. Javascript and images are standards, and you can turn them off. Why would this be different?
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by bct 13y ago
It's refreshing to see someone talk about this in terms of actual tradeoffs rather than fashion trends, thanks.
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by bct 13y ago
Another critical factor is that centralization is the easiest way to turn a profit.

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