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by bdavisx 10y ago
I realize you're in the gaming world, and that might be much different; but in the business application world (and I don't mean simple CRUD applications) anytime I've seen code like you describe, 1,000+ lines in a single clas
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by bdavisx 10y ago
>> Personally, I dislike places where people are provincial and close-minded, so I'll stick to the rural countryside and leave SF to the bigots. >I visit some of those places and many have a beautiful setting, everyone knows e
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by bdavisx 10y ago
The problem is that the US Supreme Court said that money is free speech, so covered by the 1st amendment. So much corruption has flowed from that decision that it's almost unbelievable.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
And I've been very, very impressed with the handwriting recognition. I discovered it by accident before it was a paid feature when I was searching for something and it brought up an image of some scribbled notes I had taken with the se
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Yes, this -- don't think that just because a big company throws words and money around that they are going to change. There can be many in middle management who either don't want change;or are too set in their ways and unwilling t
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by bdavisx 10y ago
It will be interesting to see if he changes how he speaks and acts because of this.
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Refactoring a gambling site using DDD(infoq.com)
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by bdavisx 10y ago
I use Resharper (R#) on a less powerful work machine (i5 8GB) and it works OK, there are times where VS (2012) seems to be horribly slow - and I don't know if that's caused by R# or not. R# adds too much power to VS for me to give
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Perhaps it wasn't a spammer, it would seem like a really "good" (in an underhanded, evil manner) for for a competitor to try to hurt your business.
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There would be far, far fewer deaths from overdose if all drugs were legal. There may be more addicts if they were legal, I don't know - but there would be a lot fewer deaths.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
> the best structure is probably a regulated private monopoly I think that needs to be changed to " well regulated private monopoly". When the monopoly starts to unduly influence the regulators then it's no better than an
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Her performance ranking program was so badly implemented by Yahoo’s ugly layers of middle management that it deserved every bit of the mocking and criticism it got, both on devel-random and in the tech press. I think one thing that coul
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by bdavisx 10y ago
I think the title was to differentiate from the actual Uber post regarding the switch.
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Yes, but from a "business" standpoint, Java 6 hasn't EOL'd. If your business needs to build Android applications, it doesn't matter that it's technically EOL'd. I would guess there's probably quite a
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Perhaps they dropped it because Scala is driven more by academics who didn't take that into account (or did and dismissed it).
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by bdavisx 10y ago
>It's sad but in Utah one of the best places to find a crook or a fraud is in your church congregation. That's true of many scams - and it applies everywhere, not just Utah. I've seen it happen. It's easier to get peo
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Is it really worse? Are 5 blades really better than 3? If they are, they aren't much better. It was all marketing and mark-up because they had the market.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
That won't work for all jobs - I work in the actuarial department for a (very) large insurance company. We can't directly affect profit. You could argue for whether or not our projections are correct, but they can be affected by m
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Changing the law would mainly affect older people. And older people vote in very high percentages. Politicians are very, very careful about doing things that will make older voters angry.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
>attending Heinrich Hertz Gymnasium, a Berlin high school specializing in mathematics and science. At Heinrich Hertz, Scholze said, “you were not being an outsider if you were interested in mathematics.” I wonder how many people like him
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by bdavisx 10y ago
I agree and disagree with you :). Yes, I agree, he's advocating in-lining one-off functions, and I can see both points of view from that. Having said that, how often do you have a large method where it isn't modifying a lot of sta
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Yes, I read the first edition many years ago - it was a huge benefit to my naive "bash the code out however I can" practices. Now, when reading it, I'm kind of like "yes, that's good, except when..." So you lea
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Actually, if you are inlining, he says: "you should be made constantly aware of the full horror of what you are doing." I wouldn't say he's in favor of it, he actually appears to be advocating for a pure FP approach. But
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by bdavisx 10y ago
I think some (many? IDK) are not unfazed by the "bad" parts of Trump's message - it's just that they agree so strongly with the "good" parts (whatever they feel is "good") that they are willing to hol
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Minecraft would be one that a few people have heard of... Many games on Android are also Java based obviously.
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Except according to an earlier posting from someone who went thru the process -- they didn't get a direct offer: they still had to go thru technical interviews. I thought a big point of this was that you could skip the BS technical int
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by bdavisx 10y ago
The 1st amendment doesn't say anything about being "well regulated."
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I think the real problem with discussing guns in the U.S. is that the issue is muddled. There's one problem, that causes two completely separate issues: The fact that you can *very easily* get a gun when you shouldn't be able
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Webview vs. native arguments aside, the work culture at Basecamp sounds like a great one.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Anyone from Hollywood on here, I can think of a couple of movie opportunities from this story right here: * people who are actually being targeted because they have some kind of "hidden" genetic "power" or something like

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