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by bjt 10y ago
> Medical care is unaffordable / unsustainable in the high HDI countries Maybe. Or maybe we're so wealthy and have so few kids that the health care industry is draining off the excess? In either case, I think it's hard to
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by bjt 10y ago
I completely agree with the author, though slightly surprised to see it come from the Go community, which has seemed like one of the more dogmatic languages. (E.g. all the "you don't need generics" arguments over the years.)
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by bjt 10y ago
or getattr/setattr, or dynamically building classes with type(), or probably more features I can't remember now.
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by bjt 10y ago
Anybody running Django uses this. It uses the pattern of specifying plugins as class paths in strings in the config, which are then looped over and instantiated at runtime. Frameworks do lots of such dynamic tricks in order to provide ni
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by bjt 10y ago
Feels more like a pendulum. I remember one of the big pre-1.0 branches of Django was called "removing-the-magic".
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by bjt 10y ago
Yes. > To try it out yourself, you first need a to install a DC/OS cluster and then Apache Kafka... When I see that, I know the cost of satisfying my curiosity is going to be a lot higher than I'm willing to pay right now.
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by bjt 10y ago
My concern is more about fragile code than malicious code. I've had many experiences of packages where "python setup.py install" wouldn't work locally, and then I looked inside setup.py, and was confronted with a wall o
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by bjt 10y ago
The function calls in the Pipfile make me suspect it's going to be read and eval-ed within Python. And that makes me shudder. Many packages have abused the executable nature of setup.py files by importing obscure packages or adding ot
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by bjt 10y ago
Any company trying to enforce such a non-compete against someone who just earned $200 would spend a lot more than that in legal fees. This feels like legal paranoia to me.
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by bjt 10y ago
The screen would dim more aggressively and location-aware apps would be less accurate. Many users would be annoyed by this, though they might not know it was a result of the battery-saver setting.
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by bjt 10y ago
Much criticism is also explained by "they feel threatened by this".
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by bjt 10y ago
Games are the first type of application to use this, but won't be the last. If you can run AAA games in a browser, you could run Photoshop, Maya, programming IDEs, and other professional tools. It's not just another framework.
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by bjt 10y ago
It's weird to hear git's cli called superior. I have much more often heard the opposite.
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by bjt 10y ago
Has Firebase been through Aphyr's Jepsen tests?
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by bjt 10y ago
You can definitely use LISTEN and NOTIFY to watch for changes in Postgres. Here's a presentation I did on that last year, though oriented more towards web apps than analytics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsorlkAF8
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by bjt 10y ago
But wouldn't Python be just as suited for rapid development as Node, if not moreso?
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by bjt 10y ago
> But ... there's no reason we can't have a simple tax system. None at all. Most quirks and exceptions in our current system have their own constituencies who are willing to send lobbyists to defend the status quo. Those const
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by bjt 10y ago
The styleguide mentions "scannability purposes". It doesn't say whether it's machines or humans doing the scanning, but I can definitely see the benefit to the latter. Code is read many more times than it's written
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by bjt 10y ago
Flask can be used with gunicorn's gevent (green threads) worker type to scale to many more concurrent connections.
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by bjt 10y ago
The PM didn't post the photo. Someone else did. The PM posted a criticism saying Facebook should "review its editing policy". And then Facebook deleted that. I can concede that there could be good reasons to pull the photo.
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by bjt 10y ago
It sounds like Netflix's host naming scheme is what made it possible for the researchers to do this. I assume that means using regions and incrementing counters in the hostnames. Who wants to bet that in the next year we'll see t
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by bjt 10y ago
Detroit is still there. And so are unions.
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by bjt 10y ago
> Humans do exactly that though There's a weak and a strong version of that claim. To say that humans use existing works in creating their own is easily provable. But what I don't think is easily provable is that the new work
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by bjt 10y ago
I think the underlying issue here is that no two people agree on what "Docker" is. Is it the CLI? Is it Docker Machine? Is it Docker Swarm? The container part of Docker works well. And they've ridden that hype wave to try
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by bjt 10y ago
I think any discussion of the good and bad side of unions needs to distinguish between public and private sector ones. In the private sector, union negotiations are naturally constrained by the knowledge that if the company isn't profi
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by bjt 10y ago
1.day? I confess to not being a Rubyist, but does that require monkeypatching the base int class? I don't see anything unreasonable about Pendulum's interface. Let's let Python be Python and Ruby be Ruby.
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by bjt 10y ago
"This guy" is a woman named Sabine.
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by bjt 10y ago
There's more than one kind of mormon. There are the skeptical types like you and me, and there are the doomsday-prepping Julie Rowe followers, and more. There is certainly a subgroup of mormons that would see religious significance in
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by bjt 10y ago
You're right on the law as it stands today, but the current law exists precisely because of a case about Jehovah's Witnesses being compelled to salute the flag in school. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects&
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by bjt 10y ago
At least in the US, there are certainly circumstances where the government can compel speech, though in most cases they can't. There is a lot of case law on the subject. It's mostly in the commercial realm (think cigarette label

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