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by bkeroack 11y ago
That's a false distinction. bash has a (primitive, idiosyncratic) language built-in. So does PS. They also are both designed to glue together independent programs via the pipe abstraction. The difference is that PS has much more modern
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by bkeroack 11y ago
In some instances, most definitely yes! There are areas of the LA basin that are reasonably flat and commuting by bicycle is becoming more popular. In my particular instance it involved going through the Sepulveda Pass (elevation ~1000ft&#x
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by bkeroack 11y ago
There are a few streets off Sunset Boulevard with signs posted: "Dead end street after 10pm". Makes me chuckle every time I go by.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
This is an example of the NIMBYism that's unfortunately common here. The homes in the areas with the worst traffic (ie, Westside) are very expensive (>$1million) and are also usually in hilly areas with twisty, narrow streets. While
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by bkeroack 11y ago
> PowerShell never just works. That statement is a bit much. I agree the default execution policy is annoying, but can you blame MS for being a little overzealous given their history? Some aspects of Powershell are actually pretty nice.
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by bkeroack 12y ago
Damn. I've read a bit about Citus and thought it was interesting but had no idea it wasn't FOSS. Please consider opening it--as cool as the technology is, I can't in good conscience implement a proprietary DBMS in production.
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by bkeroack 12y ago
If you are a database author and you get a bug report from Kyle, spend a long time thinking about it before closing the issue as invalid.
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by bkeroack 12y ago
This could easily be the case for software engineers too, if we didn't abdicate the power to judge competency to employers and vendor certifications.
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by bkeroack 12y ago
I've written a largish project (~10k lines) targeting 2.7 and another one for 3.4. Other than the new features present in Python 3 (function annotations and asyncio), my code style has not changed at all. Neither project deals directly
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by bkeroack 12y ago
$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" $ brew install python3 pypy3 (to be less pithy, it's super easy to write code that will run o
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by bkeroack 12y ago
You're advocating simply refusing to participate in the game, which may be a good choice for you personally but probably isn't applicable more broadly. As an overly-extreme example, imagine if a woman responded to sexual harassmen
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by bkeroack 12y ago
(not the OP) The job of a manager is to lead as a natural outgrowth of deep domain knowledge and industry experience. The best bosses I've ever had were those from whom I learned new things every day, and I was glad to take guidance
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by bkeroack 12y ago
If you accept that engineering skill fits the normal distribution, it's less likely that they are "terrible" than merely average. Amazing 10X engineers could still pull off shipping a working product even with all the organiz
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by bkeroack 12y ago
This is what happens when engineers subordinate themselves to non-technical management in a business-driven (as opposed to engineering-driven) organization. The ironic/tragic thing is that the consultants who are brought in at much exp
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by bkeroack 12y ago
The concept of peak oil is fine (almost self-evident), just the timing has been off. Theories are easier than predictions.
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by bkeroack 12y ago
If you've already shot yourself in the foot, why not also shoot yourself in the face?
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by bkeroack 12y ago
To add to the other comments, it also shows the requestor to have incredible hubris and/or naivete. An experienced entrepreneur understands that raw ideas have virtually zero value, it's the team and execution that matter. If an N
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by bkeroack 12y ago
VCs pay the bills and call the shots. In a not-yet-profitable startup, customers do neither by definition.
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by bkeroack 12y ago
Every company that runs on AWS is dependent upon SAN (eg, EBS). I imagine it's similar for other cloud services. Just because you've never seen one or had to deal with one directly does not mean you're not dependent on one.
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by bkeroack 12y ago
Powershell is nice if you are a sysadmin--it beats the pants off of cmd.exe or clicking around wizards. It's very nice that it has real data structures like arrays and hashmaps, and I found JSON processing to be much better than using
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by bkeroack 12y ago
On the other hand, it's pretty amazing that a ~2MB application can be downloaded over the network and executed to a state of responsiveness within 2 seconds. Some of us remember when the MS Word binary was roughly that size and took
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by bkeroack 12y ago
It appears to be storing routes in a tree structure allocated via struct literals in router setup. I'm imagining that if performance is relying on them always being on the stack, that would be an implementation detail of the Go runtime
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by bkeroack 12y ago
I would never "yell" at anybody for using vi vs less, but I might curiously ask their reasoning behind it. I'm generally for less bikeshedding and cargo cultism when possible. Whatever works to get the job done.
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by bkeroack 12y ago
The income graph strongly suggests to me that increased happiness scales with the proportionate increase in income, rather than the absolute increase in raw dollars. That is to say, a 20% raise will increase everybody's happiness rou
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by bkeroack 12y ago
"barely stack ranking" means stack ranking, which speaks a lot to the type of organization that would employ it against software engineers. It may be effective for certain types of workers--sales people, for example--but it's
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by bkeroack 12y ago
There is an ecosystem around C/C++ for supporting large codebases. There isn't anything like it (yet) for Go. Sorry, does not compute. Go was specifically designed for large teams and big codebases. While I find the new
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by bkeroack 12y ago
Interesting that it's built on ZODB. For those that aren't familiar, in essence ZODB gives your Python application a 'magic dictionary' which automatically persists any keys written to it. It was probably my ignorance, b
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by bkeroack 12y ago
In R you can do anything, including graphics. SQL is just, well, SQL.
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by bkeroack 12y ago
I didn't realize it was 100% client side. If so it's not an issue then, apologies.
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by bkeroack 12y ago
No HTTPS, seriously? Shameless plug for mine: https://www.wordentropy.org

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