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by borplk 8y ago
Phone companies made fun of apple before they made iPhone.
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by borplk 8y ago
> For software, value _isn't_ apparrent, the transaction (especially with any ongoing service or billing) is not contained, there is a vastly larger scope of unforseen or unanticipated consequences (both positive and negative, thoug
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by borplk 8y ago
That's just a lot of hand waving. People throw $5 in the busker's hat as they are casually walking by without a second thought. Yet they have a hard time paying for a $2 android game that keeps them entertained for many hours. Of
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by borplk 8y ago
Exactly. It's risk free. If you become successful people will use it as bragging rights. Otherwise you go back and finish the degree and no one hears about it.
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by borplk 9y ago
I suggest people use "serializable" by default and relax it carefully on a as-needed basis.
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by borplk 9y ago
It would be fine if they weren't hypocrites. They have zero loyalty yet they demand it from their employees.
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by borplk 9y ago
Required reading for anyone not familiar with this absolute corporate slavery scam: http://archive.fo/ByJ8X
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by borplk 9y ago
I also second the suggestion of things like movies, podcasts, books, etc... I think you have to find a "cheat" that immerses you in English as a SECONDARY side effect. For example find a TV show that you like to watch and understa
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by borplk 9y ago
I was imagining it in a wish list futuristic next generation way that is safe and controlled. Not just "throw implicit/global stuff on the wall". We already know how to do that.
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by borplk 9y ago
The biggest one I would say is "context". It would be nice to avoid repetition in a controlled manner by having some context. This would make it less tedious having to pass the same arguments to a function over and over again. For
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by borplk 9y ago
Development methodologies have been turned into weapons against the employees. That's how the average manager sees it, plain and simple. Everything else is just fluff and cake decoration sprinkled on top. It's a hip brand that jus
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by borplk 9y ago
Almost all of these things companies brag about are like that. Same thing with open offices. In fact whenever you see companies praising something so much trying to convince people it's such a wonderful thing, follow the money and it a
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by borplk 9y ago
bingo! "unlimited vacation" is a scam.
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by borplk 9y ago
One of the biggest problems is the flat one-dimensional aspect of text files. Overly-graphical solutions are clunky and not concise enough. However overly-flat environments like a plain text file also comes with huge problems. What I have w
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by borplk 9y ago
They sold to Microsoft. My guess is Microsoft is going to kill it.
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by borplk 9y ago
It's not hate it's normie and charlatan fatigue.
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by borplk 9y ago
> Emacs + st + Firefox What's "st"?
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by borplk 9y ago
The internet has become so hyper-commercialised that I don't think "innocent" technologies like RSS/Atom are going to make a comeback.
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by borplk 9y ago
I'm 99% certain it included everything. From what I have seen very very few companies have strictly separated databases for different types of data and so on. For the vast majority of companies a compromise is an all or nothing event.
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by borplk 9y ago
This seems to be a general rule-of-thumb tendency with "distributed anything". In general, in distributed systems a number of inconveniences arise as a natural cost of the distributed nature of the system. This creates a tendency
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by borplk 9y ago
Does the LLVM version jump improve performance or doesn't really matter in that area?
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by borplk 9y ago
> an employer that even looks at your social media profile to do a sort of casual "character check" on you, is not one that you should want to work for in the first place. Companies aren't going to ignore "free inform
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by borplk 9y ago
Unfair and ignorant comment. They are descriptive function names, that's all. "derived state from props" 4 words. "snapshot before update" 3 words. If you get an allergic reaction from that it's just you.
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by borplk 9y ago
Cookies have some excellent security features ("secure" flag, "http" flag to prevent javascript from acesssing it, and "same-site" flag for CSRF prevention on modern browsers). Don't use other storage mech
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by borplk 9y ago
> You should work on a product that solves YOUR problem I think this popular advice is flawed. It's survivorship bias in advice form. If you happen to have a good profitable problem you go solve it and become successful and then tur
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by borplk 9y ago
Is there an open way of accessing domain availability information?
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by borplk 9y ago
It's hardly a "recent" trend now.
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by borplk 9y ago
As far as I know sadly there is nothing comparable to Lenovo today in the market.
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by borplk 9y ago
It will just be a sub-component of systemd. Named colord.
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by borplk 9y ago
> The idea being that belief in God pays of well if true. And is alright if false. Disbelief in God pays off poorly if true, and alright if false. That makes lots of assumptions about what God is and how he behaves.

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