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by brazzy 2y ago
It's also the most powerful and flexible one, increasing the chance that whatever crazy UI ideas your designers come up with can be implemented relatively easily.
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by brazzy 2y ago
I know what you mean, but... Not safe for work - because it's their job ?
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It's just a little disconnect between the expectations of people who know nothing about cube solving, who think that finding the solution is the difficult part, vs. the reality that this is entirely a demo of how fast and precise you c
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by brazzy 2y ago
> One standout statistic was that projects with clear requirements documented before development started were 97 percent more likely to succeed. In comparison, one of the four pillars of the Agile Manifesto is "Working Software over
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by brazzy 2y ago
Sarcasm does always, without exception, sabotage a factual discussion into confusion about what people are actually saying (because that remains unclear even when you fully recognize the sarcasm ).
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> The way I like to manage projects these days is a kind of kanban system with a task queue, and 1-2x a week brief cadence meetings to discuss priority/alignment and any blockers. Sounds pretty agile to me. While the "defenders
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I hear someone got buttbuttinated there recently.
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> Otherwise the tenants just start taking land. ...and do what with it, exactly? Farm it, like they're already doing ? The conflicts would not be about the land, they would be about rents/dues/duties/taxes. And there
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> I've attempted in this sketch to lay out, by analogy, the nature and structure of the Chinese writing system. All of the concepts apply Do they? I think there is one section that has nothing whatsoever to do with how Chinese works
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by brazzy 2y ago
> First they developed a phonetic alphabet specifically for Japanese No. First they used a set of existing Chinese characters that matched the syllables of Japanese - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27y%C5%8Dgana
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> Being great only matters if you need external validation. Humans are social creatures. Seeking external validation is, to a certain degree, normal and healthy.
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by brazzy 2y ago
Ohh yeah. A few years ago I worked on a system that had replaced a previous system that was like that: a bunch of microservices with multiple instances, communicating via message queues, all in the name of scalability and high availability.
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by brazzy 2y ago
A small-scale Cogeneration[1] plant could very well make economical sense for any facility the size of a maor airline hub. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogeneration#Industrial_CHP
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by brazzy 2y ago
I'm pretty sure the "send a copy of this to X people or something bad will happen to you!" meme already existed in the paper mail days.
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That as well is "not doing the right thing", namely adding a comment that explains the need for it.
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But all the artists that never completed a work because they always thought "it's not perfect yet" are forgotten, by everyone.
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The key is, though, that they do the right thing , and are also willing and able to abort or change plans (again, in the right direction) when the situation changes.
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I wonder how many protocols/servers that are "officially registered" there are by now completely out of use (as in, truly not actively used by anyone on the planet). And how many of the listed email addresses still work.
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Sounds pretty impossble to me do that with a sufficient combination of range and precision.
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> "Systems programming" is hard, and should be hard, for reasons unrelated to the programming language used. The question is: is it harder than it needs to be due to accidental complexity[1] in programming language design. TFA
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Traditionally, you sort of had to take heavily defended positions in order to conquer territory because if you didn't, the defenders would cut of your supply lines and attack your rear. A key idea of Blitzkrieg (or "maneuver war
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> Genghis had the advantage that his tanks ate grass, and grass grew everywhere the Mongols decided to conquer. More like: wherever you didn't have abundant grass, Mongol armies essentially couldn't go, or at least lost so much
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Now you're moving goalposts at breathtaking speeds. Previously, you defined surrogate activity as "artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal", i.e. definitely not producing anything u
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> I would say 99.999% of all modern work is "surrogate activity" (an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal to work toward.) That's one of th
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by brazzy 2y ago
I'm pretty sure the answer is usually "concurrency". The examples alluded to in TFA sound like it. Handling concurrency is notably extremely hard, and an RDBMS is what other applications use to solve their hairy concurrency p
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by brazzy 2y ago
Ahh, thanks, that piece of information suddenly makes TFA makes sense. I was wondering how it could be that those issues were not caught by unit tests before committing/merging, but seemed to be caught soon afterwards in a way that the
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I suspect that an even bigger cause of the brittleness described in TFA is also that an RDBMS inherently has to deal with concurrency. And not in the way that most applications do - the RDBMS is where other applications push their hairy c
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> the severe legal consequences of cheating causing a divorce in most states. Reality check: Most states have abolished fault divorces entirely, and in all of them the legal consequences of cheating as such are generally zero.
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Did they have someone in the camp with basic knowledge of Chinese orthography? This is definitely a possibility, but even then... > Did someone know enough to note carefully the way in which the characters were written? Did they keep the
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I had the same thought, but as the other responses note, there are many possible explanations. Yet another one: maybe some of the prisoners actually knew basic Japanese? It would be a very useful skill in their situation, and learning the b

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