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by breischl 10y ago
The construction to paraphrase Jonathan Swift, "quote goes here" is similar, but arguably a bit more readable.
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by breischl 10y ago
The intent of TFA is clearer, but it's still false. AirBnB and Uber didn't get some legal limitation of liability, they just started doing something new and asserted that they weren't liable. Turns out some jurisdictions agre
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by breischl 10y ago
To a large extent this already happens, and is one of the major complaints about gentrification. The rising value of the land & property causes rising rents, which can become a hardship on the lower-income people who were living there b
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by breischl 10y ago
Actually, I think you made that too easy. Microsoft itself has lots of legacy drivers - probably thousands. Changing them would require finding, recompiling, retesting, and redistributing all of them at best. That's certain to be expen
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by breischl 10y ago
Well, getting hotter than you can handle is (at least sometimes) called heatstroke. And some of the symptoms include "Altered mental state or behavior. Confusion, agitation, slurred speech, irritability, delirium, seizures and coma can
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by breischl 10y ago
Aren't they orthogonal? No matter how fast HTTP/2 is or how much it decreases connection setup times, requesting resources in the "right" order will always be faster than doing it in one of the "wrong" orders.
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by breischl 10y ago
I also thought that "average of the bottom 50%" was a weird metric. Seems like using the 25th percentile would make more sense. And there could be a significant difference between that and the mean-of-the-lower-half.
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by breischl 10y ago
>>Everything from Das is really dysfunctional and sad. I don't think that's fair. I've had a Das for a couple years now (Model S Pro, IIRC) and it's a solid, well designed keyboard. No obnoxious software AFAICT. Th
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by breischl 10y ago
I imagine this kind of thing varies between countries. It appears the standard in the US is that if repaying the debt would be an "undue hardship" then a judge may discharge it in bankruptcy. You can also file a different kind of
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by breischl 10y ago
One should certainly tailor their investments to their own risk tolerance. But there are better investments even with very low risk levels. Money market, CDs, gov't bonds, and high-grade corporate bonds are all options that give better
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by breischl 10y ago
>>I suspect we can trace the triumph of NIMBYism to the baby-boom reaching the "get off my lawn" age. Doubtful. The majority of people hate change, and that has probably always been true. A large population influx inevitably
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by breischl 10y ago
Pretending that home equity is like a bank account is just silly. They're wealthy, but can only access that wealth by moving somewhere else (probably out of state), becoming homeless, or taking on potentially risky bets like a reverse
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by breischl 10y ago
Yes, but the whole point is that the fees are part of the reason why the house costs that much. If you wanted the final house to cost $100k, then you'd have to actually build it for $50k. Which may not even be possible, or if it was
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by breischl 10y ago
Almost definitely this. Our local paper has actually tried to literally give away the Sunday edition. ie, a Sunday-only subscription at no cost. Not sure how many takers they got - I didn't sign up.
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by breischl 10y ago
I think disguising a simple function call as a variable access is sensible. But yes, people can disagree on this. I think the C# and Java designers are probably all smart people who thought about this a lot more than the two of us. :) &gt
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by breischl 10y ago
So your argument is that because there are some uses that require boilerplate, therefore all uses should require at least that much boilerplate?
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by breischl 10y ago
I would argue that the distinction is actually a good thing. If you're working with a reasonably well-designed library, then the fact that something is a method instead of a property tells you it might be doing some serious (or just sl
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by breischl 10y ago
No kidding. Who ever said anything about not knowing what the requirements are? The point you were disagreeing with here was "80% of the software an engineer will write will not require optimization". ie, 80% of any given system h
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by breischl 10y ago
But different parts of a project usually have different performance goals. Typically just the important/frequently used parts need to be optimized. Infrequently used things (maybe setup, admin interface, options dialog) can usually jus
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by breischl 10y ago
I believe the GP's point was that if you know that your performance goals are very relaxed, then you can make the code appropriately simple from the beginning. Conversely, if your performance goals are stringent, then you can take an a
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by breischl 10y ago
I don't know that all of that is due to social media. It just used to be that people took their photos with Kodaks and forced their friends to watch slideshows of them standing in front of things for which they waited in line.
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by breischl 10y ago
TBH I've never really looked at how TDS (the SQLServer wire protocol) works. From a code level, in ADO.NET you would create a query object, set the type to "sproc", set the name of the sproc, and attach parameters as objects.
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by breischl 10y ago
Huh, interesting. I wonder if this is down to us having used different RDBMSes? Most of my experience has been with SQL Server, which I think does use a (mostly) binary wire protocol, at least when calling sprocs. It also has a pretty good
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by breischl 10y ago
In addition, PMI was not originally tax deductible. They made it tax as one of those stimulus measures, I think around 2008 or 2009 (about 1 month after I paid mine off... not that I'm bitter or anything). Since PMI is tax deductible n
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by breischl 10y ago
It seems to me that you're advocating changing implementation details (binary query protocol instead of SQL, map-reduce queries instead of sprocs) and claiming that it is somehow fundamentally different. But I don't see how that w
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by breischl 10y ago
If you have a fairly complex object structure that is logically a single unit, and you only need/want to query on a small number keys. Or anytime you might think "It would be better to just serialize this and shove it into a VARCH
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by breischl 10y ago
>>SQL just not being a pleasant language for expressing business logic No kidding - don't do that. Sprocs are great to present a query interface and avoid sending queries over the wire every time. They can be handy to decouple th
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by breischl 10y ago
>>Queries have to be passed over the wire as strings, so your application will spend a significant chunk of its time building them... or else you get to deal with the db-specific and per-connection quirks of prepared statements... Or
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by breischl 10y ago
Ah, so you'd just like distract everyone from the big, obvious problems by arguing endlessly over minor details without offering a solution to your objections, an idea about where one might find a solution, or even if a solution is pos
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by breischl 10y ago
Yes, clearly one can construct ridiculous examples. On the other hand, one can also ignore clearly valid cases while trying to construct the perfect solution. Sometimes the real world involves solutions that are merely acceptable. Or even i

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