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by bshimmin 10y ago
How could it be..? https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/ruby_2_3/enum.c#L3509-L351... I prefer `reduce` too, because it feels conceptually easier to understand (similarly `foldl`, though Ruby doesn't h
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by bshimmin 10y ago
What on earth does he mean by saying that "the reduce method [instead of inject] is performance friendly and a more "Ruby way" of doing things"? `reduce` is an alias for `inject`...
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by bshimmin 10y ago
It's an interesting point. If they are ignorant (perhaps without the wilful ), then perhaps when you present them with facts and information, they might change their mind. If they are malicious , they won't change their mind
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I'd tell you, but I got "You are not logged in. [Login with Github]", at which point I lost interest.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Ubuntu has several powerful image manipulation programs. Gimp, darktable, and Inkskape will do what Adobe products can. Plus, they are free, which is a huge bonus. Adobe products don’t currently run on Ubuntu but there are plenty of replac
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Some of the complaints when this was shared on HN were pretty reasonable, I thought (especially the ones about contrast): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166687
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Only two people in McBride and Bergen’s survey reported having romantic feelings or flirting with their work spouse. Or perhaps: s/reported/admitted/ I honestly have no idea what this article is trying to say. I've ha
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by bshimmin 10y ago
The "German luxury/sport sedans" overtaking you will almost certainly be automatic.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Yeah, I have to agree with this. I have a long-term client who is a smart guy but is basically a bit averse to learning new technology - he's good with Excel from a previous time in his life, but feels now like his skills are better us
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I felt like this quite strongly about his "Collection Pipeline" article ( http://martinfowler.com/articles/collection-pipeline/ ) - he's definitely guilty of fancy name syndrome in that one (I think &
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Well, as a minimum, you might want to be able to customise the fields that define an entity, the relationship between different entities, and the workflows and processes that those entities may use to interact with one another.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
On Twitter it says "she/etc" (but perhaps it really doesn't matter): https://twitter.com/eevee
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but for me in Chrome there was an empty white box where the code was supposed to be on your first link. When I clicked around in it a bit, the code magically appeared. (I offer this as no criticism of a
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I charge money to shoot old ladies, hookers, and pets. That sentence really, really needs to be kept in the appropriate context to avoid some fairly serious misunderstandings.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
In the UK, it is "against the law" (from the "Overview" page) to discriminate by asking for a DOB: https://www.gov.uk/employer-preventing-discrimination/recrui...
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I feel the IT field has a lot of people wanting to change career paths, more than any other field This feels like a bold claim. Is there anything to support it? I would also dispute "The IT field has no concept of overtime pay"
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Thanks for your rude reply. None of these seem to be anything like Rails - they look much more geared towards the Sinatra/Flask micro-framework crowd. People didn't start flocking to Ruby because of Sinatra (not that there's
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by bshimmin 10y ago
The comments here are great and answer the question in various sensible ways, but I slightly wonder... could Perl make a comeback if it got its own Rails equivalent? You could argue that Laravel has done a lot for PHP (though of course PHP
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Man, 64GB of RAM For $229. I remember buying 8MB for more than that...
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I consulted (extremely briefly) with a startup whilst they were going through a Salesforce integration. I believe the end goal was to be able to get accurate data about... stuff... from which to generate reports, though this was never enti
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Not that it really matters, but "wherefore" means "why", not "where". Juliet wasn't wondering where Romeo was, she was lamenting that he was born a Montague.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
From reading that through, I guess you can't really blame Tim Cook for how low a priority Macs seem to be to Apple nowadays...
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Macs have become a lot worse at this sort of thing - weird, intermittent user interface failures - over the last few years. Sometimes I can't drag attachments out of emails (which is about the only damn reason I don't use Mutt for
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Looks like they removed the "upload" button: http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/faq.html And it doesn't appear to be open source, sadly.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
You can give it a try with the amazing Infinite Jukebox! Here's a perennial favourite, "Call Me Maybe": http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html?trid=TRORQWV137... (I will not be held accountable fo
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Yes. I think having two or three very close friends whom you see often is vastly preferable to having fifteen or twenty friends you rarely see (the "see often" bit is probably the biggest challenge, especially once you have child
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Not maintaining friendships. I'm sociable and confident and I have never found it hard to make friends, in almost any context. When it comes to actually maintaining those friendships, I am simply awful at it - it often takes me months
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Interesting! Unless I'm totally wrong, it isn't mandatory in the UK at least, and I hardly know anyone who can touch-type properly here, relatively few people who can type fast and accurately, and almost no one outside of tech wh
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Apologies for this most gratuitous of bikeshedding, but if you're going to use proper superscripts, please sort out the line-heights.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I hardly know anything about Reddit and had no idea what "SRS" meant. I googled and found this page https://www.reddit.com/r/SRSsucks/comments/yxvu9/an_explanat... which left me feeling very

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