calambrac

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by calambrac 17y ago
I didn't say JS was retarded, I said the particular way it tries to look like a class-based OO language even though it isn't was retarded. Given that you were critiquing #67 as though you thought you already understood the information, I fe
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by calambrac 17y ago
It says "all objects of the same constructor", which can be losslessly translated to "all objects with the same prototype that were created using JavaScript's retarded way of trying to look kind of like a class-based OO language when really
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by calambrac 17y ago
This is only true for properties created as new properties on the existing prototype Which is what #67 says. It is not true if you assign a new object to the prototype Which is a completely different thing.
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by calambrac 17y ago
Looking at argparse just now, I get that one, if you need more functionality than what optparse offers, it's clearly superior. I just don't really get what opster's offering, though.
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by calambrac 17y ago
Wait, I missed the newsletter: what don't we like about optparse?
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by calambrac 17y ago
I've done plenty of work with Twisted. My complaint was not that it lacked functionality, my complaint was that the culture of the project favors 'flexibility' over everything else. It's like the C++ of networking libraries. I'm sure the
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by calambrac 17y ago
Twisted has always been an "emperor has no clothes" project to me, a project that's no doubt very useful but at the same time seems to revel in its unnecessary complexity (just read its documentation - how many times do you really have to t
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by calambrac 17y ago
Jesus Christ, there's a lot of drama-mongering in this thread. Grow the fuck up, it's a business decision that both sides had an interest in seeing happen.
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by calambrac 17y ago
Culture excuses prejudice?
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by calambrac 17y ago
Probably smart, you wouldn't want anyone making assumptions about you based on prejudicial stereotypes. Ahem.
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by calambrac 17y ago
Ikea is a huge company, they surely have good reason to do this. Not quite sure how the latter follows from the former...
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by calambrac 17y ago
It seems pretty obvious to me that subversion's program model is way closer to the naive user model than git's is. You assert this without saying why, except to say Eric Sink said it first. You could at least provide a link to his explan
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by calambrac 17y ago
I didn't say he was only interested in promoting Vault, or that he was being dishonest. Conflict of interest doesn't have to be some evil shadowy plot. Given that he's spent years working on his system and convincing himself it's The Righ
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by calambrac 17y ago
Eric Sink, author of a competing non-distributed version control system?
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by calambrac 17y ago
the program model of a system like subversion pretty much == the user model for source control for someone who is new to source control. I'm pretty sure you just made that up. Which is about as hard as understanding the difference betwee
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by calambrac 17y ago
Why do you think subversion is easier to start with? You have to understand the difference between the local copy and the repository, you have to manage the server, you might have to deal with the incredibly painful corruption issues that
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by calambrac 17y ago
See also: Chinese Restaurant Process lying about an infinite number of available tables, Indian Buffet Process lying about an infinite number of available dishes, Dining Philosophers not being smart enough to go get another pair of chopsti
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by calambrac 17y ago
Oh, snap. Nothing burns like six days later.
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by calambrac 17y ago
So glad Neuroworld exists, we really don't have enough outlets for reblogs of shallow summaries of stupid studies.
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by calambrac 17y ago
This should be part of a required reading regimen for anyone about to post yet another 'Bullshit Study Reveals Whimsical Quirk' article.
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by calambrac 17y ago
I don't think #1 is as cut-and-dry as you're making it out to be. It depends on how you squint - you could just as easily say that you're selling it to the companies who are paying for the ads, and that both parties are hiring Google to me
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by calambrac 17y ago
That's true, it's always going to be a hard letter to get, and I'm sure that most of the time it's being sent to people who deserve to get it. I think a rewrite should simply dispense with the dire accusations, the fake politeness, and the
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by calambrac 17y ago
A part of that frustration has to be from that email that gets sent out. I haven't been on the receiving end, but I've read it in a couple of blog posts about this sort of thing, and honestly: that letter is awful. It contains exactly one
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by calambrac 17y ago
I disagree. There are people on here that I don't want to waste my time reading at all, they're more or less consistent trolls (who knows, maybe I'm one for some people). I may miss out on some accidentally or authentically insightful com
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by calambrac 17y ago
The paper is available here [pdf]: http://www.igroup.org/schubert/papers/jostmann_lakens_schube... The experiment design has an interesting flaw: the values that the users assigned to the questions were indicated by marking a position on
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by calambrac 17y ago
Not that I have the biology chops to contribute to it myself, but a Protein Folding != NP debate is exactly the kind of discussion I'd like to see here.
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by calambrac 17y ago
If your job is to find bugs, you're not a developer. You're a tester. I personally don't know a lot of people who have a deep and driving internal fire to be a tester, but, okay, fine, they may exist. They weren't the people you describe
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by calambrac 17y ago
I don't interact with other developers because I worry that it will pull me toward the middle of the bell curve. Didn't you say you used RoR? You're okay with using other folks high-level code, but you think interacting with them will pu
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by calambrac 17y ago
Doing your job well != churning out bug reports, which was what you said was being incentivized and measured. That also seems like a pretty bad fit for the original scenario we were discussing, but that didn't stop you from trotting it out
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by calambrac 17y ago
There are disagreeing studies cited in the Wikipedia article you linked, did you even read it? I'm also confused why you think your bug story supports your point. Are there lots of developers who derive great personal satisfaction from chu

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