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by cgrealy 6y ago
Can you elaborate? I don't really get how this is relevant to the discussion at hand.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
If your culture and heritage is "treason and racism", maybe that's not a culture or heritage worth preserving?
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by cgrealy 6y ago
The problem with that is that the primary effect of open racism and bigotry is to normalise and encourage more open racism and bigotry. It's all well and good to be able to identify these people, but the downside is that their victims
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by cgrealy 6y ago
If someone says they have nothing to hide, just say “cool, how much do you earn?” Or if you can do it with a straight face “when was the last time you masturbated?” :)
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Jesus, this is tiring... First, it's not "my system". I'm not a Soviet apologist, I'm not a communist, and frankly I don't even think communism is a workable system of government. But I would the same exact thi
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by cgrealy 6y ago
>> yet it's clearly useful to have the concept of "the engine" even if you cannot drop it in any vehicle. Absolutely! I'm not arguing against modularity at all. I think the concept of discrete subsystems interactin
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by cgrealy 6y ago
The point of Lego is not the zero glue, the point is that all components share a common interface. >>What often happens with software development is that despite all the abstractions that get built while building one piece of software
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by cgrealy 6y ago
I never said they weren't "real" communists, I said there's nothing wrong with that. There is a difference between communism and nazism. Communism is simply the belief that the workers should own the means of production.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
“Communism” != “Soviet style totalitarianism”. There’s nothing inherently wrong with being a communist. You don’t have to agree with it as a political philosophy (I don’t), but it’s no worse than being a capitalist.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
You can build a house with bricks. But you also need adhesive. And past a certain (very low) complexity, you probably use wooden framing, cut to size. And a different material for the roof, and glass for the windows and some kind of insulat
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by cgrealy 6y ago
I read every comment waiting to see if someone would point out the obvious. This blog is 100% accurate, and nearly everyone took the wrong point away from it. There is a very good reason we don’t build anything but the most trivial structur
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by cgrealy 6y ago
When asked about how to be a good writer, Terry Pratchett offered tips on boxing: “A good diet is essential, of course, as is a daily regime of exercise. Pay attention to your footwork, it will often get you into trouble. Go down to the gym
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by cgrealy 6y ago
You’re missing my point. More people die in pools because there are more pools and more people in them. The percentage chance of dying in a pool is incredibly low, partly because it’s low risk and partly because we mitigate the actual risk
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by cgrealy 6y ago
That’s a ridiculous argument. Hundreds of kids die in pools because millions of kids swim. If there was an abandoned mine next to every pool, yeah... people would do something about that. I have no problem with people doing risky activities
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by cgrealy 6y ago
I get that the name references “expressions”, but the coffee cup and the misspelling of “espresso” really bothers my inner pedant. :)
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by cgrealy 6y ago
If humanity turns out to be the most intelligent thing the galaxy has produced... then the galaxy really needs to do better.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
>> see the Big Sort by Bill Bishop Can you elaborate on why that’s relevant? Sorry, I’m not going to buy and read an entire book on this.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
>> you think average urban Americans care even one bit about the natural wonder of the country Why would you think they don't? I'll admit this is a massive sweeping generalisation, but as a rule, urban voters tend to swing
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Because your system of government is so fundamentally broken it barely even qualifies as a democracy anymore? All the systems built into the US government were designed for a country with 1% the number of people it has now, when the fastest
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by cgrealy 6y ago
That is exactly how I pictured the Affront!
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by cgrealy 6y ago
But it does have class scoping rules. You can have public and private static members.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Just put the function in a namespace?
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by cgrealy 6y ago
I'm surprised at that. My wife and I became permanent residents in 2007. It must have changed a lot since then as it took us under a month from application to residency.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
I think you missed the main point, which was the "billions of lines of code" part. It's not a question of simply retiring C++.. it has to be replaced with something. Even safe languages frequently rely on libraries implemente
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Sure, all we need to do is rewrite billions of lines of code in some of the most popular software on the planet. And then replace it with... a language that is exactly as performant, is available on every known platform and has replacements
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by cgrealy 6y ago
>> VS Code chokes on files of non-trivial size VS Code isn't really designed as a general purpose text editor. It's meant as a development environment. If MS choose to optimise the experience of 99% of the use cases (i.e. ed
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Unfortunately, sometimes you have no choice. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/nyregion/coronavirus-ny-u... I think everyone would love fax to just go away and die, but there are still places where it&#
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Often, they didn’t. How many stories have we all heard about “wow.. transitioning to microservices was way harder than we expected” followed by a move back to monolith instead of fixing the issues. That doesn’t mean a micro service architec
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by cgrealy 6y ago
>> If you have a monorepo, good build tooling, and a good infrastructure as code tool, Yep, and so many organisations ignore these. Especially after a less successful transition to micro-services. "you mean you want to spend more
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by cgrealy 7y ago
“Software” shouldn’t be anything. Software is so broad a generalisation as to be utterly meaningless. Should some software be easy to change? Of course. There is immense proven value in that approach especially in the “unix tools” philosoph

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