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by codemac 9y ago
Only because consumer filesystems suck. I'd love to have a completely versioned filesystem, at all times, regardless of how big it got.
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by codemac 9y ago
A LOT happened in the ~2011 -> ~2013 timeframe, including the largest consolidation in hard drive manufacturing history (outside of maybe ~1992). Toshiba acquired Fujitsu's HDD business in 2010. Seagate acquired Samsung's HDD b
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by codemac 9y ago
Though, having human judgment manage the approval is another form of organizational immaturity.. When the decision is in the domain of the actor, you should make it your organization's goal that though computers, policy documents, or d
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by codemac 9y ago
Would you say this is the battle between syntax & semantics? If you are inventing new syntax to support semantics you don't fully understand along the way, it usually ends up as some franken language. Lisp makes this a feature by l
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by codemac 9y ago
Yes! http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/... You'll see here that the package emacs-minimal actually inherits from the emacs package definition, and then all fields afte
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by codemac 9y ago
Each scheme is actually much better than people realize at what it's targeted for. Recently I have to give huge props to Guile + Andy Wingo for guile-fibers. It's proper concurrency, using delimited continuations in scheme. Just f
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by codemac 9y ago
> If you can make a better surface syntax ... http://gnu.org/s/guix Lisp is pretty good at lists. The only important language is the derivation language sent to the daemon. Nix spends so much time building up inputs
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by codemac 9y ago
recoll has worked great for a document index. https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ I also recommend calibre for e-books, but I never got to the "document store" stage that I think some people have.
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by codemac 9y ago
;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
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by codemac 9y ago
They take a 10B hit.. as amazon buys a company that doesn't have a pharmacy? Not very clear what's going on here.
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by codemac 9y ago
The paradox of choice only exists between things with meaningless differences! The difference between these is the price of a single product, there is no paradox here, the user just needs to take over an hour + programming to even get the i
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by codemac 9y ago
Those are all appended into the Package.init function in the compiled .a, so they are part of func init() not just in behavior, but in implementation as well.
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by codemac 9y ago
There is better bubble tea further south in the valley with no line. I don't get the boba guys craze except for the fact that the amount of boba in SF is lower than necessary.
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by codemac 9y ago
Just purchase this book after finding a pdf, it's really quite great, until you get to View/360 and get jealous.
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by codemac 9y ago
As Lamport says: why do we always use blueprints before constructing a building? I agree there are some missing links, but checking your model before doing detailed implementation is a good idea regardless
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by codemac 9y ago
Would you think that it's not sexyness, but applicability? What values do you bring to the table that a SW company would need? Because I bet you that you could find some if you switched from targeting straight dev roles to something el
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by codemac 9y ago
A baseball error in fielding is when you drop a fly ball, or miss catching a pass. This happens very rarely, maybe 1-5 times per game (or succeeding ~98.5%). This is because you're doing something easier, catching a ball. Hitting one t
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by codemac 9y ago
The year is 2017 - is anyone worried about the preprocessor? I feel it's largely worked out, and is well understood.
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by codemac 9y ago
Your #1, #2, and #3 are all the same thing, but I think it's hugely important: Medical records can show all kinds of markers about your past / current behavior that let people paint pretty horrible assumptions about eachother. Typ
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by codemac 9y ago
I've stated the same thing several times only as the following: "Imagine a world where the only consumption was Pinterest."
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by codemac 9y ago
> For complicated apps you should think domain or business problem first. Model your domain, make it good for reasoning about your business issues, and then afterwords think about persisting that to a database. Yes, you should design you
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by codemac 9y ago
Has anyone ever done this in practice before without it mattering: > 4. Independent of Database. You can swap out Oracle or SQL Server, for Mongo, BigTable, CouchDB, or something else. Your business rules are not bound to the database.
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by codemac 9y ago
Also look out after any publicized fundraising. The phishing attacks begin with similar things where people impersonated the CEO to the head of finance pretty much a few months after fundraising. They know the small companies don't hav
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by codemac 9y ago
I have never seen in my life a CSA box that individually wrapped each ingredient. I'll never forget visiting a friend that had blue apron and how I couldn't stop laughing at the individually bagged carrots each with the sticker &q
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by codemac 10y ago
Ah, customer service at Twitter had a good run. Back to the bots!
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by codemac 10y ago
I don't intend to put up a straw man, I'd like to know why you think my examples are a straw man. Content classification is something you must do if you're a major content provider in the US, period. Saying someone should jus
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by codemac 10y ago
Pornography, CP, and other things are regulated in the US and they can't legally do what you suggest.
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by codemac 10y ago
I don't feel like this is true - the rich people can hire the lawyers to get them right back out of the ticket. Secondly, the cost of the ticket creates different amounts of deterrence, as when you're rich enough with no social sh
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by codemac 10y ago
I get page not found?
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by codemac 10y ago
I've always liked his "Final Version" method better, where you select tasks you want to do, and then do them in reverse order. http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2015/5/21/the-final-..

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