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by concede_pluto 9y ago
Every browser I've used for a long time has supported Accept-Language with a preference list I can change. Are there any that don't?
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
Everyone has a test environment; some people happen to send prod traffic to it.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
$x == $y should guarantee that $a[$x] == $a[$y]. In PHP, it doesn't. That's not different, that's just broken, and the language design makes dozens of elementary mistakes like that where getting it right wouldn't have sa
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
"Welcoming" is not a good thing. The worst thing you can do with a bunch of clueless people is make them prolific at writing code they don't realize is unreliable. We should be teaching the minority who have the aptitude and
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
If your published code is bad I can quickly learn whether I'm wasting my time, but if it's good I still need to see you code in person. Neither GitHub nor homework proves you did the work.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
I once got a free "upgrade" to economy plus. They seated me at a bulkhead and (because no under-seat space) required my carry-on go in the bins where I couldn't see whether my company laptop was being stolen. If instead I cou
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
The ad business requires Google to hire a hell of a lot of developers who are not working on the search engine. A pay service would be viable on less revenue. And nobody knows who many people are actually willing to pay for Google search be
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
I'd use Emacs and the same X11 apps I'd use on a Linux cluster. There are X servers for Windows, though WSL strangely omits one. If you like Windows apps, why run WSL?
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
"Cool URIs don't change." Link rot is the biggest threat to the World-Wide Web. In my view it's irresponsible to issue a URL without being confident I can keep it available at least as long as the document exists. I do
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
The goal of an init system is to start daemons. It shouldn't have any opinions about which daemons you run, and it has no business doing random tampering like intercepting logins and DNS requests and renaming device nodes. Breaking &
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
They should have created an annotation or something saying "this file uses the python3 dialect", made python3 run all python2 code unmodified (the only way to not require both being on $PATH), and halted python2 releases except cr
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
Because python3 and python2 are incompatible dialects, you have to say which one you want, and there's no reliable way to use just "python" and no useful reason to have it on $PATH. Any code needs to declare all its dependenc
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
I seem to remember reading that NASA would use short sacrificial extension cables so that ground tests would certify the jacks they'd be flying but not wear them out.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
It is when you know you can't persuade them you have a good-enough reason to need it, so instead you don't even try.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
It's worth noting that the options for hosting snopes.com were much more limited in 1994.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
perma.cc? Wow. Thank you for not trying to establish a permanent namespace in a vanity ccTLD with a tenuous relationship to some privately-held company.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
Old buildings stand until they decay or we run out of space nearby and demolish them. HTML doesn't decay and we can't run out of URLs; web pages only disappear because our hosting infrastructure needlessly demands ongoing payment
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
"Don't hire the average developer" tops the list of best practices.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/sync/syncmap leaps to mind as a type whose users should demand and get static type safety, but it can't happen until the language definition adds yet another special case b
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
And if I don't buy a Fiat 500e because it only has a range of 84 miles, do you think "you can go different places!" would be a persuasive argument?
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
It's rare and depressing to see a page so fatally infected with javascript overengineering that not even Google's cache managed to rescue the content. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:u3lFxVi...
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
Ouch. Is Xwayland still the only way to do remoting? https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_8 just punts on it and speculates about what could theoretically happen someday, but I don't even know how or
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
Liquidity is willingness to make a trade others aren't. To be useful, it has to linger in the order book for a long time. If you're winning a race by milliseconds , you are trying to interpose yourself into a trade that was alrea
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
Laziness, impatience, and hubris. # zcat > /dev/kmem
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
When we had a frontier, we had a surplus of habitable land and resources and immigration was a quick way to make the most use of it. That's over now, and we're spreading the same wealth among more and more people. An migrant worke
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
Real estate has been zero sum ever since we ran out of frontier. Employment is zero sum when immigrants (of any race) try to add a lot of labor supply and minimal demand to an economy that already had a severe job shortage.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
Google is infamously bad at resolving or even acknowledging customer service problems.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
I don't mean to disparage twitch games, that's my go-to example of one of the last domains where it's cost-effective to get really good at living within customers' hardware constraints. But when prod is a growing distrib
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
> brown shoes in town What's the story here? All I know about dress shoes is that they're hideously uncomfortable and generally not blue suede.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
I never met any of our professors of journalism or dance. Everyone at college is paying for a bundle of credentials and access to experts in many unrelated fields, and nobody uses all of it.

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