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by concede_pluto 9y ago
MIME was using "application" in media type names in 1996. I think macOS may have started it because they needed to distinguish them from desk accessories.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
Declaring that every method throws Exception doesn't break the world any more than every Go function returning an argument of type error. You're intentionally saying pretty much anything could go wrong and nobody can plan ways to
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
It's also strange that a language that wants to encourage parallelism requires for loops, and specifies that they always run sequentially. Java 8 can put map/reduce with a thread pool in the standard library precisely because it
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
If you declare a map[string]int, Go will guarantee that keys are always strings and values are always ints, and it's a compile-time error to pass it to someone expecting a map[string]float64. Without generics, the only way to do that i
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
If we ship code that runs on SuSE 234 and RHEL 345, that's what we test on. If we run on our own hardware or AWS, we pick a distro and test on that. I don't care whether it builds or runs on a laptop; I don't write twitch gam
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
What exactly counts as repatriating income? Could a foreign subsidary buy shares of the US entity (akin to a buyback) instead of putting money into the US entity's treasury? Not that I'm a fan of playing games with the market cap
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
If the answer to "are my dependencies installed and up to date?" is "well, yes and no, we can't tell which copy I'm actually using", I am not ready to go to prod. > "diamond" where you depend trans
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
This. Make as big a mess as you like on your own box (your sysadmin can pave it when you're hopelessly confused), but everything in prod has to be registered with the one and only package manager because otherwise nobody will know wh
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
Only paragraphs, code literals, italics, and URLs. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
You can't street park an EV, you have to run a 220V outlet to your garage if you plan to drive it two days in a row. Which means nobody in an apartment can use one.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
> it's great for the users to read the answer on Google Do you disagree with that part? If a user reads a couple of sentences and decides they won't gain anything more by reading your page, are they wrong?
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
There's nothing reasonable about expecting others to read your email when you don't read theirs. All these orgs should be blackholed as abusers of the commons, little better than spammers.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
This. At 47 I'm 13-2 in interviewing, where one of the rejections was mutual (a recruiter added bullshit to my resume and sent me for an obviously bad fit) and the other was Palantir years ago (coding didn't go badly, I think it w
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
Buffett's favorite holding period is forever. Cuban points out that non-dividend stocks aren't much more than baseball cards. Kiyosaki argues that the reason people suffer financially is that they purchase liabilities and list the
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
One of the worst things about the Docker fad is that people are wasting effort minifying things like the JRE and libc so that having many copies on the same machine isn't quite so blatantly foolish. They could be accomplishing someth
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
If I want you to email me, I will give you my address. If I haven't done that, there's no legitimate reason to pay a third party for it. 100% of your partners are spammers.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
It's not one-time; Go will always have an ongoing time cost in reading and writing tedious boilerplate to reimplement features Hack already had built in.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
Cities that limit the number of taxi drivers allowed to work are demonstrating that there's a viable market-clearing price lower than current taxi rates.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
ConstructionItem::TableColumnFragment is 37 characters[1]. A style that permits huge identifiers like that should allow more than 2.2 identifiers per line and should not allow alignment that requires the eye to jump over that much whitespac
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
As long as I can tell at a glance which lines are more or less indented than other lines, I don't care how big indentations are. Making the right margin line up is a waste of time; I'm not going to spend my entire life staring at
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
It's a reference to the tension between the high value of information and the declining cost of distributing it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free#H...
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
I haven't worked on shrinkwrap software since 2006. For the last eleven years, every developer role I've had required me to be on call and troubleshoot when prod fails in the middle of the night. If you can't be relied on to
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
All you need to know about WHATWG is that the monstrosity they're billing as "HTML" has neither version numbers nor a formal grammar.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
> a base living wage without work does not a happy life make Makework doesn't cut it, though. You can hire a guy to dig a hole and another guy to fill it in, but both of them will be utterly demoralized. And I have trouble believing
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
Rollback is quite appealing but it does leave a window during which malware can exfiltrate your private info before you pave over it.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
> When deploying a web application, some administrators simply clone the repository. Step one: stop randomly smearing crap around. Prod should only have files that came from a .deb or .rpm signed by the legit build process, because that&
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
By violating the spec you're assuming you'll never want to use a tool that strictly adheres to the spec. Postel's Law works best because it accommodates some people not following it.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
This. If a 5% lower price makes a sale 10% faster or more likely, that's what a full-time real estate agent wants to recommend.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
Not understanding why anyone could favor Trump's agenda is a good way for a politician to keep losing elections.
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by concede_pluto 9y ago
I found myself wondering whether the paranoid mindset that finds static typing reassuring is more likely to realize when code doesn't work.

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