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by couchand 3y ago
This is useful infotmation to learn, but I can tell you from having done all three that consulting for a shop is as different from freelancing as it is from an in-house job.
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by couchand 3y ago
Curious, have you engaged in a similar depth of study of all the world religions? Just wondering if maybe the others also have adherents who believe that the only thing keeping many others such as yourself from finding them is their own la
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by couchand 3y ago
> it respects boolean logic. Intuitionist or classical?
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When I was younger, in a new space, my priority was FILLING IT so I could go about my life. I appreciated how easy it was to fill a space with Ikea. Now that I'm older, in an old space, my priority is EMPTYING IT so I can go about my
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by couchand 3y ago
Classic sales maneuver, give numbers but make your numbers as incomparable as possible.
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by couchand 3y ago
These two articles are fantastic examples of The Economist's journalistic style. We have all the facts, and we use them to come to whatever conclusion is most relevant at the moment.
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by couchand 3y ago
Our clients integrate with all manner of public and private APIs and this is how we build every one of them. The flakier the provider, the more the gambit pays off. You don't have to build the whole API, just the parts you use. And y
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by couchand 3y ago
It sounds like your integration architecture is a mash-up. It is indeed quite difficult to handle external systems that are so tightly coupled to your own. For standard server-server integrations, where the coupling is limited to an (hopefu
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by couchand 3y ago
This has always been one of the selling points of CockroachDB, the ability to seamlessly run multi-cloud redundancy.
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Corporations with large legal teams are able to discourage others from experimenting in areas near expiring patents by coming up with "novel uses" and other such legal loopholes that effectively extend their patent protection desp
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by couchand 3y ago
It doesn't generally help to think of one word as another word. That doesn't tend to work out well when trying to parse semantics. "Incidental" is correct here, but not ideal for communication because of the eggcorn wit
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by couchand 3y ago
Well the law on the matter really depends on the relative size of your legal team.
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by couchand 3y ago
A better term is "non-essential complexity", since "accidental" implies that it wasn't intended. The reason it's a durable trend for non-essential complexity to increase is that there are common and powerful fo
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Keep raising your rates and they'll keep guarding you from the trivia. Everyone wins!
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Maybe... or maybe it's got the same off-by-one error from the StackOverflow answer it's parrotting?
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by couchand 3y ago
The problem, unfortunately, isn't any particular development methodology, it's the perverse incentives of capitalism.
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It's worth taking a moment to note how many of the (co)sponsors are Working Families members.
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by couchand 3y ago
> And you could cancel again and again. Don't you have to buy a printer first? Am I missing something here?
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by couchand 3y ago
One more name I'dd add to this list is Mike Bostock. The care and attention he gives to data visualization examples comes through in the finished product. Communicating complex subjects through interactive visual displays is very effe
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by couchand 3y ago
> So now the options are: ... or just let them keeps the 50 cents worth of ink and consider it good customer service, let them leave on a positive note so they hopefully choose to come back, rather than burning the bridge? Why do they h
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by couchand 3y ago
Also, a postfix operator fits nicely with method chaining.
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by couchand 3y ago
The macro's input syntax could be improved by more directly matching the generated code ([C-EVOCATIVE][0]). Rather than pub node Expression = | BinOp -> Node<BinaryOperation> | UnOp -> Node<UnaryOperation>
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need?
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by couchand 3y ago
I'm sorry for your loss. Do they have a phone?
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Tu quoque.
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by couchand 3y ago
Most of your comment is strong but reducing nuanced discussion about something as foundational as package namespacing to "aesthetic preference" is not one of your strong points here.
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by couchand 3y ago
I do sometimes think there are other words that might be more appropriate for the context: parsimony or consistency are related concepts that could be more precise. But there are some things that are just simple, like a Bankers Box.
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Not to comment on this particular case, but this is a more useful tactic than it seems at first. Seeing the reaction that an alarm brings can provide lots of useful information for evading future ones.
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It's the difference between bissig, like a Berlinerweiss, and sauer, like a Lambic.
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The reaction you describe exists but this is not generally referred to as sour in the context of beer tasting. Carbonic and citric acid are usually described as "tart" or "acidic" flavors, with "sour" generall

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