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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Git can be used in monorepos. The problem is often that people don't put in the effort to configure it (or configure their aliases, or per-repo gitconfig) so that it's not slow; they just accept that slowness is inevitable. I thin
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
In 12 years working in the US I’ve never worked in a situation where the stakeholders get to set requirements like that; it’s always been us, the engineers, designing and implementing and deciding what needs designing. I suppose I’ve been l
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I am fairly confident that Susan Rigetti is a future president of the USA. In addition to becoming somewhat well-known as a household name early on in her adult life, she has achieved so many difficult and impressive things (publishing mult
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
The title sounds like it’s going to be discussing a general adoption phenomenon, but the example it starts with is just crazy religious people in utah. I don’t think that normal-minded people can learn anything applicable from people whose
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I'm a very boring person, and apparently an easily annoyed one: it annoys me the way these silly geeky fantasy questions appear in the side panel in stack overflow when I'm trying to read my serious professional programming questi
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Yes. Html/css/js is to a first approximation only usable by professionals anyway. It makes no sense to require normal people to employ professionals to simply make web pages.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Unfortunately America has just shown us that it too can advance a wildly inappropriate and simply stupid individual to the highest levels of power.
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> utterly convincing but totally useless content. Whether it’s convincing depends on your background. Those in society who can distinguish reality from fiction will still be rewarded, for obvious reasons. So that’s a difference from our
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
> Way back in 1984 I was writing a Ph.D. thesis... My fellow grad student Tony DeRose felt the same need, and together we sketched out a simple Lisp program that would handle this as a preprocessor. This is how to fail to become an acade
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
But that's exactly the point people are making in this thread: people don't care enough, or don't have their shit together enough, to fight back even if they are being surveilled and manipulated and used for profit.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
OK, so I'm trying out maven central as people in this thread are recommending. As an example, I'm searching for a command line argument parser. The first thing I'm noticing is that there seems to be no way to judge the popula
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I’ve recently joined a company using Java. I’m open minded, and know that there are lots of good things about the JVM and the modern Java language. However one thing I hate is the complete disregard for command line UX. People writing Java
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I think you should do whatever you feel like, whether that's writing code or studying computer science at the weekend, or watching movies or going out in nature (try learning to identify birds!). But if there are other people that you
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
If “Black men” is capitalized, shouldn’t it be “White men” also, except where one is referring to a man that is the color white, for example due to having been painted?
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
anyone know what it was about skip that made it attractive to implement SQLive, put anything else in? What’s its pitch?
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
As a slight extension of this line of thinking: Every document is either "live" or a "snapshot". Live documents have an expiry. Documents are snapshots by default.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Suttree is one of my favorite novels. I loved reading it. So I guess that marks how different it is from BM, since I don’t think one would say that about BM.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Thanks, no, I didn't know what one was. I could have googled it, but I am happy to have an explanation from a real human who knows about them.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
> Here’s why stock markets rock: Is he writing for pre-teens?
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Perhaps the people that should be at the absolute top of our list to contact are the ones that have bothered contacting us over the years? Other than that I don’t have much to add — I’m absolutely terrible at this and my life suffers as a r
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Seems to me that this blog post should explain what a “shellcode” is (trying to start a process without using fork/exec or standard library APIs?) But maybe it’s written for a hacker audience that excludes me.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
It’s really not that difficult to find answers to math questions online. If not the exact same one, a sufficiently similar variant. Sounds like these kids deserve bad grades for lacking enough initiative / lateral thinking to use googl
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I'm feeling very disappointed to see that you're using two space-separated words for "order by" in your language. Do "order" and "by" have meanings on their own in independence such that the meaning o
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Arggh why is "order by" two space-separated words in their language? If we're going to replace SQL the silly 1960s pseudo-English syntax is one of the things we want to get rid of, not retain.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
> Online dating is toxic Most serious relationships and marriages that I known of (including mine) that started within the last 7 years or so originate in online dating. I'm in my 40s. You might want to be a little less sure of your
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Interesting: the 4th sentence shows Andrew Yang publicly acknowledging that many "ADHD" diagnoses are spurious, i.e. in those spurious cases it's just a fancy medical-sounding term for students who are struggling academically
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I think my problem is that they never seem to contain an introduction to how to use the package; they seem to be a mixture of API reference and jumping-immediately-into-obscure-details.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Yes, I spent several months lovingly creating an open source LaTeX tool in the last few years. And yet... yes, you're right of course. I hate those stupid PDF "manuals" that each package has -- they have to be one of the leas
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
The only reason Jira hasn't been voted up to the top of this thread is that the people who have to use it have become too depressed to vote.
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I think the author slightly misses the point in the "why do they do it" section. People do it because being a software engineer, at least in US tech companies, is one big pissing contest. People, even if they're being nice, a

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