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by dack 11y ago
Well, SERIALIZABLE isn't the default in Oracle, Postgres, or MySQL.. it's READ_COMMITTED, READ_COMMITTED, and REPEATABLE_READ respectively (unless the documentation i just looked up is out-of-date) I'm just saying you still c
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by dack 11y ago
Sure, but there are tradeoffs in performance then. I'm not saying transactions are bad (although maybe my strong wording in the parent implies that), just that, especially if you're using an ORM, you shouldn't make those assu
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by dack 11y ago
When a thermostat is on, it controls the temperature. If you don't want to control the temperature, would you not want to turn the thermostat off?
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by dack 11y ago
I think in general when writing applications, you should assume that any data you keep in memory between SQL queries could become stale and change before the next query/update. Anytime you have to update multiple individual records and
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by dack 11y ago
I would agree from a database perspective, it's an inconsistency. From the application user's perspective though, the information can get corrupted in the sense that the original intent of the transactions is no longer clear, and
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by dack 11y ago
Yeah, it pains me to even read this kind of thing, because it makes me remember the feeling of reading one of his new articles (which was, maybe even _irrationally_ excited). I don't feel that way about any other blogger, past or pres
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by dack 11y ago
It seems all relative... I'm 29 and wishing I was in my early twenties again. I'm seeing my younger ambitions slowly seeming less and less plausible. And yet, I've seen posts from 23 year olds wishing they had done more stud
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by dack 11y ago
It still begs the question why monads specifically have this problem, and so many more concepts don't.
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by dack 11y ago
I've definitely had these feelings too - sometimes still do (the feeling of struggling with a problem i assumed should be easy). I also tend to naturally spread out my knowledge a little too thin on various projects and not really mak
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by dack 11y ago
It seems like a common intuition in software is the "code smell", where you can just look at some code and tell if it will be "maintainable" or "good", for some value of that. I've come to think of it more
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by dack 11y ago
Careful, if you lose the connection to the websocket you'll click inadvertently! Also, there's a global variable called "r.thebutton" which has info about the timer already - no need to parse out html elements :)
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by dack 11y ago
Yeah, I had a little JS bookmarklet watching it for me for a few days, tracking the lowest number, ready to click when it got to 1 second. Of course, the websocket encountered an error at somepoint mistakenly registering an incorrect timer
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by dack 11y ago
Setters basically send a signal to the developer that the dependency is "optional", since someone can create the object and simply not call the setter. Most of the time, the dependencies are assumed to be set in, and will blow up
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by dack 12y ago
How do I know what teams work with Clojure? The jobs site seems to just mention Java.
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by dack 12y ago
Ideally, people are paid what they are worth - so that would imply there would be instances where people had the same title, but vastly different pay. The challenge always seems to be how to reliably determine who is really having more impa
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by dack 12y ago
VCs are making financial risk decisions based on many factors, and they aren't obligated to research before they buy any more than I am obligated to research stocks. Not only that, but they are certainly aware that most of their inves
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by dack 12y ago
Yeah that might work for me as well. The only problem I would have with that is that it's more loosely tied to customer success - so there's a chance people won't get enough value out of the service. By just charging per re
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by dack 12y ago
I think this is a great idea, and it would be a no-brainer for me to pay if you only charged when you save me money. I think customers (thinking of myself) have a huge aversion to paying money for nothing, in the event there isn't a be
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by dack 12y ago
I agree with you it's a bit misleading - they do make it seem like "home cooked food" inherently has less calories when it obviously doesn't. I think the real point they were trying to make was that when you are actually
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by dack 12y ago
One thing I like to say when people bring up test coverage is that code being "covered" only says it was run, not that it was correct, so it's only a weak statement of quality. However, code that is not covered is completely
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by dack 12y ago
For me, I want the freedom to learn new technologies and try out ideas. A humane work environment, such that work is valued and respected - and everyone pulls their weight. The deadlines are reasonable and the management chain understands t
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by dack 12y ago
Looks like backblaze threw their marketing team under the bus because they went above and beyond the call of duty and tried to fill the gap where others were oversubscribed.
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by dack 13y ago
I think one huge difference is that a channel in Go is a stream of data, in which each element can cause the consuming code to wait for new responses. In your example, the future can only return one bit of data. Afaik, what Go does is just
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by dack 13y ago
I love this tool and just put some of the colors in my current scss-based app. Thanks! One frustration I ran into - when I'm choosing colors by hovering around the window, sometimes the color I want can only be found by hovering over t
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by dack 13y ago
What's your preferred verb?
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by dack 13y ago
The whole networking aspect lets us make our own games. I agree to an extent that the programmed logic of the game falls into the background a bit with these kind of games. There still has to be rules - but it's more like the rules o
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"The final moments of Karl Brant": a short film on brain uploading(youtube.com)
2 points by dack 13y ago|0 comments
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by dack 13y ago
I think this poll is likely to be very biased - those proud of their habits are more likely to participate and comment. So far in this poll, it's saying that 72% of HNers work out "a few times a week" or more?
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by dack 13y ago
I'm interested in seeing your blog post - subscribed in anticipation! I definitely agree with the slower bit, but my experience has showed that paired-on code is generally higher quality as the engineers discuss what really should be
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by dack 13y ago
I'm all for reimagining the concepts that go into version control, standing on Git's shoulders. However, I think this is way too close to normal git for me to think it's useful. It might be simpler in ways, but it feels mor

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