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by david422 6y ago
Agreed - this solution works well, and works nicely with statically typed languages.
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by david422 6y ago
Thanks for the writeup - I've learned some things. I have a site that allows user image uploads as well. I take each "image" and resize and compress it. If it's not an image after that, it get's rejected. Hopefully
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by david422 6y ago
I found IntelliJ IDEA about 7 years ago. Before that, I had used a number of different editors/IDE's for polyglot development. I honestly really started to enjoy developing again. Intellij let's me focus on the problems I&#x2
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by david422 6y ago
I think it's just the novelty of things. And the free time aspect. I remember playing Dragon Warrior on NES late into the night with friends. Grinding away to get that next item and leveling up to fight bigger monsters. It was really f
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by david422 6y ago
This new image needs to go in the wikipedia article. The example images are kinda bleh. But this one really illustrates the concept.
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by david422 6y ago
> the machine would crash and you would have to reboot I self taught myself on macs. And not knowing how to correctly validate my inputs, I would crash, reboot, try again until I got it right. So many reboots.
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by david422 6y ago
Nobody competent wants to spend extra time and work dealing with junior level mistakes. If the basic stuff can't be done right, then the complex stuff definitely isn't done right. Little issues like this cause ripple effects and n
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by david422 6y ago
> It's really best to not reply to the mentally ill people This IMO is the best way to deal with a lot of emails. I have some public software that is literally innocuous, and yet occasionally I get some very angry emails. An example
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by david422 6y ago
That's eye opening if true.
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by david422 6y ago
You are being downvoted - but this is realistic. Restaurants trash or donate expiring food. Corporations shred perfectly good hardware instead of giving it away. Not saying it's good - but there are reasons these policies are in place.
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by david422 6y ago
I think you've summed it up nicely when dropdowns should be used vs buttons.
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by david422 6y ago
> Things can randomly work for a long time due to duck typing It's basically like they work by accident. It's not documented what goes in or goes out, so someone throws some data into a function and if it doesn't break the
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by david422 6y ago
Right, but you and every other person has to go read the source, and the chain of that source, forever. When really that information could just be in a type hint and save everybody the time.
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by david422 6y ago
The other issue is that people who leave reviews generally either _love love_ the app, and that's why they review at 5 stars. Or, they are mildly irritated by some feature they didn't like, followed by a 1 star review. The mildly
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by david422 6y ago
The book "Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident" goes into this. IIRC, an avalanche as an explanation was rejected. The conclusion was something like a harmonic wind incident. This caused the hikers to
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by david422 6y ago
Well that's his point - the article is correlating two (uncorrelated) groups to trigger an emotional response in order to sway your opinion. By contrasting it with correlating two (uncorrelated) groups that didn't trigger an emoti
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by david422 6y ago
OOP also works well when you want different _behavior_. In your bag of functions you have the same behavior for all objects. If you want different behavior, you're going to have to start adding branches in code that really has no busin
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by david422 6y ago
The type checker may as well be one big automated unit test. For all the time a developer spends not writing out types, it then has to be made up in manually written unit tests.
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by david422 6y ago
I moved next to an airport. Every morning at 6AM I'd get woken up by jet engines at full power taking off. One day I realized that I was no longer waking up at 6AM. Either none of the 6AM flights were running anymore or I just no longe
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by david422 6y ago
I have a small website that can get a surprising amount of traffic. Every other day I get an email from some "SEO expert" wanting to redesign my site or offer some partnership so I get more traffic. Which is slightly amusing becau
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by david422 6y ago
I think the answer is - because the software can. And most of the time, the software can be more resilient with a trivial amount resource usage. If there was a physical device that could filter gas and non-gas liquids that could be installe
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by david422 6y ago
I look out the window and sometimes I feel like a large chunk of the world already seems to be doing activities that are "back to normal". I've been in and still am in my own little bubble right now.
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by david422 6y ago
I went through a similar process trying to digitize a ton of old slides. Realizing that the crop wasn't quite right, some were flipped, some were skewed, or that dust had gotten on the slide creating artifacts. However, I eventually cu
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by david422 6y ago
I switched to Ubuntu on my main machine a few years ago. This is my second attempt. There are still some annoyances I run into, the biggest being that the dock regularly disappears after sleep. How would I ever set my parents up on somethin
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by david422 6y ago
I noticed that with the ATM. And I've left my card in there before. Good change.
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by david422 6y ago
I tried to write some cgi/fastcgi apps in C++ with apache. A lot of documentation has disappeared from the web sadly.
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by david422 6y ago
I missed a sign up deadline for a yearly event by 24 hours. For two reasons- 1. Because I didn't organize properly 2. They sent out a reminder email that did not get to me (through no fault of my own) I reached out. It would have been
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by david422 6y ago
Very mature for a 3 year old.
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by david422 6y ago
Hold down the option key when selecting text (in some editors) and it enables columnar selection. Can be very useful for certain editing tasks.
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by david422 6y ago
Yes, and then compound this problem by transferring files with people that.... are somewhat technically illiterate and it turns into a nightmare.

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