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by decasia 9y ago
I think the problem is that it's logistically impossible to empirically test all your working hypotheses. For example, my working hypothesis is that Darwinian evolution is a true theory about the development of life on this planet. But
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by decasia 9y ago
"My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: if it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." There's an interesting relevance to software here. You don't usually want your creation to foreground its own artifice.
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by decasia 9y ago
Or dads with prams!
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by decasia 9y ago
The previous HN discussion was decent -- especially in ecological and practical terms -- but probably left room for more analysis of the cultural and political factors involved in the crisis (I say this as a cultural anthropologist!).
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by decasia 9y ago
I'm working in the Cape Town area right now and here are a few notes from on the ground: - If the city water system is largely shut down, like the article says, there will have to be a system of collecting water rations from distributi
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by decasia 9y ago
I suspect I am in the extreme minority here, but since I get wrist pain within minutes of typing on a regular laptop keyboard, I have just resigned myself to carrying around a portable Bluetooth ergonomic keyboard.[1] This sounds exceptiona
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by decasia 9y ago
Server backups are pretty easy to test in this era of virtualization. (I know, not everyone does it, but at least in principle it's pretty straightforward to mount a duplicate VM and test one's backed-up data. Good way to test con
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by decasia 10y ago
Some of these points are fair but I want to clarify the co-op idea has less to do with an argument that "all small business owners aren't fair," and more about wanting to get rid of the very distinction between labor, ownersh
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by decasia 10y ago
Yeah, learning the culture of your profession -- with a broad awareness of different ecosystems and things -- isn't "immediately productive," but it's a simple form of professional development. (And in my opinion, enligh
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by decasia 10y ago
Arguably, time spent reading HN is a legitimate part of becoming/remaining a good developer. Certainly, spending time socializing with coworkers is a required part of work, many places. Spending some amount of time unwinding at the off
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by decasia 10y ago
Even in the last few years I've seen FileMaker systems that used this set of ASCII characters to delimit fields in plaintext data exports. Initially baffling since I was expecting CSV, it seemed like a sensible choice once I figured ou
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by decasia 10y ago
Anyone know other good alternatives to this project? I've used the open-source Freeboard project[1] before, but curious what else is out there. [1] https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard
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by decasia 11y ago
If it was a situation where most of the devs were men and your colleague was one of the only women, it seems likely that gender dynamics and stereotypes about women made a big difference in her getting perceived as "non-technical and c
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by decasia 11y ago
I thought this was interesting and very well put together. Can anyone with more of a CS background provide any additional context here? I gather from the article like there is a small but growing domain of these "relational" langu
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by decasia 11y ago
Site seems to be offline, but in addition to what talles mentions, there's these: http://madoko.codeplex.com/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/daan/madoko/do... h
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by decasia 11y ago
I'm sure that's the intended state of affairs. But there's a difference -- at once psychological and technical -- between "trusting someone else's application code" and "letting their developers have remot
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by decasia 11y ago
Anyone know what sort of auth or security provisions are involved? It seems great for developers, but if I were a user, I would worry about giving someone a remote session at my browser's javascript console.
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by decasia 12y ago
Title should read "getting started with Ruby and Sinatra."
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by decasia 12y ago
Neat question. I guess there are really two separate things a user could want to verify: * the application isn't broken/still fulfills its API contract * the application isn't compromised in a malicious way As far as the firs
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by decasia 13y ago
Not going to disagree with that analysis. Relatedly, there was something odd to me about the tone or implicit audience of that article, as if it was written more to persuade managers than developers.
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by decasia 13y ago
As a Rails developer, naturally I appreciate the thought that testing is good and upgrading is nice. But it seems a bit odd to advocate a completely context-insensitive heuristic for deciding whether upgrading frameworks is a good idea. Sur