dkarl

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by dkarl 4y ago
I would add that it had a better reputation among users of "serious" databases. I first heard of Postgresql at companies built around big, expensive Oracle databases, managed by serious, battle-hardened DBAs with long experience w
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by dkarl 4y ago
You'll get a lot of advice to try different techniques, and I would look at everything, pick a few that click for you, try them, see if they work, and try more things until something works. I'll give you three suggestions. My firs
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by dkarl 4y ago
That's exactly how I feel, except you're always running a risk. Somebody on the team might read the YAML standard and discover a bunch of cool features to use, and next thing you know, you have a lot of lines of YAML that are a ra
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by dkarl 4y ago
The land value tax incentivizes the owner of scarce, valuable urban land to put it to good social use, such as building apartments for hundreds of people to live in. You would have to be astronomically wealthy to own two acres in a dense ci
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by dkarl 4y ago
There are a lot of people for whom being homeless would be less disruptive to their life than being carless, especially in places outside the big cities where driving is mandatory. If you lose your car, you have to impose on somebody to dri
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by dkarl 4y ago
I agree; people are much more careful about splitting responsibilities and designing APIs between processes (REST, GraphQL, XML-RPC) than between code modules. Simply switching from a monolith to microservices makes them more thoughtful abo
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by dkarl 4y ago
You're right, but given that some people subject their breaker boxes to amateur fiddling, leaving loose or missing covers and poorly done wiring, I sympathize with his point. I wouldn't send a kid to flip a breaker unless it was m
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by dkarl 4y ago
I've heard people say it, speaking like this: "This would be a great solution to the problem, except that it would break the admin dashboard. And billing. And SSO. And partner test environments. And. And. And. And. And. This would
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by dkarl 4y ago
Software developers are protected by their managers and, to the extent possible, exposed to limited and controlled stressors. I wouldn't say that getting assignments of limited and predictable difficulty is realistic, though, no matter
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by dkarl 4y ago
I think stress is a normal part of life. Too much stress is harmful, but too little stress is like living in zero gravity: we aren't built for it, and we start to deteriorate. But suppose you disagree. Let's think about it differe
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by dkarl 4y ago
It's funny, the way we used to do coding interviews was to systematically ramp up the difficulty of the problem until the candidate struggled. The reasoning was that with easy problems, a lot of candidates could just write the solution
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by dkarl 4y ago
> being obsessed with your own intelligence is seemingly the primary criterion for joining Mensa The parent says that scoring like an average person means they "really suck" or are "just dumb," so I think they have th
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by dkarl 4y ago
I was similar, not that I wasn't invited, but I couldn't handle something where the point was entirely social. I wanted a game where I could know if I was good or not (and preferably be better than other people.) It also drove me
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by dkarl 4y ago
I would want something slightly different. I care a lot about how recently code has been changed. I usually don't care how much code is run in production, unless it isn't run at all, and then I care a lot. So: Code that was chang
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by dkarl 4y ago
I disagree. These two bits of code cater to different ways of reading. The first caters to a happy-path reading, where the reader has the choice to yadda-yadda the error handling or mentally expand it. The second foregrounds the error handl
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by dkarl 5y ago
Why do you want them to go outdoors, though? You could get more teens to go to the library by turning off all the lights and playing dance music at high volume, but it wouldn't serve the reasons that made you want them to go there in t
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by dkarl 5y ago
I don't think the difference between Go and more expressive languages is about whitespace. If the only way a language achieved fewer lines of code was by cramming more characters into a line, I wouldn't give it any credit for that
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by dkarl 5y ago
> no idea why people get so worked up about character counts Think of reading code as mining ore. If the ore is rich, you don't have to mine and process nearly as much of it to get the material you need. If the ore is poor, you have
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by dkarl 5y ago
Yep! The middle two are, "Do you remember when I promised to kill you last? I lied," and "It's not a tumor!" Other catchphrases: "Get to the chopper!" ended up as, "Get ten people." "Let off
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by dkarl 5y ago
Can you guess my theme? "You want to destroy your enemies, look at them before sadness of sadness from a woman." "Do you remember when you decide the meeting? I lun." "It's not a mood!" "Back."
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by dkarl 5y ago
"Your mother is a lovely human being." -> "Your mother is a good person." Not bad. I like the idea that this one translates pretty easily between many languages.
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by dkarl 5y ago
It's a shame Apple turned that into such a problem for their users, when Linux and Windows didn't. I guess they gambled wrong on how the market for monitors would evolve.
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by dkarl 5y ago
It's pretty poor to regress on the vast majority of currently available displays just because there are a handful of multi-thousand-dollar monitors available. Apple can't even sell a 27" monitor for less than $1500 because th
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by dkarl 5y ago
Vectors will scale to any pixel density, but they look irritatingly fuzzy at the lower pixel densities you commonly see in large widescreen monitors. Obviously it's not an apples-to-apples comparison, but decades ago bitmapped fonts co
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by dkarl 5y ago
There's definitely a reality split between developers who accept early in their careers that they need to learn SQL and regular expressions and developers who cling to the hope that if they hold on just a few more years they won't
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by dkarl 5y ago
> a father who lacks a certain level of natual masculine aggression is going to be percieved as insufficiently powerful, competent, or trustworthy, or lacking in the credibility to help ground a kids personality and identity to fixtures
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by dkarl 5y ago
I think it would make me more cynical about teaching if teachers all agreed. Teachers have different opinions that evolve over time because they're trying to figure out the best way to teach. Static unanimity could would only happen if
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by dkarl 5y ago
I (an American) picked up the European 1 and 7 in college but gave them up when I left school because they confuse people. I still use them when I'm doing math or doing anything where numbers and letters might be confused.
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by dkarl 5y ago
I experienced the same thing when I moved to southeastern Ohio. I was used to rain coming in different kinds: mist, drizzle, soft rain, hard rain, downpour that would flood the street in half an hour, thunderstorms that made it dark at noon
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by dkarl 5y ago
> My take on Evernote is that they never managed to properly monetize it. I was a single user, not in a team, didn't need shared notes or chat functionality and there was no need for me to pay for it... until they decided to arbitra

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