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The center of mass of the bullet was moved towards its back, so it's unstable and tumbles after entering the flesh. When it tumbles, it often fragments due to sudden increase of drag forces (soldiers at the time thought incorrectly tha
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> Respect is EVERYONE’s Responsibility! Uhm, no. Respect is something you earn , not something that you're entitled to . > Career Path / Advancement is EVERYONE’s Responsibility! Well, yes, because nobody gives a sh&t
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9y ago
NOW IMAGINE BUYING YOURSELF A KEYBOARD WITH CAPSLOCK WORKING CORRECTLY.
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> Instead, the source of confusion lies in the way git works. No, the source of confusion lies in the way diff algorithm works. And it works like this for thirty years, and it works this way in virtually all the other version control s
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9y ago
And is about as good as building network on GRE tunnel, because its homebrew cryptography is written by a dilettante.
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OK, but it's not the end of the world (printing), because they're changing the license to Apache 2.0.
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9y ago
If you decide to turn down the new job(s), you could ask them if they will top the counteroffer. If they don't, well, you were going to turn them down anyway. Then: are you happy where you are? Will you be happy continuing in the same
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No, especially with its insistence on static linking everything and the kitchen sink.
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9y ago
The original title is "The Polish phrase that will help you through tough times". Please don't change the title, especially from something that describes the content quite well to your own sentence that doesn't reflect t
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9y ago
> What a terrible move. The more terrible thing is the whole system's design made this actually possible. An electronic soap dish lying under the TV should not depend on internet access to just do its work. Though nobody thinks abou
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> A proper hash function provides a lot more than a timestamp. A service [...] can rewrite history. I think you should verse yourself in cryptography before any discussion about it, including talking about blockchain. You seem not to und
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> I'm claiming that decentralized consensus gives only a minor gain over a single node maintaining a well-monitored blockchain. Do you also claim that a one-way hash function only gives a minor gain over a B-tree? Because document t
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9y ago
The author apparently doesn't understand sh&t about the computer science background of blockchain, since he constantly throws "decentralized consensus" term to mean as a wrong thing. Blockchain does not do that (consensus
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> Blockchains specifically solve decentralized consensus. Wrong. Blockchains specifically timestamp documents. Consensus is a different problem and blockchains don't even touch that.
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9y ago
There's more wrong statements in the quote, like blockchain solving consensus (it's not, it's a document timestamping).
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9y ago
Really? A plugin for that? Even though there is "list" option?
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9y ago
> Companies, that are not hip, but have large codebases and large set of complex business-procedures, that takes long time to grok... Like Nokia with its backend hardware for mobile networks? Or Ericsson? Or Volvo? Or virtually any bank?
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> If you jump jobs every year or every two-three years, companies that value stability would never consider you And that would be which companies exactly?
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> I just feel compared to something like Visual Studio Code it's still very clunky. From my perspective, if you're trying to turn Vim into an IDE, you're using it in the wrong way. Vim is an excellent text editor and leave
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9y ago
You mean, an arcade? Like Flappy Bird?
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> Well, we do things now that we didn’t used to do, like write tests :) We didn't used to worship tests. We used to write them, mainly for detecting regressions. Perl's CPAN society developed whole standards around testing (e
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Erlang's OTP API is pretty much the best. Python's logging is nice, too.
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> IMO, not every Web application needs to be an SPA. Actually, it goes like this: - not every website needs to be dynamic - few dynamic websites need to be applications - and very few webapplications need to be SPA Though it would be v
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No, I find it funny. Even hilarious, given that code with initial version published mere six years ago is considered "not modern" somehow. I write in a language that was published twenty years ago and hasn't changed very mu
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> If that's what Germany wants, Facebook should pack up and leave, and make people use a VPN to access Facebook. Oh, it would be so nice if all the other countries did that, so Facebook would pack up and leave everywhere .
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> It is still the book that influenced my code writing style the most so far. How sad that, given the vast wealth of good books written by exceptional people, the thing that stuck with you most is Martin's. He's known for blurt
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> How many vacation days do you give your employees? My employer gives me as many as mandated by the employment law. Why do you ask?
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Don't buy into the useless hype; there's no good use of blockchain inside a company. All that blockchain does is to timestamp documents (tell which of the documents was issued earlier). There are much more efficient cryptographi
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> On the other hand, there is a good reason that Rails et al don't automatically create a migration that creates a User model for you. Once you ignore frameworks like Django, which provide you with user model, then yes, you'll
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If only this naming wasn't treated seriously on its own.
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