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by dxhdr 8y ago
Here's a great article for learning Webpack step by step, starting from first principles: https://what-problem-does-it-solve.com/webpack/index.html It also has a fantastic summary at the end describing what's
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> replacing bespoke build scripts for web projects Does it, though? No project of moderate complexity will be able to reuse a Webpack config. Conversely, how large of a problem was this for simple sites?
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Article leads with a photo captioned "Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian are looking to a build a VC firm for 'the next 100 years.'" The closest the story comes to expounding on this that the firm has their own CRM software an
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by dxhdr 8y ago
I agree it's terribly named, however discussing the behavior of strncpy is important because the casual reader or new C programmer will see "don't use strncpy, it's broken" and then come away with the wrong idea. st
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> They didn't go into Myanmar to make money. That's absurd. ... They went into Myanmar to capture market share I don't understand the point of clarifying that they are earning market share and not dollars. Is the distincti
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by dxhdr 8y ago
I'd like to read about first-hand experiences founding startups with equal or unequal equity splits. A postmortem of sorts, what worked about the founder arrangement and what didn't and why, or if it was even a relevant factor at
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Source? Sales tax is considered to be regressive because it takes a proportionally larger percent of income from low income tax payers. They don't own property but still need to purchase consumer goods, afterall.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
3 million lines of front-end mobile code? That is impressive. How many screens does the Uber app have?
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> Swift, on a typical project, will do around 20. Not K, just lines/sec. Wow, how common is this in practice? That sounds broken.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Isn't this just classic office politics? Imagine you're pushing for the opposite decision and some other person is going around having closed door meetings with everyone to convince them otherwise. Maybe it's effective but ma
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by dxhdr 8y ago
If you're referencing the amount of absurdity that can only be conveyed in video games then I agree. Ludonarrative dissonance is the uncanny valley of gameplay plus story telling.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> The way to prevent that is to learn about these optimizations, which change often and in undocumented ways, making your code perform very differently across versions. Not only that, your code can perform very differently across minor c
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> This topic is quite subjective, but could you provide some example? Elixir's pin operator is a good example of unnecessary complexity.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Reading through the linked 2014 email exchange is somewhat amusing. I love how the first two responses to his ideas are uninformed cynicism regarding increased hardware memory costs. Then things start to make a bit more sense with another e
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> There is also very little benefit to putting pages on a CDN. Well, you can often pay much less for bandwidth than alternate solutions.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
I don't understand the rationale behind using V8 for server code. Yes V8 is a general purpose JavaScript engine but ultimately all of the performance trade-offs and design decisions are made with browsers as the optimization target. It
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> The question is whether you can taste wine differences without temperature differences Temperature differences greatly affect the taste, so what's the purpose of that test?
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> I did a tasting with a few friends where I chilled red and white wines down to the same temperature, and had them try the wines blindfolded. No surprise, wines taste very differently when chilled. Reds in particular lose much of their
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by dxhdr 9y ago
I've used Erlang but not Elixir. Having an additional optional "pin" operator sounds like a bad idea, just piling on complexity. You can't mess up with the Erlang syntax.
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by dxhdr 9y ago
The USA is the strongest country in the world politically, economically and militarily. Who better to criticize than the USA if the goal is to change the status quo? "Damaging" Russia makes no sense. They don't make the rules
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by dxhdr 9y ago
I'm curious how ChatOps practitioners handle this.
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by dxhdr 9y ago
> What problems has the fed caused since the 1980's? Prices are stable, employment is good. Which prices have been stable since the 1980s?
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by dxhdr 9y ago
And then how many game servers can you run on a machine? Hopefully a lot more than just one.
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by dxhdr 9y ago
The last paragraph of that article proves the OP's point, you can't do it by working from first principles. "Even Venter acknowledges that syn3.0’s genome, although new, was designed by trial and error, rather than being base
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by dxhdr 9y ago
> Health care is the absolute prime example of a Veblen good "Veblen Good: A good for which demand increases as the price increases, because of its exclusive nature and appeal as a status symbol." I'm not following. Heart
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by dxhdr 9y ago
> Beyond a certain point more wealth has zero marginal utility (pure greed). You're picturing wealth as 0's in a checking account but "more wealth" is control of capital, probably shares in an increasingly valuable co
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by dxhdr 9y ago
> Because I'm tempted to respond that there are no inherently messy problems, only insufficient solutions. Really? There are entire industries which only work on "messy problems." ie game dev: implement a controller where
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by dxhdr 9y ago
"Calling all designers, developers and creatives." Call me when you've got a user base.
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by dxhdr 9y ago
> If I know bitcoins will continue to increase in value because math, why on earth would I ever exchange them for something that doesn't? You wouldn't, until the marginal utility of an item or service outweighs the future value
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by dxhdr 9y ago
Caffeine is a stimulant. One of the things it stimulates are your colonic muscles which can induce peristalsis.

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