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by elsurudo 7y ago
I find the rest of Trailblazer a bit over-engineered and prescriptive, but I really like cells ( http://trailblazer.to/gems/cells/ ). IMO these are good for encapsulating view state. It more replaces the "helpe
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by elsurudo 7y ago
Point taken that it is ok to use i, x, y, z sometimes (eg. when iterating), but the notion 'a meaningless parameter that is just a variable' doesn't really exist... if it's meaningless, why are you saving it? Only other
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by elsurudo 7y ago
Fascinating. Where can I read more such analysis? About TSLA, but also just in general.
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by elsurudo 7y ago
Boiling a frog? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
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by elsurudo 7y ago
Looks nice overall, but I'm not a fan. It has nothing to do with the implementation itself... just the fact that I view the consistency of the iOS UI toolkit as being more important than fancy looks. It's a good thing (tm) that no
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by elsurudo 7y ago
Not sure if you should rely on SemVer for maturity estimates either, though. I guess it can be one signal, but I wouldn't say a very useful one.
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by elsurudo 7y ago
To scratch a similar itch today, I self-host (well, on Heroku) an instance of Huginn ( https://github.com/huginn/huginn ). It's a bit of a different model, but works nicely. It's also pretty straightforward to
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by elsurudo 7y ago
Good riddance. The web was a finer place before this ad boom.
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by elsurudo 7y ago
Brave "rewards" started appearing in my Android's notification center without my consent. Seems pretty intrusive to me, and I defiitely did not opt in...
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by elsurudo 7y ago
> Toronto seems like a bit of an unfair example when you compare sheer ridership because it’s bigger than all but five US cities Actually the metro area pop. is only beat by LA IIRC, so your point is even understated
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by elsurudo 7y ago
Interestingly, Toronto has pretty terrible congestion. I haven't lived there in a while, but IIRC "rush hour" is more like 3 hours (morning an evening). And (apparently) the bus network still does a decent job. Not sure how t
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by elsurudo 7y ago
Are you sure that was the reason they did that? I don't have any evidence, other than that I always assumed it was either cheaper or more practical to have narrower gauges in cities. It seems to be the case for most streetcar networks
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by elsurudo 7y ago
Maybe "inevitable" is too strong, but only slightly... Those entities that don't adopt automation will be outperformed and supplanted by those that do. It's a similar phenomenon with many technologies. Many people oppose
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by elsurudo 7y ago
It's not always _just_ about objective features. I really like trams and trains in general, because they feel "solid" – like an immovable part of the city infrastructure. There are mental benefits to this, I feel. Buses jostl
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by elsurudo 7y ago
Sounds like an excuse. If I can find a way to make something like this gracefully degrade, I'm sure Google also could... You might say it's over-engineering, but in aggregate terms this could make a big difference in power and net
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by elsurudo 7y ago
I assume the GP meant "scale of codebase complexity" – which is orthogonal to whether something is "web scale" (ie. everything Google does).
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by elsurudo 7y ago
Thanks for these links. As a UW CS alum who didn't take the CS452 and now regrets it a little bit, this was fascinating reading – especially when he gets to the modelling aspects (last link).
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by elsurudo 7y ago
Ads, but they mimic the look of regular results
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by elsurudo 7y ago
> People should really stop complaining about the dongle situation. You're not really refuting anything below, just essentially saying to people: you know, I know better than you, you don't really need these things (the same th
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by elsurudo 7y ago
> how teletext worked How teletext works! In Europe, it is still used. There is weather, classifieds, LOTS of "seeking partner" ads usually for the older generation, etc... Really neat technology/"hack" when you
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by elsurudo 7y ago
I mostly agree with what you're saying, but I will add that is is also possible to write well-designed, modular, easy-to-test (minimal mocks) OOP code. It does provide more guns to shoot yourself in the foot with, I will admit.
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by elsurudo 7y ago
I recently used table inheritance to great effect on a project, so I wouldn't write it off completely. My use-case was a bit different as it involved zero-downtime data imports from separate sources (concurrently), but it proved a grea
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by elsurudo 7y ago
At UW (University of Waterloo), our Real-time OS class projects used physical trains. Walking the halls of the Math & CS building, you could see kids "playing with trains" all through the night quite routinely. It had the repu
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by elsurudo 7y ago
Wow, what a sincere message. That right there is a true encounter. His philosophy – much like Erlang's – is unique and refreshing.
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by elsurudo 8y ago
I flew Jet just once (from Toronto to Hong Kong I think), and I remember it as the only airplane meal that didn't seem like it came from a microwave. It was actual Indian food – maybe not top-tier-restaurant quality, but good! They als
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by elsurudo 8y ago
I have nothing to add, except to say thanks for writing that – I really enjoyed reading it. A bit of whimsy in the preceding paragraphs.
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by elsurudo 8y ago
I use Safari on a Mac with a simple ad blocker, but I use a lot of Google products, and I also get a captcha most of the time. So perhaps it's Safari and/or the ad blocker that are to blame? Hard to say, though.
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by elsurudo 8y ago
He never said it was worse, just that it is bad. Both of these are bad.
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by elsurudo 8y ago
Hi Martin, First of all, this is great work, and fascinating! Suggestion: for the "named roads", I think it'd be a good addition to actually add the names of the roads.
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by elsurudo 9y ago
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