ergothus

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by ergothus 7y ago
> Why would you wish such a thing? Being hungry and then eating is one of the nicest things in life. "hunger is the best sauce" - yes, I agree. Several years ago, I even made a similar comment to yours when I discovered a cowo
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Pro-breakfast proponents say that eating breakfast results in eating less throughout the day, but I can't say this has been true at all for myself. Another sample size of 1, but I had the same experience. Eating or not eating bre
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by ergothus 7y ago
> What source would you prefer an open source UI library come from, that would avoid this concern Note: "this concern" is not "the library may go away or be unsupported". That's true of any open or closed source
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by ergothus 7y ago
No one has (yet) mentioned the main reason I ignored Flutter when it initially came out and why I continue to have reluctance - It's google. They have a terrible track record with products AND with libraries. GWT? Dart (pre flutter)
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by ergothus 7y ago
> the first shopping mall in the country Northgate Mall in Seattle would dispute that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northgate_Mall_(Seattle) . Northgate itself is older than Northland, but the claim "Northgat
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by ergothus 7y ago
"readability" is largely a matter of familiarity, so it's very hard to make such sweeping statements accurately. The difference between "common idiom" and "unreadable mess" is "common", not the
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Some of these people who compare Java to Cobol have no idea....at this point Java is so widely used in the enterprise that it’s foolhardy to think that Java will disappear anytime soon. Isn't that PART of the Java to Cobol compari
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by ergothus 7y ago
> is that there is no real way to distinctly classify something like a UFO or USO in such a way that it gets reported and an investigation occurs on an official level within the military. This is what is all about. A UFO is probably not
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by ergothus 7y ago
My point being that when I ask why static is better (from people arguing that), they'll talk about compile-time checks, they won't talk about the tooling. When I ask them to show me examples, they don't point to bugs that wer
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by ergothus 7y ago
As someone working in dynamic languages for years, I've noticed a certain trend in arguing about type systems. People will ARGUE about the benefits of compile-time checking. However, when people point to concrete benefits, they tend to
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by ergothus 7y ago
Compare to social media games like Farmville - most people might spend money they personally consider excessive, but that balances out with some other forms of entertainment. Meanwhile I've heard they had people spending upwards of $1
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by ergothus 7y ago
Paranoia? Probably. But we have eggs that have chicken s t on them. (Not covered, but a spot here and there is plenty to make me squeamish). I'm not eager to be handling these, nor keeping them around the kitchen, without washing,
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by ergothus 7y ago
I do...my wife actually has some hens. I don't see how that contradicts my question at all. We end up with eggs that I am not eager to be handling/storing without washing, but apparently the rest of world manages this, so I am c
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Honest question: how do you clean your eggs? Chickens are not fastidious about where they poop.
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I'm sure it did, but this is the classic debate about disclosure: disclosing before the fix means that there will be more attackers. Not disclosing means anyone already exploiting the vulnerability is unwarned and defenseless. And s
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by ergothus 7y ago
I've not yet seen anyone comment on the fact that Dell was informed in late Oct, confirmed by late Nov...and the public was advised in mid April. That's a lot of time for a known and confirmed vulnerability to be undisclosed, isn
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by ergothus 7y ago
> so many people interpret acknowledgement of one's own fallibility as lying. I can't speak for others, but for myself I interpreted the bit about his bio saying this meant that it was the intention, not an honest assessment of
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by ergothus 7y ago
I realize you're joking, but this is actually kind of bothersome to me. Most of us give overly optimistic delivery dates without intending to. Over time we learn that we have this habit, so we pad in some time we think is unnecessary.
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by ergothus 7y ago
I don't think I've been in a truly Agile shop, though a few times we had truly Agile periods on a given project. That said, some worked. If they: * considered every task to be a mix of features, deadlines, and resources, and real
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by ergothus 7y ago
I'm not well-enough versed in history to follow the analogy. Are you saying Schmidt is being asked to leave because of internal differences? Did Bismarck leaving have good/bad implications after the fact that you are alluding to
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by ergothus 7y ago
You're skipping the concept of communal concepts though. I have the message I get from my parents, the message I get from "everyone else" (which is really several messages from various groups), and the message I determine for
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by ergothus 7y ago
> legal obligations to shareholders. I've heard this isn't nearly as true as current conventional wisdom would lead one to believe. (to your point, those in power may feel they MUST do certain things even if they don't ha
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by ergothus 7y ago
> That is bit like saying people are inherently good.. Not my intention - I was offering an alternative to the "If you don't like it you should just leave, because appeasement is death for a company"(paraphrase) I was repl
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by ergothus 7y ago
I've always felt that it's good to let people know if you have a problem BEFORE ditching them. If they don't change, then I can leave with a clean conscience. Sometimes they decide to change, sometimes they don't. Whe
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...or they are trying to convince Google to find a different means of making money.
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by ergothus 7y ago
> It changes the evidentiary basis of future claims on related grounds Well that's interesting...citation? I thought not admitting any wrongdoing meant that you didn't admit it, meaning that there'd be no lower bar for a
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by ergothus 7y ago
> will not acknowledge any wrongdoing as part of the settlement This bugs the heck out of me (in general, not specific to this case). What is point of letting them claim innocence? How does this benefit the consumer? I can see occasion
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by ergothus 7y ago
Thanks for clarifying - I hope I didn't come across too defensive. It's definitely become a sensitive spot when so many are dismissive, so I might lash out at those undeserving of it. As for the language - JS definitely has its w
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Thanks for saying as much!
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by ergothus 7y ago
> pointing this out should be equally acceptable as pointing out issues with PHP Not the best example, considering that PHP has done its time as whipping boy. I've never been a PHP dev and I did my share of trash-talk against PHP in

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