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by erik_seaberg 9y ago
Every type declaration implies a set of unit tests, and needing to actually write them is not better in any way.
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by erik_seaberg 9y ago
I complain about quality a lot. I might almost have this superhuman level of discipline on my best days, and only then if business allows me to indulge it. But think about the worst programmer you've ever worked with. In his hands th
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by erik_seaberg 9y ago
Richard P. Gabriel, "The Rise of Worse is Better" http://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
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by erik_seaberg 9y ago
Derek Lowe, "Sand Won’t Save You This Time". My favorite entry from a drug discovery chemist's Things I Won't Work With stories. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02&#x2F
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by erik_seaberg 9y ago
They're swayed by ads? I'm surprised they don't need to do a formal RFP among the handful of companies who can make an MRI certified for medical use.
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by erik_seaberg 9y ago
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15339564
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by erik_seaberg 9y ago
Users need to be cautious about this: > Although Google is part of the minority of the C++ community that doesn’t use exceptions, we recognize that it is a minority and believe that code is often better when it’s exception-safe. We’ve do
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by erik_seaberg 9y ago
Network transparency lets headless compute servers in distant datacenters take advantage of the powerful GPU under my desk. To me one monitor per GPU makes a lot more sense than n cores per GPU plus the extra bandwidth for live video.
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by erik_seaberg 10y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14006734
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by erik_seaberg 10y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14006734
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by erik_seaberg 10y ago
Out of the whole agenda, privacy is the only item for which it matters at all that we're in tech. Everything else seems to be things he hopes wealthy people in any booming industry care about.
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by erik_seaberg 10y ago
If you ever find yourself assigning a unique URL to a thing which has a name and a type, and assigning a unique URL to the type which has a name and a supertype, consider dusting off rdf:type and rdf:subClassOf and maybe JSON-LD rather than
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by erik_seaberg 10y ago
If I search for "Wealthfront", how likely is it that I don't know they exist and need help finding their homepage, and how likely is it that I want to read about the type of service they offer?
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by erik_seaberg 10y ago
Haskell has a module block, but you don't need to indent the content because the block can end at EOF.
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by erik_seaberg 10y ago
The DSL doesn't go away. Your only choices are to implement it, or else read and write the boilerplate you get by imperfectly compiling it in your head.
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by erik_seaberg 10y ago
Pros are probably not comforted by an iOS acquisition after disbanding the team they already had working on macOS automation.
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by erik_seaberg 10y ago
Also https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import which turns upvoted answers into modules.
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by erik_seaberg 10y ago
It might be like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_65_(198... where the incentives are to mindlessly post a warning without any effort to confirm whether it's necessary. Result: warnings on ever
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by erik_seaberg 10y ago
When my machine isn't portable, I'd much rather have my upgrades mounted inside a generously-sized case than a tiny one surrounded by a rat's nest of cables.
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by erik_seaberg 10y ago
When programming languages evolve, "can a human being understand this code?" is part of the fitness function, and more succinct and powerful languages aren't always best for that.
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by erik_seaberg 10y ago
Does the market care much about size? I thought there were lots of datacenters that reached their limits on power and cooling despite having floor space available for more racks.