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by falsedan 9y ago
> and the problem was eventually fixed What exactly was the problem? (emergency services were concerned that an ambiguous locating would delay their response).
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by falsedan 9y ago
I like that the author ran out of steam for whimsical allegory & contrived examples after a page or two, and the rest of the chapter reads very tightly & well. Also nice to see another explanation of lexical scoping, to complement m
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by falsedan 9y ago
ty
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by falsedan 9y ago
> a dead blog lol & nodding in agreement What's with the breathless write-up in the article?
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by falsedan 9y ago
Pretty Rude!
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Bad example I work with the material I get given.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> so you spend also excessive amount of money on water because you drink it several times a day? I sure do, because I prefer the quality control and availability of municipally-supplied mains rather than sinking a well in my back yard.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> For Example, HongKong used to have the cheapest iPhone around the world, it was priced the same as US and because there are no Sales tax, it was 10-15% cheaper. Could you explain this differently? If it had the same price as the US (
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by falsedan 9y ago
I just switched to B&S (to migrate to a new laptop): R(estore) is missing! I have to manually download my backup, and manually move files back to their original location! This is a weird backup tool.
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by falsedan 9y ago
You seem more interested in scoring points than in a genuine discussion. > Do you? you said you agree that "X is evil" villifies subscribers that philosophy. It does. That's what those words mean. I didn't say I wou
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by falsedan 9y ago
> I didn't write this as an indictment of the recruiter. Have you heard? Authorial intent is dead. If you write something crappy, it doesn't matter if you meant to or not. Calling someone a 'lossy filter' dehumanise
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by falsedan 9y ago
downvoters: I'm deadly serious. I've seen plenty of deployment systems which were unbearably slow because it gave more time for a human to spot a bad deploy and cancel it, and who were afraid to replace it with something faster be
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by falsedan 9y ago
My statement is about condescendingly calling humans doing their job 'lossy filters', and challenging the deeply-ugly assumption that they should have bowed to the candidate's correctness. The recruiter wanted to advance th
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by falsedan 9y ago
nginx is faster at stop/starting?
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by falsedan 9y ago
> I distinguish ideology from person So do I? Bit of a non-sequitur… > Would you happily say the same wrt criticism of a belief in flat-earth? Happily? What a loaded question. Would I expect a flat-earther to respond to claims whi
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by falsedan 9y ago
OK, I see how what I said could mean that. What I meant was: if using the language's internal string representation gives poor performance/resource usage, better to avoid it and directly manipulate the undecoded bytes. Most langua
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by falsedan 9y ago
That they deployed a broken config file & forcefully stop-started nginx instead of reloading it (and bypassing nginx's built-in protection: it will test a config and refuse to load it if it's broken on reload. on restart it&#x
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by falsedan 9y ago
> You think this exchange shows a recruiter conducting a psych experiment? No. I said what I meant; which part didn't make sense? edit: downvoters, if you disagree you'd better leave a comment telling me why im dum
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Is this like AWS Lambda No > you could put in your own cloud? Yes
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by falsedan 9y ago
Great story bro
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by falsedan 9y ago
I don't understand your complaints. You clearly have some task you have in mind that you wish to perform: why not tell me what it is? > Please show a code example of changing European to African in this sentence in your language of
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Any benefit you get from using UTF-16 vanishes the moment you need to operate on it like a string, in other words. So, don't decode to a string, and do all your character manipulation on the bytes. > A better solution is to
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by falsedan 9y ago
> A bit of advice: When you encounter imperfect systems like this in the future a good practice is to ask yourself if you know what the actual desired outcome is, and give the lossy filter the input it needs to get you to the next round
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by falsedan 9y ago
I gave examples in the GP of the post you’re replying to: namedtuple and metaclasses.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> If I say Marxism is evil, aren't I also vilifying subscribers to that philosophy? Yes, and I would not be surprised to see people challenging that statement/asking for facts. > > Comparing a political stance to a dis
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by falsedan 9y ago
The field is white, so the red will stand out just fine. More pressing though is: what happens when the flag is soiled by a duststorm ?
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by falsedan 9y ago
> That would add complexity to the implementation That's the job of a good language: to move the necessary complexity to the core, so users of the language do not have to address it by being clever. > Being overly clever in yo
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by falsedan 9y ago
Because this one vilifies a large group of people based on their political preferences; and politics is basically a battle to see whose opinion will be reflected in reality. "language X is better than Y" is an opinion we accept at
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by falsedan 9y ago
Your post? > every valuable project starts with an idea though It's a tautology which adds nothing to the understanding of the reader: of course every valuable project starts with an idea, just like every great human being started
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by falsedan 9y ago
I would? I never said not to do that. I'm agreeing with GP that ideas are not very valuable.

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