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by flukus 7y ago
This is also the origin of the whole "alcohol kills brain cells" myth.
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by flukus 7y ago
> to do a simple task of making a template engine Not quite sure what you mean but it does sound like awk was the wrong tool for the job there. For the sort of templating I'm thinking of shell scripts or m4 would have been a better
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by flukus 7y ago
How small are these apartments? I live in a 25 square meter one (according to wiki the definition of a tiny house is something smaller than 36 square meters) but there's still room for a washer and drier stacked on top of it. Around he
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by flukus 7y ago
>Why do I have to finish filling out the entire form to hit "save", to discover I made an error in the first field? Because more validation will usually happen on the server side anyway and finding out when you hit save creates
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by flukus 7y ago
The oldest millenials are just shy of their forties so biology is about to close some doors on them kids wise, so there goes a reason to move to the suburbs and live in a big house. Not to mention many that do have kids raise them in inner
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by flukus 7y ago
> A framework that has no community support, no stackoverflow articles to help out and most likely minimal explicit documentation. But there are gains too. The custom framework is probably much smaller and less complex, easier to know 10
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by flukus 7y ago
> Humans are not used to things popping up into existence immediately out of nowhere I'm not convinced of this, humans come with some impressive visual diffing hardware and we rely on this to detect animations in the first place. We
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by flukus 7y ago
I haven't gone that far because unwanted phone calls aren't a problem for me, so I've just turned off most notifications and it's been great. Email is a much better tool when you don't have notifications on, I'
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by flukus 7y ago
And they don't get wieldly again because Ides are so enabling.
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by flukus 7y ago
> This couldn't be more wrong. The team does a great job handling upgrade paths post 2.0. The problem isn't how it's handled or how incremental it is, it's that there are so many upgrades with breaking changes, at lea
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by flukus 7y ago
> ses several classes and subclasses, with code paths that move around a lot through the class hierarchy The flip side I see more often than not (no idea if it applies here) is that IDE's are the enabler that allow such terrible cod
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by flukus 7y ago
9 major versions in ~7 years indicates that it's not remotely stable enough to be taken seriously, particularly for corporate stuff that will likely never get an upgrade. Even the "LTS" releases are only supported for 18 mont
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by flukus 7y ago
You don't have to refine your models, you have to have even a hypothesis for where the extra energy is coming from if it's not the greenhouse effect. If you had something remotely credible then there's a lot of vested interes
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by flukus 7y ago
There's also the floor size to consider, cubicles or team sized cubicles where everyone has windows or at least some natural light are very different from cubicles in a massive (wide/long) dilbertesque building with only artificia
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by flukus 7y ago
> You have to show that humans are impacting the trend and causing it to deviate from its baseline for a long enough duration. We are in one of the coolest periods in the last 65m years. [1] The curve-fitting is misleading because too ma
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by flukus 7y ago
.net + angular seems to be popular around here and I've been on the other side of that, knowing .net but rejected for not knowing angular (but plenty of experience with other frameworks). The only time I've received real feedback
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by flukus 7y ago
And those competitors are also subsidizing rides. In many cases they are also paying drivers better to the point you'll get uber drivers recommending other services. The winner is whoever can pump more investor money in the longest, an
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by flukus 7y ago
> if you were worth it you could get an office Well I'm not good enough to demand an office, but I like to think I'm on the upper half of the talent scale and when I'm job hunting I can be somewhat selective. The office st
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by flukus 7y ago
Consultants can be great for filling in very specialized gaps, but beyond that I don't know how anyone can think it's a good idea. Aside from a history of failure and consulting companies acting as parasites the incentives simply
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by flukus 7y ago
A lot of managers still operate under the assumption that software has a "build phase" and a "maintenance phase" and that they can get rid of most developers for the later. Aside from the obvious problems when they still
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by flukus 7y ago
Users has to be the worst unit you can possibly use, there's just to much variance between projects. If it's 100k users for a timesheet app people use once a week you've got very different scalability requirements than a 100
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by flukus 7y ago
So it's more like the Galactic Empire soldiers meeting the road runner?
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by flukus 7y ago
Keep in mind the strength varies wildly, even on pacific islands the difference between bars 10 minutes apart can vary and the tourists ones are generally much more watered down, or so I've been told. I had the opportunity to go to a l
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by flukus 7y ago
There was no load to test, even the most inefficient code running a web server off a mobile phone could have handled this load.
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by flukus 7y ago
I've built UI's with Qt, Gtk, swing, VBA, Access, winforms, WPF, TK, html/css and more I can't remember and I stay away from front end webdev these days because the tools are such a tyre fire and way less productive than
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by flukus 7y ago
>Why are switches an anti-pattern? Because the gods of OO decreed as such and now the logic must be distributed across a dozen classes/files. Notice the language "that couldn't (or shouldn't) be solved in a more OO wa
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by flukus 7y ago
What's the industry doing to save themselves? Some have gone to the paywall model but they can't even commit to that because they want the benefits of the open web driving traffic to them. Then if you pay you still get bombarded w
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by flukus 7y ago
An uber eats account with a generous daily limit, it's mostly awful but you asked for interesting. You have to keep an eye on the delivery process as soon as you submit the order, instantly negating the supposed productivity benefit of
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by flukus 7y ago
In that scenario much of the web industry will die and they will deserve it. It didn't self regulate, it fought government regulation and pushed people too far. The big boys like google have been hedging their bets in multiple ways alr
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by flukus 7y ago
I guess the question is why does it have to be an app? If you've got a tight budget and deadline why add all that complexity when some cgi scripts will do and may even be overkill? It looks like it's just running a webview or some

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