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by flukus 7y ago
That just compiles like normal code which is obviously a win in many scenarios but there can be a few downsides. The first is that it can quickly devolve into template/generic hierarchical madness (assuming the real example was a bit m
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by flukus 7y ago
Many years ago I was working on a complex screen scraper (the good kind) app and every site we scraped was ~1000 lines of error prone code, plus all the usual problems of sites changing randomly under us and the need to respond quickly. The
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by flukus 7y ago
> You can’t stand on the boat of democracy and the boat of a dictatorship t the same time. Sure you can, any company that doesn't have dictatorial control of what software runs on devices they manufacture would not be in this situat
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by flukus 7y ago
Don't forget the mandatory 2 hour delay to answer though, you still don't want them learning that it's quicker to ask than to look.
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by flukus 7y ago
> Most content (web pages, documents, code) is longer than it is wide, so any more square ratio is going to be an improvement over these silly "movie" ratio 16:9 screens. MS's 3:2 ratio screens are an improvement, but.. we
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by flukus 7y ago
That's a gimmick (defined as: An innovative or unusual mechanical contrivance; a gadget.) and hardly proof that dual screens aren't a gimmick . It sounds very creative and may have been well executed, but it's still a gimmick
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by flukus 7y ago
> I wonder why someone who knows how to do any of that, would think it is a good idea or go along with implementing that Modern silicon valley is built off people implementing similar pervasive tracking, without it there is no google, fa
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by flukus 7y ago
HN has quiet times, starting from about now and going for the next couple of hours, it's particularly pronounced on (local)Mondays because it's still Sunday in America. Annoying for me as this is the end of workday unproductive ti
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by flukus 7y ago
No idea what their pay structure is like, but if they're getting paid overtime they're creating a direct cost for the government and making a profit at the same time. Their protest can be as simple as turning up and doing a half-a
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by flukus 7y ago
Civil disobedience worked because it became unprofitable for Britain to stay in the short to medium term, for China it's a territorial claim and they're happy to wait out any lost profits. Gandhi's first stint at civil disobe
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by flukus 7y ago
On the plus side it does serve as a powerful reminder of the costs and technical debt incurred by dependencies and why they should be minimized as much as practical. We've got some projects based on abandoned libraries that will never
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by flukus 7y ago
Pricing: Contact Us. So basically it will be expensive, require an army of IBM consultants and become yet another integration point instead of actually solving anything.
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by flukus 7y ago
Hopefully the laws don't allow apple-esque DRM on third party components.
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by flukus 7y ago
Pragmatic answer: because it crosses some threshold where it's deemed I'm dressed appropriately at work and a normal shirt wouldn't. > The collar is in place to hold the tie, you don't need a tie, you don't need
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by flukus 7y ago
Zig, Crystal, Nim, Rust, Go. It seems like the industry is responding to the end of moores law and is refocusing on performance. Contrast this with 90's languages like python, ruby, java and c# where computers were expected to get expo
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by flukus 7y ago
Because he probably forgot about it until then. He comments on half a dozen things a day, out of tens of thousands of comments over 2 decades only 2 were about this issue so it's not as if it was a firmly held personal conviction.
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by flukus 7y ago
> If he hasn't very publicly retracted that view and apologized (and: he hasn't) Except he has ( https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html ): > 14 September 2019 (Sex between an adult and a chil
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by flukus 7y ago
Do you mean ads in general or posting to public job listings? Because all my jobs have come from the later and it's been the primary hiring pipeline everywhere I've worked. Can't say I've seen a lot of hiring from genera
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by flukus 7y ago
You need to develop a healthy dose of apathy. You're a cog in a machine and there are many things beyond your individual control from climate changes work projects heading for a cliff to your sports team winning the wooden spoon. The b
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by flukus 7y ago
That's a charitable interpretation and good advice, but they specifically say "Only learn something new when forced" and give two examples 25 years apart. It certainly sounds like they aren't learning technology as it ma
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by flukus 7y ago
> Is it biased in a bad way? Probably in several ways, along with a gender bias in your network there's probably a high likelihood that there's a racial bias, a class/wealth bias and an age bias. Your network probably has
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by flukus 7y ago
According to the google summary of this paywalled article ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/12/08/all-o... ) there are 62,500 plant in the world, so 5000 more of these seems pret
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by flukus 7y ago
Then it wouldn't be free software ( https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ). Freedom 0 is the most critical item: > The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
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by flukus 7y ago
Maybe I'm out of touch with how it's used today, but self taught used to be someone that built things, W3schools was the closest thing to online courses years ago. If so I'd argue the modern usage is wrong though, a self taug
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by flukus 7y ago
Any evidence of this? Some quick googling and I couldn't find anything about about employees with healthcare plans being paid less than employees without them. If I understand the history of it properly, healthcare was always meant to
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by flukus 7y ago
Look at the staff list https://www.gnome.org/foundation/staff/ . It's top heavy with useless people running "diversity initiatives" and "anti-harassment teams" and only one Gtk dev. If the
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by flukus 7y ago
> One thing that will not make healthcare less expensive is "Medicare For All". It will just shift the bill to different people. This is what happens with corporate healthcare plans already, those costs get past onto the consum
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by flukus 7y ago
> I see the opposite happen all the time in software development. The software development world is plagued with the idea that developer productivity and happiness comes before all other considerations. Can you imagine a car manufacturer
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by flukus 7y ago
I liked WCF, but .net devs insisting on using it to create pointless separate physical layers for web apps dulled my enthusiasm. Resume driven development in it's highest form.
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by flukus 7y ago
> What will the self-taught candidate do at this point? Generally self taught people will have built something. I'd generally consider that the definition of self taught and would not include people that have only done self directed

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