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by foo101 9y ago
Does one really need to practice to reverse a string? Do we now live in an age where a programmer cannot reverse a string purely from basic knowledge about programming and common-sense? Reversing a string takes 2 minutes or less even if all
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by foo101 9y ago
What kind of startup hesitates to have arguments? I have never been in a startup that fears arguments. Every startup I have been a part of has lively debates and arguments almost every other day. It's only the large slow moving corpora
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by foo101 9y ago
Would you really want someone to take a task and complete with minimal issues if the task does not add value to the organization or is counterproductive? I don't know about you, but I would not want to hire someone who can take any t
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by foo101 9y ago
The donation request may not always be in the form of a button. Sometimes it may be a request to make the donation by another means such as by sending bitcoins to a specific address.
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by foo101 9y ago
Consider the scenario where I own a domain example.com for a year. Just a day before its expiry or just a day before I sell the domain to someone else, I obtain a certificate for it from letsencrypt via ACME protocol. A week or month from n
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by foo101 9y ago
How did it happen that the early internet development community agreed to hand over the governance and registration of a domain name to central authorities like domain name registrars? What is preventing us from making domain name governanc
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by foo101 9y ago
Do you mean managers are not effective in a modern workplace, or do you mean managers are effective in a modern workplace? What is the "This" you are referring to when you say "This is not how it works". Also what kind o
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by foo101 9y ago
You are responding to comments in this thread by saying, "This is not how it works", but the comments you are responding to are making multiple points. You never clarify what the "This" you are referring to is. I am havi
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by foo101 9y ago
I think one important factor to consider, that is not mentioned explicity in the post, is: Manager. Your immediate manager can have a lot of impact on job satisfaction. A good manager would follow a bottom-up approach where he asks the team
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by foo101 9y ago
> Hacker news loves upvoting articles about bloom filters (and Bayesian probability - its on the front page again this evening.) Personally I've never found a use for either of them in practice. Perhaps that speaks about the type of
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by foo101 9y ago
Note this relevant comment from the author of the article: 'My original title was: "Aging: where physics meets biology". Nautilus changed the title to the above more provocative version, which seemed to have worked - judging
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by foo101 9y ago
This is true only if the merge operation leads to a new commit or altering of existing commits. But your parent comment was asking this question for merge operation where there is no new commit. The person who merged the commit appears as t
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by foo101 9y ago
Why would rebase require force-pushing? You can always rebase the pull request on the most current master. There would be no conflicts then and no need to force-push. If the push fails because the master has changed during the few minutes y
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by foo101 9y ago
There are two different methods to merge pull requests in the article. When do people prefer one over the other? Are there any good reasons why someone should try to rebase and merge (fast-forward) a pull request to avoid a merge commit? It
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by foo101 9y ago
I am not confusing verbosity with complexity and I have written all kinds of C++ software over a career of 15 years ranging from legacy core banking systems to hardware drivers. In fact, the simple C++ code often tends to be verbose. When y
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by foo101 9y ago
C++ is a complex language no doubt. But software written in C++ need not be complex. Java, on the other hand, is a simple language. But the kind of unnecessary complexity I have seen in Java-land (EJBs, Spring, etc.) has no parallel in the
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by foo101 9y ago
> Perl's motto was always "There's more than one way to do it", but IMHO it was also the root of many of its weaknesses. So are you suggesting that Perl should discard its TIMTOWDI philosophy? It won't be Perl an
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by foo101 9y ago
How does the fact that he works for SAP have any bearing on his moral stance regarding blockchain? Ad hominem is a fallacious argument.
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by foo101 9y ago
> The good developers write code that can be replaced, rewritten, or rescaled later. You make a very good point. Over the years, I learnt that almost nobody except the developer and maybe one or two peer-developers cares about good quali
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by foo101 9y ago
I think the context is pretty clear: microservices. If it takes 10 people to manage one service, it is not a microservice by definition. It is more like a 10x-microservice or a macroservice.
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by foo101 9y ago
When you use a thing like "is blocker", do you still need a separate ad blocker or is the JavaScript blocker sufficient to block ads as well?
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Ask HN: How do you disable JavaScript based annoyances on browser?
6 points by foo101 9y ago|4 comments
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by foo101 9y ago
What plugins or techniques do you use to disable JavaScript while keeping the flexibility to whitelist some of the websites where JavaScript can be enabled?
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by foo101 9y ago
Please don't speak for all of us. There are many of us around who still take our usual jobs of developing software to be an art of developing useful technology. I think comments like these, although said in jest, undermine the work of
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by foo101 9y ago
Maybe each of the two kids were drawing what they thought they saw...the sun.
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by foo101 9y ago
I am curious why this kind of speculation is taken seriously. I mean it's just a sketch on a stone without any further documentation. Could it not be that these were just two kids playing and drawing something random on a stone?
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by foo101 9y ago
Have you ever seen the actual television show opening the car door? I have never seen that.
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by foo101 9y ago
Can someone tell me what the rules are from companies who are already listed on NASDAQ and trading publicly? For example say if I join company X today (where X could be Intel or Cisco or a similar company) and I have 40 RSUs vesting over 4
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by foo101 9y ago
The host never opens a car door because the host knows where the car is. The host always opens a non-car door and gives the player a choice to make the situation interesting.
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by foo101 9y ago
Your code does not work for me. I get syntax error in line 20: https://imgur.com/a/mqI29 . What did I do wrong and how can I get it to work?

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