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by gbog 13y ago
Good point. The other choice is planned economy, state regulation all over the place, including in haircut style. They just have a border to cross to see the result in DPRK, or open a book on recent history, or ask the elder. The result is
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by gbog 13y ago
It's not misunderstanding. You link to an awful video, draw general conclusions on the account of one event, and your unsaid conclusion is that Chinese people disdain human lives. 100 years ago you'd have added infanticide. So, no, Chinese
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by gbog 13y ago
So you believe what you read? This post gives exactly zero insights about his leaving reasons. The stuff about the nice team is just normal happyspeak, he could be completely pissed off he would have written the same exact words.
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by gbog 13y ago
To the article's author: I think you could go much deeper, and get into the discussion of what can be indexed and what can't, eg timestamp with or without timezone, and how indexability of a column or a function affect the design of the sch
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by gbog 13y ago
I'd be following Taleb here and would be very skeptic about the positive or negative outcome from the hiring of a Kurzweil at Google. To expand: Big companies may have the need for very talented particulars, like Peter Norvig, who can drive
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by gbog 13y ago
Dev a working on the header and dev b working on the footer is an ideal case that actually never occurred to me. Most of the time they work on both. And any good versioning tool properly used should help avoid conflict, no matter if the cof
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by gbog 13y ago
The one thing I don't agree too much with is splitting in many small files. This slows down refactoring and long files are handled properly in good editors.
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by gbog 13y ago
That's not true. Being able to endure and suffer silently is a skill that is often the way to survive through struggles and win the game in the end. It is mostly the case for politicians and mafia members, but it is also useful for develope
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by gbog 13y ago
Martelli's Python in a nutshell is the best I have seen on python. Not a cookbook, more of a reference, but this guy is extremely precise and rereading is always deepening my understanding of python.
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by gbog 13y ago
That's all good but my personal experience about complexity and big code bases sadly don't include functional paradigm. Note that I'm not taking about complex problem with potentially simple solutions, I'm talking about inherently complex s
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by gbog 13y ago
When you have a "user" in hands, how do you know what you can do with it? When it is an object, it is relatively easy, as the methods are bundled in the object. If you use a functional paradigm, you'll have to resort to some other mean, may
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by gbog 13y ago
Well, it depends. Say you want to model a user of your application, this looks very much like a candidate for an object. Sure when you just start, you can use a dict or even only the id, and have functions working on it. But will this scale
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by gbog 13y ago
About global state: yes global state can be avoided most of the time, but the fact that there is still some pressure to use it show it is not that obvious, or, said otherwise, that no other solution is able to cover all use cases. For examp
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by gbog 13y ago
This contradict partially what I read somewhere else, I'll check. But if you will, we can say the normal balance of the world is three third, China, India and Europe.
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by gbog 13y ago
Yes.
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by gbog 13y ago
I'd like to see some more general unsolved problems concerning big code bases, programming languages, etc. Examples: - Object-relational impedance mismatch - MVC (solves only half of the problem) - Global state - Schema vs schemaless data s
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by gbog 13y ago
Sea cucumbers are very expensive, and the taste is so-so. As the story goes, an emperor did not have offsprings, and his physicians said he should eat those sea cumcumbers in large amounts, and his chefs managed to make some eatable recipes
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by gbog 13y ago
China replacing US as a superpower power would only be the world returning to its normal balance: from the dawn of time till two centuries ago, China represented half of the world's GDP...
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by gbog 13y ago
From the other side of the mirror, I mean from the position of someone used to git, this comment seem weird. Git is not hard to use. It is adding a few articulations in your workflow, and they are just allowing you to run faster. One exampl
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by gbog 13y ago
Surte, but one cannot underline enough the importance of relevant and correct examples. May I suggest something like "<a href='verybiglogoftheday/' download='log-2013-12-11.txt'>"
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by gbog 13y ago
Looks like very biaised towards knockout to me.
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by gbog 13y ago
Maybe we could sleep better in such an airplane. How do they protect the crew from radiation in a nuclear submarine? Can't they do the same in a very big and silent plane?
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by gbog 13y ago
Do you have kids? Kids are a good cure against the downs in one's forties.
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by gbog 13y ago
No. Concise means dry, which requires a lot of refactoring on the fresh meat, and it is not optional. Clear means readable, which is necessary too, lest your hope for your code is to never be read again. I mean used.
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by gbog 13y ago
You're to handle data structures? If you do it wrong, if each bookstore address is duplicated beside the book's entry, tests will pass but you will have migration nightmare very soon. What you are forgetting here is the essential refactorin
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by gbog 13y ago
Same with writing a blog post, and commenting it here. We're going Buddhist.
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by gbog 13y ago
Just if you don't know: comparative marketing is disallowed in certain @ countries, since dawn of times. @ edit: maybe most?
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by gbog 13y ago
I use ctags with Python, PHP and I'm sure it will works with most other languages invented.
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by gbog 13y ago
He's got a point here. You shouldn't have a "we do this and that" tagline displayed in 30pt orange on your home page. However the HN has a point too, but a part is missing: I should be able to tell what you do in less than 2s if I need to
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by gbog 13y ago
Except that if someone claims to be the best in something I'll also trash spam the email. There are many other ways to spin a tagline.

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