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811.
by gbog 13y ago
Why is it so hard to remove features? Because user complains? Reading Antifragile; there is this idea that evolution works via negativa. We should applaud to any removal of dead parts, even Google Reader, yes.
812.
Is Mathematics one big tautology?(math.stackexchange.com)
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813.
by gbog 13y ago
If your codebase is a bit more complex than hello world, a single helpful error message is hard to do right, because if you have a crash it should mean something unknown happened that you cannot fix at coding time. So it is better,
814.
by gbog 13y ago
Yes but no, in many cases you do not want to fail fast and loudly. If a corner case in a minor module crashes all the pages of your app, you better fail silently, and log.
815.
by gbog 13y ago
> Silicon Valley dream That's interesting, because most of the technical focus is on scalability, and this "Silicon Valley dream" is so very much not scalable. The "American dream" had more scalability potential, don't you think so?
816.
by gbog 13y ago
> writing style I beg to differ, I yawned on the first page, on the second page, and got somewhere else. Information density is very low. It looks like this journalist, as many other, is paid by the line, and adds too much water in the
817.
by gbog 14y ago
> make China play fair You mean "play fair" as in "please do like we say and let your billion people be poor and eat raddish all year long"? This is a joke. From Chinese (and most other parts of the world) standing point, the West has n
818.
by gbog 14y ago
> descriptive name obscuring what the code is actually doing. Sorry but descriptive names are clarifying what the code is doing, or are not descriptive.
819.
by gbog 14y ago
Yes, I thought so too times ago, but when your numbers become more complex things, and one has overridden gt(), and you need to debug in a hurry, because what you are trying to do is not even remotely related, then the verbose vers
820.
by gbog 14y ago
Well, if you appreciate the current work of MusicBrainz team but foresee the possibility of them going commercial, maybe you could, meanwhile, link or redirect to their official http://musicbrainz.org/ site. That could be a fair solution
821.
by gbog 14y ago
Just yesterday I wrongly typed musicbrainz.com, looking for the powerful open source music tagger. It appears to be in the list. I don't mind grabbing a few bucks from a big Corp when they forgot to get their domains, but I find it
822.
by gbog 14y ago
That's something I learnt the hard way: to customers, and internally between services, the less you write the best position you have.
823.
by gbog 14y ago
Sorry, but in France and in China, the two countries I have lived in, it is easy to buy relatively cheap food that is not produced "efficiently" from food industries. Example: - bread, cheese and wine in France. I mean the cheese, not the p
824.
by gbog 14y ago
This made me think that often giving money is not the best way to help. Microcredit has been tried and don't fix everything. A development economist made a strong point showing that micro deposit was more likely to be helpful, for example i
825.
by gbog 14y ago
The top comment currently says "This sounds like nonsense to me", its first child agrees and add something like "everybody new it since ages". Well, for one I like this article. I wonder if we developers could use entropy instead of debt to
826.
by gbog 14y ago
Actually, users don't give a shit either at how it looks or even if it works smoothly. They just care positively about content and entertainment, look at Wikipedia, Minecraft, early Google. But they also care negatively if somethi
827.
by gbog 14y ago
You are not too far from carving your header in a JPEG file there. Some may remember good ol' times when most web sites did so. It was the same reason: someone decided the size must be fixed for the header to be following a fixed grid or co
828.
by gbog 14y ago
Why on earth would you disable pinch zoom on mobile web? It is the most useful feature, it allows the reader to adjust the amount and size of text displayed. I use it all the time and despise those web apps blocking it. Html is elasti
829.
by gbog 14y ago
With C-r you need to first type C-r, then type your search key. With the OP's inputrc nice hack, you first type the begining of your command, and then up. To me it is very different.
830.
by gbog 14y ago
> What super power does law enforcement possess that us lesser humans don't? You're playing the foll, right? If not, then I'll tell you why. Instead of going to your neighbours house and beat him with a baseball bat when you suspect his
831.
by gbog 14y ago
Already so many comment mine will be buried deep. Anyway: I am happy to see that in fact pg has no China-blindspot. I feared pg and others (eg Fred Wilson) were never talking about China because they droped half of the world out of their si
832.
by gbog 14y ago
About freedom of speech, I read in Antifragile that a university dean has been fired because he said a possible explanation for gender inequality in high and low grounds ( academia and prisons) could be that women have a more stable
833.
by gbog 14y ago
Have been living and working in China since 10 years. This article is a good typical case of China misunderstanding. Example: > Chinese private internet companies, many of them clones of Western ones, have been allowed to flouris
834.
by gbog 14y ago
I'm reading Antifragile these days and being French myself I can assure you that Taleb is very Frenchy himself, and stabbing at the French is in itself extremely Frenchy.
835.
by gbog 14y ago
> [dev speed has] a large impact on the overall probability of getting off the ground I don't know. This seems common sense but it could be a cliché too. If we look at other domains, it is not always true. For instance, if you write no
836.
by gbog 14y ago
I mean that when I click on a title Trello assumes I want to edit it. It's that too hard to have a light gray edit icon for that purpose?
837.
by gbog 14y ago
> capture selections or right-click (think: WYSIWYG editor widget) Why, no, not the same. I think it is ok for a webapp to be aware that I selected some text, and which text, so a further click on "boldface" would have a context. But it
838.
by gbog 14y ago
Sorry but you really look like a scholar saying platypus don't exist because they can't exist. Or Black Swans...
839.
by gbog 14y ago
> Code needs to read like good copywriting Yes. > write for your target audience [and the rest of your comment] No. Good writers write good copies that are good for (almost) any target audience. This applies to code too. For me arch
840.
by gbog 14y ago
Why bring a caricature here? RMS and FSF tell us what is bad and less bad from the point of view of software freedom, which they and other think is important. RMS said explicitly that Android was less bad than iOS, which is obvious,

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