gdulli

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by gdulli 16y ago
My world is upside down. I hope I don't find out today that LinkedIn recommendations aren't accurate.
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by gdulli 16y ago
Does it undermine problem-solving skills or expose a lack of them? Probably a little of each. If people aren't using advanced search, the search engines probably aren't helping by burying it and showing a one-textbox start page. But if some
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by gdulli 16y ago
Exactly. Much of what's obligatorily "social" on the web is orthogonal to who my friends are, why they're my friends, and what I'm doing on the web at that time.
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by gdulli 16y ago
I don't find this very useful. My friends often like things that I don't like. They're not my friends because they like the bands or movies or web sites that I do. Recommendations from my friends carry no more weight than they would from an
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by gdulli 16y ago
How?
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by gdulli 16y ago
That's a great example for comparison. Sometimes reddit goes down completely, maybe more often than most web apps. But it's still uncommon enough that I think of reddit as a site that "works" and I go into a session expecting it to go smoot
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by gdulli 16y ago
OKCupid is the only web site I can think of that has a regular, not occasional, pattern of being very slow and simply not responding to an unusual number of requests. Hitting F5 to reload a page just to get it to show up instead of the Fire
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by gdulli 16y ago
I felt this way for a while. Then I was cleaning my cats' litterbox one day and an idea came to me from nowhere for a writing project, something it was safe to assume no one had done before. I did it for about 12-18 months and then stopped
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by gdulli 16y ago
I submit that your conclusion is errorful.
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by gdulli 16y ago
I can't imagine an internal view of programming that's so much more quantitative than qualitative that it could lead to forming a question like this.
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by gdulli 16y ago
Isn't the commentary on YouTube well known to be the absolute worst discussion on the internet? Just what quality of questions were they expecting from that community?
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by gdulli 16y ago
No one chooses to use iTunes. You're locked into it essentially if you buy an iPod. iTunes is a success because iPods are the shiniest players.
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by gdulli 16y ago
If you can grasp the algorithms and problems and solutions of software development but get thrown to any extent by small differences in whitespace or style, I don’t even know how to respond to that. That argument always feels disingenuous w
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by gdulli 16y ago
You want to hire a developer for language X. The pool of candidates is heavily influenced by culture X. Same goes for job seeking.
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by gdulli 16y ago
Culture exists and can't be ignored, but that doesn't mean you have to be a slave to it. I find the most (perhaps only) annoying thing about Python the thinking that leads to the zombie-like refusal to deviate from PEP 8 and other habits/st
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by gdulli 16y ago
But you can't deny that each language has a culture that promotes a certain set of practices and styles. If this article had been written about Python instead of Java, no one would have understood what the author was trying to say because i
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by gdulli 16y ago
It would be nice to fast-forward beyond this gaming era in which microtransactions take the form of purchasing your way past one level of rote gameplay mechanics only to arrive at a higher level of the same rote gameplay mechanics. And in w
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by gdulli 16y ago
He's right that open-source vs. commercial is orthogonal to the attributes you should really be assessing. Lumping in MySQL with PostgreSQL just because they're both free is a disservice to PostgreSQL. The author goes out of his way to diff
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by gdulli 16y ago
> Or, to look at it another way: if MySQL's such a load of crap, how'd it ever get so popular? Justin Bieber.
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by gdulli 16y ago
iTunes gift cards shouldn't be used because they're worthless to me and anyone else who doesn't iTunes or have an iPod. An Amazon gift card is useful to someone who'd prefer an iTunes gift card. There's no barrier to using their second choi
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by gdulli 16y ago
No, they'll still save settings in a cookie if you're not logged in.
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by gdulli 16y ago
I thought this would be about getting rid of Google Instant, which is ridiculous and distracting. You can turn that off in search settings.