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by geocar 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand you. is_blocked(user, other_user) seems like it’s still object-oriented to me. Oh sure it has terrible syntax, but we’re still designing our application with encapsulation and if this is CL and “is-bl
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by geocar 6y ago
> “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” Some of those languages that nobody uses, are really good, though. Programmers that learn them hit well above their weight-class in ind
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by geocar 6y ago
Can you explain? Height = Fin 3 Width = Fin 8 x = for i:Height. for j:Width. 1.0 seems worse than: 3 8#1. in every way. What drugs am I missing?
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by geocar 6y ago
> Also, all languages I used support parametrized queries so you do not have to mix data and query strings. Not converting data to strings is not an argument for ORMs, it's an argument for parametrized queries. Your "parameter
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by geocar 6y ago
> But what sucks more is having a leaky query language on top of SQL such that you have to learn the query language AND SQL. I think this speaks to the sad state of ORMs, but not the value of SQL. I think SQL is rubbish: The two biggest
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by geocar 6y ago
Yes. They make it easier to co-manage larger teams with people with drastically different philosophical opinions and can (if well-trained and practiced) help avoid burning out your team. That is to say, in a lot of ways a small clever theol
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Lotus 1-2-3(lock.cmpxchg8b.com)
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by geocar 6y ago
Oh sorry. I got distracted and thought I was still replying to the Mu-user :)
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by geocar 6y ago
Why didn't you copy to a tmpfs and overwrite that version instead? Seems more likely to have installed programs on read-only media and a little tmpfs, instead of a writable binary and no tmpfs. Do you have any information on some of th
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by geocar 6y ago
I haven't played with Mu, and I have tonnes of tags. I don't use multiple workstations (tramp-mode). I am curious. Why else use Mu?
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by geocar 6y ago
What's the point of syncing tags to your mailbox if no other client understands them?
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by geocar 6y ago
src is a cute wrapper for rcs, but it has all of the same limitations of rcs, plus a few extra, so I hope you'd consider sccs/cssc if you wanted something "like rcs" but not. fossil is also a really interesting choice fo
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by geocar 6y ago
The juice just isn't worth the squeeze. I can't speak for Exuma, but I've built several ad networks and buying tools that needed to handle over as much as a trillion daily events, and that means lots of HTTP event collectors
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by geocar 6y ago
Ad fraud takes a number of different forms, including: * Buying a low-value ad (like a banner) and cramming a high-value ad (like a video) in there, and lying to the ad server about the visibility, sound, etc, using JavaScript. Sandboxing i
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by geocar 6y ago
I've built an ad network that supports exactly this: I give you (the publisher) a bag of JSON or XML that tags up the content, and you decide how to render it. I typically pay on click, but I have paid impressions in some cases where t
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by geocar 6y ago
Because you forget what you can’t see. This is the same way that whitespace and long variable names make code harder to read and reason about: simply because you can see less of it.
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by geocar 6y ago
Same reason the FDA doesn't want growers to list optional tests on the packaging: it implies the producer cares more about food safety than the FDA. The consumer should know better, but they don't.
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by geocar 6y ago
> How is allowing developers to use alternate payment platforms "bad for customers"? Because those "alternate payment platforms" don't prioritise consumer protection. Deliveroo did an update their software that w
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by geocar 6y ago
> How does not allowing devs to sell subscriptions on their website help with this arguable safety? By making sure the user has a single channel for dealing with payments and complaints. Deliveroo did an update their software that wiped
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by geocar 6y ago
If you knew someone was guilty, because of a preponderance of other evidence you have the utmost faith in, such as a professional law enforcement officers’ eyewitness account, and the DNA testing vendor you were evaluating said “not guilty”
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by geocar 6y ago
Ask how to do something, and you'll get nothing, but just tell the Internet something is hard, and you'll get loads of answers :)
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by geocar 6y ago
seq 5 10 | while read REPLY ... for x in `seq 5 10`; do ...
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by geocar 6y ago
> By the same logic: font size affects number of bugs. Yes it does. > I still doubt it. https://www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/RR-01-23-Bridgeman.pd... > Our memory works in terms of concepts, not le
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by geocar 6y ago
> one of the first steps is going to create the mental abstraction that allows you to, precisaly, understand the code. Precisely. Now a short program is "short enough" that you can convince yourself it is correct; That is to sa
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by geocar 6y ago
> This argument is significantly weakened when simply removing the meaningless macros and adding whitespace improves readability. I disagree wholeheartedly. Whitespace tends to move code further away from the code that uses it; scrolling
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by geocar 6y ago
> The repository[0] for J is just as unreadable People who can read this find it readable. I think it's a mistake to think that because you can't read the code, that it is the code that is somehow unreadable, instead of a lan
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by geocar 6y ago
> I am attracted to the idea on first principles that the CPU is served well by specialized coprocessors that have a performance profile better suited for some specific subset of operations. It certainly sounds promising, that's for
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by geocar 6y ago
SMT is easier to program. Walking a single linked-list is nothing; A garbage collector walks lots of them that tend to fan out for a bit.
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by geocar 6y ago
Linked-list chasing (as in vlovich123's example) isn't bandwidth-limited as much as it is latency: SMT helps here because you're able to enqueue multiple wait-states "simultaneously".
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by geocar 6y ago
> this is not distributed in the sense most people use the term "distributed" in the context of search engines, What sense is that? I'm not familiar with "distributed" having some protected/special meaning f

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