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by goto11 5y ago
Why are those PDF's so ugly? It would be so much more readable if it was just a regular web page. (And sorry for the negativity since this is a fascinating article. But I'm genuinely curious why the this PDF is so ugly, since I&#x
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by goto11 5y ago
I'm a firm believe in "keep it simple" and "don't be clever" when it comes to code I have to maintain. But at the programming language level I want powerful constructs. I want to maintain simple and straightfor
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by goto11 5y ago
In the classical definition, a tragedy is a story about a person of high standing or good fortune who loses everything and typically dies in the end. In Sideways, Giamattis character starts out in a really bad place, but through the events
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by goto11 5y ago
If anything, it shows that Hollywood is really bad at brainwashing, since the point of the movie was completely different.
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by goto11 5y ago
> it’s implied Paul Giamatti’s character kills himself at the end. It is a typically silly fan theory, because if that was the case, there would be no development journey for the character, making the whole story pointless. Fan theories
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by goto11 5y ago
As long as you have each operation in the expected order, then SQL syntax might make sense. The problem comes when you need something outside this template, e.g. a projection after an aggregation. The straightforward syntax becomes unnecess
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by goto11 5y ago
> But a retrospective look at his work shows that much of what was read at the time as an ironic deconstruction of comic book tropes (the same sort of thing Watchmen is rightly praised for) is probably non-ironic; it's just straight
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by goto11 5y ago
> I dare her: do romance novels next, and do it from a men's rights perspective. There is some weird gatekeeping in this thread. The blogger is a self-proclaimed lover of comic books writing a critique of Frank Millers work - and yo
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by goto11 5y ago
What are you suggesting Alan Moore might really believe about adolescent girls and sex?
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by goto11 5y ago
This is is critique of the comics by Frank Miller. The things she talks about are all there in the books.
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by goto11 5y ago
> Sounds like she just isn't the audience Frank was writing for So who do you think is the audience Frank Miller is writing for?
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by goto11 5y ago
The question is if the syntax correspond to the logical order of operations. In the query "SELECT foo + 2 FROM bar WHERE baz ORDER BY foo", the logical order is actually "FROM foo WHERE baz SELECT foo + 2 ORDER BY wawa"
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by goto11 5y ago
SQL syntax assumes queries have operations in a certain order - join, filter, group, filter again, project. What if you want to join after a grouping? What if you want to filter after a project? What if you want to group over a projection?
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by goto11 5y ago
Foreign keys does not correspond to class hierarchies in OOP. If anything, they correspond to object composition. E.g. you might have a Customer table and an Order table with FK from Order to Customer. This would correspond to a Customer ob
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by goto11 5y ago
True, but SQL is (for better or worse) the de-facto standard query language for relational databases. The alternatives are all very niche. I would like a better alternative, but it would need some very significant benefits compared to SQL t
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by goto11 5y ago
It seems "heretical" is mostly just used for ideas which are controversial and not generally accepted. But "heretical" have positive connotations, implying the idea is suppressed for dogmatic reasons. So you use the term
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by goto11 5y ago
> There's only one story that's been recently leaked to the media: The one about helping NSA to spy on domestic and allied political leaders. Actually several (apparently unrelated) stories have been leaked. One story about an
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by goto11 5y ago
Realistically, the alternative to an Electron app is not native apps for multiple platforms. It is either a web app or a native app for a single platform.
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by goto11 5y ago
> Well it's a net negative for the end user If it reduces cost, it is really a net negative? A lot of effort went into making the Apple II cheaper. Was that a "net negative" for the customer?
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by goto11 5y ago
> Ok. What is the art of building things that are good, but violate some constraints of the real world? Science fiction. Somebody designs user interfaces for use in Hollywood movies. They don't have to be practical or even feasible,
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by goto11 5y ago
The largest crew is during "principal photography" which is when the live action scenes are filmed (i.e. involves actors on sets or location). This takes a few months for an average movie, longer for a complex shoot like the Matri
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by goto11 5y ago
Quality CGI is certainly not free. Pixar movies are all CGI but are still quite expensive productions because it require a lot of work by many highly skilled professional. Just take a look at the credits at the end of a blockbuster movie to
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by goto11 5y ago
All code does more than one thing, and this is not what the SRP (Single Responsibility Principle) is about. The SRP says a module should not implement multiple independent business concerns.
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by goto11 5y ago
Yeah, the scenario is often stated ambiguously. The important points: 1) The prizes are placed behind the doors before the game begins. 2) The host will open a door regardless of whether the contestant have selected the door with the prize
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by goto11 5y ago
He should actually have been losing sleep over JavaScript. But few saw that in 1996.
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by goto11 5y ago
How about real estate and land ownership? Shouldn't that revert to the public domain after a set number of years?
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by goto11 5y ago
> For example, imagine if you didn’t have to pay full price for works, but instead, just for the cost of printing or downloading. You’d get to enjoy more of them than you would otherwise. I doubt that. The limiting factor for my reading
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by goto11 5y ago
Well both things are problems which is nice to know about so you can fix them. Certainly better than not knowing about either problem.
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by goto11 5y ago
The correct response is to "freeze" the parameters of the failing test into a regular test which fails consistently.
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by goto11 5y ago
What is the purpose of automated testing? Is it to ensure the code works correctly or is it to "run fast"?

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