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by h2s 14y ago
If this is art, and "Art is Open Source", then I want to see some damn source code. Either that or something to reassure me that this isn't somebody co-opting positive terms like "art" and "open source" to add an air of legitimacy to what l
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by h2s 14y ago
What if being aware of this mindset problem and yearning to be more content and calm is just another iteration of the exact same generalised problem of being overly mindful of the imperfections in one's life?
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by h2s 14y ago
My favourite part was this: > The good news is that SimCity is a solid hit in > all major markets In other words, "Don't worry guys, I know this looks bad right now, but we're making plenty of money so it's okay". Gotta
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by h2s 14y ago
> I know this may fall on deaf ears, but couldn't you > people join forces and create ONE open-source office > suite Most people have already joined forces to create one open-source office suite. It's called Li
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by h2s 14y ago
It was a dumb mistake on my part to mention the 300 range of HTTP status codes.
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by h2s 14y ago
The example given is an example of using comments very effectively as a countermeasure against the confusion caused by imperfect code. Look what it actually uses that oh-so-well-documented ssl variable for: if self.ssl: relay_
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by h2s 14y ago
To truly minimise the potential for confusion with this approach, you'd need to be throwing and catching within the same method. And if you're doing that, you might as well just come out of the closet and use goto.
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by h2s 14y ago
People who document the "how", or worse, the "what", generally do so because they're bad at reading code. I work with a few people that do this and they readily admit that that is the reason why they feel the need for comments of the form..
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by h2s 14y ago
Because using exceptions as control flow introduces a very awkward and strange type of coupling between components: dependence by one component on the presence of another known component higher up in the call stack. Dependencies between com
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by h2s 14y ago
Exceptions exist so that you can treat error handling as a separate concern and thus deal with it in a different area of the code. For example, you might have a REST API which catches authorisation exceptions and validation exceptions from
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by h2s 14y ago
> Argument by meaningless blither. What distinguishes > “exceptional conditions” from “control flow”? I have > reached the end of a million element list. This > happens one time in a million! That sounds p
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by h2s 14y ago
It's the ultimate irony. People of all walks of life will tell you that the way their profession is depicted in the media is unrealistic and silly. And yet we all seem to share the equally silly misconception that those who work in the medi
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by h2s 14y ago
Actually, I think the fact that the referral is payable after any purchase is a red herring. The review author is incentivised by their Amazon Affiliate status to choose words that will make me click on their link and get that money-making
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by h2s 14y ago
You say you don't understand the problem? Allow me to explain. Referral links in book reviews are a problem because of the conflict of interest they create. If the author of the review chooses to put a referral link into it, they create a f
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by h2s 14y ago
While this book sounds good, to me this looks a little like a shady attempt to make a quick buck off of Amazon referrals. Reassure me?
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by h2s 14y ago
Bug report: choosing US, UK or AUS from the country select dropdown causes the form to submit as if you'd typed in the country code as your search term. This is a really killer piece of kit though. I'm very impressed. It's something I think
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by h2s 14y ago
You make a really good case against remote work. The only thing I can say about it is that you make a case from the point of view of an employer, or maybe an extremely loyal employee. It may well be true that it's easier to enforce cultural
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by h2s 14y ago
This has absolutely nothing to do with anybody's X or Y chromosomes, genitalia, or gender identity. It's part of growing up and people of all university majors, professions, genders, shapes, colours and sizes experience it.
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by h2s 14y ago
In this sense the electronic industry has not solved a single problem, it has only created them, it has created the problem of using its products. To put it in another way; as the power of available machines grew by a
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by h2s 14y ago
Software engineering is one of the more well-paid professions available. And yet occasionally on Hacker News there seems to be somebody who doesn't feel they have quite enough money yet. Usually they manifest this by trying to top up thei
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by h2s 14y ago
Lots of people seem to declare ; or , to be useless keys and remap them. They're two of my most used movement keys in certain circumstances. I used to have , remapped to <leader> but switched back when I realised what I was missing
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by h2s 14y ago
This is because people who aren't interested in the idea simply move on and look at the next link on the page. It's an enormous selection bias and it makes the results of this poll absolutely meaningless.
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by h2s 14y ago
It's good to see a dissenting point of view, but I disagree with your point about a collective sense of entitlement. It's more of a shared set of expectations about how the web works. In fact I'd argue that perhaps this point could be turne
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by h2s 14y ago
As far as I was aware everybody was already calling this language "Mathematica".
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by h2s 14y ago
1. Open blog post about readability. 2. Notice that text is unreadable without zooming in. 3. Close blog post about readability.
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by h2s 14y ago
The advantage of this approach is that it can be integrated into a public build process as e.g. a GitHub service hook. This gives the results a URL, which is a powerful thing.
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by h2s 14y ago
Code Climate ( https://codeclimate.com/ ) is a similar service for Ruby projects that I think does a really good job of this.
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by h2s 14y ago
Microsoft has trotted their old friend "Get The Facts" out again! Back in the 2000s, they ran a very long anti-Linux campaign under the "Get The Facts" banner. Under this program they paid for many dubious "Total Cost of Ownership" studies,
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by h2s 14y ago
An enjoyable read! The only thing I would change is the overuse of bold text. When used too much, it detracts from the readability of the text as a whole more than it serves to emphasise any particular sentence fragment.
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by h2s 14y ago
> The average man has no more power than the average woman. Can the average woman apply for any given technical position with an equal chance of being interviewed by a person of her gender? When the average woman's colleagues

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