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by hackula1 13y ago
Some of us are in social circles where almost everyone smokes.
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by hackula1 13y ago
> but it is certainly a toxic substance, in the medical sense. Excuse me for not accepting the pseudo-science weasel word "toxic". Vitamin C is toxic at certain levels. If you do not bring in more specifics, then what you ar
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by hackula1 13y ago
I was referring to the new implementation in JavaScript.
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by hackula1 13y ago
Retire after 10 years of salary work? I don't think so.
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by hackula1 13y ago
IMHO, new languages are dominated by people that are not the best, but are on their way, as they will spend an inordinate amount of time learning from the best in older languages out of necessity. The arrogant go devs of today are likely to
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by hackula1 13y ago
ST is not open source, which makes this argument pretty much moot, and I still doubt this project will ever be a fraction as popular as ST.
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by hackula1 13y ago
Completely agree. I AM a developer, and I still would have no idea how to help 90% of the projects that I use as dependencies. Each developer has their own area of expertise, and it is completely unreasonable to expect everyone to be able t
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by hackula1 13y ago
I have absolutely 0 problem with this, as long as a disclaimer is listed like the OP did. I honestly think this is the right way to do it. Imagine though if apache had some major security flaw uncovered tomorrow and the maintainers said, &q
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by hackula1 13y ago
I recently had a need for an algorithm that did some pretty complex geographical data interpolation that was faster than the existing implementations. The modern vendor library I was using took about a minute to compute. I searched through
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by hackula1 13y ago
I remember seeing code bubbles when you released it and thinking it looked much more promising than the flow-based approaches to abstracting away code files that we usually see. NoFlow and the like tend to ignore the fact that: 1) The appro
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by hackula1 13y ago
This is what professional support contracts are for. If someone really wants something implemented that is of no use to anyone else, then they should pay for it.
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by hackula1 13y ago
It is still pretty trivial to find a job in Python, Ruby, or JS in just about any metro area in the US. I do not know anyone in the node.js community that would even go to someplace like monster to find a job. Most of these positions are fo
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by hackula1 13y ago
RoR vs Asp.Net is largely community (and modules) vs tools. Both are important and I am not sure if a combination of the two is even feasible. VS is like crack, it's so good, but at the same time nuget looks like a joke compared to gem
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by hackula1 13y ago
The government will often request an RFP that basically entails doing the entire project so that the vendor can do the 5 minute demonstration to show that they are capable of completing the project. This greatly inflates prices, since the
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by hackula1 13y ago
Quality of life is up just about everywhere else as well over the last several decades.
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by hackula1 13y ago
Bell and IBM show that this does not always work. MS may be the next example in ~10 years.
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by hackula1 13y ago
Incentives tend trump all, especially in major grey territory like this.
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by hackula1 13y ago
I had a feeling someone would bring this up. My main counter here is that there is a power dynamic at play here that makes it extremely unlikely that a child will be able to decline. Imagine a teacher saying to an 8 year old "Stand up,
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by hackula1 13y ago
A couple suggestions: callback hell -- 1) Define your callback functions instead of passing anonymous functions everywhere. 2) Use a control flow library like async. https://npmjs.org/package/async This will greatly h
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by hackula1 13y ago
The whole idea of a "pledge of allegiance" strikes me as extremely creepy. Having our kids giving their daily state worship by saying a "prayer" and physically submitting themselves to a state icon is something that I wo
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by hackula1 13y ago
I would not mind them too much if their time frames were more reasonable. A 2 year software patent would seem ok in my mind.
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by hackula1 13y ago
Discouraging 50% of the population from contributing just seems a bit inefficient to me.
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by hackula1 13y ago
If a 20-30% downpayment seems completely unrealistic, then you are probably not in area that you can afford. A home is like a car, in that nobody forces you to buy the Porsche, and you can always buy something in a cheaper area. A location
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by hackula1 13y ago
Android clearly went in a different direction post-iPhone.
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by hackula1 13y ago
80% does not a monopoly make. Microsoft was in an entirely different position at the time.
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by hackula1 13y ago
MBA is great but this saying is dead wrong.
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by hackula1 13y ago
For me, mbpr 13 is a really good balance between usability and portability. I was Thinkpad + linux for years, but I find the mbp hardware feels a bit sturdier, compared to other options in the same price range. The main contender for me wa
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by hackula1 13y ago
I am not a professional by any means, but I use an oscilloscope frequently when building guitar effects pedals. Being able to see a fuzz pedal's "clip" is extremely useful.
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by hackula1 13y ago
This pretty much sums up how that would go down. Q: Should return 3 for this test case x = add(1, 2) assert.equals(x, 3) A: function add(a, b){ return 3 }
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by hackula1 13y ago
The headline should replace "code" with "markup" for clarity.

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