hopler

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691.
by hopler 8y ago
Function calls have clutter overhead.
692.
by hopler 8y ago
If I understand what the Loop is, then I know what endwhile does.
693.
by hopler 8y ago
I don't understand how an article about writing less code would recommend adding more code to avoid comments.
694.
by hopler 8y ago
What does your link gave to do with your comment?
695.
by hopler 8y ago
Baseball is a bit different because they play 2x as many games per season,so they need to bundle up.
696.
by hopler 8y ago
Google search suggests hepatitis is diagnosed via x-ray/cat scan. Or maybe it was hipatitis? ;-)
697.
by hopler 8y ago
In the US that's fine, because the doctor can bill for the follow-up consultation.
698.
by hopler 8y ago
It's OK if we lose people who don't care about contributing to the organizational goals and coordinating with teammates, who just want to mess around on whatever amuses them.
699.
by hopler 8y ago
You need to communicate with your colleagues to coordinate your work.
700.
by hopler 8y ago
Make one change at a time.
701.
by hopler 8y ago
Your changes aren't sitting on your machine. They are hosted on a server or in a git fork. After test and code review, you merge to head before deploying to production or other people make follow-on changes.
702.
by hopler 8y ago
You can use git forks or whatever for development. This philosophy just says that you only push to production environment from one standard head trunk.
703.
by hopler 8y ago
How is the new york times staff or owners profiting from supporting those moneyed interests?
704.
by hopler 8y ago
Everything computers do better than people was taught to them by humans in some way. There's no reason to assume that human level performance is a cap. There's always theoretical exceptions, but doing a known worse thing is irrati
705.
by hopler 8y ago
Does crimethinc do anything more impactful than write screeds lie Jacobin does?
706.
by hopler 8y ago
They did though. They admitted on the bug that ChromeOS is not for power users, meaning anyone who needs a different configuration from the default. They didn't accidentally forget,they made a conscious choice, repeatedly.
707.
by hopler 8y ago
This is particularly strong with the Chrome team and other parts of Google. In order to protect that $2M revenue/employee, they only build things for the generic mainstream or high paying advertisers. See also YouTube's video reco
708.
by hopler 8y ago
Everyone is the edge of something. 20% of the population is left handed and can't use Chromebook comfortably because of this bug.
709.
by hopler 8y ago
Computer makers are selling tools, not secrets. It's up to you to decide if you need a computer.
710.
by hopler 8y ago
If I'm going prospecting, it's obvious I need jeans and pickaxes, and obvious that Levi can make more of those than he could use in prospecting himself. Levi isn't telling you you'll get rich from his jeans, he's ju
711.
by hopler 8y ago
That's not what Dunning-Kruger is about, so, no. D-K doesn't say ignorant people consider themselves experts.
712.
by hopler 8y ago
If goods have the same value everywhere, it would be impossible to make money transporting it because transportation costs would make the product cost more than it was worth to the manufacturer and seller.
713.
by hopler 8y ago
1. Possibly. It could also mean that apple is reaching saturation and evolving from growth sales to replacement-level sales as purchased products get old and wear out.
714.
by hopler 8y ago
Tesla is one of many companies making mass market electric cars. Piling on luxury touches isn't making the world a better place. Tesla's $35K car (when if ever shows shows up) isn't better than anyone else's. He's
715.
by hopler 8y ago
So this solves the problem of rich people who don't want to live near poor people but do want their labor.
716.
by hopler 8y ago
looking busy is important in Japanesd culture. Japanese salarymen sit all day at makework jobs that are essentially privatized welfare with lifetime commitment.
717.
by hopler 8y ago
California has lawyers doing the same thing at businesses across the state, and suing accessibility-law violators. Sadly, it's more of an extortion racket using the letter of law as a weapon than a vehicle for improving access.
718.
by hopler 8y ago
That doesn't make sense. If productivity increase is inevitable, it's not a game changer strategy. If technology increases human productivity, then immigrants won't be unemployed in a few years, consumers will be wealthier.
719.
by hopler 8y ago
It's not a dig at education, it's an admission that he prefers simple idealized things over complicated real things.
720.
by hopler 8y ago
A diagram seems less likely to be incorrect.

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