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by hourago 4y ago
This makes a lot of sense. Like with brutalism the first designers created beautiful and useful art. But as the movement expanded, limited time and budget, bad copies, and misunderstanding of the movement created authentic monstrosities. In
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by hourago 4y ago
> almost half of the Karma (325 points) comes from only seven comments Zipf's law.
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by hourago 4y ago
That may make sense of you are not the average consumer. Optimizing for the most common case makes sense. I see that with Google search prediction, it's good but many times it predicts very sensible words for general use but not in the
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by hourago 4y ago
> Sophisticated methods and “big data” can in certain contexts improve predictions, but usually only slightly, and prediction remains very imprecise The worst part of big data is the data itself. Used to be common will be shared on Faceb
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by hourago 4y ago
Not just bikes: https://youtu.be/uxykI30fS54 It's an example of what I'm referring to. Cities were designed to push for cars. People wanted cars because cities were designed to exclude people that didn't have
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by hourago 4y ago
USA is repeating the same mistake that with the car industry. Instead of a balanced legislation that allows for growth and keep citizens happy the USA went all in on car centric cities to please car manufacturers. The same history seems to
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by hourago 4y ago
That each new developer needs to learn that name. That it's difficult to understand what is that variable scope: does this new functionality fit in John or not. That most people know John but what happens with that other one that is ra
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by hourago 4y ago
And there are five Ernest and twelve Daniel, maybe we should name most classes the same also. When compiling the code a prompt may ask what Ernest do you mean.
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by hourago 4y ago
I have watched many of their videos and are great content for techies.
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by hourago 4y ago
This. "You cannot trust anybody" and all "politicians are the same" are very powerful tools to avoid accountability for big corporations and the super rich. It's a divide and conquer strategy against the average cit
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by hourago 4y ago
> it takes just as much time to learn what "Ernest" does as it takes to learn what "shipping" does. If that is right we should apply it everywhere, as it does not matter. My method many is going to be PeterPan and the
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by hourago 4y ago
Answering to the wrong comment? I never said that.
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by hourago 4y ago
Maybe your services are just too big? I have seen classes with tens of thousands of lines, it was not good. Too big services are equally error prone and hard to work with.
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by hourago 4y ago
> it would cause an insane amount of churn to try to make changing service names as easy as changing internal class names It's easier to change your service name that a class name or method in a popular library used by millions of
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by hourago 4y ago
> If you split functionality out of one service, you end up with the old service's name implying it does both. If you change what a class does you need to change the name, if you change what a method does you need to change the name
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by hourago 4y ago
> "protecting the most useless employees from being fired" Unions don't do that, that's pure propaganda. Unions bargain for more free time, better pay, better work conditions (healthier, safer).
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by hourago 4y ago
> even have the common vocabulary to discuss labor issues. This was one of the warnings of Orwell. A good example is how communism and socialism are synonymous for many people limiting their capability to discuss social improvements.
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by hourago 4y ago
> The project leader wanted to be like Adobe Adobe completely dominates that marked. I see how it was a simpler release, but it maybe was the wrong strategy.
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by hourago 4y ago
Many people in the USA see guns with religious fervour. It's not a matter of logic or risk mitigation, it's a matter of faith in guns.
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by hourago 4y ago
Thinking that opening a hatch in space is easy? You cannot do that in a plane. What is their fair contribution? Bears? In space? If they read the article there was a suggestion to put the weapon in a place that was not accessible until land
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by hourago 4y ago
Then we should celebrate that the gun has been removed. It was a danger for everybody.
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by hourago 4y ago
Yes. Guns increase the amount of killings. Too have a gun in a controlled place like a space station was craziness and a catastrophe waiting to happen. I understand that some people like guns, but their lack of acceptance of the consequence
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by hourago 4y ago
You are trying to be reasonable and informed taking with the pro-gun crowd, you deserved to be upvoted.
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by hourago 4y ago
> In my publicity campaign, I suggested the presence of the gun, especially in light of recent space team psychological problems, might be an invitation to a future disaster. The problem with guns is that they are designed for one clear
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by hourago 4y ago
Romero is going to "make you his bitch”, at last.
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by hourago 4y ago
> Crypto mining has also taken off in the past year, bringing with it the industry’s power-intensive operations. Risking the real economy and even human lives for this.
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by hourago 4y ago
Unions are important for all jobs, ask the pilots Union, for example. If you get X you can get even more of you have a better negotiating power.
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by hourago 4y ago
> They should come to me with their issues, not social media. So many companies say this to just fire people that bring feedback. Whistleblowers are needed for a reason. This concept that companies are always right is alien to me. I have
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by hourago 4y ago
> Diets are most successful amongst individuals willing to make considerable lifestyle changes, being mindful of what they’re eating at all times, and for the rest of their lives. That is, individuals with certain personality traits, par
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by hourago 4y ago
To prioritize people with mental health issues, disabilities, people excluded from society, etc. makes everybody better off. That seems the best investment. I'm sure that there are a lot of smart engineers here and they are doing fine.

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