inimino

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by inimino 7y ago
This is correct. An in-house solution is a solution developed in-house for your specific problem , which no one else has ever had exactly. The more specific the need, the more the benefit of the made-to-measure solution. The alternatives a
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by inimino 7y ago
Is this satire?
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by inimino 7y ago
Statistics based on what? Almost all statistics you can collect will be based on what other people do, so there's no escaping that bias. You're better off thinking for yourself, and being cautious about making any decision that af
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by inimino 7y ago
I haven't said anything about regexes here. What I wrote is that I find the shorthand "non human readable" specifically to be objectionable. Are regexes sometimes difficult? Sure. Are people who read bash also human? Yes, and
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by inimino 7y ago
The problem is the direct logical implication of the hyperbolic statement "X is not human-readable" is that only non-humans can read X. Which is rude.
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by inimino 7y ago
I have a personal dislike for "non human readable" used as shorthand for "not immediately and easily readable by me".
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by inimino 7y ago
This is because the tech workers who primarily fill those buildings tend to lack political awareness and hence the wishes of the people get stepped all over by entrenched powers.
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by inimino 7y ago
How is using APIs for deployment and scaling (from one of the biggest companies in the world) different from writing your entire codebase in a new language introduced by a brand new startup?
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by inimino 7y ago
If your argument is that the method names in DOM should be shorter, then sure, I agree. It seemed to me you were arguing for something else. jQuery selectors are quite a bit different from querySelectorAll, among other things, they don&#x27
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by inimino 7y ago
Are you forgetting C and C++? These are probably the least risky languages you can use. Open source implementations, open standards, multiple implementations. A language with only a single, open-source implementation controlled by a single
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by inimino 7y ago
> a certain risk profile Sure: hobby projects and experiments. I would not include "under-resourced teams" or "new startups" in that, without many strong qualifiers attached.
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by inimino 7y ago
You're never going to wrestle anyone who experienced more than one tech hype cycle into such a stark vendor lock-in situation.
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by inimino 7y ago
Matter of perspective. If you look globally, there's almost no conceivable experiment that can't be tried somewhere.
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by inimino 7y ago
> jQuery is, among other things, an alternative DOM manipulation API built on top of native ones. So you're saying native is like an apple and jQuery is like an orange. So far so good. > And it is a better API at it. And now you&
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by inimino 7y ago
> agreeing on and creating a native alternative to jQuery This is a backwards way of looking at it. jQuery was always a convenience layer over the DOM, and the DOM and other browser APIs have undergone continuous improvement since before
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by inimino 7y ago
> ± a few percentage points The variance is a lot higher than that. Tons of web projects are for internal tools (controlled environment), for mobile first, or in industries or language communities or countries or markets where the browse
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by inimino 7y ago
W3C or WHATWG these days. One browser tries something and then another one decides to implement it, and someone writes up a spec. The DOM APIs grew slowly mostly because of the general stagnation in the browser market, but they have been a
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by inimino 7y ago
TC39 has nothing to do with DOM APIs... but you're right that backward compatibility and "don't break the Web" is one of many reasons why this idea would never fly.
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by inimino 7y ago
Some amount of practical philosophy or received wisdom is necessary for everyone, just like some amount of mathematical awareness. The formal study of philosophy as a discipline, like that of pure mathematics, is not for everyone. For most
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by inimino 7y ago
The problem with waiting until harm is demonstrated is that we don't know what form it might take. Given the current free-for-all of genetic experimentation, it's only a matter of time until something we do has a significant unint
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by inimino 7y ago
I agree that mathematics is much bigger than applied mathematics. However, for precisely this reason, pure mathematics, like philosophy, isn't for everyone. The main argument for teaching it this way is a pedagogical one. If it took ph
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by inimino 7y ago
Physics and calculus should be taught as a single class, it's a mistake when they are separated.
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by inimino 7y ago
It's not a sign of growth. Among other things, it's a sign that we have grown complacent about complexity and are not doing our job of keeping it under control.
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by inimino 7y ago
It's one of the top two VPNs in China/HK. If they're coming for PIA, it means all the VPNs will be blocked soon or already are. In other words, full GFW lockdown for HK, removing one more of the last remaining freedoms that H
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by inimino 7y ago
> not that far away [Citation needed]
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by inimino 7y ago
To be fair, they could also be excommunicated, divorced, socially ostracized, and made unemployable everywhere, not just government jobs. So it's not quite as absurd as your presentation makes it seem. Anyone with a secret is potential
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by inimino 7y ago
Most of the best advice is simply telling people what is already obvious to everyone but them. There's not a lot of evidence needed, and adding more won't help if the person isn't ready to hear it. In "reasons why people
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by inimino 7y ago
I know it sucks when your environment sucks and your tools suck and people tell you your habits suck too. I can tell you're frustrated by your tone in this thread even before I told you that you may lack the skill of slowing down enoug
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by inimino 7y ago
There's nothing unfounded about extreme caution with a new, addictive product that has not existed long enough for the effects on human health to be known.
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by inimino 7y ago
It's a satisficing problem to make enough money to support your life. But that problem itself is just one part of life, and life is life, not an optimization problem, or indeed any kind of problem to be solved.

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