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by jack9 10y ago
> subversion later was a constant struggle The only struggle about svn is branching (copy the whole thing) and merging was more frequent. There were many CVS systems, which I worked on, where there was no way to track who made what chang
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by jack9 10y ago
> I am very keenly aware of every stupid thing Trump has ever said, (Cited from another reply.) This misses the point. Most importantly, like Clinton (but really far MORE than Clinton), nothing he says has any particular aim other than o
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by jack9 10y ago
> make sure they never, ever get hurt by us That's a "current thinking" issue. Prior to industrialization, humanity (statistically per capita) didn't care about preservation. In search or resources you get marginalize
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by jack9 10y ago
CSS was "better than what we have" in the 90's. It's not optimal, kinda like Javascript. Other than HTML, what other technology uses something similar to CSS?
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I can't think of one (other than FB) where this is preferable over some form of REST (just go back to calling it HTTP actions or HTTP). Tying services together makes for more problems (as coupling often does), not less. The very first
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by jack9 10y ago
> You're supposed to GET or POST never both at the same time. The standard says you can. The simplest way to add pagination is to POST your data with GET values overriding. I see no reason to use PUT or DELETE at all.
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by jack9 10y ago
When I finally ended on the IDE page, I realized how the vast majority of these "5-10"+ year veterans were very primitive developers. If you're using Sublime or Atom for Javascript development, I would say that you've sp
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by jack9 10y ago
This is Linus Torvalds & git
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What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True https://vimeo.com/9270320
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by jack9 10y ago
> why do Swedes feel the need for independence I suspect it's due to a happy lifestyle. I don't "suffer" from it in my own words. I'm happy and very solitary. It's how I've always been (being the smarte
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by jack9 10y ago
For your own benefit, please understand that suggestion sounds idiotic in context.
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> Keeping humans alive on THE MOON starting from now is vastly easier to comprehend than putting a man on the moon starting from 1950 Fixed. Mars is impossible, for now. We haven't kept someone in space long enough to reach mars nor
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by jack9 10y ago
> But the science does raise ethical questions, including how any child from the technique might feel about having DNA from three people. That's not an ethical problem. Also, not a problem since, it's not any kind of problem to
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by jack9 10y ago
> Most applications don't actually need concurrent access That's an interesting claim. I would rephrase that to, "Are their more http calls that use concurrent connections to a DB, or standalone applications that do not?&q
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by jack9 10y ago
> Before he worked for Apple's call center, Ben* had a clean bill of mental health Employee complaints of all sorts.
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by jack9 10y ago
In the farm industry, chicken processing industry, etc. In the 80s, there were buses dedicated to shipping in immigrants to do the manual labor.
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by jack9 10y ago
I don't understand. Potential to increase wealth. Currently the reality is redistribution from the lowest skilled workers to the business owners resulting in a theoretical wash (barely affected total wealth). Yeah, that's one of t
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by jack9 10y ago
> I find this odd because we know exactly what consciousness is I guess it's solved. I'm glad the NY Times is where I go for my scientific analyses.
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by jack9 10y ago
> your only option is to cast to Object In Java JSON is horrible for serialization because of Java behaviors (your best option is Object). That doesn't mean JSON is horrible for serialization, in general. Fields do have types (int,
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by jack9 10y ago
> Despite all these efforts, JavaScript still falls behind if compared to other programming languages and will have a very hard time catching up. Wat? This statement is devoid of reason or proof. I hate javascript, but at least explain t
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by jack9 10y ago
> it's much harder to make an existing game better. Im not sure who thinks this is "wise", when it's simply not true. The problem is making a game better enough to gain marketshare before the changes are absorbed by t
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by jack9 10y ago
> looking at the URI the consumer must understand all about the given resource Just because? No. > The HTTP methods must be used to give the intent of the action that is happening. That interpretation (PATCH, DELETE, etc) is not &quot
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by jack9 10y ago
It is not. The purpose of a PHD is to advance the sphere of human knowledge as it applies to a subset of existing data in a unique way. Getting the PHD by proving something empirically is the point of a PHD. This does not require a great
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by jack9 10y ago
We have enough problems in creating programs. This is the equivalent of an instagram selfie or math geek with a favorite way to generate a pattern of numbers, where someone is trying to be overly clever just to say "look it's clev
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by jack9 10y ago
> Taking away a tax deduction is equivalent to raising taxes The burden (the cost source of the tax) exists. How the burden is served can leverage individual self-interest to create, maintain, or change behavior (tax deducations). A chan
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by jack9 10y ago
They meant "it is not [JFK signage]" which is a pedantic attempt to deflect because they either have nothing to add or think it's fine and rather not defend it directly. The profile image is specifically related to JFK by ima
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by jack9 10y ago
Probably because you didn't read the OP's explanation of minimum standards that included. > - I won't use the web. No HTML, no CSS, no Javascript. Sorry. If you're using HTML, you're already limited in known ways
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First step is validation, then conversion, then logic. This keeps the json structure errors and changes from affecting the business logic.
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Penny Auctions are notorious for running their own bots to compete and ultimately, act as financial loss prevention.
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> driving those four turns is several orders of magnitudes more difficult task than going to the moon. You have that scope reversed. That's why multiple organizations have autonomous cars, which have been real world tested, to vario

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