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by jevgeni 6y ago
IMO Rust's cognitive cost is paid upfront. Other popular languages shove that cognitive cost as technical debt into the future. An example from a while back: needing to rewrite your whole original Ruby code base in Scala. Or having to
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by jevgeni 6y ago
HN comments are just Reddit comments with a thin veneer of objectivity. So mostly just a group think of patting each other on the back, if your opinion conforms. Europe did a lot of things that seemed unsexy, but habe proven to be good in t
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by jevgeni 6y ago
But the article itself is factual.
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by jevgeni 6y ago
Will this update unbrick my iMac that 10.15.1 bricked?
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by jevgeni 6y ago
This is just a hack to the problem that most people can’t write and don’t know how to write something that’s valuable to the reader. Just put some thought and care into the comments.
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by jevgeni 6y ago
Sub prime loans are the only thing out of that list where the public was scammed. Everything else you listed are internal banking things.
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by jevgeni 7y ago
I wouldn’t call it configuration. And usually these things are implemented with way more forethought.
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by jevgeni 7y ago
Personally, I group these use cases under "infrastructure provisioning". The use case here is completely different - for example, you won't have a non-developer modifying the configs. So in this case, automation is a good ide
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by jevgeni 7y ago
Just because Django is popular, doesn't mean that companies using it know what they are doing, or have weighed all pros and cons. I've seen some outright tragic Django setups with major companies.
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by jevgeni 7y ago
I mean the "rc" in those names stands for "run command". To me they are initialization scripts. Also, Bash is a scripting environment (sort of), and VimL is a solid part of vim. These are scenarios, where you don'
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by jevgeni 7y ago
Glad it works for them. For me and my team it doesn't.
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by jevgeni 7y ago
If somebody hands over an application to me where configs have unit tests, this means to me that the application can fail catastrophically under certain (unwanted) configurations. And seeing how I might be the owner of said applications, ch
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by jevgeni 7y ago
I agree, that YAML is usually a mistake. In your scenario, it's more like provisioning of infrastructure and in that case - configuration is the code, so I can see where you are coming from. I mostly write financial software so the u
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by jevgeni 7y ago
That seems like an acceptable solution to this. I'd still prefer not to be in a situation, where configuration is so complex and dynamic, that I need config generation, but if one does land in such a situation, I think this is the most
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by jevgeni 7y ago
Proof, no. But ensuring it in terms of manual labour is far easier with a static file, than debugging a convoluted script pretending to be a config file.
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by jevgeni 7y ago
We might have different target audiences of our work, but in my line configs should not require tests. Because their task is to adjust the functioning of an application. If they all of a sudden require tests, that means (at least to me) tha
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by jevgeni 7y ago
I cannot imagine how handing over a code base with configs that themselves require testing can be smooth.
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by jevgeni 7y ago
I agree with you. The idea of programmable config languages is really , really misguided. Whenever somebody wants to use something like that, it's a sign for me that they haven't thought out their design properly and are conten
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by jevgeni 7y ago
Under no circumstance would I allow my projects to be configured by a full-blown programming language. There is no way to ensure that there are no regressions under different configurations. The amount of complexity introduced just for con
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by jevgeni 7y ago
I mean, the footer just screams "This blog is the next Zero Hedge": > Unlike our adversaries including the Integrity Initiative, the 77th Brigade, Bellingcat, the Atlantic Council and hundreds of other warmongering propaganda o
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by jevgeni 7y ago
The range exclusive operator is the most friendly, I think.
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by jevgeni 7y ago
Please, please, please, a pipe forward operator. <3
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by jevgeni 7y ago
The commitment to FUD and aversion to googling stuff was impressive, I have to admit.
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by jevgeni 7y ago
Settings > Personalization > Start and set the “Occasionally show suggestions in Start” setting to “Off”
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by jevgeni 7y ago
It sends the keys you type in Cortana search, AFAIK. Thinking it logs all your keys is another kind of tinfoil hat crazy.
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by jevgeni 7y ago
Well, as far as I remember, the suggestions in the start menu for me were implemented as .LNK files. Although I might be mistaken there, since I've encountered those years ago and never since. Obviously, in contrast to your experience,
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by jevgeni 7y ago
You are deliberately conflating ads and suggestions. I don't see them and haven't seen them the 3 years I have my Surface Book with Windows Pro. Honestly, I don't remember what I did: either deleted the shortcuts or turned so
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by jevgeni 7y ago
> How exactly did you reach the conclusion that "my actions don't really correspond to my words" based on how HN collectively treats Android? What actions are you talking about specifically? Using Android? I don't. I
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by jevgeni 7y ago
Just like the "fallacy fallacy" is also a fallacy. That's not the point I'm debating. Whether I'm OK with product design choices of Microsoft is my own consumer decision. But what really is getting old, is the u
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by jevgeni 7y ago
This is very little to do with privacy matters if you look at the comments here.

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