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by jlg23 9y ago
How do you get from deeply nested method calls to "people routinely make mistakes using type systems"?
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by jlg23 9y ago
It is a pretty straight forward way to fix the current practice of setting up companies that hand over their profits to the parent company for $service (licenses, administrative fees, whatever).
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by jlg23 9y ago
This could be due to regulatory requirements on Morocco's side. I regularly fly EUN<->TFS via LPA with Binter: In/out of Laayoune you have to take your assigned seat, within the Canaries they don't care.
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by jlg23 9y ago
> Why is Amazon not actively seeking out patterns of counterfeiters and suggesting this to sellers. Why would any company spend money to decrease their revenue? I have yet to see one company that does not test the boundaries of the legal
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by jlg23 9y ago
First, thanks for your response, it appeared much more straight forward and honest than the press release to me. Sincerely, thank you! I personally was running an instance on FreeBSD and just went with the latest port after a quick glance a
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by jlg23 9y ago
> There's a lot of hubris in assuming their position as a market leader is unassailable. This is only your very free interpretation of the comment you responded to. I personally only encounter slack in companies I freelance for - if
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by jlg23 9y ago
Background: They introduced X-Pack by bundling it with the default distribution as a time-limited trial without explicitly stating that it is just a demo. People who did the update were bitten weeks later when it just stopped working becaus
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by jlg23 9y ago
The author forgot some great features of make: * Parallel execution of build rules comes for free in a lot of implementations. This is really noticeable when you do heavy asset pre-processing. * Cleanly written build rules are re-usable acr
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by jlg23 9y ago
> Make's interface is horrible. Significant tabs. True, one should not edit makefiles with notepad. Proper editors have support for editing them, though. > Syntax which relies on bizarre punctuation... Well documented, though.[1]
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by jlg23 9y ago
> I am not a public figure, who would do such a thing? Some bored script kiddie that found AutoSploit[1] or similar and gets a kick out of the "numbers of hacked hosts". I am not sure that "I was just collateral damage&quo
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by jlg23 9y ago
I agree that a teacher is invaluable, but for training your muscle memory (and sheet reading, if one does not already), apps can be a good-enough substitute: Instant feedback for almost free, visual aids that even a teacher could not provid
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by jlg23 9y ago
> If I set min and max temp on a network-enabled thermostat I am not worried that someone will connect and warm (or cool) my home a bit within that range while I am out. Will you say the same after I set min/max temperatures to opti
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by jlg23 9y ago
Construction workers and architects don't tend to work internationally. If they do, they hire lawyers to sort out legal requirements for them before they even sign a contract.
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by jlg23 9y ago
He might have a point if a simple API-change impacts 170 test cases. This sounds suspiciously like "no functional tests but let's go for 100% coverage with unit tests" - not necessarily the efficient thing to do, from a manag
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by jlg23 9y ago
I have not tried it, but if it works (it should): Chapeau, a very neat exploit indeed.
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by jlg23 9y ago
Too be fair, metaprogramming is just one additional rope. I've seen enough OOP-overabstraction in commercial CL code to waste a few lifetimes with maintenance. Worse, code written by people who understand AMOP and they made full use of
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by jlg23 9y ago
You have the liberty to write anaphoric macros in CL and with it comes the responsibility not to write them by accident.
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by jlg23 9y ago
Works reliably for me since 1997.
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by jlg23 9y ago
Some are working on it: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/openzfs-raid-z-online...
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by jlg23 9y ago
> Just have to balance that cost with our budget. Just to give you an idea of potential savings: Including utilities and fiber optics into my house I pay $500/month (two bedrooms, fully furnished house with giant terrace) - the same
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by jlg23 9y ago
> it seems there are very few businesses catering to us Slow travelers (to avoid the whole "digital nomad" thing) are, in my experience, most welcome, especially in family-run places: We are pretty low maintenance. > Any adv
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by jlg23 9y ago
Where does it concern GitHub's security model? This is a serious question, I am not a GitHub user myself. The only thing I get from the article is "people treat URLs as eternal, even if the site does not provide strong guarantees
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by jlg23 9y ago
What worked for me with volunteers and paid sysops: Monitor changes in a cronjob, mail diffs to every sysop involved. Someone usually spots that only the live fw rules have changed but not the config and after a few (friendly) application
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by jlg23 9y ago
This does not help against attacks that are already being done[1]: Attach grenade to drive, fly over target, release grenade. [1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/news/a2751...
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by jlg23 9y ago
You don't have to. An explosive round that detonates nearby will take a drone down, too. If I remember the details correctly, the Metal Storm[1] weapon system should be able to do just that: Fire explosive rounds set to detonate at a s
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by jlg23 9y ago
I was talking about making it accepted that people, no matter the gender, take time off after birth of a child. If one parent decides to stay at home for years, we are not talking about parental leave anymore. And of course everybody should
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by jlg23 9y ago
The point of having to ~"force fathers to take time off" rings true to me, I'd even go as far as forcing both parents to take some minimum time (and maybe of equal length) off: It would relieve all parents of the pressure to
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by jlg23 9y ago
I'll agree the moment we don't let the same people walk around with loaded guns.
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by jlg23 9y ago
> How are you so comfortable that the idea that information should just be shared willy-nilly? It actually is a feature . The problem is that not every feature is for everyone. When you are working in a security sensitive environment (
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by jlg23 9y ago
The article states: "[They] released him early owing to the time he had already served in prison while awaiting trial."

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