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by jonahx 7y ago
See also: Kubernetes. This is pretty brilliant. Did you just make this up or it a real thing?
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by jonahx 7y ago
Preface: I was also very glad to see this called out specifically, and think it's a great rule. That said... > Note how Google does NOT say "make sure the code is properly architected". is not accurate. The very first p
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by jonahx 7y ago
> Identical copies of my blog went up in several different locations, each with their own copy of ads from the scammers. Tangent but: Does google have any official way to combat this? It seems like an easy enough problem to solve. As th
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by jonahx 7y ago
This anecdote from one of Dijkstra's students made the article for me: > The final was an oral final and after going through a few questions to his satisfaction he said “You seem competent, but your handwriting is horrible…” The rem
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A DevOps Dishwasher(conjur.org)
2 points by jonahx 7y ago|0 comments
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by jonahx 7y ago
This is a well-known UX anti-pattern, discussed in "About Face". Your suggestion is one of the solutions described there: https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/1318
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I don't know if there's need for hysteria, but I think this is a much bigger change than you're making it out to be. It's a different league than artful editing and framing.
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by jonahx 7y ago
Translated into J: w=. 120 row=. [: (' *' {~ ] > 10 %~ >./) [: (1 #. i.@w =/ ]) [: <. w * (* ] * -.@])^:(<200)&0.5 echo (row"0) 2.4 + 1.6r100 * i.101 Live: https://tio.run
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by jonahx 7y ago
“Only short programs have any hope of being correct.” - Arthur Whitney
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by jonahx 7y ago
> Then Slack is about as secure as IRC, which is exactly what it is trying to be, IRC 'but better'. Anything I write on IRC I assume is public. Not so with Slack, where much is written in DMs. The email comparison is more apt.
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by jonahx 7y ago
> addOne =. 1+[ The J authors did (correctly imo) think that it was. It's called ">:". > isPrime =. 1&p: In this case it does not, although I'd argue it's not so much about "isPrime" not bein
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> The motivation for many splitting out a prime-testing function is that primality testing is hard to do efficiently Yes. Also that there are many ways to do it, the details of which you don't necessarily care about. > Nothing i
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by jonahx 7y ago
Because in its current form the subject and verb don't agree.
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by jonahx 7y ago
Use vim-repeat: https://github.com/tpope/vim-repeat
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by jonahx 7y ago
I call it "the IRC smugness pit". The asker knows that providing the full A-X context would be an utter waste of time, and really does want an answer to Y only. Certain IRC regs will flat out refuse to answer Y. Often this is bec
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by jonahx 7y ago
Linus on rebase: https://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net...
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by jonahx 7y ago
> Is writing docs really that different a skill from writing readable code? It is correlated (though probably not perfectly) with writing readable code. But that is a different skill from writing useful, correct software. That is,
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> Hardly anyone wants to write documentation that isn’t paid to do so. There’s no glory in it. There actually is glory in it. Many (granted, not all) popular, celebrated open source projects got that way by having a great user experienc
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by jonahx 7y ago
> Sure, it's a long-term behavioral trait that typically doesn't change ; but I wouldn't call that a part of who somebody is This seems like an excellent definition of "who somebody is" > any more than (say
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by jonahx 7y ago
> This is a satire article, where I use humor, irony, and exaggeration to invite reflection. Except good satire uses exaggeration to lampoon things that are (at least partially) true in reality . Whereas for half the examples here my re
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by jonahx 8y ago
The quoted aphorisms, in my personal experience, aren't used for the reasons being imputed. It feels like forced satire. For example: > "Content is king" - A pretty strong argument to convince everyone to push the deadlin
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by jonahx 8y ago
> might be a great explanation for the developer who wrote Graphiti but doesn't ease me as a first time visitor to the site into a comfortable understanding of whether Graphiti will solve my problem https://en.wikipedia.o
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by jonahx 8y ago
> though with a more coherent premise. I much prefer the XKCD version, which expresses the core idea more succinctly. The quanta version is like reading verbose code that misses the essence of a problem.
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by jonahx 8y ago
First: The legitimate rights of a free press, and an absolute stand against censorship. Then: The rights of the content creators to make a living. Not the other way around.
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All of the languages you mentioned are watered-down and inferior versions of the programming models invented by APL and J. By that I don't mean that APL/J are unilaterally better -- there are plenty of practical reasons to choose
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by jonahx 8y ago
I'm not so sure this is true. Yes, being "on" takes energy, but it's counterbalanced by the buzz of productivity and working at your peak. I'd expect to be more tired at the end of day, but also to feel more accompl
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by jonahx 8y ago
It means it's everything but the kitchen sink: heavyweight, difficult to learn and use, and full of features you don't need. It has nothing to do with popularity being bad. In general that's good a thing, because support is
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by jonahx 8y ago
Here are two of the most popular books on Rails on Amazon, along with their page counts: "The Rails 5 Way" (1088 pages) "Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rail" (816 pages) Rails is enterprise.
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Running a Kanban Standup Meeting(blog.conjur.org)
3 points by jonahx 8y ago|0 comments
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Allow me to direct your attention to one of the internet's hidden gems: https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow... Beyond that, these metaphors have gotten too out of hand to have

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