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by joncp 7y ago
That's just a scale issue. The Space Shuttle only flew 135 times, so those one-in-a-million corner cases never really had a chance to happen. If it were to fly millions of missions like the 737 fleet has, then bugs would surface for su
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by joncp 7y ago
Remember when you didn't have to wade through that awful carousel view to find what you wanted to watch? Or when they didn't try to hide your "continue watching" list in a steaming heap of inaccurate recommendations? Exc
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by joncp 7y ago
I spent a few months one summer just reading and perfecting my gin and tonic recipe. Nobody gave a rat's patootie.
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by joncp 7y ago
This makes me miss my HP 28S calculator from the 80s. What a beautiful machine that was.
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by joncp 7y ago
If you could theoretically uninstall something without bricking the phone but you're blocked from uninstalling it, then it's bloatware.
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by joncp 7y ago
Perhaps a better metaphor would be a startup entrepreneur that takes VC and then folds the company when he doesn't like it anymore. He'd be in pretty hot water for a stunt like that.
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by joncp 7y ago
> I know I shouldn't have any expectation of privacy in public and all that, but CCTV cameras in plain view are a different matter. Perhaps we need to define a new right: the right to obscurity. There are places and times when you c
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by joncp 7y ago
> use mouse Noooooo! Not that! Please not that!
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by joncp 7y ago
Well, goodreads is owned by Amazon. I'm not at all surprised that their lackadaisical attitude toward abuse cuts across the whole business.
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by joncp 7y ago
Putting Upstate into one bucket is going to be problematic no matter what label you give it. The southern tier is definitely Appalachia, the eastern side is Yankeedom, and WNY is heartland.
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by joncp 7y ago
He mentions keeping a knowledge base up to date. That's a great idea, but I've never found good low-friction methods/tools for getting knowledge from peoples' heads into a knowledge base. Any suggestions?
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by joncp 7y ago
> Anyone who says otherwise has no idea what their talking about. ... but I bet they can spell they're.
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by joncp 7y ago
Never ever wire money without second-channel verification of the destination account. You can lose all of it with no recourse.
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by joncp 7y ago
Backpedaling due to bad PR does not reestablish trust. Gitlab has demonstrated that they're willing to breach trust if they can get away with it. They're dead to me.
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by joncp 7y ago
Typing passcodes? Taking a long lunch? A ton of things come to mind.
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by joncp 7y ago
I've gotten to where I see loops as a code smell. That includes thinly-veiled loops like ruby's Enumerable#each.
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by joncp 7y ago
> do away with "applications". opting instead for a smaller unit of executable This sounds a lot like Android's "activities" concept which doesn't get enough love, in my opinion.
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by joncp 7y ago
How do you protect yourself from someone that somehow rolled a 30 for charisma and also has no scruples? Calling people idiots when they've fallen under the spell of such a person isn't helpful. What would be helpful is this: sugg
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by joncp 7y ago
You know, if a resume came my way that was in comic sans I’d definitely read it, thinking “here’s a wiseass who’s confident in their abilities. I’d probably like working with them.”
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by joncp 7y ago
Sadly, not as long as human brains are made of meat.
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by joncp 7y ago
This as well as the recent imaging of the M87 black hole are both phenomenal feats of signal processing. Is this the new normal for astronomy?
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by joncp 7y ago
It harkens back to when they stomped on the original go language with thoughtless naming
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by joncp 7y ago
Perhaps another way to word it is: "Adding a boolean parameter is a strong indication that you're about to cross the single-responsibility threshold. Try to think of different ways to structure the code in which the bool isn'
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by joncp 7y ago
Well, that and the fact that those two countries are dense, flat, and have decent cycling weather.
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by joncp 7y ago
They do have a concise conclusion. I usually scroll to the bottom for the conclusion anyway.
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by joncp 7y ago
You could set up a fob-mixer party with your neighbors. If everyone gets together and swaps fobs every once in a while it would make it really hard for the landlord to track any one person.
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by joncp 7y ago
CNet lost their javascript privileges on my machine a long time ago. This extension is a godsend: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-javas...
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by joncp 7y ago
They already require you to affix a sticker inside the window in many places. That's the same thing.
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by joncp 8y ago
Everyone wants socialist benefits for themselves and free-market benefits for everyone else.
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by joncp 8y ago
> The problem with this is that the stakeholder might not understand what simple means. It happens here all the time. "Do the simplest thing" means don't overengineer, not necessarily that the feature won't be complex

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