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by jsprinkles 14y ago
> I was personally not cut out to do scut work. I had zero interest and respect for maintenance, unit tests, requirements & specs, UML modelling, refactoring, waterfall method, agile, kanban... The world in which this is "scut work"
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
Probably because the vast majority of the "programming" field as it stands today barely exercises computer science knowledge. Linked list optimizations, heaps, that stuff isn't even on the radar of most devs hacking on a startup, frankly, b
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
Yours.
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
Elder has different meanings in different denominations, and isn't unique to Protestants (it is, however, mostly Christian). Specifically, in the Mormon church, it's quite different.
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
I'm not sure how you expect the discussion to be accurate or informative without details that the article you summarized happily goes into. We already see confusion about where it's rolled out because we're reading you, not Twitter Engineer
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
This entry doesn't get into details because it's blog spam, submitted by the blogger himself. You want this: http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/05/improving-performance...
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
Next, tell us why goto is bad.
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
I can't imagine a scenario, throughout history or today, in which debugging would be unnecessary. It's wisdom to realize that, and more wisdom to realize that "debugging" is a nebulous term here that people are nailing down in different way
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
I debug because I'm smart, and I enjoy it, and I frequently find bugs that I didn't know existed by seeing inside a frame as it's executing. Debugging is a crucial skill in many fields, particularly embedded work (which is the irony in yo
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
Assuming these people did add UAV monitoring (a leap), and assuming a UAV was dispatched to every report of gunfire (another leap), it doesn't matter if the assailants shoot it down because they already know where the gunshot was and, wit
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
Excellent! They are credible. Why? Because you said so? That is good information, but just hearing your reasoning would make your comment a lot more credible itself without your reputation, which many people aren't familiar with. Other peop
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
That wasn't the gist of my comment, but okay. I'm disappointed that you feel the rest of my comment wasn't worth your time, and you chose to attach to a throwaway hypothetical. Alas, it was worth a shot.
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
I'm respectful of your qualifications, but annoyed when you use your credentials without qualification. A paranoid man might assume your comments are strategically placed to benefit parties you're aligned with, based on how little context t
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
Fair. I agree with that.
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
It is lame-o, and you can say that to his face. It's this comment[1] and other distilled thoughts from the thread, essentially, in blog post form and resubmitted to HN. "Accomplished" just became "determined". PageRank at work, here, folks.
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
Frankly, I have no idea who he is, and I tend to respect opinions more if they're based in real experiences rather than observation (not to say I don't respect well-argued opinions from observation, it's just relative). It's a mystery to di
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
That's possible today with just <img> <a>, so I'm not sure how this script makes that particular vector easier. It's just cool.
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
That wasn't the point that I was responding to (which is that it's difficult to move money around in traditional banks), but since you brought it up: > The fees are dramatically cheaper (domestic wire transfers are at least $10, interna
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
Why must there be a winner?
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
Werkzeug must support Python 3 before Flask can, and Armin has discussed Python 3 support here on HN before (and there's now a FAQ about it).
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
> But try transferring dollars electronically, or even just from one of your own accounts to another in a different bank. In my Wells Fargo account, I can transfer to another bank's account in three clicks and about two minutes. All I h
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
I'm not following. You're saying that Bitcoin's discovery is equivalent to the discovery of a new field of mathematics?
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
That part of my comment was specifically designed to annoy folks like you, because you really need to have a hard look at the safety of the currency that you love. The only people that are going to get upset about that are the zealots, and
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
A relevant one, for starters.
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
Which is why my comment has said, from the beginning, "as it stands today". Those interested in Bitcoin should seriously learn from those very mistakes that you're discussing, rather than re-learning them all over again.
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
Care to refute it in any way, or are you just going to post pointless noise?
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
"Innovate quickly and break things" is a strategy for social networks and games, not financial platforms nor life support systems. I hate that on one hand, we have people saying "Bitcoin is a totally real currency" and accepting payments, a
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
I claimed his incendiary language has no place on HN, as one of the guidelines is to be civil. I did not claim his post has no place on HN. It's also just good manners to not flame someone to death for attacking something you hold dear. Be
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
More like a bank designed with an overly weak vault, because nobody at the bank spent a lot of time designing a very secure vault.
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by jsprinkles 14y ago
By "Bitcoin stuff", I mean the secondary markets that have arisen around it. That was probably a poor choice of phrase, and I'll update accordingly. I agree that Bitcoin itself is probably cryptographically strong and mostly well-designed.

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