jugg1es

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   by jugg1es 6y ago

   holy crap amazing. Why doesn't news editorialize like this anymore like this reporter did at the end? Simple, obvious, and stated fairly. You don't always need to talk to the guy who thought the whale hailstorm was still a good
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   by jugg1es 6y ago

   I think there is a big difference between the the amount of code versus the number of decisions a piece of code has to make. When I think of 'code minimalism', I think of it along the lines of reducing the number of decisions mad
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   by jugg1es 6y ago

   I love building desktop applications but they come with their own set of complications related to installation and DLL-hell.
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   by jugg1es 6y ago

   DON'T PANIC
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   by jugg1es 6y ago

   That is exactly what got me into computers in the first place - real time conversations with people across the world on AOL. Blew my little mind.
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   by jugg1es 6y ago

   I used this to animate a relative of mine that we had just discovered in court documents (from a mugshot from 1926) and blew my family's collective mind. I had to keep reminding them that this wasn't real - this is an AI-driven f
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   by jugg1es 6y ago

   I did not know that! That explains a lot!
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   by jugg1es 6y ago

   yea but it would be cool if you could include comments, wouldn't it?
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   by jugg1es 6y ago

   The NYT graphics team kills it every time.
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    I love this post. I can't tell you how many times I've started trying to use d3 and gave up after a couple hours because "all I wanted was a bar graph" (at least 3). Learning it is still on my bucket list because it is
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    Why can't these no-brainer features just be added to browsers without a new standard!!
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    I mean, if you want to make something useful - you can't go wrong by adding drawers to it.
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    So the space laser crashed because the same command was accidentally used for both opening the solar panels and discarding the side module covers?
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    I feel like I remember hearing this as an undergrad neurobiology major 15 years ago. Is this even new?
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    Not sure what your point is. There is still a brand called GitHub. It's the same reason people call it YouTube instead of Google.
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    I would support github creating a different entity that could act like an app store, but I do not think that github.com is best served by pivoting to anything other than what it does right now.
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    What if the problem with free speech on the internet is not technological but rather anonymity? In the Ender's Game sequels, they have two different networks. One that is anonymous and a wild west and another that is only accessible
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    I've definitely had to push back on engineers wanting to use Redis for caching data they just pulled from the database. "Just store it in RAM guys..."
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    I can't think of a worse decision than trying to use DynamoDB just for the sake of using it.
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    There are lots of languages that prevent this.
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    Until cloud computing became ubiquitous, there would be a lot of programmers complaining about the extra overhead in a native application. Messaging also requires a system to publish, serve and persist messages.
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    I think there is a big difference between building something totally new versus a modification to an existing system. If you are building something totally new, I do not think there is much value in estimates with granularity lower than a
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    Upvoting for great title.
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    Interesting! Networking is what really caught my attention as a young teenager. My personal epiphany moment early on was chatting on an AOL chatroom with someone in Japan when I was 10 and realizing what computers could actually do
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    I also started programming using my calculator. I would write programs that fed me equations I needed to memorize via a menu system but by the time I programmed it, I had already memorized it and never needed to use it.
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    Microsoft Access is a database aimed at non-programmers. I'm not really sure why you would care if it's cloud-based or not if you aren't a programmer though. You could have Access save your database file to One Drive or som
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    Yea, we had a queue backlog of 3 million (that were bound by an SLA) by the time I figured out what was going on.
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    I only figured out what was happening by trial and error while trying to fix the production issue where I was moving 1000 messages at a time into a 2nd queue. Once I had dequeued 20k, everything starting pumping like normal. That's wh
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    Ooh boy. Undocumented limitations caused major problems with us with AWS SQS. It is now in the documentation (maybe because I complained to our AWS rep), but SQS has pool of 20k messages that it will pull from when serving requests. If yo
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    by jugg1es 6y ago

    I guess this means that M$ is no longer a valid criticism.