justinmeiners

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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Don't you think docker, dependencies, unit test frameworks, etc actually increase the need for ongoing maintenance as opposed to spitting out some C files or python scripts which last "forever"?
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Unit testing, readability version control, documentation, etc are all engineering practices for the purpose of making ongoing development organized (especially for teams). Why would a researcher need to do this, when in most cases all that
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
> it has no utility. You can send money anywhere in the world in any amount for a flat fee. It provides an asset with a fixed supply to prevent against inflation. these provide plenty of utility What you may mean is that it doesn't
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Different parts of the community have different background knowledge.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
It's NPM that's the problem, not node.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Those with a lot of assets tend to be able to find yields to offset inflation. Stocks and real estate tend to adjust with inflation regardless of yield. Inflation mostly encourages lower/middle class people to consume every dollar ins
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
What things does it do besides update the schema, or run a custom python script?
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
For larger loads and computational complexity dotnet core is going to perform better and be safer. For simpler sites Laravel vs Django probably just comes down to which ecosystem you are most familiar with.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Any evidence to back up the quote?
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
How so?
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Sure, I guess that is a wrong assumption on my part. Perhaps a better way to word it, is: two factor auth only seems to protect you if all the other parts of site authentication are solid, which rarely seems to be true.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
> multi-factor authentication enabled It sure seems like multi-factor auth isn't very helpful, when nearly all hacks have nothing to do with breaking credentials.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
> current corporate dogma is to not host anything Do you mean that they prefer using managed services? Or do you mean that the services managed by their internal IT utlize AWS/etc for servers as opposed to on premises.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
CS education typically includes OS theory, computer architecture, and compiler theory, all of which are directly relevant to the kernel. You may be right that EE is perhaps a better fit for this kind of interest.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Memory safety is not an absolute good which overrides all other things, like performance, portability, compilation, process, compile time etc. It is a problem that is well understood and the kernel developers have a lot of experience and to
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
I don't think that's what's being requested. It's ok if resources are dumped and left "as is". We just need more than we are getting, and it's not like they don't have that, it's just not as expe
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Ah thank you. Not noticing a major imbalance.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Does the data say that? Or is this just a visual effect (certain colors are more prominent, subdivisions are larger in the south and west)
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
I think the author of that comment was saying a paper alone is typically not sufficient. A researcher should summarize their work in a written paper AND provide resources, code, media, etc.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
You pay a larger percentage of income tax your entire life for this "free" benefit. You could argue the costs and outcomes are better, but it's not free. In addition Harvard is a private institution and not a government schoo
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
All standard libraries get conveniences such as these built upon them. That is not the role of a standard lib, which is to provide a basic level of OS compatibly and some commonly useful data structures and utilities. The cost of standardiz
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
The node.js standard library is quite extensive, including networking, cryptography, OS access, etc. What more do you want from a standard lib?
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
If it is non-GUI I also recommend Objfw
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
> where people followed the same patterns so consistently so true. This is one ecosystem where you could actually just include another persons code as if it was yours, and get a great understanding of how to use it from a header.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
I understand and agree with basically all of that. All I'm saying is that in the old model there was a more urgent incentive for them to add great stuff. In certain circumstances this benefited consumers. There were plenty of companie
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Maximizing total number of goods is not the same as maximizing goods per dollar spent. You want 1 smart car, and you want to pay as little for it as they will let you.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
> fundamental principle of a corporation is to give you the LEAST possible service for the highest possible price. And as a consumer you want to get as many goods as possible for as little price as possible.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
> Historical Adobe releases were years apart Because they were new versions and they had to sell you on the upgrade. Presumably one of the advantages of subscriptions is they can make ongoing improvements regularly as opposed to big rele
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
> I don't know why you think it hurts R&D Because before they had to make the product a lot better to sell you on an upgrade. > The alternative is a dead company. Were software companies dead before 2013? Of course, it is leg
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
> Populism has always, from day one, all the way back in Ancient Greece, been a threat to democracy. In Plato's republic democracy is a result of populism and is seen as one of the lowest forms of government.

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