jwdunne

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by jwdunne 10y ago
It's interesting that it seems better engineered projects tend to retain more initial lines of code. Almost no first version code exists in WordPress and that project's codebase truly is hodge bodge, where as Git is considered a b
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Bear in mind this still needs some discipline. Your brain will try really hard to make you go "I control the reward thus I don't need to do the work". For the those with a flabby self-discipline muscle, start small. You won&#
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Being the BDFL of a rapidly growing programming language has its benefits. Even Rasmus Lerdorf has an impressive CV, despite a public attitude of negativity towards programming. If Datomic achieves widespread success with both community and
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Yeah but my point is that it will be pretty hard to produce a replica where you charge thousands per book with just a high resolution PDF alone. You want to see how the book looks in 3D, in real lighting and at different angles. A PDF canno
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by jwdunne 10y ago
With a manuscript that old, you'd need authorisation to look at it so you can see all the worm holes and artifacts.
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Let's not be too harsh. This is a programmer in a place where we have all been before - we must remember this. William has looked back after 2 years learning. He's blown away and is showing those that are slogging it out, 2 years
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by jwdunne 10y ago
I liked that comparison - I've thought about both and never made the link. Perhaps there's a general rule of thumb in there some where: "Any idea designed to improve is doomed to eventually worsen"
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How to start with mathematics (2010)(math.stackexchange.com)
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by jwdunne 10y ago
At least you didn't stall! I am now petrified of using an auto. Takes a long time for my habits to adjust and I'll be slamming on for ages. Drivers round here like to drive with their noses up your arse...
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Very interesting. My Mrs asked me if most in the US drive manual after watching Gilmore Girls. Now we know! In the UK, it's quite different. Most I know drive manual. Only 1 swears by auto. I've only ever driven a manual so it&#x2
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Oh my dad wouldn't stand for that. If something happens, like malware, it would be my fault for making him put some "dodgy coding" in the internet and now every result in Google redirects to Adult Friend Finder and I am oblig
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Matches my use case completely. I haven't built a rails app but learned ruby with a view of doing that but never did (I believe it's important to know the language before the framework - in hindsight, a good decision with Rails sp
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by jwdunne 10y ago
This page gives a good visual: https://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/benchmarks/
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The whole "x is dead" is pretty common headline pattern. It's dramatic, extreme and often just an exaggeration. I can guarantee that MVC is still used on the fronted as on the backend. People are still generating value from M
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by jwdunne 10y ago
High self-esteem is what I was referring to, in essence. High self-esteem is not equal to sound mental health. Psychopaths have high self-esteem. Not every bully is a psychopath. Unwarranted self-esteem leads to problems in life whether it&
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Thinking about it I'm not sure they all do. If that sort of behaviour is validated enough and they come out of school with next to nothing, which is the case for many bullies in the UK, they will definitely get a sharp shock when they
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I was in cubs, I was bullied out of it. Any social club can go both ways.
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by jwdunne 10y ago
But if the necessary info isn't provided, you don't know because, as you say, you can't know. It's semantics. On many exams, "don't know" is a correct answer when you can't know because info is intent
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by jwdunne 10y ago
That's true but what I'm getting at is German housing is significantly cheaper, with good infrastructure. Culture counts too. In the north of the UK, the idea of living in Manchester city centre is awful compared to the idea of li
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by jwdunne 10y ago
That's interesting. The anti-immigration right in the UK hold your immigration system up as the way forward. We have a multicultural society in the UK that many are rejecting, with racial tensions at a high. The difference is that many
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Housing seems to be less of a problem in Germany. I've heard that the majority rent because it's just much cheaper. Another story mentioned there's constant house building, along with the regulation that demands that e.g you
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Those parents are probably in turmoil. Their kids addicted to drugs because of the emotional pain of reality would feel like total failure as a parent. The other thing is heroin withdrawal causes intense physical pain. Heroin is a potent pa
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Richard Wiseman of 59 Seconds face actually has a book called "The Luck Factor". One case study is a woman who wins lots of newspaper contests - the point being that she wins lots because she puts in for lots. Another point is per
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by jwdunne 10y ago
That's an interesting question I've thought a lot about in the past (the rise of the great empires in general, to be honest). My best guess is that they were able to do this thanks to the advancement required to face off the threa
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by jwdunne 10y ago
This is the problem here. User experience is subjective. It's based on who your users actually are. The myth, for example, says people don't read, they scan. In the general case, maybe, but I don't because I search for conten
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It's not about what other languages don't have. It's that they can't have something that Lisps can't have.
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by jwdunne 10y ago
In fairness that's the main point of contention with PHP templates, leading us to 4 big templating languages including PHP itself. It's the same old balance problem: more flexibility and less constraints opens up potentially dange
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Means nothing when he purged all the people who wanted the socialism part. Fascism does not mean much when it comes to spectrum and can be compared to anything as long as the dictator's mood was right. It essence it believed in the str
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Ask HN: What is the most important lesson of your career?
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It depends. FB auth might not be appropriate for B2B and github login wouldn't be appropriate for a non-dev user base. My guess is that you need to think about your users. Who are they? Why are they using your app? Your goal here is to

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