kedean

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by kedean 10y ago
I'd say the clear answer is that we can't boil down entire world movements to a single factor.
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by kedean 10y ago
You can't invoke civil disobedience when a commerce is happening, because civil disobedience is a symbolic act, meant to draw attention. As soon as somebody is making money doing it, it's just breaking the law.
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by kedean 10y ago
You misread my point. I wasn't complaining about the strictness, I was stating that it was the reason nobody willingly writes XML or XHTML by hand. The problem with strictness is that the world is lazy, and HTML is meant for a much wid
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by kedean 10y ago
The problem doing that with technical writing is that your audience isn't going to be judging you on your writing skills, they'll be judging you on the technical content. OP isn't worried about their technical content, they&#
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by kedean 10y ago
Structuring is great, I agree. I meant specifically that the web community's attempt at applying XML principles to HTML was a failure. I believe that the reason is simply that it was structured in the wrong way. It focused more on how
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by kedean 10y ago
XML is parallel to HTML, not a generalization. Valid HTML is not a subset of XML. We tried making HTML a subset of XML, with XHTML, and it was probably the biggest language standardization failure of all time. XML's only good applicati
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by kedean 10y ago
Those people are essentially asking for someone to facilitate the transaction for them. We already have that, in the form of online auctionhouses like eBay and open market storefronts like Amazon. Want to buy a used tv without interacting w
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by kedean 10y ago
Honestly, I think overuse has become it's own problem. Design patterns are not a suggestion, you shouldn't strive to use them. Devs shouldn't start a project and think 'what design patterns will I use here'. They ex
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by kedean 10y ago
I'm not on dial-up right now, but I have almost been in situation where I would be. Most of rural america relies on dialup, satellite internet, or maybe microwave based connections with speeds comparable to 2002 DSL. If you don't
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by kedean 10y ago
I still maintain that MooTools was the superior system over jQuery. jQuery won the war, in the end, because it catered to the 'get it up and running now' crowd over the 'do it right' crowd. It was always easier to unders
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by kedean 10y ago
Postgres has been analyzed, I'm not sure why it's not on that list. https://aphyr.com/posts/282-call-me-maybe-postgres
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by kedean 10y ago
He acknowledged that this may not be spotify's fault. Where the blame lies is completely orthogonal to whether or not it makes him not want to use the service.
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by kedean 10y ago
How do we know facebook doesn't serve up tracking scripts from other domains?
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by kedean 10y ago
As much as people say they hate how much social networks track them, it's really the thing that makes them work so well. The more info Facebook has on you, the better it can work for you. A privacy-oriented social network isn't so
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by kedean 10y ago
I don't use it because it requires that I switch back. My wife won't be bothered to deal with learning the people-switcher (there's no reason she should, it's really her laptop in question), so using incognito means that
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by kedean 10y ago
There's nothing wrong with features that give you access to the wider operating system. Like it or not, the modern operating system is more than just terminals and CLI tools, and there's no reason to be condescending to those who
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by kedean 10y ago
It certainly could hurt. Most lead developers don't respond well to their codebase being refactored by someone more junior without prior discussion. I kind of agree with the sentiment, because all that refactoring has to be reviewed be
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by kedean 10y ago
I got used to the syntax pretty fast, to the point that I actually kind of like it. My complaint about streams is how slow they can be. If you're doing collection transformations often, the time spent turning your objects into streams
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by kedean 10y ago
Pre-made? If you're making your own coffee, using relatively cheap coffee, I'd calculate to about 11 cents per cup. ~$5 for a cheap rolly bag, those usually last me about 2 weeks at ~3 cups per day. Even if my estimates are terrib
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by kedean 10y ago
It should not be used for security purposes when security purposes is defined as components that maintain the security at runtime. It is valuable as a testing tool, but only against a completely finished system.
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by kedean 10y ago
Yup. I am remote, in the midwest. My coworkers on the coast are able to work from home every so often, or on certain days of the week, while I am just expected to fly out a few times a year to sync up and socialize. I would say WFH is absol
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by kedean 10y ago
That only looks at one side of the picture. Sound privacy is partially inbound, yes, and that can be solved with quality headphones. It's also outbound, though. If I'm on a conference call, I'd really rather not have to worry
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by kedean 10y ago
Yeah, it's only been getting more and more popular as people realize it actually fills a real communications niche, and isn't just for sending dirty pictures.
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by kedean 10y ago
Was*, GrooveShark shut down in 2015.
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by kedean 10y ago
I think the modern consensus is that reasonable rate-limiting is a superior option. It doesn't allow for DOS, but still prevents brute-forcing attack. You can even set things up such that too many attempts triggers a notification that
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by kedean 10y ago
Even for id's, we need to be careful. They can't be the end-all solution, because they aren't permanent (I know people who have accidentally lost their thumbprints through burning, for instance). Phones today get around that
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by kedean 10y ago
Yup. I contracted with a company remotely, and built up a very good reputation with them. When I was eventually offered a full time position, I was able to mandate no relocation. The existing relationships and trust were what made that poss
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by kedean 10y ago
Finding dumb tv's is surprisingly hard, now. Since I really wanted a 43" (exact right fit for the space), I settled for one of Sharp's Roku-based tv's. I'm pretty happy with it, because at least Roku's entire b
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by kedean 10y ago
I promise they're still used by hand all the time, usually as a form of supplying data to a program in cases where a database is just too much. CSV is still a very common base for data-driven unit tests.
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by kedean 10y ago
That's suggested often, and the obvious rebuttal is that CSV is intended to be easily edited and relatively human-friendly. The unit/record characters are not on most(all?) keyboards, so editing the file in a text editor becomes p

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