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by kedean 10y ago
Who's to say that it should fall back to CSV instead of giving an error? What if it was actually a malformed SYLK file where further headers were mangled in transmission? I do think it should be giving back a more descriptive error tho
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by kedean 10y ago
I think he meant unless he was being paid by someone else. As in, he would avoid a google API unless some sort of client or employer was paying him to use it.
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by kedean 10y ago
If by 'outside world' you mean legacy systems, then ok, that's valid, but there's not really any reason that idea couldn't be portable across systems, as long as they support common encodings. I fail to see how a ri
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by kedean 10y ago
Yeah, the proper way to be doing that is via a middleware api that can be maintained and versioned by it's own team, rather than coupling all these applications to a very specific database. If you have 4 apps talking to the same oracle
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by kedean 10y ago
I'd say it's the exact same problem. The structural engineers are looking at these pre-designed components as black boxes, not bothering to understand why they were designed the way they were, what they do internally. A huge porti
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by kedean 10y ago
Well...yeah...that's kind of the whole basis of 'requirements elicitation', to understand what your client is trying to accomplish on such a level that they don't need to give you a list of tasks, you create the tasks th
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by kedean 10y ago
If you require students to spend X years working in Y, then it's not a subsidy anymore, it sounds a lot more like a scholarship. What you're suggesting would have to somehow be structured to let students choose not to accept the a
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by kedean 10y ago
The term 'proxy lawsuit' is completely valid. It means he's bankrolling a lawsuit someone else is pursuing in absence of the ability to sue for what he really wants to. The EFF, ACLU, and NRDC bankroll lawsuits because they a
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by kedean 10y ago
That's not always true, of course. NoSQL databases can usually handle 1st level relationships just fine. The problem arises when the related item needs to be it's own entity. For example, if you have a table of users who have perm
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by kedean 10y ago
I'd imagine the simplest answer would be "because Tolkien said so".
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by kedean 10y ago
I've never heard someone call electron apps 'very performant'. If anything, they're "kinda performant". Even "sorta". In fact, that's the biggest complaint, that the performance flat out sucks.
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by kedean 10y ago
And if they don't use Gmail enterprise, they probably use Office 365.
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by kedean 10y ago
Why wouldn't they just use MongoDB? It's already web-scale.
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by kedean 10y ago
Yup, I went through this book about a year ago to make a rudimentary kernel. It was great for learning purposes, but it stops right about where things get interesting (drivers of any kind). I ended up at the OSDev wiki for a lot of further
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by kedean 10y ago
SleepCycle is accelerometer based, actually. You put the phone next to you or under your pillow, and it tracks your motion based on vibrations in the bed. I believe the app tells you flat out that it won't work on memory foam beds.
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by kedean 10y ago
It is, but that's not what Thiel is trying to do. He is backing an unrelated lawsuit in an effort to squash them. The action that he had a problem with, them outing him, is in no way illegal, so he got into a proxy war against them. Th
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by kedean 10y ago
It's two extremes of the same problem. Perl code generally doesn't abstract enough, while Java code often abstracts too much. I recently was tasked with porting a legacy perl system to Java. The main pl file of the legacy code was
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by kedean 10y ago
That's because of the implementation details of C#. If I make a const pointer in C, it's obviously not a compile-time value, because the memory location can't be guaranteed at compile time. Const values in C are definitely ab
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by kedean 10y ago
I'd argue that you are conflating implementation with semantics. The semantic meaning of const is 'this value will not change from here on out'. The C# compiler implements this by doing a substitution, but that is not mandate
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by kedean 10y ago
They cover that pretty well in the article, closer to the end.
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by kedean 10y ago
The problem with Electron isn't just the fact that it's browser based. It's that it's a different browser. If I run slack, spotify, atom, and an actual browser all at once, my computer is going to slow to a halt. What el
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by kedean 10y ago
In all fairness, that's still a lowered barrier. The barrier is the sum of all parts, if desktop gui dev is easy for systems programmers and really hard for web devs, and this project makes it easy for web devs, then it has objectively
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by kedean 10y ago
"It takes less time to check a food label than it does to respond to a text message or check Facebook" That's a pretty ridiculous counter. Multiply that by the dozens to hundreds of items a person buys in a single grocery tri
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by kedean 11y ago
It's not a plugin, it's built into chrome. His joke was about a plugin that enables it permanently for certain people.
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by kedean 11y ago
Unfortunately I never published it, and the hard drive with it is long gone. It shouldn't be difficult to replicate though, they still put that metadata in the DOM so that they can put the little boxes around faces.
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by kedean 11y ago
Hah. Similarly, I made a Firefox extension back in the day that replaced people's faces in photos with this face: http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/borderlands/images/5/59/... My implementation wa
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by kedean 11y ago
Pandora is probably my best mode of music discovery these days, above Spotify and social suggestions. If you actively seek out more from the newer artists it suggests, you'll get good results. If you go there with a genre in mind where
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by kedean 11y ago
Python has been a common teaching language for at least a decade now, it's just that this particular course has now switched to it as well. Still took 15 years for it to get that momentum, though. You won't see a CS course taught
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by kedean 11y ago
Uhoh, that means somebody is MITM-ing you. They've observed your qubits in transit and broken quantum entanglement. Now the BaaS server can't store them.
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by kedean 11y ago
Strangely, "bring the issue to the table" means the opposite.

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