kidmenot

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by kidmenot 10y ago
As a non-native speaker myself (Italian), I too often notice what seem to be patterns in other non-native speaker's English writing that seem to be typical of some larger geographical area (eastern Europe, northern Asia, southern Asia)
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by kidmenot 10y ago
Same here. If all projects were like NSubstitute and Dapper I would be much, much happier.
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by kidmenot 10y ago
Great answer, I feel the same way. Let's not forget the documentation, way too abstract. Probably the result of an overengineered framework. Sadly I'm stuck having to deal with it, and I can honestly say I hate it and it makes me
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by kidmenot 10y ago
> I do. That's probably why I won't be running an effective business any time soon. Being nice and not fucking people over doesn't get you far in highly competitive markets. > lying to people to make them buy your st
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by kidmenot 10y ago
14 levels of indentation across 811 lines. Wow indeed. I refactor as soon as my code gets past 3 levels, I don't know how one is supposed to readily understand this block of code. The lack of comments isn't what troubles me. Comme
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by kidmenot 10y ago
True that :) Yes, dialects change even from my hometown to the next, which is at about 30 km. They have a similar but different word for "Thursday", for instance. Not to mention the change in accents within the same province. This
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by kidmenot 10y ago
I'm not affiliated in any way to this project, but there's no need to be a dick about a poor result you got, mostly because you are clearly showing that you didn't read the instructions given on that same page at all.
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by kidmenot 10y ago
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cazzo Look for "Puglia". Looks like what I said is true for Taranto, but my ex girlfriend was from Brindisi and she was the one who told me about this. Might depend on whether yo
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by kidmenot 10y ago
To complicate the matter, if you ever find yourself in the Italian region of Apulia (and possibly other southern regions), you should say "focaccia" even though you really mean "pizza", because "pizza" stands f
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by kidmenot 10y ago
This is not a case of "good for you", it's just that I find it sad that locals of a developed country have to choose to drink bottled water over tap water because the latter could harm their health. That being said, for tra
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by kidmenot 10y ago
> is tap water safe to drink? As someone who lives across the pond, it never ceases to amaze me that this question needs to be asked at all. Is tap water safe to drink? I wouldn't take "no" as an answer unless I'm in
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by kidmenot 10y ago
> people tend to talk about solutions and not the problems Hard to make this any clearer. To expand a bit on this, most of the times the solutions they talk about are of course expressed in terms of what they already know, which makes co
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by kidmenot 10y ago
> People want to give Microsoft money, but Microsoft is intent on making the entire thing as painful as possible and their licensing as obtuse as possible. This. I don't know if this is still the case, but a few years ago I bought a
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by kidmenot 10y ago
That's a great analogy, I'm totally with you on this one. ORMs are painful, I only use solutions which help me reducing the amount of boilerplate code to map data to domain objects (Dapper being a great example in .NET land), but
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by kidmenot 10y ago
True but, all the same, drunk/stoned people equipped with phones are very dangerous for your privacy. They are actually dangerous whether they are drunk or sober, especially if they are clueless about Facebook's privacy settings.
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by kidmenot 10y ago
And, if I may: what does 7% happier, 20% increase in life satisfaction exactly mean anyway? My 5% might be or feel very different than someone else's. See, I have a hard time with all this self-help stuff. What's so difficult ab
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by kidmenot 10y ago
IANAL but, as far as I know, e.g. here in Italy things work like this: assuming you decide to leave your day job to found your own company meant to compete with the company you were working for, your former employer could theoretically sue
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by kidmenot 10y ago
C# has been paying my bills for quite a few years. I hail from Italy, though.
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by kidmenot 10y ago
And, and... are we not going to talk about how he chose the words so carefully that there is not a single hyphenated one, making every line the same length? Am I missing some obvious shortcut to it or is this guy actually good ?
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by kidmenot 10y ago
He's a great engineer and, together with his equally great team, he designed what turned out to be a great kernel powering countless machines around the world. There is very little to hate about the actual NT kernel. Kudos to Dave, ins
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by kidmenot 11y ago
Correct, in 2006 there were no LINQ, extension methods and a number of other great improvements which kind of makes the article less valuable. Not that it was terribly valuable to begin with: as a programmer, using the language at hand to w
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by kidmenot 11y ago
Absolutely! I didn't mean to be disrespectful, I actually think this is beyond awesome. I greatly admire an individual capable of perfecting his craft enough to be able to carve a famous painting on the cutting edge of a razor, as I ad
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by kidmenot 11y ago
Wait... this guy actually engraved Leonardo's "The Last Supper" along the edge of a razor. At first I was hoping that, being a non-native speaker, I misunderstood something. But no, it's really the cutting edge we&#x
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What Is SKIP LOCKED for in PostgreSQL 9.5?(blog.2ndquadrant.com)
2 points by kidmenot 11y ago|0 comments
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by kidmenot 11y ago
Same here. As a programmer, whenever I get stuck I grab my notebook, a pen and start breaking down the problem in even smaller steps. By the time I get to the second or third bullet point, everything is clear again and I can even stop writi
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by kidmenot 11y ago
I would be happy to be proven wrong (thankfully I have dealt exclusively with Postgres in the last two years or so), but I think most of the warts and shortcomings the post talks about are still extant. Off the top of my head, I can add tha
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by kidmenot 11y ago
Thank you for pointing this out, never heard of them before.
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by kidmenot 11y ago
Question here, even though I don't intend to do it: I recall having heard that, if you do LSD, you can have a small trip again unexpectedly even years later. That would scare the shit out of me, suppose it happens while you're dri
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by kidmenot 11y ago
And indeed the Angular documentation does not help at all. It's awfully abstract, and I always had the impression it's trying its best to avoid telling you what you actually need to do in order to achieve X, for most values of X.
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by kidmenot 11y ago
Why would it be impossible to have both? "Your contribution does not fit our current guidelines. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md and feel free to ask if you have any further questions." comes across very differently than something agg

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