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by kinkdr 10y ago
Yes, I am not saying it is a big thing. It's a small thing in itself, but breaking backwards compatibility for no good reason is huge red flag for the future.
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by kinkdr 10y ago
I wish they would stop making changes just for the shake of change. E.g. Up until 0.17 most code examples where using the prime ' character. With 0.18, Evan decided that using prime is bad taste, so he decided to break any code that us
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by kinkdr 10y ago
Thanks. I love that you have a fair-sized concrete example for usage. I am giving it a try now.
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by kinkdr 10y ago
The speed at which they release updates is at least impressive. Visual Studio Code and Typescript have completely changed the way I look at MS. Kudos to the team.
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by kinkdr 10y ago
Although very fresh into the Haskell world myself, I tend to agree with the author that, when I know what I am doing, my Haskell code is usually written in less time and has less bugs. Having said that, Time-to-Market is only partially infl
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by kinkdr 10y ago
This brings back memories of Windows 95-98 era, where a fresh install would get infected in matter of seconds after connected to the internet. I expect the IoT to go though a similar phase, but eventually get fixed and be secure enough.
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by kinkdr 10y ago
My answer to this problem is less dramatic; I am just hedging my bets. For search and maps, I use Google, for personal hardware, Apple, for cloud servers, AWS, for email, Fastmail on my own domain, and so on. It is slightly more inconvenien
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by kinkdr 10y ago
> RethinkDB is something we were looking at for a large project From the comments in HN it feels like this was always the case for RethinkDB; folks looking at it, admire it, thinking about using it in their next project but, for one reas
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by kinkdr 10y ago
I am paid to mainly fix bugs. "Writing code" is mainly for free time and enjoyment.
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by kinkdr 10y ago
$20 for the domain name, $6/month for the email hosting.
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by kinkdr 10y ago
Then these news should be a wake up call for you.
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by kinkdr 10y ago
http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/98444 :D
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by kinkdr 10y ago
We have to stop being naive about our email accounts. My recommendation is to buy a domain name use that as the primary email. It may cost in total around $100/year but it is definitely worth it.
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by kinkdr 10y ago
"4. Send spam" is moot point. Any email originating from your home's IP will be marked as spam automatically by the major email players and there is very highly possibility that will never reach an inbox. The biggest problem,
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by kinkdr 10y ago
> Feel free to make a PR to improve things boubiyeah What kind of answer is this? I don't think "boubiyeah" is working for you, nor has signed up for contributing to your project. When you publish something to a public for
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by kinkdr 10y ago
> So borrowing money from investors to compete with somebody is now a despicable thing, maybe even a crime? Running at financial loss just to drive prices down so you can kill competition is at least unethical in my book. Also I believe
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by kinkdr 10y ago
The Triplebyte folks are doing something very similar. But I got the impression their clients don't understand the idea yet.
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by kinkdr 10y ago
You are right.
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by kinkdr 10y ago
> Your last statement is a pretty blatant slippery slope fallacy. Which one? In which way is it a fallacy?
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by kinkdr 10y ago
“Past performance does not guarantee future results” I don't have a single bad thing to say about Google, but that doesn't mean that I am not afraid of their power and I don't dread the day that the current management will no
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by kinkdr 10y ago
Kudos to MS for Visual Studio Code and Typescript for bringing a bit of sanity to the world of JS.
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by kinkdr 10y ago
It is in essence: read((err, txt) => { console.log(txt) }) Or read().then((txt) => console.log(txt)) Why is it bad?
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by kinkdr 10y ago
Care to elaborate a bit? Just trying to understand why async/await is bad. In my mind it makes for much cleaner code that the callback hell. Also, how is Scala doing it?
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by kinkdr 10y ago
Is the changefeed reliable enough to make your search engine depend on this? In the RethinkDB website, they have a warning saying that changefeeds cannot guarantee delivery.
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by kinkdr 10y ago
Lenovo lost me when the did the exact same mistake and decided to replace the exceptional Thinkpad keyboard for an inferior one.
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by kinkdr 10y ago
I remember a friend having a windows phone years before iPhone was introduced. It had a resistive touchscreen, and the UI was basically Windows in smaller screen. So, no they didn't miss, they just didn't have what it takes to mak
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by kinkdr 10y ago
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773282
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by kinkdr 10y ago
Thats really funny, because that's exactly how I use git. But I only blame myself for never finding time to read up a bit and understand its concepts.
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by kinkdr 10y ago
Thanks!
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by kinkdr 10y ago
Ahh awesome! Thanks!

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