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by kristov 4y ago
It costs more or less the same amount of money to send one email as it does to send hundreds of thousands of emails. So spammers send hundreds of thousands of emails and they only need to fool one person to make it worthwhile financially. I
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by kristov 4y ago
Bol.com gives me hope that Amazon competitors can survive by excelling in their local market.
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by kristov 4y ago
I think it would be really cool if all your sellers had to do was maintain their inventory in a google sheet, and "share" access to your marketplace thing. Maybe you require columns to be named a certain way etc, but much lower ba
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by kristov 4y ago
Maybe that's why you have to practice to be good at sports. I couldn't hit a 90 mph ball to save my life.
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by kristov 4y ago
Whatever the cause, I think what happened had a positive outcome. Being able to choose from a huge selection of window managers (or none at all) is something I really like about Linux. Thanks for all the hard work that people have put into
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by kristov 4y ago
I agree. As a dev in a pretty large organization, I have seen the knowledge of business logic dissapate as the org grew, with some churn. To the point now where very few people actually know how the current system works, let alone how it is
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by kristov 4y ago
Plus exceptions don't return to the call location - control jumps down to the catching block. Exceptions are not goto, but they are not like regular function returns either. Some weird thing in between.
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by kristov 4y ago
It does assume we will be capable of popping these bubbles if we need to. We can not guarantee we will retain the capability to go into space. It would be better perhaps to engineer it so it naturally falls out of its location after some X
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by kristov 4y ago
There is a definition of "unreadable" missing from the bullet point list at the top. This is code that is known to be correctly functioning, but the implementation of that functionality is objectively obscure (this is not equivila
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by kristov 4y ago
Only 80% of my db inserts make it to disk, the remaining 20% randomly dissapear into the void. But this is OK because Pareto Principle. It's just savvy business.
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by kristov 4y ago
Totally agree. It's interesting to ponder where the ditest for spreadsheets comes from. You can make a mess in any programming language after all. With conventional imperative programming languages there is a kind of "culture&quot
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by kristov 5y ago
I think as programmers we forget that syntax is a pain for newcomers. Scratch tackles that problem at least.
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by kristov 5y ago
Teaching anything when the student doesn't want to learn is a bit futile. I was taught physics at school. I am actually interested in physics now, and I am finding the historical progression, the story behind the move from an older m
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by kristov 5y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwgIjBUYVc
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by kristov 5y ago
Hasn't some information been passed? You flip one bit, and if your observing the other bit you know the first one was flipped? So you know when something was done to the first bit...
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by kristov 5y ago
Dear ImGui
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by kristov 5y ago
Or just dynamic link to libc and static link the rest as much as you can. If a binary dynamically links to libc, but is otherwise statically linked, all good no?
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by kristov 5y ago
I use Firefox because I believe its important for there to be more than one browser implementation (rendering engine) in the world. If you believe the same, go and download and use Firefox, even if it inconveniences you to do so. Now, about
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by kristov 5y ago
It encourages you grow more apples I guess.
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by kristov 5y ago
Most (useful) libraries are managing state. This means the user of the library should have a pretty good idea of how the state is managed or they will call functions in the wrong order.
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by kristov 5y ago
Fascinating!! What an interesting idea!
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by kristov 5y ago
I am a professional software developer for over 16 years, and learned C in the last 3 or so years for interests sake. I would most likely fall into the category of C developers that think they know enough tricks to get by, but probably writ
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by kristov 5y ago
I think it's important to note that these rights are there regardless of who you are or what you have done . And that differs from "natural" human tendencies to strip wrongdoers of their rights. We have collectively agreed t
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by kristov 5y ago
I am possibly alone in thinking the biggest thing to happen in computing in the 80s/90s was the spreadsheet. Having an immeasurable affect on the productivity of organizations large and small, to this day. So what does the 21st century
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by kristov 5y ago
With pipes between threads, the OS is able to suspend the reading thread when the buffer is empty, or suspend the writing thread when the buffer is full, because the OS "owns" the buffer and the threads. With distributed systems c
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by kristov 5y ago
Not just build internal models of the code, but also an internal model of the execution of the code. For example, a mental model of the scoping rules. As a developer you have to read a function and build a model of when variables are assi
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by kristov 5y ago
It illustrates that often as programmers we put code into functions purely for readability or organizing stuff. How often have you written a function that is only called from one place (or in a loop in one place)? You could really just inli
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by kristov 5y ago
The question is: what investment options are there for a savings-rich population in an environment of high inflation? Get ripped off gambling in the rigged casino that is the stock market? Buy bitcoin? It's no surprise housing is going
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by kristov 5y ago
Been looking at ECS architecture for game engines. As opposed to a scene graph you have big in memory tables of "things". This let's you say render all the leaves on all the trees in one OpenGL draw call. As opposed to traver
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by kristov 5y ago
What we need is a good separation between computer science, and computer engineering - as there is is a separation between physics as a science and mechanical or civil engineering. What this article laments is students coming out of CS with

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