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by kscaldef 15y ago
As one of the people involved in designing the system in question, I'd like to say two things: 1) The author describes the experience of the first-time customer who has never entered a shipping address or credit card. The Gilt checkout expe
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by kscaldef 15y ago
TFA says, "If you have a legitimate emergency, push it and get it reviewed later, ain’t no thang" But, also, strive for a level of code quality that doesn't require that sort of thing.
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by kscaldef 15y ago
IMO, Skype calls follow the same rules as phone calls. You're not required to answer.
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by kscaldef 15y ago
The points here seem valid, but I think the author misunderstands 5 Whys analysis a bit. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys "It is interesting to note that the last answer points to a process. This is one of the most important aspe
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by kscaldef 15y ago
It also misses things like: What's the cost of a million schoolchildren watching a space shuttle explode?
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by kscaldef 15y ago
If you were a teacher marking a student's paper, you would label those as spelling errors, not a grammar errors. The reason is that a different spelling of the words would create the intended sentence. No grammatical variation will do tha
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by kscaldef 15y ago
You say this as if men haven't "outsourced" their child care for pretty much all of history.
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by kscaldef 15y ago
I'm pretty sure they're moving at a slow-ish walk, not running. The point is regular low levels of physical activity, not hard core cardio during your meeting.
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by kscaldef 15y ago
This is an aside to the main point, but I get the impression that raganwald doesn't quite understand the "it gets better" movement (I'm not sure if that's quite the right word to use for it, but I'm failing to come up with a better term).
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by kscaldef 15y ago
what am I missing? That it's quite possible that you don't want the guy on the other side of the wire to call those methods on the object. I find I quite frequently want to share a data model between my client and server code, bu
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by kscaldef 15y ago
I'm not sure that I've ever applied for a job that listed a salary range in their ad. And, actually, my take is exactly the opposite of yours. Almost without fail, every ad I've seen with a salary listed was lower than I would consider.
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by kscaldef 15y ago
Not many people get rid of their car entirely when they start riding a bike.
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by kscaldef 15y ago
Not really. If I shout something on the street, it's virtually impossible for the people around me to figure out who I am (unless they already know me). With real names attached to everything, even if the statement is impermanent, it's es
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by kscaldef 15y ago
I don't see any reason they need to be asked in the same article actually. Was there ever a time when 40% of primary school teachers were male? It's not clear to me that there's any strong parallel between the two professions at all.
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by kscaldef 15y ago
"He grabbed me, pulled me in to him, and kissed me. I tried to push him off, and told him I wasn’t interested (I may have been less eloquent, but I don’t think I was less clear). He responded by jamming his hand into my underwear and fumbli
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by kscaldef 15y ago
This OSCON is the first (that I know of) where speakers started withdrawing their talks over the lack of a policy.
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by kscaldef 15y ago
Fair enough, but a lot of women have trouble doing more than 1 or 2 pushups. I'm guessing the author's company doesn't employ any (at least on the tech team).
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by kscaldef 15y ago
a) As far as I can tell from the article, her doctor was at most a couple hours behind her "social network". b) Her social network also produced "various diagnoses" which were presumably wrong. c) I wonder how often this sort of thing happe
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by kscaldef 15y ago
Scala compiles down to JVM bytecode. Java also compiles down to JVM bytecode. Scala does not compile down to Java.
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by kscaldef 15y ago
> It's hard to imagine a web application where one HTTP request comes in and a dozen threads (or processes, whatever) are spawned. Really? I think that's a failure of the author's imagination. Nearly every web application that I've wo
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by kscaldef 15y ago
Most programs I write have an infinite number of inputs.
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by kscaldef 15y ago
With dynamic duck typing you just have to hope the object actually quacks. With type classes, the compiler proves it quacks.
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by kscaldef 15y ago
long? There's 1 import statement, 1 optional type declaration, and 2 lines of code. It could be just the import and 1 line of code, but that would violate 2 Haskell best practices: include explicit type declarations for your public interfa
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Generally speaking, a Subaru has greater utility than a Ferrari, but no one complains that the Ferrari ought to be less expensive on that basis. That said, I think it's an incorrect assertion that an e-book (with DRM) has greater utility th
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Hydro-electric, wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, to name the ones that come immediately to mind.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Well, for that matter, we don't have enough nuclear power production capacity to meet our needs either, so I don't entirely see your point. Reducing the amount of power we're producing with fossil fuels will mean needing to increase our pr
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by kscaldef 16y ago
"Nuclear power is the safest way to make electricity"... so long as you pretend the only other option is fossil fuels.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Surely you've got something you're willing to throw up on github? No one is saying it needs to be particularly useful to anyone else; just some actually code you wrote that people can look at.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Yes. I have a full time job which I have no intention of leaving. This is a personal-itch side project that I spend a couple hours a week on, at max, with a really limited potential market. If you want to be constructive, I'd love to hav
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by kscaldef 16y ago
There's certainly artificial scarcity caused by people buying up domains and then sitting on them and doing nothing. I have a side project I've been working on where I'm blocked in deploying it because I haven't been able to find a good do

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