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by l0b0 7y ago
The "no bullshit" motto is mentioned a few times here. A motto is just another marketing device – a way for a company to pretend to have any sort of principles beyond making as much money as fast as possible. Why would anyone b
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by l0b0 7y ago
Thanks; admittedly the last time I looked into this was a few years ago. Glad to see it gaining traction!
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by l0b0 7y ago
It is necessary but not sufficient for any new contender to do at least the following to have any chance of taking over: - Interoperate with the major player(s), currently Git and in many places unfortunately still Subversion. svn2git p
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by l0b0 7y ago
I think the point is rather that you can't get a more useful prediction by choosing a lower probability description unless you have AGI. Only an AGI could tell that you're not in the mood for "Hey" to be followed by
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by l0b0 7y ago
IMO ELK is worth it. All the filtering, sorting and graphing means you can easily do post mortems (which makes you more likely to do them at all), you can get detailed performance and other metrics without spending days setting up robust
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by l0b0 7y ago
Why are both the Guardian and NBC articles flagged? Is anyone actually questioning the content of those articles? It looks like both Iranian and US officials confirm them.
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by l0b0 7y ago
Never had any problems with this site before, but that layer (and all the other air quality layers) are just not showing. Does it work for anyone else in Firefox on Linux?
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by l0b0 7y ago
Exactly, TODO comments are basically noise. Nobody goes through code explicitly looking for them, and by the next time someone needs to modify that code the TODO is very likely obsolete or just confusing because of how much the rest of the
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by l0b0 7y ago
Yeah, unfortunately there are some really big issues nobody has a workable solution to yet: - There is a vast income discrepancy across the world. For some people $1000 for an Ubuntu copy would be cheap and for others $10 would mean going h
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by l0b0 7y ago
Focus on what you know. Make sure your team includes at the very least (in no particular order): - Someone who is part of the target audience. They should be able to provide your team with a good idea of the features you absolutely need t
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by l0b0 7y ago
Can we replace the original link with either this or the audio?
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by l0b0 7y ago
It's not that programmers don't care about this. It's simply that with today's tools this is $1E7 to 1E8 to implement all of these decently for any application.
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by l0b0 7y ago
What seems to work for me is specifying exactly which part of the solution you might want to replace and why, phrasing it like a brainstorm idea rather than a fully thought-out proposal: "Would it be easier to frobnicate if we repl
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by l0b0 7y ago
I'm thankful for being born to free universal health care and education, fantastic nature, and people who try to preserve these. And for people everywhere who do what they can to bring these to as many of us as possible.
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Microphones with tattle lights and passive wearables(rachelbythebay.com)
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by l0b0 7y ago
"Preferred name," a UTF-8 string with absolutely no implied formatting, is a great way to deal with a bunch of these. Simply ask people what they want to be called and use that verbatim, always. Unfortunately the absolutely most c
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by l0b0 7y ago
For a large part of the population, losing their email account could be devastating. "Could" is deliberate, because once you lose it you wouldn't even know whether anything important landed in your inbox. Like a personal upda
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by l0b0 7y ago
I often phrase code review comments as questions with specific goals in mind, such as "Would this be simpler/faster/clearer if [refactor idea]?" or "How about [alternative]?" This makes it clear that I, as a
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by l0b0 7y ago
Most of the time other people have already reported egregious bugs. Spending hours investigating a bug and reporting it, especially to a big project, is much more often than not wasted time: - Search for a duplicate for 20 minutes and fin
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by l0b0 7y ago
By the definition in this article, Italian cooking would be the most boring thing you could possibly eat.
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by l0b0 7y ago
IMO you can't get good bread in grocery stores in any Western country, Norway included. Good bread has about 2-3 times the density of store bread, for one thing, which would make it 2-3 times more expensive to make (2-3 times more raw
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by l0b0 7y ago
This could at least in part explain some common patterns: - Non-IT companies overall have terrible IT systems because as soon as they have two systems they need some sort of integration which the vendors are likely to botch and the resident
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by l0b0 7y ago
Almost twice as much work?
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by l0b0 7y ago
Is there a way to set up a big list of round-robin DNS servers in Linux, to at least minimize the amount of navigation history any one DNS provider knows about you?
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by l0b0 7y ago
Every tech company I've ever had anything to do with claims to encourage minorities. But the numbers clearly tell a different story. It would be easy to excuse it all as cultural fit, but that doesn't hold up when there are many
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by l0b0 7y ago
As you say it makes ad blockers less powerful. Ad companies are scummy, and will most definitely exploit this, making it either painful or impossible to block their ads using the API. And then the API will be playing catch-up forever. And t
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by l0b0 7y ago
I use Time Keeping Sucks (TKS), because it's a great little command line tool[0], Vim format, web UI[1] and more written by some very talented colleagues and lots of people (myself included) use it daily at work. It's built to int
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by l0b0 7y ago
Reading (OK, skimming) about this is a bit like a time machine. It's the kind of realization I expect people had in the early 2000s after fads like UML imploded massively. Is anyone taking architects like these seriously these days? Ma
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by l0b0 7y ago
Looks like Harvard SEAS staff should read some Tufte to avoid making such terrible visualizations. Showing a single dimension change with three-dimensional objects is exactly what Tufte slammed Pravda for. Of course the researchers didn&#x2
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by l0b0 7y ago
The only "problem" with that approach is that it invalidates most hand-wavy advice: "Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler." All well and good if your requirements are written in formal logic or if there i

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