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by larsrc 4y ago
[reference needed]
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by larsrc 4y ago
Is it worth it compared to what? Plain JS? Transpilation from a different language? Rust? Growing apples? I have used plain JS, GWT, and TypeScript. TS is an incredible improvement over the two others. The TS type system is excellent, very
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by larsrc 4y ago
The idea that software doesn't need maintenance (for any reasonable definition of maintenance) is ludicrous. When a new vulnerability is found, fixing it is maintenance. When the cloud providers change their setup in a way that require
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by larsrc 4y ago
I was so lucky as to become the TL of the Code Search UI at Google less than a year after I joined. While there were certainly frustrations, one thing that was wonderful was meeting random SWEs and have them go "Code Search is awesome!
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by larsrc 4y ago
If 'm' and 'u' are symmetric, surely 'n' is as well?
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by larsrc 4y ago
We're bothered, but maybe not enough to do away with visiting family/friends/coworkers/conferences/cons/national parks/etc. Also having various privileges (white, Western European, male, middle class, etc)
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by larsrc 4y ago
Additional rules of thumb: * Avoid single choices. If there's only one possible choice, don't waste the user's time by requiring an action. At most show that that value is chosen. * Select the best defaults you possibly can.
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by larsrc 4y ago
Karma schmarma.
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by larsrc 4y ago
A d100 does have a 100 side, just like you can roll a nat 20 on a d20. True about rand(100), though. So be the die-rolling kind of geek:)
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by larsrc 4y ago
Not sure why this particular species is HN-worthy, when hundreds or thousands of new species are found every year: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/news/new-species-discovered...
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by larsrc 4y ago
It would be, it's right there in the title: Aristolochiaceae. From Wikipedia: "The Aristolochiaceae are a family, the birthwort family, of flowering plants with seven genera and about 400 known species[...]"
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by larsrc 4y ago
Surely not Internet Exploder?
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by larsrc 4y ago
You forgot to mention that someone mined parts of the roads from SF to LA.
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by larsrc 4y ago
I did my time in the Makefile trenches, too. I'm happy that I've learned other languages. There will always be smarter people than you, but you will bring your particular knowledge and do new things. Keep on learning!
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by larsrc 4y ago
Thank you. I knew of the worm, but hadn't seen the acronym referring to Morris before.
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by larsrc 4y ago
Which RTM is that referenced in the quote at the end?
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by larsrc 4y ago
Very roughly, how much would the combined parts for these cost, for, say, 10 or 100? How much extra would mentioned DMT assembly be?
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by larsrc 4y ago
I distinguish between "family games" and "gamer games" on whether you have gaps of time where you can ignore the game and interact socially with the other players or need to concentrate on the game. The former group is m
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by larsrc 4y ago
An ultra-libertarian rant. Let's let the rich and powerful do whatever the fuck they want and to hell with any direct or indirect damage to ordinary people. Not what we need.
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by larsrc 4y ago
Maybe as a monad? Now I'm even more confused.
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by larsrc 4y ago
But HAVING can also act on aggregate results. In fact, the example in the article is not the most important use for HAVING. Subselects can't do something like. SELECT year, COUNT(*) sales, SUM(price) income FROM sales HAVING sales &gt
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by larsrc 4y ago
Even some of the puns in Shakespeare's plays have become lost due to language and social change. I would not be surprised if a bunch of the old jokes, especially the apparently non-sensical ones, are puns or have punny elements.
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by larsrc 4y ago
Having worked in digital archiving, I wholeheartedly approve of this suggestion. Digital artifacts degrade alarmingly quickly.
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by larsrc 4y ago
Google search, from very early on, considered it a success metric when users went quickly to a result. I have no idea how that factors into the current surely hideously complex ranking algorithms, though. As for the parsing of queries, that
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by larsrc 4y ago
I tried that, but my cakes just don't come out the same.
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by larsrc 4y ago
You can't. You have to live with the fact that there's some amount of risk and weigh whether it's an acceptable level compared to what you're securing. See Reflections on Trusting Trust for the canonical example.
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by larsrc 4y ago
Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
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by larsrc 4y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Google, though far away from Search. Regardless of search engine design, there's HUGE money in SEO. Any successful search engine will be gamed. Do you have the developer power to go red-queen against all the larg
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by larsrc 4y ago
Even worse is the trend of what I call "lazy logos". Take the name and do a typographical tweak to one letter. Upside-down, different colour, italics, whatever. One slightly different letter and bam! It's a logo. Boooring!
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by larsrc 4y ago
Yes, desertion was always a problem, but in pre-modern battles there would usually be a lot more of your people behind you, making it hard to get away. Stuck between a spear and a hard shield. http;//www.acoup.blog had some excell

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