lazulicurio

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by lazulicurio 9y ago
There's been plenty of inflation post-QE, just not in the CPI[1]. Housing prices post-crash are higher than ever, fueled by still-easy access to financing. Healthcare is up. Education is up. People are just taking the money that was sh
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by lazulicurio 9y ago
They'd probably just write a threatening letter, and that would be enough for the Apple Store to fire the friend. Unless you're high enough in the food chain, a company would rather drop you than deal with the potential trouble (e
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by lazulicurio 9y ago
Just for other people reading this thread, as I've posted before[1], a word of caution if you're trying to generate sequential UUIDs client-side for SQL server: SQL server does not sort UUIDs in the order you'd expect. The by
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by lazulicurio 9y ago
NuGet is okay, in my opinion. My two biggest issues with it aren't actually issues with NuGet, but with the surrounding ecosystem. First is that MSBuild hard-codes references, so building a multi-targeted project with references to a m
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
Versioned dependencies absolutely still are a problem, even with pip. You still need something like virtualenv to isolate dependencies for different projects. And virtualenv is a compete hack (granted, one that works; but still a hack)
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
I'm currently struggling with dealing with shared libraries at work. I think the challenge is that the whole concept of dev-ops is fairly new[1], and from my experience Java, .Net, Python, etc. weren't designed for easy management
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
My personal pet peeve is bean validation. The goals of the API are laudable, but the fact that the implementation is annotation-driven drives me nuts. Annotations are fine for intra-project code contracts, but using them for external valida
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
Completely just my opinion, but I think this is because most people (both employers and potential employees) are focusing on the more vocational aspects of programming, whereas university is more theory-based. I know that I would not have g
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
I'm supportive of Google in this fight, but I really don't think Google would have an argument to counter-sue. Tortious interference isn't just having an effect on the relationship, you also need to have an actual tort involv
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
IANAL, but it seems that one could make a passable argument for tortious interference[1]. Google isn't just affecting their B2B relationship with Symantec, they're using their share in the browser market to affect Symantec's
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
I work at a manufacturing company in the Midwest and, to me, the confusing part is where the modern push to treat workers like machines is coming from. In school, we were taught how Taylor was the "father" of scientific management
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
> A ton of people are comfortably building equity in their homes IMO, this is exactly the root of the issue though. You can't bring your home with you when you move. Having your only major equity stored in an illiquid and immobile a
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
Armchair hypothesizing: increased use of consumer debt[1] to purchase housing and transportation, combined with modern technology that makes it increasingly difficult to avoid debt collection[2], puts a severe damper on peoples' abilit
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
Another similarity: Obama was heralded in 2008 for being the first "social media" candidate, but Trump made that look like child's play with his campaign. For all the complaints about the "media" being biased agains
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
I believe [1] so, based upon my reading of [2]. Personally, I'd be less worried about an app phoning home, and more worried about an app changing my connection to an adversarial network that could sniff on traffic, etc.[3] [1] Would
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
Note that even Android 6 has a set of "normal" permissions[1] that are automatically granted if requested. While I somewhat understand the rational[2] behind the decision, there are some permissions like "BLUETOOTH_ADMIN&quot
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
Agreed that whatever they do to scrolling is awful. On my phone (android, firefox mobile) I can't use Google News anymore because I can scroll down, but can't scroll back up.
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
If I may propose a different explanation: Many people vote against measures that are supposedly supposed to help them---universal healthcare, larger tax credits to the poor, cash welfare---because they think "why am I giving $15000 to
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
Yes, but NEWSEQUENTIALID isn't globally ordered, it's only ordered for the computer on which it was generated. For that matter, on a single computer the ordering isn't guaranteed[1]. This makes NEWSEQUENTIALID fairly useless
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by lazulicurio 10y ago
Word of caution to anybody looking to use a similar method working with SQL Server: the SQL Server uniqueidentifier type is stored differently on disk than binary(16). Instead of being ordered by bytes 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15,