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by ludston 5y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'll just take them off and ruin my socks because walking with your toes pointed up is killer on the ankles. I didn't realise it was something worth being self-conscious over.
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by ludston 5y ago
Been that guy. What's the problem? I mean I can see the problem with walking into a shop wearing rollerblades, but what is wrong with bike shoes?
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by ludston 5y ago
A word for this desire to fulfill self-imposed expectations is "ego". The book "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle is essentially about the same realization as the author of this article, along with some management strat
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by ludston 5y ago
To be fair, people in regional areas that travel long distances already pay far more fuel related taxes than those in cities on account of using more fuel per capita.
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by ludston 5y ago
> Garbage collection is not part of the Common Lisp standard. Every important implementation of Common Lisp (Allegro, LispWorks, SBCL, CCL, ABCL, ECL, CLisp and Clasp to name a few) all have garbage collection.
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by ludston 5y ago
Your thinking is along the right lines. The "you can focus your effort on improving or isolating those parts" is the trouble. With a sufficiently complex code-base this has a very high cost, and the number of programmers capable o
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by ludston 5y ago
Most systems don't need to scale beyond "please no obvious performance bugs", so it makes sense to write most applications as monoliths for the reason that you are stating (i.e. development is faster). It only makes sense to
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by ludston 5y ago
If you compare making a call to a web service vs calling a function to achieve a similar outcome, it is definitely true that you can easily have business logic coupled between these two services. You also have the additional cost of having
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by ludston 5y ago
An interesting idea once presented to me, was that pi is not a number, but a function for producing a number to an arbitrary precision. The same could be said for any fraction that produces an irrational.
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by ludston 5y ago
Yes. I followed this tutorial a few years ago and found this to be quite disappointing.
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by ludston 5y ago
You get similar functionality to QuestDB if you take a traditional database, make all of your tables clustered by datetime fields. The advantage advertised by QuestDB is that it is optimized specifically for this common use-case. The disadv
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by ludston 5y ago
Given that the mission statement of Gnome is explicitly "to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software." I'm not sure why it would.
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by ludston 6y ago
As well as protecting against government misuse of monetary policy it can be used to prevent the govt from using monetary policy for effective good. It strips money from being subject to democratic process altogether, which logically will l
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by ludston 6y ago
It won't. The recent flooding might though.
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by ludston 6y ago
I think a better moral is "don't roll your own parser unless your core competency/product is the parser". Especially in a corporate situation.
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by ludston 6y ago
The solution that everyone goes on Zoom, regardless of whether or not they are sitting next to each other. Pretend the team is fully remote, but still take advantage of organic, local interaction to skill up new developers. We were coincide
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by ludston 6y ago
I really enjoy solving project euler puzzles with CL. It's very well suited to them.
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by ludston 6y ago
Macro's are evaluated inside of 'defun, however, 'defun is evaluated during runtime (when the .lisp file is being loaded into the implementation) so base698 is technically correct. Excepting that it is not really "fraugh
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by ludston 6y ago
I really enjoyed this comment, because it managed to say both, "I take joy from other peoples suffering", and "I'm not a sociopath, you are."
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by ludston 6y ago
I found that learning q has made coding without vim very annoying.
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by ludston 6y ago
It's not worth lining up at 3am to get any of these things, but that is the level of hype these things inspired.
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by ludston 6y ago
There is some sort of math behind why a 1:1 ratio is almost always selected for. It intuits like, if all of the other elephants are breeding 1:2, and you breed 2:1, you will be significantly more likely to spread your genes.
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by ludston 6y ago
Usually different languages Are tied to different platforms so this isn't really anagolous.
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by ludston 6y ago
The problem with this is that they could also just pocket the money, and then they have more money.
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by ludston 6y ago
I don't know if there is "one true motivation" for working on open source software, and any other reasoning is a lack of understanding.
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by ludston 6y ago
Given that we are all using fiat currency, an interesting way to think about taxation is that the Government is destroying money through taxation, and creating money from via spending. With this thinking, you can very much say that tax reve
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by ludston 6y ago
Because you don't want to increase the class divide between rural and non-rural areas. Or maybe you do, but most of us don't, and you have to conform to our values if you want to live with the benefits that a society of those valu
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by ludston 6y ago
I'm interested in understanding what you mean. What is "OR" shaped data? Are you thinking of data like, "The staff member must have either a salary or an hourly rate"? Typically I would see this modelled with two db
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by ludston 6y ago
Good post. I think it is also worth mentioning that the relational model has a few intrinsic performance issues and gotcha's that require some uncomfortable and creative wrangling. Specifically, safely handling concurrent writes to dif
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by ludston 6y ago
That's not even mentioning that the chairman of 9News is former treasurer of the conservative party which Murdoch is backing.

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