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by ludston 8y ago
There is some javascript that is connecting to around 40 different websites. If you are logged into any of these sites already then they don't return a login prompt so the site knows that you are logged in.
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by ludston 8y ago
I appreciate this follow up and information, so thankyou.
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In this case I can assure you that these "few lines of code" were much easier to understand, and more correct than the code that was being replaced. Basically, someone was trying to fix an IO error that they did not understand by
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by ludston 8y ago
I know that this is not a myth because I have seen it. Just today I saw someone reviewing some piece of work that had taken another developer two weeks to implement, throw it all out and solve the same problem with only a few lines of code.
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by ludston 8y ago
Me too
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This attitude is fine for personal projects, but it does not scale when working with other people. Even in a two person project, one person using a language feature will inadvertently force the other person to learn how that feature works.
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by ludston 8y ago
> Are people taught that in schools or something? Because I personally can't classify those sounds, don't know these names, and I'm not sure how I was supposed to learn them, other by playing in a band. This is something t
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by ludston 8y ago
> Does that mean you enjoy them less? Enjoyment is not the point. I am a different person because of reading GEB, and my coding style changed because of reading On Lisp. With internalisation and comprehension, the first kind of book will
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by ludston 8y ago
They are redeemed on arrival for a sense of adequacy and belonging.
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by ludston 8y ago
I think there are two main reasons whu investors would shy away from renewables in Australia: 1) Firstly there are no large well-known actors, so there is uncertainty around renewable energy companies are going to "win". 2) Second
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by ludston 8y ago
His is a moralistic argument. I expect he understands the mechanism at play here.
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> At what point do my personal preferences/issues (and trust me I have plenty of my own) become my team's/workplace's problem? At the point when the company is losing value and opportunities that you could be providin
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by ludston 8y ago
I think that this government knows exactly what it is doing with regards to tech laws in Australia, but the current government is serving needs other than the economic success of the tech industry in Australia. An example of this is the mon
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by ludston 8y ago
It's generally not a good idea to make unofficial statements about the choices your employer might take in the future, especially if your employer is a public company. There are some weird legal things that can happen. (e.g. If you say
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by ludston 8y ago
Congratulations to China and the Chinese people who have managed to measurably improve their livelihoods over the last few decades.
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by ludston 8y ago
Different scope. This is definitely how to handle incidents like, "our live production service is currently having issues" because there are critical consequences. e.g. When a system that I have worked on goes down, trucks would l
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by ludston 8y ago
Isn't it? I would rather get an update after the problem has been fixed than to know that development efforts have been slowed down in order to keep me in the loop. I am not sure if you are putting your money where your mouth is. This
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by ludston 8y ago
Yes and no. In my experience vim is great for manipulating s-expressions because it has expressions like da( which means "delete everything between the parens wrapping the cursor". But no, many lisp dialects have a tendency toward
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by ludston 9y ago
I believe that this essay is an example of the practical application of the Principle of Charity[0]. This is laudable as it is practically a prerequisite that at least one side does this in a useful debate. [0] https://en.wikiped
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by ludston 9y ago
And yet the US has killed over 100,000 people using nukes.
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by ludston 9y ago
> There was no division of duties on the team. Everyone was responsible for the system as a whole. The authors point is valid: It is necessary to be aligned with your team leader. :( I think that this author has had a key misconception
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by ludston 9y ago
This law has to be enforced somewhere first. Either it is enforced against Facebook first, and Facebook complains "Why don't all of the the small fries have to do it yet" and if it is enforced against the small fries, they wi
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by ludston 9y ago
This product has a subset of features from Drop-box, Trello and Instagram?
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by ludston 9y ago
> I won't speak to Damore's essay except to say that I thought it revealed Damore to be somewhat intellectually immature. I won't pretend to know what essay you're talking about - this is just ad hominem.
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by ludston 9y ago
Definitely a problem. I had 10.24s on first load, which is about 9 seconds longer after google/duckduckgo becomes usable.
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by ludston 9y ago
And even so, kudos to the author for making a real contribution.
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by ludston 9y ago
(defun multi-evil-define (d symb) (define-key evil-normal-state-map d symb) (define-key evil-motion-state-map d symb) (define-key evil-visual-state-map d symb) (define-key dired-mode-map d symb)) (multi-evil-define (kb
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by ludston 9y ago
I am turned off of this article as the author is trying very hard to make the reader disdain the character Donnelly. The author paints Donnelly's motivation for every action as pitiable, entitled or arrogant. It would be better if the
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by ludston 9y ago
I wrote a different reply to your post, but on replection you and I think vim is a different thing. For me, vim is not my editor - It is a plugin that I install into all of my editors/ides (emacs, visual studio, etc.) so that the keybi
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by ludston 9y ago
Vim gives the ability to refactor large amounts of code rapidly. This doesn't make it so your typing speed is significantly faster, but it removes obstacles to refactoring large amounts of code which means that as a developer you will

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