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by marcodave 6y ago
well, the idea is that there are already "do-it-all" frameworks, although they are linked to specific programming languages or paradigm (ruby on rails comes to mind)
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by marcodave 6y ago
isn't the point that LEGO would want to show its ads to those who have some interest in lego? Why would the water filter company show its ads to those who never searched/texted for a water filter before? or I'm just behind th
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by marcodave 6y ago
what is "mainstream general computing" in your understanding?
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by marcodave 6y ago
> the step to 1080p was massive, the step to 1080p I'd say that, for some, could have been seen even as a downgrade. It was possible to use 1600x1200 back in the late 90s and early 2000s, with CRTs. The concept of "high definit
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by marcodave 6y ago
do you know how your car/microwave/dishwasher/TV works, to the detail of the engine, the type of tires, and would you be able to repair/exchange/hack parts of it? I don't, and I really don't see the point
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by marcodave 6y ago
if the shit hits the fan enough with this Congress report, I bet that's what they'll do. Probably they didn't do it yet for (a) keeping the status quo is more profitable and/or (b) it's going to be a huge architectu
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by marcodave 6y ago
As I like to say, Facebook should have stayed within the area of Universities and schools; A platform born in Harvard, by well-fed white male US Americans, for use and consumption by their peers, was not meant to be used by billions of regu
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by marcodave 6y ago
I was just thinking... what if Factorio it's the perfect waterfall project? clear and unchanging requirement (build and launch a rocket), infinite time, infinite resources, perfect technology. The only bugs are those attacking you from
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by marcodave 6y ago
If the demographic is the 15-25 age range, they will leave as soon as they feel that their aunt and her dog has signed up, therefore making it "not cool" by definition
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by marcodave 6y ago
> And yet the company was sold at 1 Billion USD, which seemed like short change. That was 2009 though, was 1B USD small compared to the average corporate acquisitions at the time? Instagram was also sold for 1B if I recall correctly.
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by marcodave 6y ago
which then begs the question: if you spent your whole life working more, and focusing on getting more money, assuming that you can retire in your 50s, can you REALLY stop working? or will you depress yourself because there's nothing el
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by marcodave 6y ago
I think it's a case of the "nobody has been fired for choosing an agile methodology"
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by marcodave 6y ago
Which brings up the topic of treating code like cattle, not like art. Code should be treated as expendable and transient, your clever implementation might be considered deprecated in a month due to changes in requirements/design. Unfo
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by marcodave 6y ago
> _______ are not a common field where people would choose to ________ . However, _______ might be an interesting fact for most _____ or people looking for _____, isn’t it? That’s what we actually thought about before doing our research.
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by marcodave 6y ago
and be Smalltalk the programming language of the question
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by marcodave 6y ago
Some random comments: - good to see native TS support - Would be nice to see a builtin maven/gradle-like standard build system, which IMHO not having it in node.js was a major let down for me. Sure, you have gulp/grunt, but having
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by marcodave 6y ago
I'm guessing that "binary" can be interpreted as "blob of unreadable mess when opened in a text editor"
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by marcodave 6y ago
At this point in time sites will put the banner "just because", or even for satire/ironic purposes (like the late '90s "best viewed with any browser" banner) what if wothout the banner an overzealous bureucrat
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by marcodave 6y ago
I was there, and it was one of the first thing for which you clicked in the "yes and don't bother anymore" tick to make the dialog silent in the future. It was kinda pointless back then, but also there was no data protection
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by marcodave 6y ago
...and some of those Most Capable Programmers helped by letting other reuse what they wrote, in form of IoC/DI frameworks! Or are you suggesting that every programmer worth their salt should write their own IoC to suit their needs?
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by marcodave 6y ago
One minute of contemplation for those who scroll for 10 minutes on mobile, to finally find something interesting to read/click, just to click by mistake the back button, and the whole timeline completely changed. Youtube recommendation
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by marcodave 6y ago
people just put up with it
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by marcodave 6y ago
> This is like saying "cabinets don't help organize a kitchen if you don't put anything in them" -- I mean, duh, you have to use it right. That's not an argument to have no cabinets. Good counterpoint. Parent com
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by marcodave 6y ago
First month or so at my new employer, big consultancy firm for a financial institution. Had a fairly complex distributed monolithic application integrated with Tibco EMS, Oracle DB and distributed XE transactions. Regularly, but randomly,
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by marcodave 7y ago
So, Kubernetes is the 2020 version of the enterprise application server of the '00s ?
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by marcodave 7y ago
anything for having hot babes in the daily feed and hoping to have a glimpse of your schoolmate/crush in bikini
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by marcodave 7y ago
BPA?
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by marcodave 7y ago
With the scammers having your personal data, name and (maybe?) address? I'd think thrice before starting a feud with a scammer.
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by marcodave 7y ago
Well, if a scam is successful and unnoticeable, by definition we won't see any articles about those, right?
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by marcodave 7y ago
If by "verified properties" we can infer "regulations and warranties", aren't you just reinventing hotels?

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