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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Good point. Best to be one-sided and myopic than risk being too kind!
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Yeah, the author used some strong language. He obviously should have started off each sentence with "In my humble opinion". "Effective" is a value word, so no study can prove it without first defining it (which would probably require 4 or 5
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
This is patently absurd. The author fleshes out a rich and detailed argument for comparing/contrasting rather than one-sided criticism as a way to provide feedback, but your best refutation of it is to point at the one sentence in which he
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
No it's not your only hope. Your other hopes are: - hiring developers that appreciate and obey the conventions, or - reducing the weight of the conventions. Simply put, if you have conventions that the developers aren't following, you're or
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
> The worst thing is that there's no way of enforcing these workflows or practices other than out-of-band social conventions. False. It's called the Dictator and Lieutenants workflow. It's costly, but if you're in a position where you d
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Perhaps human error with the USPTO data entry system. Or, as others have said, as a joke.
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
"Oversold" is the key word here. And that's a marketing concept. To dig deeper, the problem has and always will be that MongoDB toes the line between a caching product and a database product, yet 10gen markets it simply as a database produc
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
The problem has and always will be that MongoDB toes the line between a caching product and a database product, regardless of what 10gen decides to call it. It's extremely frustrating that 10gen can't embrace this fact, and instead perpetua
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Also, his rebuttal doesn't defend the inclusion of those language features in the first place. If you simply "shouldn't" use a particular feature (e.g. if at the end of an expression), why should it be in the language at all? It shouldn't,
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Exactly. Expressiveness refers to the realm of problems a language can idiomatically address, not the number of ways a particular unit of logic can be equivalently written. If that were true, you could simply add any synonym for "if" ("when
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Perhaps a style guide should just be encoded into the compiler.
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
I don't want to be misconstrued a "bad HN commenter", so I'll say first of all, technically amazing. Also, UX is consistent and aesthetically pleasing (though admittedly incomplete; lots of actions are unexplained... e.g. what's the differe
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Well put. I've been programming professionally for 8 years (and as a student for another 8 years prior--HP48G RPN represent!). And to this day, I find myself regularly attracted to articles, books, and blog posts about "basic" lower-divisio
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
It's very troubling, because the decoupling of resources from their representations is so core to HTTP. A year ago, the maintainers defended Chrome's behavior as consistent with Firefox, and vaguely as consistent with the spec. Since then,
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Chrome "Back" bug breaks HTTP content negotiation; marked WontFix for 1+ years(code.google.com)
9 points by mcgwiz 14y ago|3 comments
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
What's all the hullaballoo about?! LinkedIn does the same thing: you can see who viewed your profile if you enable your own views of other profiles to be seen by their owners. Or do we only get riled up when the perp is a small startup that
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Completely agree. One of the quickest ways to burn bridges and ensure you are perceived as caring more about your own ego and "needs" than anything else, is to re-implement something without talking to anyone about it, be they the authors,
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Their technique for generating the HTML representation of deep-link into a Meteor app is to run the entire client app in a headless browser and serialize the generated DOM?! This is an area of vital importance to public, JS-based RIAs, and
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
"We've launched a mobile site built entirely in AngularJS - thoughts?" My only thought is title-bait. This is a usability article, with almost nothing to do with AngularJS. But hey, I guess it worked.
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NOAA report: July was hottest since record-taking began in 1895(weather.com)
3 points by mcgwiz 14y ago|0 comments
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Barack Obama likely a descendant of the first-documented American slave(nytimes.com)
2 points by mcgwiz 14y ago|0 comments
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Not sure why the author goes through pains not to call out the fact that SO is not secure in the layman sense. In general, if a service requires users to understand the lack of SSL and to take security into their own hands, the service is
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
The author's gripe seems to be that the hiding of dotfiles was unintended, ergo dotfiles are Bad. Whether they were intended is irrelevant; their wide usage vindicates the practice. After all, traction = value. The problem of program state/
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
"lack of knowledge about how things work" and "The problem is hosting". Are you people insane?! An open information policy, regardless of it's supposed higher morality, reduces a social network's ability to compete, because a) it gives comp
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Teams that lack the element of craftsmanship in their culture will likely not care if a programmer knows grammatical rules of natural language (much less if he is a master of natural language). To simplify, whether you agree with the author
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Using NDepend to support lightweight componentization of .NET code(infoq.com)
2 points by mcgwiz 14y ago|0 comments
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
I don't like software architects. I'd much rather have a team full of A-type engineers that will stop at nothing to force their individual vision into a project. We can trust that every top-notch developer has the whole project's welfare at
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Use the widest established terms possible: "tap", and "tap and hold". 1. Observe that the feedback bar above the blue area is orange. 2. Tap and hold the blue area. 3. While still holding, tap and hold a different part of the blue area with
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With Tablet, Microsoft Takes Aim at Hardware Missteps(nytimes.com)
39 points by mcgwiz 14y ago|26 comments
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
The thing they will (should) appreciate the most, and the thing that will keep the bridge most intact after leaving, is to be generous in the advancement of your notice. This honors the trust they put in you as an employee with significant

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