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by meijer 7y ago
Also, many of the politician are old themselves. Being in public all the same, the are really vulnerable.
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by meijer 7y ago
My rule of thumb is: if it is the type of error that I want a stacktrace for: use an exception. For example: programming errors, unhandled cases etc. If it is an error that I want to handle explicitly, for example by showing a nice user mes
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by meijer 7y ago
The link is NSFW.
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by meijer 7y ago
But this doesn't handle the state. It is not working imperativ code.
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by meijer 7y ago
So I guess this is just an opportunity for you to get rid of Stallman.
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by meijer 7y ago
But the lynch mob is still there and defends its cancel culture. You can see them all over Twitter. They are ruthless .
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by meijer 7y ago
Something is going wrong with the streaming market. In Germany, nobody is streaming Seinfeld! Amazon stopped a few months ago. You just cannot watch Seinfeld online.
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by meijer 7y ago
He did not defend Epstein.
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by meijer 7y ago
You might have a point here. I wish I hadn't read "Why we sleep"...
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by meijer 7y ago
"Stoicism" got a bad rep 1700 years ago when I was defamed by Roman christians. I think it still suffers from this.
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by meijer 7y ago
As a German, I don't like the name "Camelia" very much because it is associated with hygiene products here (brand name). "Raku" sounds nicer for me.
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by meijer 7y ago
> Property-based testing is very good at shifting the cost-benefit ratio of testing, because it somewhat reduces the effort to write what is effectively a larger number of tests and increases the number of defects those tests will find.
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by meijer 7y ago
For me the point is: you should treat people well even if you don't like them. And that includes not spreading slander.
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by meijer 7y ago
Yeah, I also noticed this. And I'm pretty sure that some years ago gmail was much better at this.
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by meijer 8y ago
> Do you see what's not there? Programming language competency. Database knowledge. Things like that. I hear this a lot, but I'm not sure I agree 100%. I want to work with people who can write idiomatic code and are able to use
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PG about being aggrieved and/or rich(twitter.com)
6 points by meijer 8y ago|1 comments
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by meijer 8y ago
Wrt to "How the Mind works": The beginning is really pretty dry, but it gets a lot more interesting in the later chapters.
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by meijer 8y ago
There are now more completely obvious bugs in widely used software. It's like developers care less.
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by meijer 8y ago
One could argue that such an API exists. It even understands natural language!
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by meijer 8y ago
We probably don't remember those who were eliminated.
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by meijer 8y ago
Well, kids need more, obviously. But old people do not really less than young adults, according to "Why we sleep".
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by meijer 8y ago
I hope Windows 7 will somehow live forever.
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by meijer 8y ago
> Do python or ruby devs really feel they are less productive than java devs because they have no types? Yes, I do.