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by mekoka 6y ago
Don't you find the pedantry a bit tiresome? I was curious to see where you were going with your earlier positions, but it now seems that you were just being a contrarian for the sake of some intellectual jousting and that you're n
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by mekoka 6y ago
The problem with SOLID is not SOLID, it's the fetishism that sometimes surrounds it. I get it, rules are attractive as they make everything easier. You put on blinders and follow the track. But the fact that there's so much disagr
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by mekoka 6y ago
“Bitcoin uses more electricity per transaction than any other method known to mankind, and so it’s not a great climate thing” That's the sole actual quote attributed to Bill Gates in that article (which doesn't even link to any
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by mekoka 6y ago
> As far as "engineering" goes, specifying your types is about as low-hanging, basic a step as you can take. How do you come to such a conclusion when there have been many languages whose success was specifically tied to the fa
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by mekoka 6y ago
I find your interpretation and subsequent extrapolation on his qualification as senior unfair. He clearly tried TS and was frustrated by his initial experience, because there were certain things he had a hard time understanding or justifyin
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by mekoka 6y ago
The temptation is great and common to go cold turkey or gung ho and I don't claim to know anything about your particular protocol, but my own observations lead me to believe that the body can adapt to some unusual regiments quite nicel
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by mekoka 6y ago
A previous discussion (different article) on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9074473
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by mekoka 6y ago
Was it discovered , meaning that the indigenous population didn't know about it, doesn't have a name for it, cannot tell you anything about it, or meaning that it will now be introduced in a formal taxonomy?
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by mekoka 6y ago
> It's actually, probably better "bang for the buck," although it won't seem like it, on the surface. A car's primary function is to move its passengers from point A to point B, safely and timely. Both cars do th
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by mekoka 6y ago
As someone who's been using DDG for the past three years, I'd love to nudge more people toward it, but when I think of how often I have to prefix my search with !g to find what I'm looking for, I don't think DDG is quite
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by mekoka 6y ago
Too bad. I was really looking forward to the great exodus of Feb 8th.
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by mekoka 6y ago
Why would critical thinking exclude the possibility? There are situations where death comes before the threshold of discomfort.
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by mekoka 6y ago
Until teachers understand that learning programming and learning a programming language can actually be done separately, the debate will go on. There's this mindset that by teaching c early on you expose students to a whole range of
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by mekoka 6y ago
I was surprised to see my dad and a few relatives ask me about Signal today and when I logged on, they were on it.
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by mekoka 6y ago
I'm confused by this statement about pgBouncer et al. These systems allow you to make as many database connections as you want and manage them inefficiently, because the connections they give you are fake & cheap simulated connect
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by mekoka 6y ago
Really? https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4619 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6069
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by mekoka 6y ago
Indeed. Lots of "it makes sense in the context of JavaScript" reactions here. If the article had pointed to warts in another language, we would probably have had the same reaction from proponents of that language. I think the poin
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by mekoka 6y ago
> We should evaluate "success" holistically, not just financially or else we miss the downstream effects of our decisions. This blindness is the same mindset that has caused climate change. Your comment is guilty of the very si
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by mekoka 6y ago
That remark from L. Torvalds is, I think, about how to approach problem solving. I'm sure he does have some opinions about code style and organization, but I feel that they would be shelved under a different conversation. Programming i
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by mekoka 6y ago
What you're thinking of is selling the browser as a product , but what about the browser as a platform ? In the former the browser is considered the end product, in the latter it's only the starting point. You must create an eco
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by mekoka 6y ago
It seems to me that Mozilla isn't just technologically pessimistic, but they also just lack vision for the future of the web and what roles the browser could play in it. Right now, the only reason we're talking about them is that
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by mekoka 6y ago
I'm a bit uncertain by what you call the "hard left". I don't know how one can read the "The Rebel" and come out with the idea that the author is a hardliner, when he's advocating for temperance and common
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by mekoka 6y ago
It's strange to believe that you know what people undergo during something as subjective as a sensory experiment. No matter your expertise, you can never really know how another person is perceiving their reality. We're all give
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by mekoka 6y ago
Criticizing the work is one thing. Trying to bully people for finding beauty where you can't is kinda childish.
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by mekoka 6y ago
I think that page would benefit to first more clearly define what a JavaScript Ninja is and why it's good for you to become one. Something along the lines: "A JavaScript Ninja writes code that is brilliantly mysterious. When pe
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by mekoka 6y ago
Even more surprising, it's been submitted umpteen times before: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=javascript.info I sometimes wonder what are the dynamics that trigger the snowball on HN.
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by mekoka 6y ago
This article seems to want to define "Silicon Valley" in terms of companies starting up and the prospect of employment. But in my opinion, these numbers considered over a short period aren't necessarily a relevant base for co
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by mekoka 6y ago
Don't force a dichotomy where there isn't one. You can hate both and it's perfectly okay. There are no solutions, only trade-offs (Thomas Sowell).
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Next: Magpies develop "capsitalism". I'm sorry, it was right there.
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by mekoka 6y ago
> Early in my career, I noticed a mindset among senior developers disparaging ORM's with "I'll write my own SQL, thanks." Hopefully they were justified in their choice. Most senior developers I've worked with who

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