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by mekoka 6y ago
> honestly looking at the world in sober fashion I think most people are probably not scared enough. I see your comment as the perfect irony. First, you presume that your outlook is sober, but have you considered that the way you perceiv
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by mekoka 6y ago
Regarding choice deferral, perhaps you should take another closer look at that experiment. It seems to me that you may have missed the fact that the choice that was taken away is not "online + print", but rather "print only
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by mekoka 6y ago
1. Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable. As a non-designer who's had to fight many designers on this, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that this is about perception . It&#x2
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by mekoka 6y ago
I suspect two things to be at work here (among possibly many): - First, reciprocity. If you send me an email with a one-liner, I will feel that replying in kind would be adequate. A verbose email on the other hand, may have the opposite eff
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There's a setting to order answers based on votes in the page.
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Inheritance is the stuff that I dread when reading code. A class that inherits from another class (which itself isn't a base type) looks to me like the entrance of a labyrinth, or a reminder that it's time to go get a coffee. It&#
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by mekoka 6y ago
> it's frustrating that the current culture in science isn't "present the best argument for your position no matter how crazy it is" but rather "your arguments better agree with the established consensus unless y
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by mekoka 6y ago
> you may disagree with some of the things I listed if you don't like the particular feature or design, but that doesn't make them not advantages Since the above equally applies to you, I suppose you're saying that these &
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by mekoka 6y ago
You should also consider that the contrarian nature of HN would set it up to exactly the opposite reaction had the post expressed the reverse of its current positions. The big irony is that it's not inconceivable that it would involve
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by mekoka 6y ago
> volunteered as servers at his daughters wedding as a show of appreciation. > can command the most powerful of his country to such level of willful subservience To me there's a disconnect between the two phrases. I don't t
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by mekoka 6y ago
I stand by my assertion. Anyone trying to use a concept as misunderstood as IQ to explain a disparity in tech regarding black people is most probably misguided and jumping to conclusion. The other person responding to my comment (and who
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by mekoka 6y ago
I love seeing comments like this surface on HN, because they serve to show how some people can think of themselves as rational while being so oblivious about their ignorance. It can go on silently for years, because they think it's jus
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by mekoka 6y ago
The article is not pointing the blame toward discrimination , it addresses the hypocrisy of those with the means to affect change, who are glad to denounce while remaining passive . Apathy while in a position to influence is a form of tac
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Git is still what you use to manage your project's "snapshots" at any given time. But GitHub/GitLab add a plethora of tools to make it easier to manage your project and facilitate collaboration. In addition of offering t
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Over the years, I've seen a lot of people claiming that they understand what Fielding meant and trying to explain his ideas. Then I've seen him dismiss those explanations and examples. What I would have loved more than anything ab
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by mekoka 6y ago
What exactly does that mean? What is it that put you off in his approach? Was it the cold outreach? If so, how would you have liked to be approached for his type of service/product?
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by mekoka 6y ago
How many bad doctors do you need to meet before deciding that they're also human? As the saying goes, "trust, but verify".
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Props to Jensen for exposing this longtime bug. Props to the PG team for identifying the culprit and their response. This report just strengthens my faith in the project.
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It means you will need to patch your pg in the next release scheduled in August https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit...
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by mekoka 6y ago
I'm on the second camp of that divide as well. Most times, all you really need is the logging functionality (whether you get it from a logger or a debugger) to observe the outcome of an action. It's not really necessary to witne
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by mekoka 6y ago
Side question. I have noticed for a few weeks now that since I don't have a Medium account I'm prevented from reading certain articles (like this one), but I still have access to some other articles on the platform. Does it mean t
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by mekoka 6y ago
I think Excel can be considered an upgrade on the physical typewriter. Yet, some people still write books with those. Whatever gets you there.
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by mekoka 6y ago
Writing is not publishing. If you conflate the two you might not write at all. Having a place to write is as free and easy as: mkdir ~/thoughts Now, after you've replied your quick counterpoints to someone on HN, whip out t
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by mekoka 6y ago
I've also used Linux on the desktop for over a decade, and I have to use Windows 10 at work every day. In my experience, Windows is still not Linux. I don't know what kind of laptops you've had to run Linux on, but my desktop
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by mekoka 6y ago
This comment looks a bit comical when compared with the one you started this whole thread with. You're an engineer, why are you siding with marketing over measured technical facts? Do you think denial will make your infrastructure any
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by mekoka 6y ago
> So even if poor developers improve by 1/3 while great developers are downgraded by 1, we're better off. Ye... No. Note that your made-up productivity algebra model crumbles as soon as you stop seeing developers as code churn
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Congrats! - strive for simplicity. - when diagramming, don't force your audience to learn a new language made of weird shapes. Simple boxes, clouds, and arrows, go a long way, but clear labels and descriptive text are like a superpower
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by mekoka 7y ago
I think it's too bad that this drug has been so politicized. It's really unfortunate that its two original and most prominent champions are people that are so disliked. So many people spoke up (maybe prematurely) against it in a k
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by mekoka 7y ago
Well the article is consistent with the ones you posted. I don't see any other side of the story . It's rather a continuation of the same story. “Our interpretation suggests that we may be forced to suspend the activity of our d
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by mekoka 7y ago
It's hard to tell which is which and it's probably a bit of both. I don't really understand why whenever the living nature is being explained, it's done in a way that attributes to some design what really belongs to an a

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