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by mikl 8y ago
The Luddite perspective: Anyone using automation is "stealing a job from someone who needs it". Never mind the fact that automation is why we have such wealth and plenty, and why you can spend your time writing Luddite blog posts,
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by mikl 8y ago
Making errors while producing software is natural. Deciding to ignore complaints and refuse to fix your errors is not. It's just Google arrogance.
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by mikl 8y ago
Because you might not like where Google takes Gmail or Chrome in the future. Like when we had a decade of zero progress in web technology because Microsoft was holding everyone back with their virtual Internet Explorer monopoly.
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by mikl 8y ago
You can thank the FDA (plus the patent system) for that. If it wasn't so fantastically expensive to bring generic, age-old, drugs to the market in the U.S., there would be a lot more competition.
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by mikl 8y ago
With frameworks like Next.js, it's no longer either/or, the explicit goal is to have the best of both worlds. The first page is delivered with SSR (for speed), then it boots React in the browser and works as an SPA.
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by mikl 8y ago
Generally, no. Almost any framework has build steps these days, at least `composer install` to get all the dependencies, and usually also special web server configuration, so you don't expose all your PHP files to the web, only the ind
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by mikl 8y ago
This is pretty much a laundry list of anti-patterns for modern web development. Non-atomic deployments? Not using Composer to manage dependencies? No separation of concerns? Editing files directly on the production environment? I get that i
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by mikl 8y ago
On the other hand, in Danish and Norwegian, East is "Øst", making slashed zeros awkward together with compass directions. Dotted zeros would be better.
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by mikl 8y ago
I would ask the same thing of you. Are you playing dumb or are you really not aware that SF is kinda out there on the U.S. left wing? If I, a european who've only visited the U.S. a handful of times, know more of U.S. politics than you
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by mikl 8y ago
So what is the game here? Put a random noun between "…" and "?"? Let me try: …airhockey?
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by mikl 8y ago
So you would be fine if projects started adoping CoCs like these, if they did so seriously?
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by mikl 8y ago
Not to get into a huge political philosophy discussion here, but conservative people are on average some of the biggest donators to charitable groups who focus on tenets such as these. The "liberals" don't have a corner on wa
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by mikl 8y ago
By "San Francisco Democrat"? I mean the values held by the average Democrat-voting San Franciscan.
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by mikl 8y ago
I did not say Republican. Nor did I mean Republican.
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by mikl 8y ago
Maybe it would go better if you just took my words at face value instead of trying to find some way to misinterpret them.
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by mikl 8y ago
That's almost a tautology. Everyone find their own values good, and other people's values less good (if not downright bad). In any case, you might have gained some understanding of why other people get upset, when _your_ values ar
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by mikl 8y ago
An interesting mirroring of the popular CoCs these days. While they enshrine what one could call "San Francisco Democrat" values, this CoC enshrines christian conservative values. If you think value-based CoCs are fine, you should
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by mikl 8y ago
The whole point of open source is that OSS code can be used (and modified) for whatever use anyone wants. Copy-left compels you to share your modifications, but does not limit you from using the software however you please.
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by mikl 8y ago
Great, another creepy thing in Chrome we have to disable. Like Google Software Update wasn't already annoying enough. If I wasn't a web developer, and needed to use Chrome for testing, I'd have uninstalled that creepy quasi-s
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by mikl 8y ago
Yeah, I can’t see how Github can host Lerna with this license, since Github is clearly “any subsidiary thereof”.
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by mikl 8y ago
I see. Maybe I’m too much of a pessimist, but I imagine most products would need custom server-side business logic, and that business logic would also need to talk to the database. So I guess you could put your own GraphQL server in the mid
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by mikl 8y ago
I’m sure Haskell is great, just saying its a bit of a risk to add to your stack if you don’t already have Haskell developers in house. That, and the AGPL issue are both more important in this case (compared to MongoDB), because of the posit
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by mikl 8y ago
First glance reaction: Awesome, just the thing I need. Then I saw the fine print: AGPL. Haskell. The thing might be awesome, but the combination of the legal risk from AGPL (very little legal precedent for AGPL, especially outside the US, s
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by mikl 8y ago
> React is a big commitment. I guess that’s why I’m still struggling to comprehend why so many organizations are so eager to take the sturdy, foundational layer of the frontend stack and rewrite it all in a proprietary format. There’s no
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by mikl 8y ago
Cue the “Hunt for Red October” soundtrack. Pure geeky engineering porn.
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by mikl 9y ago
Applying SIP on the KEXT makes sense, since any KEXT that’s writable by the user is a huge security risk. The only thing that appears to be broken here is the BlueStack uninstaller that is apparently not SIP-aware. There’s probably some way
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by mikl 9y ago
I think it’s a bit naïve to think that Intel wouldn’t have built this thing, if they didn’t have MINIX as a starting point. They could have used another open source kernel, or a commercial kernel like QNX, or even built their own from scrat
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by mikl 9y ago
Yammer.com? Now there’s an unhelpful endorsement. It’s been a while since I used Yammer, but I remember its UI as pretty damn awful.
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by mikl 9y ago
Great write-up. If your software team has a single point of failure, a linchpin developer that holds everything together, then your team is defective. Regardless of the attributes of this developer, management has failed in letting it come
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by mikl 9y ago
From 2.5% in July to 4.9% in September. Seems highly unlikely that many millions of people decided to switch desktop OS within a couple of months, without anyone noticing.

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