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by mreiland 12y ago
Which was itself based off of things like COM and CORBA. How far back do we want to go?
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by mreiland 12y ago
> Maybe the situation has improved now though. But the whole KMail transition was really painful for no tangible benefits to the user. This really feels like a prime example of overengineering. That's how I felt about most of KDE4.
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by mreiland 12y ago
Sure, but intimidated isn't fearful of one's life. We all get intimidated in social situations regardless of gender. I'm sure it's worse at dev conferences for women with respect to intimidation, but I don't think
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by mreiland 12y ago
I don't think anyone is saying the browser et al aren't abstractions. Think of it like this, no amount of abstraction will save you from having a network connection go away. That sort of use case adds complexity, and you can&#x2
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by mreiland 12y ago
No, it's about the assumptions and it's a mistake to move away from that mindset. The Unix filesystem api isn't complete, if it were ioctl wouldn't exist. Assumptions all around, and ioctl is the way you adjust those as
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by mreiland 12y ago
Personally I think browsers will become service layers that expose the underlying OS in controlled and specific ways. Not a completely sandbox, but not a free for all either. We've started creeping that way with a lot of the newer HTM
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by mreiland 12y ago
yep, I love that talk and I find myself pointing people towards it all the time :)
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by mreiland 12y ago
That last quote really resonates with my experience of software dev in general. "easy" API's generally do it by making a ton of assumptions. Modifying those assumptions becomes a huge pain point and that's if the API
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by mreiland 12y ago
lmao
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by mreiland 12y ago
But do you have that fear running around in a public area with 800+ random people? The fear itself is reasonable, perhaps not fair, but reasonable. But if the fear is so strong for you that you can't even feel safe in the above descri
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by mreiland 12y ago
> Unfortunately that isn't how she felt. Her feelings should matter to us just as Hank's feelings matter. It was unreasonable for her to feel that way and even the author of the article acknowledged that. She can feel however s
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by mreiland 12y ago
deserved is maybe not the right word for it, but I certainly feel no empathy for her. She made her decision, she went on her crusade and she got the obvious result. Not the result she wanted, but the obvious result regardless.
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by mreiland 12y ago
For those of us who are older, the internet was a way to express ourselves without having to deal with the backlash of having views that weren't popular in your local community. being liberal in a conservative community, for example.
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by mreiland 12y ago
that caught me be surprise too, I came in here specifically to see if I could find out where that number came from.
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by mreiland 12y ago
> Part of his grading regimen included measuring the margins of our papers to ensure we followed instructions, subtracting 50 points for each margin that wasn't exactly 1" from the edge of the paper. And that was before he gra
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by mreiland 12y ago
post-college salaries are w/i 5% of each other when controlled for variables such as education, experience, and profession.
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by mreiland 12y ago
In other words, you're fucking stupid.
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by mreiland 12y ago
I suppose it depends on the culture you work in.
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by mreiland 12y ago
In context of people it means sexual attraction.
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by mreiland 12y ago
yep. dealing with one of those solutions now. The guy who wrote it is "faster than me", no doubt. The difference is the system I wrote for the company works and the system he rewrote is currently being rewritten (by me) because
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by mreiland 12y ago
> Not every subproject is useful for its own sake. Hold your team members accountable for demonstrating the value of tangential work beforehand, and put your foot down if you're not convinced. Everyone loves a side-project, but it&#
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by mreiland 12y ago
There's a clear difference between sexual attraction and the cuteness of a kid.
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by mreiland 12y ago
It's an interesting observation that agrees with my experience as well.
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by mreiland 12y ago
While looking at wiki isn't going to make you an expert, basing your opinion on a wiki article isn't exactly the worst thing in the world to do.
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by mreiland 12y ago
that blog is extremely quick to load.
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by mreiland 12y ago
No it doesn't, it devalues effectiveness. You can argue that all of those things make you effective, and while that's true, lets make sure we're on point here. It devalues effectiveness, not education.
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by mreiland 12y ago
> For example: Messaging, Search, Authentication, etc. These all have different requirements and focuses and therefore lend themselves better to different languages. What? Every single one of those is a solved problem that has bindings t
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by mreiland 12y ago
aha, I wasn't aware of that. I suppose it's similar to Wal-Mart doing the same thing in the 90's (I think? I'm too old).
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by mreiland 12y ago
I love Amazon to death. I have no idea what you mean by "Amazon version of something", but I just purchased an MS ergo keyboard from them a few weeks ago instead of going to best buy. As far as I'm concerned there is no &quo
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by mreiland 12y ago
stop blaming non-developers for the problems created by developers. It's the result of developer who don't have the maturity to consider the long term risk of their decisions. That has nothing to do with the business leaders. I f

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