mtVessel

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by mtVessel 6y ago
In the third example, is function isProlific missing a parameter?
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by mtVessel 6y ago
What was it that Dr. Malcolm said?
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by mtVessel 6y ago
> Until this day, in my book, the absolute gold standard when it comes to documentation. Amen to that! I started my career in a VMS shop, did a lot of DCL scripting. I have never seen better technical docs, before or since.
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by mtVessel 6y ago
Branding every possible decision as "technical debt" is intellectually dishonest. Each decision you make has consequences. Technical debt is the result of choosing an expedient path over one that supports your wider goals. It&#x
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by mtVessel 6y ago
Question about the TOS: "However, by posting Content using Service you grant us the right and license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content on and through Service. You agree that thi
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by mtVessel 6y ago
Sorry, the real problem is figuring out which 10 stories are actually worth reading, per Sturgeon's Law.
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by mtVessel 6y ago
From the article: "We ought to add some nuance. For each incremental increase in the frequency of the beneficial mutation, it’s not technically a death that’s called for, but only the failure of one individual to survive and reproduce.
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by mtVessel 6y ago
I have never been able to fathom why anyone thought that hazard lights and turn indicators should be mutually exclusive.
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by mtVessel 6y ago
Let's see, what's worse? Being rudely awakened, or being maimed/killed by a driver who literally cannot see? I suppose in terms of net impact to society, there's no way of deciding without knowing in advance if the hypo
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by mtVessel 6y ago
OK, maybe I was a little harsh. But it doesn't matter who the aggrieved party is. He took an action, and now he's trying to weasel out of it by saying, in effect, "yeah, but I had my fingers crossed behind my back, so it do
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by mtVessel 6y ago
I never apologized...I only signed a legal agreement that allowed an apology to be issued in my name. Christ, what an asshole.
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by mtVessel 6y ago
That's only looking at O365, the cloud-based version of Office. Not all companies have migrated to the cloud version yet. If you look at all versions of Office, some sources claim Microsoft has 90% of the Office Suite market. I&#x27
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by mtVessel 6y ago
I agree with your first statement, but could you explain how b-trees logically lead to sharding (at some growth point)? What storage structure doesn't lead to sharding eventually?
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by mtVessel 6y ago
Generally, I agree. But in many RDBMSs, auto-increment features explicitly do not guarantee gap-less sequential ordering. If anything throws, it's easy to end up with discarded numbers, in which case you need to catch all errors, ins
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by mtVessel 6y ago
Unaware, is my bet. The vast majority of technical writing, both online and in print, is either dumbed down beyond utility, or utterly incomprehensible. Communication is a specific skill, and vanishingly few have expertise in a given fiel
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by mtVessel 7y ago
This page[1] seems to indicate licensing SQL Server (Standard Ed) for 32 cores would cost $59,472 ($3,717 per 2 cores). Where do you get $700 from? [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2017-p.
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by mtVessel 7y ago
"And my axe", as PTG used to say. The redesign did nothing positive and the site has less and less interesting content every day. They say the action is in the subs, but I still can't find a decent way to discover which one
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by mtVessel 7y ago
As outlined in Dr. Dan Streetmentioner’s Software Developer’s Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations
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by mtVessel 7y ago
Isn't DDG just white labeling search results from Bing?
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by mtVessel 7y ago
I don't understand the author's claim that the sunk-cost fallacy has nothing to do with loss aversion because, "...[loss aversion] requires a comparison be made between losses and gains." Any consideration of sunk cost
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by mtVessel 7y ago
Agreed. It seems far more likely the population with income swings suffered from latent, "sub-clinical" cognitive issues that merely became more pronounced later in life.
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by mtVessel 7y ago
Like they say, "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." And was it Santayana who said, "those who do not remember the past are condemned to recreate it in Javascript?" Evidence of the demise of desktop computing
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by mtVessel 7y ago
Or that the divorce rate in Maine correlates with per capita consumption of margarine! (ibid)
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by mtVessel 7y ago
...or a tutorial on Javascript
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by mtVessel 7y ago
The difference is that the article is investigating using a property in the boundary check. The boundary check is evaluated with every iteration. Your example is only using it in the initialization expression which, by definition, is eval
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by mtVessel 7y ago
Yes, but the point is that the gap between rich and middle-class in a single nation, under a single political system, perhaps shouldn't be as wide as the gap between developed and developing nations.
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by mtVessel 7y ago
This isn't a single number in TFA that makes sense. $100K was merely "adequate" in 1970? The whole thing is suspect.
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by mtVessel 7y ago
Not GPP, but in the tl;dr please state what you offer, not what you think you are ("a free and open source 'Google'"). Tell me what you offer and I'll decide what you are to me. Bonus points if you can describe t
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by mtVessel 7y ago
Basecamp doesn't have terabytes of data that would need to be available and consistent for every user on every version of the platform.
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by mtVessel 8y ago
Tracy Kidder was the immediate counterpoint that came to my mind, as well. "The Soul of a New Machine" probably is (or should be) on every HNer's bookshelf. "Mountains Beyond Mountains" was also a fascinating read

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