mvindahl

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by mvindahl 10y ago
I've seen access control implemented both at database level (views and stored procedures) and at middleware level (Java/Hibernate). I'll greatly recommend the first of the two approaches, even if it means that developers have
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I read this piece for the first time about four years ago. I've been revisiting it at intervals ever since. As it happens, I had been assigned to a Javascript project at that time after a decade of working with Java. I had been initial
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by mvindahl 10y ago
That's an excellent insight, actually! A century ago, cars were fairly simple devices which required skill to start and operate. These days they are highly complex and hide their complexity nicely behind a dashboard. Once the abstracti
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Level 7: Rewrites browser software in Emacs LISP before proceeding
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Hope they have good reasons, then..
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Haven't studied the SvelteJS documentation but as far as I can reason there is nothing in their idea that prevents them from shielding the DOM behind a lightweight, virtual DOM, ReactJS style. In fact, I'd be slightly disappointed
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by mvindahl 10y ago
As far as I understand, ReactJS is a tightly weaved 40kB chunk of code which will be delivered to the browser no matter how ferociously you shake the tree.
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Maybe we simply hit the point where CPUs work well enough to serve their purpose and where the physical tradeoffs make it impractical to extend Moore's law. Proper credit: Maciej's observation, not mine: http://idleword
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I think the common denominator is to optimize for happiness. Most of us ended up in software development because we were curious about technology in the first place. Learning stuff and tinkering with stuff makes us happy. We should continue
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I've heard both sides of the static types vs dynamic types argument a lot of times. I don't think there will ever be any kind of universal agreement but I find the discussion to be interesting. For the record, I personally think a
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by mvindahl 10y ago
On the positive side, these kind of errors tend to blow up immediately when the code is executed. Assuming that you have a semi-decent test suite, it won't make it to production. The language type system won't save your butt but y
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Yup. There is an insane difference between how straightforward it is to transform data structures in Javascript and how cumbersome it is in Java.
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by mvindahl 10y ago
We don't need doctors to point out that the War on Drugs is bound to perpetual failure. Don't even need a scholar. Anyone with two eyes wired to a working brain would reach the same conclusion. That being said, the more people spe
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Also, it should be self replicating. And if it ever gains self-awareness and turns into Skynet, humanity could take it down with a Zippo lighter.
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by mvindahl 10y ago
(d) Insurance companies increase insurance premiums for every customer not in the young male demographic, blames "regulation". Results skyrocket. Management awards themselves seven digit raises to "keep attracting the best ta
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Well. At the end of the day, the companies will pick thresholds and rates to maximize their profits, based upon the data that they have available. They don't know every detail of our personal lives -- which would also be kind of unsett
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Far smaller scale but this one still makes me giggle: Worked at large enterprise, at small project team working on the successor for a dated customer support system running in production. Apart from that vision, we had little idea about the
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Almost everyone is carrying a touch screen in their pocket, complete with internet access, navigation, music, audiobooks, everything. Car manufacturers should just solve the problem of how to plug in the phone since they'll never deliv
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I'm not sure that they put a lot of thought into the concept of political parties back then. To a large extent, modern democratic systems have been designed as a mechanism for free men to make collective decisions based upon their indi
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Yeah, if it works (which I'm not even sure that it would), it would bear a lot of resemblance to a computer virus and no resemblance at all to a nuclear bomb.
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by mvindahl 10y ago
There should be a single, unified time across the globe. It would greatly simplify matters. I propose something like Friday around five-ish in the afternoon.
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Agreed. DST is just plain silliness for no gain. In a century everyone will have a hearty laugh at the superstitious timekeeping ritual of their ancestors. And the 24 hours clock is just a matter of notation. In large parts of the world it&
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I'm in Europe and it also seems offline from here ATM. Edit: it's up again
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by mvindahl 10y ago
In the larger cities, prices have surged over the past 15 years, in more remote areas, they have fallen slightly. There are plans on the table ATM to bring taxation in better line with valuation. As one may predict, this is not popular with
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I'm not sure that it would be just as easy to do this for houses. Freezing the market for a day would have little effect. Freezing it for years would be a very real nuisance. Besides, I'd like to question the conventional wisdom t
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I loved the GoF book back in the days. I recall it as very well written and very much directed at solving practical problems. Those properties alone set it apart from most books that I encountered during my time at the university. Being new
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Also, working at a company which actually has a deployed product with a high public profile is probably not bad. There are plenty of startups which never pan out. And there are plenty of companies out there with a single profitable cash cow
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Haven't tried Vue yet but I like the idea of having a choice. It would seem to me that for most cases one would simply a template since it gets you there easily and without any boilerplate. For the cases where one does need the full
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I usually wear a pantyhose over my head in public spaces. Also makes it possible to withdraw money from any bank without having it deducted from your account.
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by mvindahl 10y ago
But can yarn fix this? Say that I use yarn to depend upon some module X, specifying a fixed version number like the good boy scout that I am. Module X resides on npmjs and in turn depends upon the bleeding edge version of module Y. And then

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