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by myk9001 2y ago
I don't know if the gp's question is intended as a bait or not. However, it describes a real scenario playing out literally as we speak. While I absolutely don't mean this in a confrontational manner, if your ethical framewor
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by myk9001 2y ago
I find it ironic that a US citizen gets to enjoy the privilege of making an ethical choice of whether to support their military thanks pricesely to the fact the US possesses the most advanced military force out there.
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by myk9001 3y ago
Does a falling tree in a forest make a sound if there's no one around to hear it.
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by myk9001 3y ago
Did Mr Altman happen to elaborate on what time zone he had in mind? ;)
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by myk9001 3y ago
Power types: to multiply your effectiveness on those days when product and sum types just don't add up.
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by myk9001 3y ago
Named after Carly Rae Jepsen for her song Call Me Maybe.
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by myk9001 3y ago
> If you started saying “from drawer select socks and pants”, wouldn’t that feel like a weird sentence structure to most people? To a SQL Jedi order matters not.
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by myk9001 3y ago
OK, in this theory of computational bounds in nature, how did the universe arise?
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by myk9001 3y ago
Doesn't this apply equally to movies?
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by myk9001 3y ago
The idea of rendering relative dates instead of the actual dates caught up about 10 maybe 15 years ago (a relative date here, yes). I think -- but don't take my word for it -- it was Jeff Atwood who started advocating for it. So we mig
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by myk9001 3y ago
What are some situations where you find calculating the relative date useful? Personally, if I care about a timestamp at all it's because I want to compare it to another date (maybe a past date, maybe a present or future one): a deadli
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by myk9001 3y ago
Alternatively, the actual date can be rendered on the page and if people want the relative they can hower over. Rendering relative dates instead of actual is not a good user experience in my opinion. Personally, if I'm looking at a dat
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by myk9001 3y ago
That's a good question. Admittedly, my original comment is informed by the general impressions IDEs gave me back then and now, so I'll try to be more specific this time. Of course, I haven't used every existing IDE from mid 9
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by myk9001 3y ago
Oh, back at the time it was a good. IDE. There was also C++ Builder, but it had its own quirks, of course. Picking one of them was, I guess, a matter of personal preference, the project's requirements, etc. Anyway, I sure see how my c
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by myk9001 3y ago
Yes, Visual Assist is the name, thank you. I see how my comment may sound that way, but I didn't really mean to contrast JB vs others. A better idea woud've been comparing a modern version of VS with VS 6, for example. Anyway, my
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by myk9001 3y ago
Point taken. Didn't mean to say its release date is 2005, but that's definitely not obvious from my comment. It was still mainstream in 2005, I think. Do you remember if I get that right? At least we were using it at work in 2005.
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by myk9001 3y ago
Maybe we can look at it as an opportunity for inventing a fundamentally different approach to text editing on mobile? In another topic on HN people are discussing how software gets more bloated over time, because throwing more powerful hard
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by myk9001 3y ago
I'd respectfully disagree on VS 6. It was OK for its time, but hardly a piece of art, in my experience. Please excuse me copying the relevant portion from my other comment. VS 6's support of C++ back in 2005 wasn't that great
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by myk9001 3y ago
Can't comment on Java support in Eclipse back then. VS 6's support of C++ back in 2005 wasn't that great, at leat the way I remember it now. Code navigation was very primitive, and you were lucky if it didn't consider th
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by myk9001 3y ago
> I think that new software bloat far outweighs the benefits brought in by new hardware as well. While software bloat is undeniably a problem, in my experience it's not that clear-cut. E.g., a messanger app built on Elector is a pur
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by myk9001 3y ago
> I understand that "forever" is a nebulous term, but it works both ways. So, at what point in time the person who is observing a running program is going to declare it doesn't halt? What if they conclude the program doesn
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by myk9001 3y ago
I don't think it can be boiled down to a performance cost issue. If a program is going to run forever, how do you measure the forever has passed to conclude the program doesn't halt?
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by myk9001 3y ago
If you're comfortable sharing, could you elaborate on how a transition from unpaid contributions to some kind of paid work arrangement typically happens. In your experience, is there usually a more or less deterministic path to a stage
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by myk9001 3y ago
Sure, I didn't mean to say the allies were bad guys here, not at all. Of course they were doing the best they could. If they didn't win, it's scary to think what kind of world we would be living in now, assuming we would be l
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by myk9001 3y ago
OK, after reading your and other people's comments explaining ineffectivnes of the bombings, I think you're right, the strategic bombings were ineffective from the military standpoint, wasted resources that could've been put
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by myk9001 3y ago
> [...] obviously visible by how the German armies kept shooting until they were eliminated by other shooting armies. It's not that obvious to me. Of course they kept shooting. It's hard to imagine a scale of destruction necess
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by myk9001 3y ago
Your comment seems to imply the German forces on the Eastern front weren't reliant on the German industrial capacity targeted by the Allied bombings. Had the Germany retained said industrial capacity, wouldn't the USSR have to fig
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by myk9001 3y ago
Whatever, I'll bite. I'm a software developer. Some reasons I'm on Windows. 1. Font rendering Programmers, admins, devops, people in tech basically stare at text all day long. Some people seem to be oblivious to font renderin
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by myk9001 3y ago
Think of a "traditional" web application (Django, RoR, etc). Say, one day you decide to completely rewrite it -- add new pages, remove some existing pages, change the site structure (as in which pages the user can navigate to from
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by myk9001 3y ago
You're absolutely correct in stating REST is not confined to HTML, CSS, JS. A JSON, XML, or binary-based media type are all compatible with the architectural style. I don't think the grandparent implies otherwise, though. They are

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