njharman

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by njharman 10y ago
Job is kind of a hard definition. Being compensated seems to be the main difference between job and; hobby, charity (working for "free"). Entrepreneurial endeavors lie in a muddy middle ground. With increasing efficiency and autom
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by njharman 10y ago
It leaks out too, even more so I believe.
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by njharman 10y ago
Helium balloons are far from permanent. Helium leaks/leeches out.
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by njharman 10y ago
Honest question: Is it not widely accepted that 1) Eventually, and probably pretty soon (within 100years), that there obviously won't be jobs for everyone. Automation, progress(efficiency gains) and increasing population makes it inev
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by njharman 10y ago
This is why/how they are a development tool. "Mocking interactions among objects", often breaking, taking too long to write (I expect to spend 30% dev on units, 30% on code rest thinking, planning, etc). Those are all indic
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by njharman 10y ago
Let's Encrypt is awesome. I've used it to setup real https on several of my domains. It was easy, automatically renews, just works.
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by njharman 10y ago
Unit tests aren't really about testing (in the validating sense) software. They in fact are quite deficient in that role. No integration tests, no end-to-end tests, no fuzz testing, etc. Unit Tests are foremost a software development
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by njharman 10y ago
Correction, code is at most "good enough". I've seen (and written) plenty of code that was less than good enough.
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by njharman 10y ago
Decline and migration due to climate/more localized environmental change has been going on forEVER. Some manmade, some not. See ice ages, desertification, deforestation.
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by njharman 10y ago
I agree but only because we have come very, very, like finger hovering over button, close several times and it did not happen. And those are just the declassified instances we've been allowed to know about. If USA and USSR at height o
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by njharman 10y ago
This is true. But only to a very localized, i.e. self-centered, and very short-sided both ahead and behind person. I remember the marauding hordes, genocide has occurred in your lifetime. Just not to you. To be taken seriously any thought o
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by njharman 10y ago
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/14/tor_board_replaces_i...
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by njharman 10y ago
126 times an IBM programmer. Which I'm not going to assume is or was a normal programmer.
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by njharman 10y ago
That doesn't make ms less evil. It should clue you in that all (big) companies are evil.
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by njharman 10y ago
No actually phasing out of Python 2 has already begun. Several libs today are Python 3 only. Many, many more are not going to pay the cost of supporting Python2 and drop it in next few years. Unless you are retiring next couple years or liv
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by njharman 10y ago
I really don't understand the aversion?, lack of use? of parenthesis. Back in college (before C++ was released to give you time scale) some C class, spent a lot of time on operator precedence. I was like, why bother? Just use parens, b
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by njharman 10y ago
1) you don't need to write c, to use it. 2) the number of devs who drop to "native" is ridiculously small because the problems that require that much effort to optimise is ridiculously small.
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by njharman 10y ago
Your team failed to avoid technical debt. Needless complexity and over engineering are debts.
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by njharman 10y ago
Every http request/response is a message. Every task queue, every AMQP/message system are message based systems. Modern development is lousy with message based architectures. It's just at the system level and not natively sup
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by njharman 10y ago
That is not the Human way.
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by njharman 10y ago
Well then you are agreeing with me, because that is what I said. One webapp cheaper, faster and less risk than multiple native apps.
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by njharman 10y ago
"Building" is very small part of software life cycle. Is it also cheaper to bug fix, add features to, update apps when each native platform updates, hire developers who know details of each platform, etc.
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by njharman 10y ago
Do you anything about Forth and Prolog and the languages you mention? Three are the same paradigm, the other two are very much not. This has nothing to do with syntax or "application domains".
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by njharman 10y ago
Bah, a wall? VR with 360 camera playback speed tied to treadmill or stationary bike I'm on.
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by njharman 10y ago
Good for them.
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by njharman 10y ago
What's the problem? Everyone acted nice, gave all the info needed / incident number. 2.5 days is way, way not enough time to wait for action / response. If author is worked up cause incompetence exists and accidents happen (
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by njharman 10y ago
Forth and Prolog are diverse. Ruby and Java are not. They are both algol (C) derived syntaxes. People only think they are much different because the lack exposure to languages from other (or no) heritages.
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by njharman 10y ago
> can't just take 2 months off to move all of it to Python 3 Welcome to the modern COBOL then. Have fun maintaining that and running only old libs cause everyone else in the world has passed you by. > I'm just waiting until
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by njharman 10y ago
Python 2 is not only legacy it is deprecated.
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by njharman 10y ago
No it is not.

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