olavk

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by olavk 9y ago
Are you saying OOP never have value?
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by olavk 9y ago
As someone living far away from SV, this is fascinating reading. But I think the survey could be more precise about what "can't say" really means. Will you get literally ostracized for holding the viewpoint in private or on a
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by olavk 9y ago
We developers need to understand there are no one-size fits all solutions. No protocol is optimal for all use-cases. Design is always a question of trade offs. Architectures are means to an end . The OP's story is a bit weird, because
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by olavk 9y ago
Goes to show that there is no perfect format for all use cases. The lack of comments is a good thing for interoperability in machine-to-machine communication. But it a bad thing for hand-written configuration files.
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by olavk 9y ago
I mentioned ReSharper because the article is about a rewrite of a .net project. But if you have a large bloated code base in a dynamic language and no tests then you are definitely in deep trouble. A rewrite is not going to help you with th
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by olavk 9y ago
Sorry about that! But actually ReSharper have attributes to annotate dynamically loaded interfaces, so they don't get flagged as unused.
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by olavk 9y ago
I agree, and migrating from a dead end platform is one the few legitimate justifications for a full rewrite.
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by olavk 9y ago
Some good points if you have to do a rewrite, but: > we developers see a crazy mishmash of old requirements, dead code, unpaid technical debt, and ersatz business logic. We developers see a chance to make things better... A rewrite to
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by olavk 9y ago
There is a lot of weird circumstances, but given the available evidence I still think the lone gunman theory is the most plausible. You say "the lone gunman who kills single handily the president of the most powerful nation in the worl
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by olavk 9y ago
What is the red herring?
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by olavk 9y ago
This article http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2017/07/the-mystery-... (from the same source) suggest her works were lost because the language simple wasn't understood in medieval times. This sound
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by olavk 9y ago
> Note that your responses also actually don't contain any historically usable arguments. Correct. I'm saying you have no significant evidence for your claim outside of pure speculation. I'm not making any particular count
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by olavk 9y ago
> Oh, so you do agree with me now... Please lay off the strawmen and just argue your point. Thank you. We don't know the content of the lost texts, but the few poems we have does not indicate anything heretical or immoral to Christi
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by olavk 9y ago
The use of "Lesbian" to refer to female homosexuality is a 19th century construction. And lots of text from antiquity have been preserved even though they represent values counter to Christian morals.
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by olavk 9y ago
You are not really making a coherent argument. Are you suggesting that because Paul condemns men having sex with men, then it follows that the church must have destroyed the writings of Sappho? There is a lot of missing steps in that chain
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by olavk 9y ago
What kind of Judge Dredd-fantasy is this? Clearly the better outcome is that criminals are arrested by the police using the appropriate and necessary amount of force, and then sentenced in a court of law. Having the police metering out and
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by olavk 9y ago
> What's behind the disappearance is really clear. It is not really clear to me, even after reading your comment. Can you spell it out? "Religious fundamentalism" is not in it self an explanation - why for example were Pla
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by olavk 9y ago
Does the Greek Orthodox church burn books? Do you have personal experience of that?
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by olavk 9y ago
According to the article it seems nobody really knows, and there is no evidence they were destroyed on purpose. So do you have some additional information?
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by olavk 9y ago
I believe it was actually pretty common in those days for translators to abridge and adapt much more freely than what would be considered acceptable today.
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by olavk 9y ago
Yeah but Microsoft let IE stagnate for half a decade after it had achieved dominance. There were 5 years between IE 6 and IE 7. If MS hadn't disbanded the IE team but had kept up the pace of incremental development, I very much doubt M
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by olavk 9y ago
I apologize.
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by olavk 9y ago
That is probably why you don't own WSJ.
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by olavk 9y ago
No, the Roman culture always considered themselves in a state of decline compared to the mythical "golden age", so that would be the mainstream viewpoint.
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by olavk 9y ago
Why don't you state what your change was? That would make your story so much more interesting.
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by olavk 9y ago
A character does not necessarily exist just to either condemn or promote certain behavior. That is a pretty one-dimentional way of looking at storytelling.
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by olavk 9y ago
Good point. I would say it is not surprising that people remain interested in the genres they loved as kids. The whole idea that certain genres corresponds to certain ages might be a misunderstanding of demographics - it is more likely that
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by olavk 9y ago
He is NOT withdrawing from public debate. His works are a part of and a contribution to this debate, and as far as I know he have no intention of stopping working. He is just wants to withdraw from the journalistic social media shitstorms b
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by olavk 9y ago
> One way to do that is to be the listener as they take the pulpit. So you are basically asking Alan More to shut up and stop producing literature because he is white and middle aged?
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by olavk 9y ago
Yeah there is some cargo cult aversion towards statics. Static methods with no side effect are wonderful, but static state is really bad and static methods which perform IO are horrible because they cannot be mocked in a unittest. But some

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