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by parallelist 13y ago
> Then, all of a sudden, the fog suddenly parted and it was like being set free. After that, I never had another Rails problem that I couldn't handle. Pfftt, yeah sure. Everything is perfect in Rails land
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by parallelist 13y ago
On http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html Gabriel talks about the difficulty he had in deciding whether worse really is better and that he wrote various documents taking opposing positions
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by parallelist 13y ago
I find the worse entirely accurate. This is a classic piece of programmer lore that goes a long way to describing why the software industry is the way it is today i.e. why everything sucks so much. My only criticism I have of it is that he
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by parallelist 13y ago
Can’t believe how long this list is. Would be great to have some kind of maturity rating system for each item.
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by parallelist 13y ago
Anyone got any solutions for cabal hell? I barely use Haskell because 50%+ of everything I try to install fails and I don’t have a freaking clue how to fix it.
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by parallelist 13y ago
Nothing useful said for: for word in foo bar baz; do echo $word; done Seems to think COLUMNS is a command in: COLUMNS=20 ls
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by parallelist 13y ago
If the few bytes saved by this new domain seems worth commenting on what about the very large number of unnecessary whitespace characters they are serving?
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by parallelist 13y ago
Why? The purpose of embarrassment, as I understand it, is to create emotional significance for something that negatively affects others. So unless you are talking about something vulgar or being offensive you haven’t done anything socially
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by parallelist 13y ago
Only if you think that public humiliation is an effective form of education
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by parallelist 13y ago
But if you are around people that do, please don’t tweet it.
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by parallelist 13y ago
I’m not sure if you are being ironic but just in case you aren’t: Imagine you’re in a store, waiting at the checkout, having a conversation with your SO that has revealed some key difference of opinion on a topic that affects your relations
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by parallelist 13y ago
It still demonstrates a lack of concern for the privacy of the people you overheard
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by parallelist 13y ago
He says "traversing a tree to find the shortest path". Sounds an awful lot like he is confusing graphs and trees. You don't really tend to path find with trees. Am I right? Trees are very useful. Graphs are occasionally usefu
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by parallelist 13y ago
Just say "Not really my sort of thing, thanks." but sound like you mean it. Don't give off the impression you are embarrassed to turn him down, that makes it seem like it is a big deal and it isn't. Just say it like it i
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The Velocity Sensitive Mouse(parallelattitude.wordpress.com)
1 points by parallelist 13y ago|0 comments