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by phillmv 13y ago
I'm more concerned as to how it's increasingly impossible to buy an old copy and install it; the app store will only show you the latest version (and even for only the latest OS version), and the installer might even refuse to ins
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>Surely they don't want them back? People make mistakes; they seem to get a lot of other things right, so maybe the relationship is salvageable - and all he needs is some time off. >Doesn't appear so. They did get an HR pers
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>This is why affirmative action and other "let treat women specially" crap is bad. This does not follow from your premise. The founder's wife's relationship to the company is inappropriate. That is also not what affir
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by phillmv 13y ago
1. Skimming the paper, it only matters if you need an efficient stable sort. If you just need O(1) memory you can stay with heapsort, which at least will have more reference implementations. This lead me to look up browser sort implementa
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by phillmv 13y ago
"Right tool for the right job". If all you have is a room full of PHP developers and all you need is a REST site, then well you could do worse but I would like to discourage you from the practice. Similarly, unless you have a high
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If you're not shipping your js code to the browser, then it's frankly kinda silly to write it on the server.
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This is a side tangent but seeing graphviz being used here reminded me of this total boss ruby patch: http://cirw.in/blog/find-references I had spent a week slowly isolating this brutal memory leak until being able to
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by phillmv 13y ago
That's a false dichotomy. Matter of fact is there is no right way to use git, because the way you use git is going to change according to your organization size and complexity. The Linux kernel is a very different animal than your aver
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by phillmv 13y ago
Holy shit I just lost like 45 minutes to this.
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*shrug Lots of different people on this forum, no offense was intended, and like all nerds I get excited when I get to share knowledge. >How do you read my question and interpret simply it as "lets send all of the images in full and
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by phillmv 13y ago
Well, if we're shipping a common database and you're maximizing transmission efficiency then yes of course. In information theory, my understanding (which is quite limited) is that when we talk of bits transmitted we can think o
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Because any version of PHP that removed gotched and made the APIs consistent would break compatibility - and at that stage you're pretty close to moving to a different ecosystem in the first place. Look at Py3 vs Py2. At the end of the
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Intra (small) company you could achieve this - "sorry, everyone gets the same deal: $x0k/year and y weeks of vacay and we only have one company benefits plan". Gets trickier once if you're immense and have very specific
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>They simply side with scientists that have examined the facts and determined that human attempts at trying to control climate change are about as effective as Indian rain dances. To say this is to deny the established causes behind clim
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by phillmv 13y ago
It's targeted to the huge amount of people who are becoming programmers just now. Github is already a key component of how many people develop software. Expanding to an editor is going to make GH the essential toolchain.
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>Also on the personal level, while it could save you some money, you're not only offsetting mass transit funds to the taxpayers (or other passengers) I know people felt personally slighted with the Google Bus protests, but with stuf
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>For example, Google has been working on diversification for years, among other things, so why would one assume everything is tied to ads? OK, well, broadly speaking, Google like all organizations wants to grow. The best source of growth
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Honestly, it's no so much cynicism as it is skepticism . By the stage in the game, we have more than enough cause to abandon the image of a softer, gentler capitalism that we thought tech companies were going to be in the late 90s to
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>You're confounding usability with "do not need a manual". They're not the same thing at all. Moreover, I reject entirely your assertion that vim is not usable. If by usable we mean "one can be productive in it&q
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Of course it's innovative. They built a better mousetrap. It's not disruptive per se, but almost nothing else is. What is a bit sadder is that they weren't able to stick it out until they started building their own platform
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by phillmv 13y ago
There is no goal. There is some coordination in the irc channel but otherwise we're just assigning narratives to mostly random events^1. And that's beautiful about it. ^1 Which we actually do constantly, i.e. athletes being mostly
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by phillmv 13y ago
I watched last night as they went back to the PC just to retrieve the Helix Fossil. That was madness.
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The problem mostly stems from the vast risk you take on from making a large investment in an unstable/unproven platform vendor. Servers are relatively fungible, given ops automation; it's painful but not the end of the world if yo
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Not to mention either the sensitivity behind the data, the sheer volume behind it, or the effort involved in customizing it for a particular algorithm or input - only for it to shut down and take your data with you. Machine Learning as a Se
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Not so different from what TFA lays out: >What's more, people who excel in abstract fields, like art or physics, tend to be younger than those who win prizes in fields that require more context, like history or medicine.
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The corollary is Cheap, Easy To Exploit Labour Is Most Readily Available In Your Twenties™. (The VC lemma being, "Labour costs are a big majority of web startup input costs")
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*shrug. Reading between the lines from the various writings he put out, I think the odds were good that he was an asshole to a lot of people. He had a lot of privilege from being, on average, the smartest dick in a given room, and being the
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I think it's valuable as a method for resolving disputes. But I think you'll probably have to permanently redistribute wealth within your relationship or else I can imagine it breeding resentment. Cashflow is going to make a bigge
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The whole "dummy app just for booting specs" is silly, though. I ran into a ton of trouble trying to get it to play nice, just because my Engine had some dependencies from the main app. Not to mention fighting with rspec. I agree
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It was amusing to read through this and just have it slowly confirm all of my experiences with Engines - down to the global spec folder. It's hella warty in places but overall it provides a lot better "separation of responsibiliti

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