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by piaste 9y ago
> They sold off my entire holdings for $0.01 - $0 after fees. Why did you have such an order? I can understand a stop loss order at some small percentage of the original purchase price, because you still get something, but one that says
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by piaste 9y ago
Are there any notable languages that flat-out forbid reflection, or treat it as undefined behaviour?
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by piaste 9y ago
There are some docker images on DockerHub which are very polished along those lines. OwnCloud for storage, Ghost for blogging. You run them with default settings and they open to a nice welcome page with a tutorial and a fully-functional se
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by piaste 9y ago
Is it more complicated than buying and owning a car? A house? More complicated than filing your taxes, managing retirement savings, having a wedding, choosing insurance? Learning the basics of something new, enough to get by, is part of bei
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by piaste 9y ago
> The mental gymnastics required to tell a 1930s sharecropper, an 1890s coal miner, or a 1770s battlefield medic that writing javascript in an air-conditioned cubicle for 45 hours a week is "unbearable". I don't know, I th
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by piaste 9y ago
For raw packets obviously not, but if: - you're sending big byte arrays over json/xml - you cannot switch to a more efficient medium - (but you can make your remote counterpart adopt a different encoding) - and you still need
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by piaste 9y ago
Oh, it absolutely does! ...wait, you mean, like, for other people ?
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by piaste 9y ago
Thank you. Thank you so much. It's an old pet peeve of mine. I cringe inside every time someone starts waxing about "writing your thoughts first, and your code only incidentally" or "it's a completely different para
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by piaste 9y ago
That would be optimal, but I don't think it's strictly necessary . The fundamental requirement is that, if the owner of an instance behaves poorly, users should be able to move elsewhere without being cutting off from the larger
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by piaste 9y ago
How do you mean? Whatever EEE-type strategy they may be pursuing, you can still switch from GMail to another provider and keep corresponding with the same email users without any effort. This is not true for modern social media.
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by piaste 9y ago
Also, piracy and kids go together like bacon and eggs.
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by piaste 9y ago
The Henry Ford quote about faster horses comes to mind.
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by piaste 9y ago
Because it's a bit too error-prone: mut listOfLeftHandedOralHygienistsInKazakhstan = getThem() // several lines later listOfLeftHandedOralHygienistsInKazahkstan = getThemAgain() You thought you were reassigning
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by piaste 9y ago
I bet Cockroach Island doesn't have a great tourism industry.
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by piaste 9y ago
> Are you implying that on-prem software is the only way? I'm stating that having the option to switch to on-prem is extremely important for your business plan. It puts a hard ceiling on how much your cloud provider can squeeze yo
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by piaste 9y ago
Data point: avionics software has avoided that particular trap so far, not through open source licensing but rather through mandatory safety regulations.
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by piaste 9y ago
> If organizations you work with are invested in PostgreSQL I'm working on a GraphQL solution similar to Graphcool with the exception that the storage layer is a plain managed PostgreSQL cluster. So... you're still locking peop
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by piaste 9y ago
"There are only two hard things in computer science. #3 will shock you!"
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by piaste 9y ago
Heh. Visual Studio actually does keep track of all the TODOs in all the files in your project. It's the Task List window (View -> Other Windows -> Task List, or ctrl-alt-K).
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by piaste 9y ago
> So at most they are guilty of collecting and not turning over taxes. "At most" ? Do you believe that collecting others' taxes and keeping them for your own profit is somehow better than tax dodging?
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by piaste 9y ago
It's properly named, because you say "wow..." when you figure it out.
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by piaste 9y ago
".NETfx" is a common shorthand for .NET Framework. And that was perhaps the worst possible post to use a common shorthand.
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by piaste 9y ago
.NET Core is totally fine for playing around or for small apps and services. It's usually for large projects that these backwards compatibility issues tend to crop up and be show-stoppers. You're likely better off with Mono in t
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by piaste 9y ago
And if you need cross platform support, Mono is likely to be significantly less trouble than .NET Core 0.2, whoops I meant 2.0 sorry.
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by piaste 9y ago
From what I saw, "alt-right" had existed for a whole in blogs and webzines, but it really became popular during the Republican primaries. The Trump and (early on) Carson supporters needed a term to distinguish themselves from th
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by piaste 10y ago
I thought that was a totally reasonable file size too, until I looked up Docker image sizes for node: https://hub.docker.com/r/library/node/tags/ Regular images are ~260MB and "slim" images are
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by piaste 10y ago
> (At least in the U.S. Do EU citizens have to report themselves for such transactions?) No, but transactions over X € must be conducted using a traceable medium - cheques, credit cards, bank transfer, sometimes Bitcoin. X varies by coun
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by piaste 10y ago
With this release, you should be finally be able to do that. The 4.6.2 framework only supported the 1.3 Standard, which was the reason we were boned if a .NET Core library got released targeting the 1.6 one and didn't explicitly incl
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by piaste 10y ago
Since 16:9 and 21:9 took over, I've dealt with it by placing as many 'toolbars' vertically as I could. Windows taskbar, Tree-Style Tabs for Firefox, and so on. I've seen some UI designers move in the same direction, e.g.
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by piaste 10y ago
That's highly subjective. I don't, for example.

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