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by pushpop 8y ago
Thank you for the advice. What about when someone abuses -ve karma? Re “based my character”: that’s just a cute way of saying how our online personas are caricatures of our real selves.
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by pushpop 8y ago
I'm not saying there isn't still some distinct ones out there. I'm saying in there is less variety than there used to be. variety is the key description I used. Sure there are few outliers still but the rest are just system
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by pushpop 8y ago
"Often" is a fuzzy term and it's used subjectively here. It doesn't mean "most of the documentation" (which would be the >50% goal post you're driving at). It simply means "a lot of the time $OP ch
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by pushpop 8y ago
Ok, I accept I may have overstepped the mark in subsiqent posts - however still disagree with your analysis of the frist post given what I've seen as a typical conversation on HN. I've been basing my behaviour on what I've wa
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by pushpop 8y ago
I'm not on about quantity of distros, I'm on about variety . A thousand Ubuntu derivatives doesn't add much variation. systemd hasn't helped much here either because there used to be a lot of variety in how distro'
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by pushpop 8y ago
That is the right way to build a hobby project of this magnitude in my opinion. Rapidly MVP as much as you can do you have something usable. Then go back and refine the warts as and when they become a nuisance.
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by pushpop 8y ago
I remember when home computing was full of neat hobby OSs. It was fun. Then somewhere around the last 20 years everyone stopped writing kernels and just built Linux distros instead (and these days you don’t even see that much variety in Lin
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by pushpop 8y ago
I wasn’t making a personal attack against the OP. Just disagreeing with their assessment of “freak out”. Also being a long established user doesn’t invalidate my point about it being an alias account. It can’t be a fresh account because tho
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by pushpop 8y ago
That hasn’t always been there. Or of it has, then the maintainers haven’t ever done anything with bug reports because there have been errors in the docs for the entire life of 5.x. I don’t really recall earlier versions of PHP being any be
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by pushpop 8y ago
Maybe within one very narrowly defined field. However move outside of your typical web services and tutorials take a sharp nosedive. Really the kind of stuff that is well documented in PHP is the kind of stuff that is well documented in mos
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by pushpop 8y ago
Things may have changed since v7 but historically I’ve not found PHPs documentation any better than any other language. In fact I remember a few occasions where I’ve ended up going by the advice of the comments rather than the documentation
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by pushpop 8y ago
Cool-retro-term doesn’t make a brand new monitor look like it’s broken. The effect of CRT isn’t even remotely what an LCD looks like when it fails. So I’m guessing when you say “IT professionals freak out” what you actually mean is “idiot d
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by pushpop 8y ago
Generally they only contact you by phone if they’re trying to sell you something. Banks being the one notable exception but I still get more than my fair share of sales calls from the bank too. Plus at the time that was written, it was pre-
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by pushpop 8y ago
Why would cool-retro-term “freak out” IT professionals any more than a typical terminal emulator? Does “freak out” have some additional definition I’m unaware of? Personally I found cool-retro-term lacked support for a few ANSI escape seque
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by pushpop 8y ago
That’s nothing, the Egyptians were writing glyphs to solid state analogue storage two thousand years before that. /s
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by pushpop 8y ago
Yes I know. My point was the arrangement of the RGB dots that made up a region was different on CRT TVs to that of colour CRT monitors (ignoring the old terminals for now because they’re a different era of device entirely). That did have an
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by pushpop 8y ago
TVs had their sub-pixels arranged differently to the CRTs on many computer displays. This lead to a lot of “fuzzing” beyond that phosphor response when computers were hooked up to TVs. A classic example of this is when you play retro consol
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by pushpop 8y ago
Doesn’t that doesn’t mean OS X isn’t using BSD grep. That just means it’s using an outdated version of BSD grep.
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by pushpop 8y ago
I’ve been using Linux and UNIX systems professionally for ~20 years and this is the first time I realised they were distinct protocols too.
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by pushpop 8y ago
Lots of prior art but the tweet didn’t say PG inspired the paradigm; rather just Redis specifically. Anecdotally, I’ve used plenty of in memory DBs (and written some too) but Redis has been by far my personal favourite.
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by pushpop 8y ago
Which also solves the tab vs spaces debate.
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by pushpop 8y ago
> Those are a only a subset of the possible negative tests I agree. I said this too > and the ones you shouldn't be writing (if you do, simply switch to another language). That was my point
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by pushpop 8y ago
I wasn't irritated. I just assumed that kind of tone was permitted because this place is full of people taking to each other like that.
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by pushpop 8y ago
...and also echo 'this is a test\n' doesn't produce an additional new line because -e wasn't specified.
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by pushpop 8y ago
Weird how you've come to that conclusion when I've been the one talking about testing and you keep shrugging it off with " well I prefer exceptions " because " sometimes you have to debug things on production "
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by pushpop 8y ago
Yeah I agree dynamic languages have their place too. I’m actually extremely agnostic about languages. That said, I’ve been on projects debugging code that has had functions overridden like that and it wasn’t fun. Sometimes people can get to
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by pushpop 8y ago
> In theory but in theory any application could crash at an unexpected time That’s a terribly unsatisfactory answer. > In my experience on a half decent code base these sanity checks never trigger during production in normal code;
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by pushpop 8y ago
> If your devs are pushing code into production that doesn't pass the tests (or they aren't even running the test suite) then you're asking for trouble no matter what language you use. Clearly that’s not even remotely wh
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by pushpop 8y ago
I’ve not found that to be the case even after learning probably close on two dozen different languages. I won’t deny that there is a short upskilling time where you need a quick refresher but that’s no different to picking up old code you’v
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by pushpop 8y ago
Again, the point is you need your engineers to diligent enough to do so. That isn’t always the case. Which is why I talk about checks being part of the standard language build tools. Humans error. I’ve seen numerous occasions when stuff tha

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