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by quacker 10y ago
Right, but consider if all three test cases fail. Then devs (who didn't write those tests) need to determine what those three test cases are and if they're all the same issue or not, which takes time. Ideally, if just one assert f
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by quacker 10y ago
I think it is true. I mean, tripling the number of test cases when you already have 5500 of them is going to slow down your dev process in a significant way.
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by quacker 10y ago
Some users are lurkers. I created this account 1921 days ago but have only 201 karma. That said, I don't remember the previous posting of this article, so linking to previous comments is useful. It lets me compare the discussions and s
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by quacker 11y ago
You should definitely check out Jenkins Job Builder - http://docs.openstack.org/infra/jenkins-job-builder/ . It lets you store job configs as nice yaml files which can be checked in to version control. It's w
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by quacker 11y ago
Having never looked at awk aside from its usage in shell one-liners, that code looks really nice. I might have to go learn awk for a bit.
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by quacker 11y ago
See also: OpenStack Heat, which is not the same because it's a restful api, but I believe it's AWS-compatible.
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by quacker 11y ago
In this blog post[1], they link to one of Aphyr's "Call me maybe" posts, https://aphyr.com/posts/323-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch-1-5-... 1: https://labs.spotify.com/2015/11/17&#
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by quacker 11y ago
That was surprising. Those are some very, very permissive licenses and pretty widely used, too. Just today I wrote a plugin and stuck an MIT license on it. The only requirement is basically that you keep the license/copyright with all
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by quacker 11y ago
Facebook was a great form of communication in high school and college, for events and meeting up with classmates and things. Afterwards, people drifted apart and it became kind of an empty place - hundreds of friends but only a handful I ke
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by quacker 11y ago
Rose: http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=fel105ri3yo
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by quacker 11y ago
This doesn't really address the issue of readability or understanding though. You still have to go through someone else's uncommented code and figure out what their weirdo macros actually do versus having standard, documented lang
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by quacker 12y ago
I notice that one submission is "canonical" for the flag/unflag bit. You can flag one of the two submissions, and the "unflag" will show up on the other submission.
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by quacker 12y ago
> I'm asking if you notice the gulf between how politicians speak, and what motives they give you the impression they have okay. > No one who is not self-deceived, or deceived by others, works in that way. They are self-intere
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by quacker 12y ago
> "The data is fixed" refers only to the data we know. Okay, yeah. The sample is fixed. The entire population is random. I'll use this terminology. > In the frequentist model, we have to pretend that this fixed d
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by quacker 12y ago
You'll never know all of the data either. You don't need confidence/credible intervals if you can sample the entire population. Maybe one is more intuitive than the other, but I'm unswayed by the "one is fixed in re
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by quacker 12y ago
Since, as the author points out, the data is what is fixed in real life, the Bayesian model intuitively makes more sense. In real life, both the parameter value and the data are fixed. If you knew the heights all of the humans on earth, y
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by quacker 12y ago
Wow. 111,800 people is a huge number. That's a whole city looking for work, and over $1 billion saved (in the long run) for each $10000 of employee salary. > The question I have to ask is why isn't Rometty one of the 110k. IBM
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by quacker 12y ago
> since the hashes, etc. of those files will now be changing. I'm having a hard time seeing hashes[1] being very valuable for much of anything regarding music library management. Hashes won't be any good for comparisons of musi
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by quacker 12y ago
Are you a disgruntled employee? You sure sound like one. That, plus that you worked there over ten years ago - and that Rackspace didn't even offer a DNS api until a few years ago[1] - makes it very hard to take seriously any of your c
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by quacker 12y ago
On Linux just plug and play. Really? Most common peripherals, like mice, keyboards, usb drives, etc, just plug and play (as they do in Windows). But I tried installing a (4 year old?) multi-function printer under Ubuntu 14.04 a few weeks
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by quacker 12y ago
And as we can see, definite integration is more of a local operation, while indefinite integration is a global operation. I think this was borrowed from here: http://math.stackexchange.com/a/20636 ? Either way, it&#x
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by quacker 12y ago
hard to see how this really faster (and less bug prone) than generating one with Ragel. Hm, I actually think the opposite (except for the point about bugs). A hand-crafted parser can easily be faster than a generic parser because: * You a
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by quacker 12y ago
> Nothing instills confidence in cryptographic code like the constants "bananas" and "seems legit..." Not to mention, even if the hardcoded password was somehow stored securely, using AES in ECB mode is insecure. EC
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by quacker 12y ago
If there is a feature that could be misused, it will be misused. It does not matter what the rationale behind the committee's decision was. This is quite a narrow-minded line of thinking. You're saying "Feature X is should
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by quacker 12y ago
I have no hard data on this, but dry-erase markers seem to be used up more quickly than chalk. Chalk is also less expensive. As one data point: 48 sticks of chalk for $4.30[1] versus 12 markers for $7.74[2]. I'm not sure about the bulk
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by quacker 12y ago
Going forward, the ideal notation would be suitable for both digital and analog formats while being concise but comprehensible. It's hard to hit all of those points. Lisp falls short (neither concise nor suitable for analog) as does th
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by quacker 12y ago
I'm genuinely struggling to understand the value of Rackspace. See [1]: "We don't offer raw infrastructure without service." That is, support is included in the cost. Lots of people don't need support or don'
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by quacker 12y ago
by joining the Caml Consortium (very cheap), we got access to the core developers and a yearly face-to-face. We're talking about Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez here. Do you get that with Java? What do you find most useful about talk
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by quacker 12y ago
> What purpose would that serve? If PyPy became the official/canonical implementation, PyPy would receive more attention and third-party library compatibility would be a requirement. Complaints about Python's slowness would be
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by quacker 12y ago
I'm rarely fond of exclusionary policies. And look at the results: although the signal/noise ratio might be higher over there, there are hardly any comments. On the front page, I count 17 of 25 posts with zero comments. Plus, ther

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