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by ratww 5y ago
Nobody here is saying you're personally responsible for slow software, or that you're personally pushing for software to be slow. But I'm saying that rationalisations about slow software are partially to blame. Preconceived a
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by ratww 5y ago
I'm not a Google fan, but good for them. If they're able to produce value without invasive tracking, then it's a good thing for everyone who is interested in privacy. Apple's (official) intent was never to cripple compan
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by ratww 5y ago
Cyclomatic complexity is a good metric for local readability, but for considering the readability and ease of modification of whole programs or even for single files, it's far from good enough. For an extreme example: you can turn al
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by ratww 5y ago
+1 here. It's very fast, but it also looks quite good.
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by ratww 5y ago
I also feel like your post is another gross misrepresentation of the problem. The issue with slow software is rarely the framework itself. Even frameworks like Rails and Django are more than fast enough for most things. If you need absurd p
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by ratww 5y ago
But the fact that higher performance is not a priority is something that is held together by those excuses and rationalisations. People complain about performance all the time, both users and people inside their teams, but the thinking you&
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by ratww 5y ago
The "excuse parade" mentioned by the grandparent poster is another name for what psychology calls "rationalisation". Microsoft fucked up about performance, period. The reason for that is not because the Terminal provided
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by ratww 5y ago
> It's not the same thing to write a piece of code as part of a whole system, vs rewriting that piece of code as an isolated part. But, AFAIK, the new Terminal was new. Sure, it's 3 years old already, but Microsoft still di
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by ratww 5y ago
The band is in the cover of this Cher album, that's khazhoux posted below (the title of the album is the address of the studio): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3614_Jackson_Highway
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by ratww 5y ago
Why does the knowledge have to be encyclopaedic in the first place? If a customer microservice has to link to another, the only information it needs is the link format, for example: ` https://another-microservice/customers&#x
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by ratww 5y ago
A moral statement can be said to be true in a certain societal context, but not in absolute. To understand this truth you have to take into account the body of knowledge and collective experience of a certain society. In this case it's
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by ratww 5y ago
It's not uncomfortable. It's just that the questions are boring and littered with fallacies and incorrect assumptions. People isn't having a rich discussion, as we have to correct a lot of misconceptions. The downvotes are pe
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by ratww 5y ago
Why does it have to? Who said it?
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by ratww 5y ago
You are correct and I agree with you, but I think you answered to the wrong reply. It's my interlocutor that believe it's arbitrary.
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by ratww 5y ago
For unhealthy eating, certainly, why not? For the other two it's a bit harder to directly tax those activities, but taxing indirectly it's definitely feasible: private health insurance and life insurance already have different pri
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by ratww 5y ago
Why would it lead to nihilism?
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by ratww 5y ago
> How can we act like it's a violation of something if it's not binding in the first place. It is the framework used for creating things that are binding: laws. Even so, something someone else does can "violate my person
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by ratww 5y ago
It is a framework of rules that countries decide to implement into their own. Those countries who implemented it decided it was a useful enough set of rules to implement at home. Others didn't. If by "this is a useless set of rule
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by ratww 5y ago
That's a very misleading question. You are comparing law and social constructs with natural science or math equation results. That's not how the world works. Societies are much more complex than that. I can try to convince you tha
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by ratww 5y ago
> can either party be said to be correct Yes. Tor is correct and Facebook is wrong. I said it. Other people might say otherwise, but I'll say they're wrong. (and they are) In societies it is normal to have disagreements. What
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by ratww 5y ago
Saying that something is useless because it's not perfect is the worse possible and most naive argument one can offer. Life is not a computer program or a math equation. Rules do have exception, especially in complicated systems like &
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by ratww 5y ago
People care because they read the thing and thought it sounded like a bunch of good ideas to implement in their own neck of the woods. Some politician brings it home a copy and tries to make law, representatives vote. That's it. People
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by ratww 5y ago
Some of the premises in your post are incorrect. -- > The argument seems to be that we have rights because the UN says so. That's not the argument. The reasons we have human rights is because individual countries decided to implem
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YouTube will start to demand ID / credit cards information from Europeans (2020)(old.reddit.com)
6 points by ratww 5y ago|3 comments
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YouTube Age Gate Verification Coming to Some European Countries (2020)(digitalmusicnews.com)
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by ratww 5y ago
Does this really matter? Companies with 100, 500, 1000, 5000, etc employees often stand exactly in the same position and use the same kinds of tools.
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by ratww 5y ago
I had a somewhat similar experience with a large tech company. Grew from <100 to 600 in a few years, but in the meantime they weren't even able to update the homepage. Not even the content changed, in almost three years. Everything
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by ratww 5y ago
Good question. I remember Microsoft had an app around 2010, but it just failed to gain critical momentum, maybe because people were already moving en masse to Facebook and WhatsApp itself. The app was only ok-ish. There were some alternativ
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by ratww 5y ago
I agree. I'd add that having multiple experts in competition with each other (due to bad culture, bad communication or even just bad personality) also has the potential of turning heroes into primadonnas.
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by ratww 5y ago
At almost all of my previous jobs we were allowed to either watch World Cup games at the workplace, or go home during the game if we weren't interested. It felt fair to everyone, and work still got done. It helps that the countries whe

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