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by restalis 10y ago
"Write to stdout only if information is useful as input to another program." Maybe devise a new std console channel for this integration purpose alone? "stdipc" (as in standard inter-process communication) maybe?
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by restalis 10y ago
It may be even better to be quiet by default and explicitly turn on the verbose mode when the "extra, human readable messages" are actually needed.
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by restalis 10y ago
Shouldn't all programs be, besides their functional output, quiet by default? Isn't that why the "verbose" option exist?
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by restalis 10y ago
Shouldn't the "verbose" option take care of the presence of the status or progress messages? Also, arguably, the error and warning messages are status messages too, so I would say all the status messages, regardless of gravit
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by restalis 10y ago
"I agree that `--version` should always be present" I'm not sure why version information has to have an option on its own. For humans it can be provided in help. Considering the limited usefulness it has as a separate thing
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by restalis 10y ago
Quoting from Wikipedia¹: "[asteroid and planetoid terms have been applied to] any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disc of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet", wh
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by restalis 10y ago
I say there is a problem within your team (like that "key person" not knowing what is or isn't productive in what he does) that you are hoping to solve through seclusion. Excluding such bad quirks, assuming everyone is acting
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by restalis 10y ago
Besides the first reason pointed out by Treffynnon, it's worth remembering that the code we write is primarily for our fellow humans and that a piece of code will most likely be read more times than written so we better strive to optim
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by restalis 10y ago
What irks me it that the article makes its comparison by picking the best aspects of non-Roman civilizations spread all over Asia and from there draws the conclusion that those "born into the light" Chinese who ended up in Britann
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by restalis 10y ago
"Rome while had great architecture, wasn't necessarily superior to any of these." Actually, it was superior and that was thanks to a very impartial thing - concrete. You have concrete, you can build things that others witho
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by restalis 10y ago
I am upvoting you for your insightful comment, but I still think that in your comment's second part your speculation goes in a wrong direction. "things are good or bad. Elon Musk is a hero or a charlatan or he can't achieve
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by restalis 10y ago
There can only be a risk mitigation through redundant (similar) services. There aren't any 100% solid insurances. Think about the reasons why force majeure clauses exist. A lot of things can happen and no one can cover you 100% because
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by restalis 10y ago
The government in a broad sense is actually any form of political structure that governs a society. When some people secede and do their own laundry, unless you assume for their new society to live in harmony without any form of political s
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by restalis 10y ago
I think limiting the means for gaining resistance should have been considered more seriously. For now, things are taken seriously only "when the shit hits the fan" and that in itself is a weakness that seemingly still affects us a
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by restalis 10y ago
"This is exactly why so many of my friends and family use Hangouts née Gmail Chat. We can use it in the browser at work just by keeping Gmail open in a tab. No IM applications to install or concerns about whether we're running Wi
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by restalis 10y ago
Jobs have been automated before since the beginnings of humanity, there is nothing really different this time. When the crisis of '30s hit, the U.S. government stepped in and employed the jobless en masse for infrastructure projects on
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by restalis 10y ago
We'll learn something. That's always a good thing.
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by restalis 10y ago
For the most activities we embark on, none of us is ready for. We just jump in and learn on the fly, the journey itself transforms and adapts us. So, maybe we haven't learned enough about taking care of a planet, but that's not a
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by restalis 10y ago
"Proponents of Mars colonization talk about “terraforming” Mars to make it more like Earth, but in the meantime, we’re “marsforming” Earth" I never thought about that before, but this is definitely a way to speed up anything - l
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by restalis 10y ago
"Capitalism will come to The Moon, Mars, and Venus." The thing is that the order on which capitalism relies on to exist is not uphold outside the recognized international treaties. So, good luck on defending whatever ownership c
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by restalis 10y ago
I fail to understand how funding is something that governments can't do.
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by restalis 10y ago
"The key thing is just that I don't develop much of reaction and I can easily forget about the substance/activity. It just doesn't stick. It's not that I'm actively resisting a desire, /I just don't
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by restalis 10y ago
As far as I could observe, on myself and others alike, it's about wether the transition happens under the radar or not. Being warned at the right time, forced to look at one's own condition and admit the degree of danger it carrie
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by restalis 10y ago
I thought it's a known fact that people got smarter through social competition. That supports the assumption that people got smarter after they got friendlier, but that was by no means "by accident".
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by restalis 10y ago
"in order to avoid requiring specific compilers/assemblers, I use ~50 bytes of pre-compiled code so that it'll compile anywhere" That is a rather odd conclusion. The pre-compiled code is supposed to be a worse solution
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by restalis 10y ago
So, it all boils down to "in a smaller community you don't have many options and you should watch out yourself not to narrow down further that pool". In a big city where one doesn't rely so heavily on others you see the
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by restalis 10y ago
"WTF would the IRS do with a billion checks?" You just pointed out a reliance on banking system. IRS can not function without it and that may be considered a problem. For a fail-safe measure, other means of payment or taxation s
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by restalis 10y ago
Interesting! I used to wonder myself about such a dependency pushed on money. There are a lot of efforts to get all the society cashless, and it's understandable because there are upsides for many involved parties, but the downside is
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by restalis 10y ago
Actually, his example was very relevant in this regard. Chess has a limited set of rules, once learned all that remains is practicing and letting it to sink in ...for those who are slow at that. To develop poetry is not about the rules them
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by restalis 10y ago
They don't care that much about the pirated version doing things not mentioned in the EULA, they care about not being rushed to ship a legit version (that has not yet a ready EULA) because it has to get released in order to limit the s

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