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by rictic 13y ago
It's... kinda madness. Just to be clear that we're talking about the same thing, here's the proposed process as I understand it: 1) load your loader script, which has the URLs, fingerprints of the scripts you want to run, and
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by rictic 13y ago
At Google, each team is not required to have some percentage of their people on the shit list. I don't know if I can elaborate further, but I've been here for a few years, all on healthy teams, and being the lowest performer on a
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by rictic 13y ago
A healthy engineering company should have high level positions that are still engineering positions.
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by rictic 13y ago
The vast majority of projects on github also do not pay. The two major features you pay for on github are larger repositories, and private repositories. The free offering is good enough for almost all open source projects.
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by rictic 13y ago
Say I've got two groups of people and we all want to get dinner together. We agree on 7pm. I call up the restaurant, and they say that they don't have a reservation at 7 but they do have reservations at 6 and 9:30. I then need to
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by rictic 13y ago
I think jzelinskie's point is that if they make no changes on the main branch in their fork then they can fast forward that main branch.
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by rictic 13y ago
Um, what? Of course there's a windows community, in every sense of the word. There are magazines, conferences, and forums for windows programming and windows programmers. There are trends, fads, and innovations. .. and there are practi
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by rictic 13y ago
As of today, yeah it'd eat your battery alive. However, unlike something that spins a motor or shines a light the essential work involved may be low enough that even without advancements in battery technology it may become feasible or
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by rictic 13y ago
Also many (but not all) characters have had their competence, intelligence, and in general their power level increased significantly (so that the story stays interesting, given that Harry's intelligence has been greatly boosted too).
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by rictic 13y ago
It's not a single point of departure fic, many of the characters are deliberately significantly different.
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by rictic 13y ago
This belief is sometimes called the Just World Hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
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by rictic 13y ago
Also the code is open source, isn't it?
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by rictic 13y ago
I get that "Free software" means more than "open source" and I appreciate that the difference is meaningful and significant. I haven't heard an argument for "GNU/Linux" that's any more than &quot
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by rictic 13y ago
I read the "trashing other people's work" comment as referencing smashing someone's site by registering an account over theirs, not publishing the bug on hacker news.
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by rictic 13y ago
async/await is on their roadmap, though I'd estimate about a year before it'll be in a stable version (I wouldn't be surprised if it'll be available on a feature branch much sooner, but with lower expectation of sta
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by rictic 13y ago
It's not just the App Store, it's the entire iTunes store experience. It often takes half a dozen seconds or longer to load each page, and the search is bad. Two anecdotes: I wanted to buy an Iain M. Banks audiobook. I misspelled
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by rictic 13y ago
An SQL query can do just about anything, it'll do it right next to the data, and a lot of time and effort has gone into making that fast. For an app with data up to a certain size and usage, I'd totally go with SQL for all of the reasons yo
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by rictic 13y ago
This is doubly true for an app that hasn't enabled python27 and multithreading.
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by rictic 13y ago
There are things native can do that webapps can't, but the two examples you gave aren't among them. You write custom shaders with webgl, and make use of multiple processors with web workers (though they are more analogous to processes than
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by rictic 13y ago
I'm not sure I follow the logic. Large financial institutions hold a lot of stock, and their ethical track record is.. fraught.
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by rictic 13y ago
We actually have an explicit concept of Golden Retrievers and their origins as an Animal Breed within the subset of the knowledge graph that we expose with a permissive license: http://www.freebase.com/m/01t032 The data is available for q
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by rictic 13y ago
Also the Super Meat Boy devs were promised specific promotional considerations, were told that they wouldn't have a chance of success without them, put themselves through incredible agony to meet the corresponding deadline only to find that
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by rictic 13y ago
The in-game developer commentary goes over this in some detail. It's quite good.
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by rictic 13y ago
The correct move then is to return it.
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by rictic 14y ago
Yet here's rms doing his thing, making the case that the chemical plant owners willfully ignored employee safety in the name of profit. That is an argument that's not supported by the text. The point that Stallman is making, as I see it,
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by rictic 14y ago
I'll also admit ignorance here, but it doesn't seem valid to compare overhead as percent of transaction vs overhead as percent of market cap. Current estimated USD Transaction Volume is ~$70 Million per day[1], so the transaction fees neede
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by rictic 14y ago
Yeah, the real problem for me with the nested case is error handling. It's all manual, and the default (unless you're very careful) is that errors do not propagate and will instead simply be lost and ignored.
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by rictic 14y ago
Agreed. Summarized in the phrase "race to sleep" - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_frequency_scaling
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by rictic 14y ago
I'll say from personal experience on two recent projects: if you're only testing in one webkit browser and not hitting the others there's a good chance that you're missing a couple of bugs. There are a ton of different ways to build webkit,
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by rictic 14y ago
To be fair, there's a difference between a library and a language here. Replacing or taking on the maintenance for a library is a much more feasible option for many than jumping to a new language or taking on the maintenance for an entire l

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