rimantas

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   by rimantas 10y ago

   Probably because enterprise was writing the web of 1998 in 2005. Outside it Firefox was gaining traction, web standards movement was in its golden years (IMHO what we have now is a big regression), AJAX was a fresh kid on the block… Fun tim
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   by rimantas 10y ago

   We have a proverb/parble which goes like this: —Lazy-bones, lazy-bones, would you like a boiled egg? —Is it peeled off? —Nope. —Throw it away.
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   by rimantas 10y ago

   Exactly. Not all code can be understandable to layman with zero effort.
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   by rimantas 10y ago

   IIRC, Rails app mentioned in the talk was very old. Not a fair comparison, IMHO.
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   by rimantas 10y ago

   And what problems will it solve?
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   by rimantas 10y ago

   Maybe you should go back and lesrn why XHTML was never a good idea. You will discover a lot of interesting things, like MIME types, rendering modes, etc. Browsers did show errors when illegal XHTML was served with proper MIME type, made no
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   by rimantas 10y ago

   How about learning some CSS? This "joke" should really be retired by now. I've been doing this stuff 10+ years ago when stills supporting IE5, for fucks sake.
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   by rimantas 10y ago

   Mobile web can be as good (or better) in just one case—reading the content.
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   by rimantas 10y ago

   Anyone making such claims usually has no idea what native SDK are capable of.
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    If you have to change it in six places it just means that you did something wrong. Keeping those six places in the single file is not the solution either: next time you will need something similar, but not exactly the same you will copy tha
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    I am pretty sure that those who become familiar with sines and cosines will be better at understanding percentages and calculcating interests. Alas, too many underestimate the importance of broad knowledge base, patterns and building block
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    It is also bad PR. And encryption now needs more good PR than ever.
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    Isn't that just m = (m^e mod n)^d mod n? So the value itself does not matter, you could use 42 instead of 0x1337.
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    Mistaking truck for a road sign is not a future I want.
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    Of all Europeant cities I've been to I liked London the least.
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    Healthy company culture beats startup culture.
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    > Once all the smoke clears. Britian has a real chance to be > more competitive than France or Germany and that scares the > hell out of them! To be competetive UK will need favourable trade terms. And that will cost de
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/06/18/were-real...
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    Except often the things pinpointed are not flaws just different from that they are used to.
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    Basecamp? IIRC DHH mentioned he was working like 10 hours a week on it.
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    Maybe to you, not to me. And I have doubts about the highness of his ethical standards.
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    In case some don't take this seriously: it is true. Rails does pretty good job in this recard. It is not HATEOAS, bet otherwise it pretty solid and follows best practices quite well.
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    Many do know. But they just choose one step lower lever on Richardson maturity model as more pragmatic. Yes, according to Fielding that level cannot be called RESTfull, oh well…
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    I'd argue that it removes complexity, not adds it.
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    Which one? There are three listed.
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    The thing is—backwater idiots have a right to vote too.
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    Why not to have referendum on taxes? Care to guess the outcome?
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    Now look at the demographics where voters voted for exit and see how does it compare in terms of age, education and income compared to those who foter for staying.
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    > which were done in teams This is fucked up and sucks for introverts. And double sucks for them if they love that they are learning.
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    by rimantas 10y ago

    For the not familiar/lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster