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901.
by riskable 10y ago
I'd argue that the most fundamental thing in programming is usefulness but that's just me :)
902.
by riskable 10y ago
Knowing algorithms != Development craftsmanship I saw the title and thought the article would be about how to write code that is easy for anyone to maintain. Code that scales well horizontally and across multiple processors. Code that is
903.
by riskable 10y ago
Even if you can create the art it's a lot of work! More work than coding the game, even. Seriously, I started learning Blender so I could make assets for my own games and even though I have some training in art it is one hell of a
904.
by riskable 10y ago
When the pace of change accelerates the value of experience drops an equivalent amount.
905.
by riskable 10y ago
No, the biggest challenge in IoT right now is security and in that same vein, updates. IoT devices identifying themselves (authentication) is only a tiny sliver of the security picture. You also need to worry about authorization, encryption
906.
by riskable 10y ago
Do not assume that the people who are responsible for monitoring such things (at the big banks) have only their employer's purse in mind. One cannot rule out... <whistles with fingers in ears> Someone's going to get vastly i
907.
by riskable 10y ago
The only path out of Windows patch hell is Linux and Mac OS. If you're not already migrating every app you have to the web you're either a masochist or delusionally thinking Microsoft is still focused on delivering a decent deskto
908.
by riskable 10y ago
Meh, everything in GraphQL can be defined as JSON. I fail to see the benefit (over just using JSON). I definitely agree with the author's assertions as to how and why REST sucks. I'd also add that a big reason why REST sucks is th
909.
by riskable 10y ago
No, just no. Nokia did fail because they chose an OS that failed. They bet everything on Windows Mobile and lost. You can't say with a straight face that if they choose Android instead that they would be in the same situation. Nokia
910.
by riskable 10y ago
Actually IT as a category of jobs requires constant knowledge and skill improvements. If you aren't reading HN and/or other tech news sites very regularly you're going to become obsolete very quickly. If you're doing
911.
by riskable 10y ago
If you're using eval() you can cache scripts wherever you want! I personally prefer IndexedDB but there's nothing stopping you from using localStorage or a even a service worker (with a little bit of cache trickery). Also, if you
912.
by riskable 10y ago
No need for an XMLHttpRequest when you've got a websocket open to retrieve such scripts. In fact, loading your scripts via a websocket can be faster than loading them via parallel vanilla HTTP requests because the websocket won'
913.
by riskable 10y ago
Another aspect of IP addresses in court cases I never understood is in regards to copyright infringement. When someone shows up in court with a log showing your IP doing "something bad" how do you know the log wasn't entirely
914.
by riskable 10y ago
It is not a reasonable approximation of a person or persons. That's the point. An IP address is merely an end point to some internet traffic. There's a nearly infinite number of reasons why traffic could originate from an IP th
915.
by riskable 10y ago
I was really hoping that, after reading the title, YouTube Community was going to be about Google crowdsourcing DMCA takedown request reviews. As in, let the community (a jury of your peers) decide if a takedown is fraudulent (I've got
916.
by riskable 10y ago
Not much of a difference, actually. Once you've got your brain trained to select the letters by location you can remove the eye tracking part and just use abstract thought. "I'm thinking of a letter... On the far left of th
917.
by riskable 10y ago
Well if they do I think we can expect them to write home about it!
918.
by riskable 10y ago
Because of shades surrounding the traffic lights (to prevent glare from the sun) it is often impossible for pedestrians to see if a turn signal is lit from their perpendicular position. So in the event of a red light for through traffic but
919.
by riskable 10y ago
Yes it does... One of the examples is monkey patching using bytecode. How are you going to do that without write access to the filesystem running your code? The same is true for module imports... If you have write access to the same directo
920.
by riskable 10y ago
The trouble with competition is that it creates an order of magnitude more losers than it does winners. Yet it is the foundational element of nearly all school systems in the world. Students don't just get accepted to every school th
921.
by riskable 10y ago
My "smart" LG TV has a Netflix app. Still have a Chromecast hooked up for Netflix. Why? Because it is several orders of magnitude faster for me to find the video I want to play on my phone than it is with a TV remote. This same wi
922.
by riskable 10y ago
Best case: "I don't seem to be making any progress going up." Worst case: "This is moving down way too fast! Aaaahhhhh!!!" -screamed by hundreds of people, many of which will die as they pile up at the bottom of the
923.
by riskable 10y ago
Don't tell the DEA about "runner's high"!
924.
by riskable 10y ago
> H1B regulations make it difficult for the foreign labor to easily change jobs, this results in them being more 'loyal' (that is, they work for a company for longer than their local counterparts), which means it's worth
925.
by riskable 10y ago
The diversity argument falls flat when you replace your entire IT workforce with H1Bs from the same country (India). This holds true when companies replace entire divisions or departments with outsourced H1B labor as well.
926.
by riskable 10y ago
> Of course, I also don't think forcing higher costs on everyone in the name of favoring certain groups of people over others is a particularly laudable goal. Isn't that the point of sovereignty though? To favor the locals ove
927.
by riskable 10y ago
The problem with auctions is that employers in areas with high cost of living would get away with bargains while everyone else would get nothing or very expensive employees. This would result in some perverse market incentives and unintend
928.
by riskable 10y ago
This one is easy and points out another problem: The ability of businesses to write off expenses. The cost of goods inside airports would be significantly lower if business travelers couldn't just expense everything they buy. As long
929.
by riskable 10y ago
This is a really bad comparison. He didn't deny anyone access to anything or take anything at all. The real-world equivalent would be if he found a bunch of empty community/neighborhood whiteboards and drew a (trivially erased
930.
by riskable 10y ago
Running a traditional relational DB inside a container is pretty stupid. It can take a while for those suckers to stop & start and they often don't work properly if placed behind a load balancer with random distribution of conne

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