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by ritchiea 6y ago
Ok well #1 does not apply to me because I don't write a lot of shell. Ditto #2. So it would be better to understand your case for #3, when is shell the best tool for the job when writing a new script? Why?
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Are there ever good reasons to choose a shell script over a Python/Ruby/etc script?
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I suppose it is in theory but how many of us work in theory rather than with a set of tools that are commonly available? Or maybe it’s just better to roll your own version control system to support your really amazing new app architecture t
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by ritchiea 6y ago
If you abstract at the db level then your db reading code is either unlikely to be in version control or you need a klug to for version control for stored procedures.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Impossible to generalize, would depend entirely on what specifically you want the stored procedures to do. Though I can’t think of a good reason to abstract your queries at the database level. Even ORMs typically allow execution of raw SQL,
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I’m not sure what you’re arguing. You should have rules for what code goes where and stored procedures are also considered an anti-pattern by most developers because they tend to split business logic between the application code & datab
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Allow me to recommend another current HN front page article in response to this: “Discipline Doesn’t Scale”, https://www.sicpers.info/2020/10/discipline-doesnt-scale/
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Lichess will flag your account as a cheater w/o notifying you so that your opponents see the flag and avoid games. I know this because a friend of mine who is an average player got flagged that way after a stretch of games he won handi
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by ritchiea 6y ago
This is a great point, it's not in the job description of a police officer to punish criminals. But if you see the types of language that police officers frequently post with on social media, you see them framing themselves as warriors
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I provided two specific examples. One area where memorization isn't valuable. And one where it is. That's the point of the comment.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I believe the more accurate thing to say is that many of us got so fed up with rote memorization that we devalued all types of memorization. There are good and bad methods of memorization, experiential memorization is definitely better than
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by ritchiea 6y ago
This is another good point, some things you can’t get around memorizing. I also grew up in an environment where I learned to loath rote memorization. But some things are impossible without a bunch of memorization work. I tried DJing for a b
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I disagree with this. You can just google syntax so I don’t bother memorizing syntax. Specific syntax is never going to be the thing I remember that puts all the pieces together. Remembering how things are done and having a good conceptual
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Too bad we live in the kind of world where the biggest hearing aid manufacturer will read this, raise additional capital, buy the patent & rights to the $1 hearing aid and then sell hearing aids for $5,000 each they'll bill to medi
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I definitely was speaking about “the group of people who believe free speech is under attack” and “the group of people who feel like they shouldn’t have to be polite to others” but I understand how that can be misinterpreted. And thanks for
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Can you explain to me the personal attack because I’m not seeing it. And I’ve been a commenting member of this community for about a decade so I believe I have something of an understanding of HN.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Who are these people that have been punished for speech? It seems to me more a boogeyman of “if I say X, people will not like it” which is normal, sometimes people find some ideas repugnant, than a real scare. And yes I am using a relativel
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by ritchiea 6y ago
It’s not whataboutism because the fact that the value of free speech was only granted to a privileged few addresses your argument that the USA once valued free speech and things have changed. If free speech was only granted to a privileged
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by ritchiea 6y ago
You clearly have a narrow view of the history of the United States because before the 1960's a black person could be murdered by a mob for saying the wrong thing to a white person. And those mob murderers would not be prosecuted. You c
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by ritchiea 6y ago
If I said “little childish voice in the back of your head who craves to be rude without cause” instead of “anger issue” would that make you feel better?
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by ritchiea 6y ago
He did say something, he said that it bothers him to have to shape the way he speaks to other people so that they are not offended. And what exactly is weird about that? Sounds like life to me. And that he misunderstands free speech which i
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by ritchiea 6y ago
There have never been laws against hurting people's feelings. And no one is advocating for laws against hurting people's feelings. We're telling you, if you act like an asshole other people might not like it and that's f
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by ritchiea 6y ago
So just to be clear, it makes it hard for him to be polite because if he complains about doing a minimal amount of work to not be rude, I say something?
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by ritchiea 6y ago
What's wrong with being kind and speaking to people with respect while you disagree with them? One of the big problems with the "politically incorrect" or "radical free speech" crowd is that your words can hurt peop
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I’d like to point out his site has pages and content other than this particular blog post.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
The quality of posts at the top of HN has really tanked over the last 2-3 years. Falling from high quality to “programmer clickbait” like the OP here. It’s a little better if you use /classic as a path, which I understand is only calcu
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by ritchiea 6y ago
This is the kind of post that suffers from lack of specific examples. I would love to see an interesting discussion of how hooks are not in line with most developers mental model of React and what problems it's causing (if that is inde
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Is there a country where market based health insurance works? Specifically where it works without there also being a strong public health insurance option. For instance in Germany you are required to be insured and as a young healthy person
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by ritchiea 6y ago
You can get a ton done in Typescript or Python or Ruby. And in addition to type systems being developed to assure type safety in the most dynamic of languages, you also can write tests and draw on the community knowledge of countless progra
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by ritchiea 6y ago
It's funny that Rachel lists these libraries as the dependencies she's willing to use after demeaning developers that use a lot of dependencies in their work. It just feels like she's completely out of touch with what the job

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