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by rplst8 10y ago
Atlassian has put some great "mind abstractions" on top of git to help people understand how to use it. It's definitely fashionable these days to hate on complicated tools. I wonder if the same is true in other professions.
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by rplst8 10y ago
When people say they don't like git, I lose a little faith in them as a programmer and/or engineer. This is probably due to my own biases of having worked with folks that just don't want to invest the time in learning it. Tha
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by rplst8 10y ago
I hate the word performant. People may argue that "fast" is a simpleton of a word, however "performant" is ambiguous as to what characteristic is performing well.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Do people really use stash for things they value longer than a few minutes? I've only ever used stash as a way to store changes that I made on the wrong branch. git checkout my_old_branch (wrong branch not realized yet) - work w
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by rplst8 10y ago
Sacrificial parts are great design IMO, specifically when they protect a much more expensive part. However, it does bother me that the parts are often very custom and only available from the manufacturer. I enjoy listening to a conversatio
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by rplst8 10y ago
This article is total garbage. They claim that one plant in California dumps about 2.5 billion gallons of warmed water into the environment. Because of it's "once-through" cooling design. If we extrapolate this out across a
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by rplst8 10y ago
> For that matter we should get rid of the AMT entirely. The fact that we have 2 separate tax systems for individuals is insane. It really is. The AMT is the perfect example of when you give someone an inch they take a mile, which is wh
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by rplst8 10y ago
I think this is largely just "location, location, location." For some reason there is this innate draw to major population centers of a certain "type" and it's forms a self reinforcing feedback loop. I think the t
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by rplst8 10y ago
I don't think the point of WebAssembly is to target the DOM. I think it it's to provide a common low level API across browsers that many languages can target.
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Totally. IMO it's equivalent to deciding whether to write a book in your native language or in another language you don't speak because they have more words in the domain of the book's topic.
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One argument I haven't seen much of is how these new wireless technologies make things less future proof. In 200 years I can splice some copper wire to a pair of headphones and maybe make them work. Good luck trying to get some goofba
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by rplst8 10y ago
Honestly, until we have week-ish long battery life and background radiation charging, I'm not ready to ditch all my wires.
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by rplst8 10y ago
People didn't want smartphones because they weren't particularly useful, and data was extremely pricey. Blackberry changed that and others followed.
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I'd echo this, and while this may sound curmudgeonly, too many people either want easy solutions or have shiny new object syndrome. These traits often flourish in the software industry because newly available "solutions" pres
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I'd like some good examples too that aren't barebones tutorials.
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I'm down voting you because I think not only is your assessment wrong, your telling of history is too. One of the first episodes of South Park was a Jesus vs. Santa episode where they fought over the meaning of Christmas. There was to
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by rplst8 10y ago
I was unaware of this too until the other night when I looked it up. Apparently the first one was made as an entry into a student film festival. Then a producer saw it and asked them to make another as a gag gift for a friend. That was t
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by rplst8 10y ago
I'm not an expert, but the memory required to render the seemingly simplest of interfaces in html/js/css in a browser today seems excessive. Some web sites bring a reasonably powered desktop to its knees. I'm not sure I
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by rplst8 10y ago
You could use a DAC if you wanted before using the lightning port that was already there. There is no argument here. Bucking the standard and removing a headphone jack is a minus for consumers.
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by rplst8 10y ago
It's not that simple. The load impedance is much different when used as a line out.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Augts?
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A four bit full adder built with dominoes(youtube.com)
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by rplst8 10y ago
If I choose to use an email system that you don't like, you don't have to participate. Participation is non-compulsory. You can refuse to reply to my emails. You can refuse to send to services you don't trust. You can cho
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by rplst8 10y ago
Using a specific company's technology is a choice. Participating in government is not. I'll always take a company I choose to track me over a government that does it by default.
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The tyranny of the majority assumes that issues are always us vs. them, i.e. two choices. Often there are more than that and then no changes by government can be made. The two party system often masks this possibility.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I have a 9530 model of the XPS 15 from late 2013. It's the model immediately previous to this one (I think). It also has the coil whine problem, but only when the charger is plugged in and the battery is at 100%. It also developed a
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by rplst8 10y ago
Isn't Redshift also based on PostgreSQL? Edit: it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Redshift and RDS supports many different RDBMS flavors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Relation
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by rplst8 10y ago
I wasn't sure what to think of that comment either when I first read it, but I sort of see where he is coming from. One side you have companies like Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM types that actually develop new forms of technology and se
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It's sort of like extortion.
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Yes, because hiding the corruption is a better choice. I'd argue that ALL government official communications must be recorded and made public.

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