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by rue 15y ago
Exactly! I'm frankly not sure how “silver bullet” came to mean a general solution…
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by rue 15y ago
To extend the metaphor, Node is a silver bullet. Silver's way more expensive than lead and offers little or no improvement unless you're shooting at werewolves.
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by rue 15y ago
The advice is more “start taking these and get to the hospital ”. Keeping some antibiotics on hand isn't a terrible idea when there's a scenario that delays medical care for more than a day (and no, the weekend doesn't count in a city).
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by rue 15y ago
I think there exists the possibility that the complexity may force more people to learn ‘proper’ programming. However; Given the current UI/UX research and trends, I'd hold it more likely – and certainly preferrable – that the hard work hap
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by rue 15y ago
Creating “digital mock-ups of new designs” isn't programming. Programmers make programs, which the designers can then use to create their mock-ups. Unless I misunderstand what programmable mixers are, it's not really programming so much as
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by rue 15y ago
I'd be interested to hear why the GP thought tapering would be worse. It's almost universally the better option.
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by rue 15y ago
SSD swap is an excellent way of mitigating memory requirements. It's a huge factor in the MBA being a viable development machine.
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by rue 15y ago
JSON is a MIME type.
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by rue 15y ago
The argument forwarded for considering them declarative is that their compilers perform transforms on the source code, and that there are no side-effects. I certainly agree with your interpretation more. Typical functional programming isn't
130.
by rue 15y ago
Yes, and in one step rather than the two provided by this plugin. This smells a bit like someone not knowing their tools.
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by rue 15y ago
> The truth of statement may be something that functionalism or parallelism advocates don't want to hear - the so called Parallelism Revolution will never come, at least not in it's current incarnation. Do you want to bet everything o
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by rue 15y ago
As a counterpoint, I'd peg its ubiquity as the only advantage for someone who isn't primarily a sysadmin and already knows Python, Ruby or Perl (and surely others). The latter produce much more maintainable code, especially in larger scri
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by rue 15y ago
There's a huge and important distinction between “we should try to teach all kids to code” and “all kids should be able to code”, and it tends to get lost in the discussion. Programming just isn't for everyone (and that's OK), but everyone
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by rue 15y ago
> Sure perhaps they run some stuff on a GNU/Linux server but in most cases this could just as easily be a BSD , Solaris or even Windows server. Could be, but isn't [1]. There's a bunch of embedded GPL code in routers and various littl
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by rue 15y ago
I did express that poorly. There can certainly be logistic factors at play. But my point was that it's not illegal . It's a decision, not law.
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by rue 15y ago
You're technically correct, burgerbrain made a poor argument. GPL software is in no way a barrier to earning money. It's, in fact, crucial to most software today, even if indirectly.
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by rue 15y ago
That's not strictly true; you have to consider the entire system, not just the individual. It's not like only you picked up this new tech and can therefore, if you will it, drop it. Everyone else in your social circle needs to, as well. I
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by rue 15y ago
As a counterpoint I'll offer that I'm from Europe, lived in the States, came back home, and have no wish to return stateside (not really even for a visit). I can work remotely.
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by rue 15y ago
> They're not afraid of this by chance; this is a rational fear arising from a hundred, a thousand previous encounters with men, even trained teachers, who were abjectly unable to interact with women in a way that left them feeling com
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by rue 15y ago
What could possibly be illegal about it? The TV companies just don't want to let non-US people watch.
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by rue 15y ago
The antonym of passive is active.
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by rue 15y ago
Paid-for projects go under all the time. This is nothing particularly unique to open source except that with OSS, someone can actually take over . People just couldn't be bothered to, and are now paying the price.
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by rue 15y ago
Collusion is bad even for free markets (let alone other economic models), but rather than enter that lengthy argument, I'll point out one thing: they did this in secret. I'd be somewhat more understanding of your argument, if the companies
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by rue 15y ago
URLs, and links. And, more precisely, an URL is the only way to refer to a resource. There may be multiple URLs pointing to the same. Aside what appared to be a fundamental misunderstanding on the GP's part, there is the legitimate concer
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by rue 15y ago
> 90% piracy Notably, that's not an actual calculated number. Even so, the unanswerable question is whether it'd have been 91 or 99% without easy distribution.
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by rue 15y ago
I'd really rather everyone use the correct status codes (503 indeed being the correct one here) than try figure out what their SEO impact may or may not be. I'm quite sure Google understands HTTP.
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by rue 15y ago
A technical solution to a social problem. (The problem isn't that people follow or fork WIP repos; it's that you care whether they do or not.)
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by rue 15y ago
I think it'd be useful to separate the fundamental idea of copyright, and what it means in reality: I certainly believe that the author of an idea ought to be recognized for it (be it that there're surely other people involved in some manne
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by rue 15y ago
Scribd also requires logging in before being able to download, so it's accurate enough.
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by rue 15y ago
Adding and/or altering functionality at runtime isn't dangerous. Monkeypatching may be, so avoid that. Also, an entirely too-little used idiom (blame Rails programmers): module OverrideSomeMethod def some_method …

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