rwallace

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by rwallace 11y ago
Trust is built by things like time and social proof. Whether you're the person who wrote the code doesn't really come into it. Look at how it works on Linux: most people install most software via package managers. Nobody expects t
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by rwallace 11y ago
If you already know sed/awk and you don't know JavaScript then as you say, it would make sense to just use the former tools. But for those of us for whom it's the other way round, it makes far more sense to use the scripting
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by rwallace 11y ago
I think joshstrange has it right: the easiest way for everyone is to do it yourself and take the original developer out of the loop. There's no reason the person who writes the code and the person who handles the certified distribution
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by rwallace 11y ago
I agree that society is becoming infantilized and this is a huge problem, but I'm going to call a complete miss on the attempt to identify the cause. For one thing, most adults are not fans of science fiction to any significant degree,
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by rwallace 11y ago
Eh, uninformative commit messages aren't a sin, they're a trade-off. Right now, most of my commit messages are one word. Why? Because at the moment nobody cares about my commit messages because nobody cares about my project becaus
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by rwallace 11y ago
And even if it were, surely they wouldn't be locked to the same version as Chrome or Android? Basically, I think lmm and gecko are both right: there should be exactly one repository per project, where a project is defined in terms of a
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by rwallace 11y ago
In fairness, the guy is a sailor, not a writer. I'm sure I would make more than several mistakes if you put me in charge of a nuclear submarine. But yes, the effort to dismantle the Cold War nuclear arsenals should never have been allo
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by rwallace 11y ago
Fair enough! Good reminder that no matter how much things suck, they really can always get worse.
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by rwallace 11y ago
You've seen how the locals live in both countries? If so, can you go into details on what exactly the South has that the North doesn't? (Aside from not having to worry about having enough to eat, as the other comment observes, whi
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by rwallace 11y ago
The more I hear about what life is like in South Korea, the more I wonder whether the actual difference in quality of life for the average person between North and South is as great as we are led to believe.
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by rwallace 11y ago
Ah, good find. Bookmarking this for next time I need an example of a smart person believing something incredibly stupid.
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by rwallace 11y ago
I can't speak to the US, but here in Ireland the city does no such thing, so we would love to have this service! Creators thereof, please consider expanding over here. You'd get a lot of customers at double or quadruple your curre
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by rwallace 11y ago
To be honest, your English looks absolutely fine to me, which is why I downvoted that comment for trolling. The content was also excellent; not often you get that sort of look at the internals of a project.
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by rwallace 11y ago
It was a significant contributing factor. Consider, for example, the American Civil War - the outcome would have been very different if not for the fact that the North's non-slave industrial economy worked .
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by rwallace 11y ago
Intuitively that makes sense until you reflect that plenty of much worse languages than JavaScript took months or years to design. Honestly, much as it's a pastime to grumble about the flaws of whatever language we find ourselves using
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by rwallace 11y ago
I think the name Node works better, really. In writing both work fine, but in spoken language it's a bit easier to say/more distinctive in response to the question 'what are you using'.
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by rwallace 11y ago
I'm personally using it for a non-web project, but the most typical use case for it is websites where some chunk of logic has to run on both client and server; this is quite a common scenario and when it arises, Node is the only game i
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by rwallace 11y ago
I think the point is the reverse. Why are men happy to sacrifice family and everything else that really matters in life for the sake of the rat race, and women not as much? So, is that really a choice for all these men, or perhaps a necessi
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by rwallace 11y ago
> Does notepad handle \n separated lines correctly yet? Yes, thankfully.
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by rwallace 11y ago
User-facing software in general tends to hit a quality ceiling pretty early on based on the unwillingness of the developers to make further improvements. Contrary to the commenter who talked about NASA and the space shuttle software, this i
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by rwallace 11y ago
My suggestion would be to work on uploading brains to digital substrate (starting with the Open Worm project and working up from there) on the grounds that interplanetary settlement would be dramatically less difficult for solid-state minds
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by rwallace 11y ago
I ran some experiments with genetic programming some years ago. It turns out that the time taken to evolve a program is exponential in the size of the program, which unfortunately makes the technique not actually that useful.
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by rwallace 11y ago
This article makes exactly the same mistake that pretty much everyone else suggesting programmer tooling beyond plain text has made: assuming it has to be either or, that if we want more sophisticated tools that use a more complex represent
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by rwallace 11y ago
No. ( I don't believe cyclomatic complexity is meaningful, so it's not likely your coworker will believe it :)) The following assumes you've already politely expressed your opinion to your coworker and he's disregarded
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by rwallace 12y ago
What exactly happens if you just refuse to work more than forty hours a week? I mean, obviously you won't get promoted, but promotion at that price isn't worth having. Do you get fired? The reason I ask is that I've heard in
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by rwallace 12y ago
I think the technique this is trying to replace is, 'Cranes and forklift trucks haven't the flexibility for this task? Then the workers will just have to lift the 30kg pieces of metal into place by hand. Some of them end up wrecki
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by rwallace 12y ago
Actually, a whole brain emulation would, at least for some generations after the first working model, run slower, not faster, than an organic brain. Bear in mind that without whole brain emulation (or nanomedicine sufficiently advanced to c
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by rwallace 12y ago
Just set her desktop to single click mode?
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by rwallace 12y ago
There's a mention of smaller planes being more efficient, without details. I'm surprised at that: I thought bigger planes were more efficient (less fuel and other costs per passenger). Is that not the case? If not, why not?
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by rwallace 12y ago
It's important to recognize that there are many competitions in which being ahead has negative value. When I was a teenager, I occasionally indulged in drinking competitions. If I challenged you to a drinking competition today, would y

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