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by samspot 12y ago
There are a lot of factors that make a framework either worth it or not. Here are some that lean towards framework. * Is it an application (google docs?), if not, you may not need a framework. * How large is the team? For a solo project,
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by samspot 12y ago
I don't find that performance runs at % chance scale. When things perform poorly, they are often very consistent. With this architecture you can rapidly iterate & scale your poor performing core services, while the non-core servi
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by samspot 12y ago
Interesting choices: > half of Americans claim creationism explains the existance of man This is a fantastic explanation, it just doesn't originate from science. > 50% of Americans think there was a wider conspiracy behind the as
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by samspot 12y ago
I get what you are saying, but for me that experience went extinct years ago. Nobody in my circles watches anything live, and if they do, they don't talk about it within earshot of me.
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by samspot 12y ago
I like your style better, but your function doesn't return 0 || 1 (yours returns true || false). I also wouldn't read too much into it. It's unlikely that the same person wrote all the code involved, and many smart people I
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by samspot 12y ago
Sounds like you assumed we are working overtime, we're not. I'm describing the reason why on Friday morning I don't just take the day off if i've met my goals. I don't think the desire for team success is unhealth
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by samspot 12y ago
> If you're getting your work done, on time, and to the quality specifications... Does this exist in software development? There is always more work to do than there are people to do it (wherever I have worked). If I clearly goo
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by samspot 12y ago
Totally agree. Sometimes pager duty exists because you have broken processes that the company won't invest in fixing. That's why I was woken up every night for 6 months - A crawler trying to download the whole internet would run
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by samspot 12y ago
Mine is 20kb after google closure optimization. 139kb unminified.
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by samspot 12y ago
> None of them will tell you this: If you, a family member or anyone is unemployed and has subsequently given up on finding a job -- if you are so hopelessly out of work that you've stopped looking over the past four weeks -- the De
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by samspot 12y ago
True, also most player deaths are due to obvious mistakes - YASD (Yet Another Stupid Death), mistakes that the bot will only ever make once and then be programmed to avoid.
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by samspot 12y ago
There are lots of advanced techniques for identifying things. If you have a pink potion you can throw it at a monster, and based on the monster's reaction you might now know what pink potions are. Most of this stuff would be hard to
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by samspot 12y ago
Do people REALLY brute force passwords? Do people REALLY brute force all lowercase, all latin combinations up to 20 characters before trying symbols, uppercase and numbers? I am very skeptical that the '3/4 complexity rules'
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by samspot 12y ago
This begs the question of why we consider the science of evolution to be so trustworthy, while considering nutritional science untrustworthy. At least we can experiment on nutritional science. Evolution has all the same headline-grabbing
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by samspot 12y ago
What if the 70's science is right and current thought is wrong? There is no way to know! Argghghggh!
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by samspot 12y ago
I tried Feedly and others, but I never got comfortable. I replaced my reader habit with HN and Twitter.
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by samspot 12y ago
Yeah, that's exactly what I did, with coworkers. Sorry I didn't mention it. Nobody does them at the new job, I think it might be banned :(
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by samspot 12y ago
I've been a big fan of Joystiq, but I stopped visiting regularly when Google killed Reader. Guess I should have visited more often :(
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by samspot 12y ago
I used to have the attitude he mentioned, and when my eyes opened, I rejected it. Then I forced myself to watch American Football for a season. I actually had a good time. But I just couldn't really get into it. Problem is that whe
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by samspot 12y ago
I'm willing to bet video-game emulation communities are in that list.
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by samspot 12y ago
https://github.com/joaojeronimo/rimrafall/issues/2 hehehe
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by samspot 12y ago
Only 26 words down is this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/sports/for-longsword-a-com...
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by samspot 12y ago
Yeah, unless you are a wanted criminal, there is no reason to assume the people breaking into your house are the police. I didn't even know they did that before reading the flashbang article a few weeks ago: https://www.pr
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by samspot 12y ago
Sometimes people barricade themselves inside the home or have hostages. I had assumed that was the only case where they used flashbangs ... until I read this article. According to the article police can get a no-knock arrest warrant. I d
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by samspot 12y ago
Except it's not going to work, because of the bank who doesn't allow '(' as a special character, or the ticket website that requires at least 3 digits, or the financial firm who only allows 8 character passwords. As soo
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by samspot 12y ago
Not to defend this practice, but I heard a story about a whole team who put in a sleep that would automatically shrink over the first 6 months it was in production.
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by samspot 12y ago
15 minutes in, I am finding this talk to be slow and unfocused. I assume this is getting a lot of promoters because we all agree with the theme?
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by samspot 12y ago
You got the stupidity/malice-greed quote entirely backwards :). You aren't supposed to attribute to malice anything that can be explained by stupidity.
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by samspot 12y ago
I hate to be this guy, but learning FP techniques that aren't available in my day to day language isn't terribly exciting. I want to see a short term benefit, so JS or Java focused articles and books are golden for me.
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by samspot 12y ago
We went to Mexico for a day trip and brought an apple in our cooler. Our friends fed us so we never opened the cooler. We forgot at customs and said we had nothing to declare. Customs decided to search our cooler and found the apple. We

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