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by sbov 10y ago
I don't think they're saying it doesn't make sense. The point is, we help those that don't need help, and hurt those that are already hurting. We give better rates to people with high credit scores, but people with low o
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by sbov 10y ago
Anyone who stereotypes the practices of the best developers is kidding themselves. Some of the best developers I know only know C. In reality there are roughly two types of tech: staples and new ones. Staples are around for a long time, b
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by sbov 10y ago
Haven't you just done a 180? I mean, I'm pretty sure the world would be in a much much better place if the government could snap its fingers and instantly produce large amounts of almost anything. Therefore there is a shortage o
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by sbov 10y ago
Honest question: why would you buy noise cancelling headphones for situations when you want to hear what is around? Did you buy them for other use cases and also decide to use them at work?
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by sbov 10y ago
I can't disagree more with this statement. Echo chambers are dangerous. Just because everyone in the room agrees doesn't make it a good idea. The kinder term for contrarian is devil's advocate. If no one else will, you need s
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by sbov 10y ago
Cats are usually a predator introduced by humans though, so they aren't exactly natural either.
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by sbov 10y ago
This is just my personal line, and others may have different lines. My problem is more the implication that someone is using and likes a product when they actually aren't. Regardless of whether or not they're paid to use it. So
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by sbov 10y ago
They're called "weeder" classes, and probably every CS department has them. You take your intro classes then they dump you into algorithms.
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by sbov 10y ago
Using find & sed is not painful. I use getters and setters, but still think you will waste more time arguing about this issue, than leaving it be and finding out you have to change them down the line. Edit: also, especially for getters,
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by sbov 10y ago
You also have to factor in the cost to maintain your extension which you currently have no use for, which most people forget. It also might be easy to include now, but your extension might complicate a new feature request. Or the new featu
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by sbov 10y ago
Even beyond that, Jackson can use a private constructor if you use the @JsonCreator annotation on the constructor and @JsonProperty annotations on each parameter.
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by sbov 10y ago
It's not about tying their arm behind their back, it's about putting skilled players against skilled players. In pretty much any skilled game you have rough tiers that people of similar skill level face eachother. In general, hig
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by sbov 10y ago
Yeah, but in most games of skill you have some system in place to ensure your best players don't drive away the worst. When money gets involved things become murkier though.
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by sbov 10y ago
Performance will rarely be deal breaking. Instead people will toil away with slow systems and just accept it. It doesn't mean that they wouldn't be much happier with a faster system. We recently replaced a system whose online st
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by sbov 10y ago
Sure. Sometimes. Othertimes, you have to recognize that you aren't an expert, and that the real "why" is beyond your reach. If you're in this situation, you're probably better going with the herd. I run across th
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by sbov 10y ago
It's not about changing everything, it's about being able to make abstractions that aren't second class citizens. By giving this power, you also increase the consistency of the language.
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by sbov 10y ago
Even ignoring the differences between the privacy issues of Gawker vs Facebook, the decisions a company makes are influenced by more than just one person, and nothing posted here says anything of Peter Thiel's views on privacy with res
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by sbov 10y ago
Yes, it takes two to tango, which is the correct answer. Any other answer tends to oversimplify the problem. A lot of engineers also seem to evaluate other engineers by their worst work. This is a toxic attitude. You can even take an eng
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by sbov 10y ago
Considering management has a very large role in most messed up codebases I've seen, even if they fire 100% of the engineering team who coded it you probably are working with (for) the same people who messed up a codebase.
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by sbov 10y ago
True, I quoted the wrong part of the OP. It's more about why state autonomy could be seen as worth protecting.
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by sbov 10y ago
> It seems like every time I see a state government clash with the federal government, it's always the state trying to protect some backward law. For basically every progressive ideal, none of it is pioneered by the federal governme
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by sbov 10y ago
When reading the Mythical Man Month I got the impression that their idea of a "chief architect" is more like today's "product manager", not today's "chief architect".
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by sbov 10y ago
It's just empathy. I don't help people because it makes me feel good (it usually annoys me), I do it because it would suck to be in their situation.
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by sbov 10y ago
"You can pay me the salary I made at my last job if you give me 5% ownership in every project I work on, like at my last job."
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by sbov 10y ago
This isn't exactly correct either. It's a combination of barriers to entry (e.g. startup costs) and how much value the developer can make vs what they're paid. If a developer makes $100k/year and can create $1 million
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by sbov 10y ago
Certainly eminent domain is sometimes necessary, and I agree some form of it will probably be necessary to solve California's problem, but I wouldn't exactly associate it with "letting prices rise" (the statement by the
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by sbov 10y ago
Even beyond that, lot of those farmers bought the right to access a certain amount of water when they bought their land. Taking it away from them is like taking property away from someone in SF because they didn't pay enough for it
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by sbov 10y ago
Real people disproportionately situated in the US. I'm not sure if that helps any of those other countries. The basic problem is companies using public resources of a country but not paying back into the system.
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by sbov 10y ago
Water rights are way more complex than platitudes pulled from a high school economics class.
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by sbov 10y ago
I think the point is you can achieve the same result by just using a library. There are potential benefits and downsides to services over libraries of course, but unless there are specific requirements that make a library unsuitable, all

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