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Explaining edge case behavior is one use-case for comments, and not the most valuable one in my estimation. Aside from that, often incorrect edge case handling is in both the code and the unit test because the problem is that the developer
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I'm in exactly the same position. My memory is awful so I write notes to my future self. It's not hard to keep comments up to date if you keep them near the code and don't use a lot of boilerplate.
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Joking aside, this is what the law says on the subject: > The working group shall take input from a broad range of stakeholders, including from academia, consumer advocacy groups, and small, medium, and large businesses affected by data
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The article keeps using the phrase "likely to be accessed by minors". I'm hard pressed to think of things that aren't likely to be accessed by minors other than websites for medical complaints, life insurance, or Faceboo
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They aren't worthless, they're a measure of prestige, which is what students are largely paying those huge fees for.
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> Are you new to the Internet? It was aspirational not an expectation. Alas, the downvotes show me that I'm doomed to yet another disappointment :p > This is big if true, but it requires more study. That's basically my point
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We're pretty much done with the culture war side of the COVID vaccine debate, so perhaps we can now discuss whether there were unknowns that warranted investigation without the vitriol. I myself had no hesitation taking the vaccine, bu
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> These are all artefacts of software development as we practice it, rather than truisms. Well, they're not laws of nature or anything. But pragmatically, how could it be otherwise? When it comes to bridges and buildings, correctnes
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The software world evolves much faster than any of the engineering disciplines and has fewer physical constraints. The requirements for software are rarely fully specified when construction starts. Software is faster to build, deploy and fi
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Hah, I might have agreed before I worked on a credit card processing system. There were plenty of rules alright, but it's possible to abide by all the rules without actually making a secure system. Some of the rules made it harder to
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This strikes me as intellectually lazy and self indulgent. "This is the same group who..." arguments are weak if only because you haven't established that all members of this group are members of that group. I'd wager th
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But in practice, at least in big tech, they will always want to have a documented and defendable reason for firing people to avoid lawsuits.
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I don't know the specifics of the case but it is often a lot easier to "manage them out" than to fire them. Often this means putting them on a performance improvement plan that you are pretty sure they won't satisfy but
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I think part of OP's point is that there would be tradeoffs. Reducing work hours by 1/5th will reduce work output by some large fraction of that. Companies would have to compensate for that by hiring more employees or reducing the
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There's a certain line you need to draw when considering unknown unknowns. You're suggesting that changing surface features on a remote body in space could somehow affect Earth. Consider that the moon has been hit by very large as
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According to Google, the moon's mass is 8.1 x 10^19 tons. According to some random info I found, we mined about 3 x 10^9 tons of metal ore in 2019. If we did that on the moon for a thousand years and brought it all back to earth, that&
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I guess I made a leap in assuming that if a site assumed for data collection purposes, that a person was a minor, they'd have trouble justifying showing adult content to that person. Looking back on the article, I see I read something
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Not really. Publishing anonymously goes way back. Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published anonymously.
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It's mentioned in the article, along with why that should not be a model for California.
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I guess you never consume content that is considered adult. I suspect those who do will feel differently about the issue.
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We did this as well. To mitigate the danger of a vault outage, we had a very tightly restricted endpoint which generated 24 hour certs that were fetched by automation on a single box. In the event of a vault outage, we'd have a day to
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Comments like this do more harm than good. No, that's not all they have to do. Somebody will come along presently with another graph that shows how this graph is misleading and declare victory. This comment is harmful because it strawm
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Interesting. I don't hear a single frequency, I often, but not always, hear two or more. I wasn't aware until today that this is called double tinnitus and is rare. I have TMJ and tinnitus. I always thought my tinnitus was from go
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Mostly static websites that just serve out data are fairly easy to produce and maintain, especially when they are relatively low traffic. I won't attempt to evaluate Taiwan's websites (although your own qualifications tend to supp
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Inventing and turning into usable product are not the same skill sets, nor is maintaining. If, today, you survey which websites are the most robust, the most user friendly, the most performant, the most functional, or most economical, you a
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Nonsense. When have people not trusted others to tell them what's true? When have they not been manipulated as a result? If that kills democracy, then it was dead from birth. Democracy persists, imperfect though it is, despite these fa
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It's not the IDE adds difficult to read code. It's that it makes it easy to write difficult to read code. This is particularly visible in the Java world. For example, the practice of dropping interfaces in front of everything neve
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I can see arguments either way. IDEs allow people to create complex code effortlessly so the resulting code tends to be more complex. Forcing developers to remember names and file locations causes the developer to try and encapsulate the co
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Sure there are other factors that are involved, but my point was, some coders are more deliberative while others are more exploratory. I'm in the latter group. I think by writing code. I do lots of refactoring and sometimes start over.
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Beyond that, engineers have different ways of approaching problems and of crafting the code. TDD may actually work great for one engineer, but be terribly disruptive to another. Engineers working in IDEs tend to have a different idea about

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