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by smithkl42 9y ago
I'd hire in a second anybody who's thought this hard about how to critique their own code.
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by smithkl42 9y ago
Commenters have mentioned "Chesterton's Fence". I'd add a reference to another of GKC's observations: "When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.&q
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by smithkl42 9y ago
And FWIW, I remember complaining about this to Don Syme something like 5+ years ago, and while he gave lip service to the idea that F# needed better tooling (and better tooling interop with C# specifically), I don't think he was really
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by smithkl42 9y ago
It's the "Go to Definition" and "Find all References" pieces that are so annoying to me, and slow me down tremendously. It means that (practically) you have to do your whole solution in one language for it to feel l
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by smithkl42 9y ago
I've successfully used Pivotal Tracker for my last three startups. It's an opinionated tool whose opinions don't always match mine, but it works well, and I've scaled it to teams up to about 15-20 participants. Beyond th
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by smithkl42 9y ago
I've been using TS since it's .8 days, and love it - but I think it's stretching things to say that it's an excellent language. It's a pragmatic language that makes JavaScript (which is an awful language) tolerable.
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by smithkl42 9y ago
Azure Table Storage? Uggh. Nasty. I've tried half a dozen times to use them, and every time I've given up. Great for write-only data that you never want to see again. Horrible for real-world querying.
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by smithkl42 9y ago
Not necessary, but it's pretty widely agreed that he was a mediocre CEO, no?
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by smithkl42 9y ago
If there's so much plastic in the ocean, and if it's (obviously) possible for something to evolve in such a way that it can use plastic for nutrition - it seems like we just need to wait a bit, and we'll get some bacteria or
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by smithkl42 9y ago
It's quite possible for someone to be a mediocre CEO and still do good, smart things. This is a good thing, and smart.
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by smithkl42 10y ago
That's a great point about the similarity of the two problems. If we didn't already know from intimate personal experience that there is such a thing as consciousness, no amount of physical observation could ever be sufficient t
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by smithkl42 10y ago
Not quite true, or at least not so baldly. Job describes the "satan", or accuser, in a manner that clearly anticipates his later depiction as "the accuser of the brethren" in Revelation. And while not providing a name, t
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by smithkl42 10y ago
I use Powershell as my default command shell (via ConEmu). But its verbosity makes it a pain to work with as your everyday shell. For instance, in cmd.exe you can say: dir /od But in Powershell, you have to do: dir | sort-object LastWr
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by smithkl42 10y ago
And yet somehow, within a decade, we've redefined (almost out of existence) the single most fundamental human institution, an institution which has lasted for thousands of years and which virtually every great thinker prior to the last
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by smithkl42 10y ago
Just one point - "maths" is in fact the correct (local) term in Commonwealth countries - sort of like how they refer to "sport" instead of "sports".
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by smithkl42 10y ago
What you call "social schism" I call liberty. I think the universal availability of public schooling is, in general, a great good. But the idea of the government telling me that I can't home school my children makes my skin
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by smithkl42 10y ago
The fact that you think the reasoning behind traditional marriage is "just plain stupid and cruel" is probably the best example of Chesterton's Gate I've yet seen. It indicates that (a) not only do you not understand the
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by smithkl42 10y ago
Mostly because I wanted to hear what some real experts thought of the evidence presented.
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by smithkl42 10y ago
On a side note - you do know that Santa is real, right? He was a real bishop in Turkey in the 4th century, participated in the Council of Nicea, and was even reputed to have thrown a punch at Arius on the council floor.
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by smithkl42 10y ago
I'm not actually sure how common it was for the government to intervene in families' home lives, even, say, at the height of the middle ages or the Byzantine empire. That said, to whatever extent it did happen, it was wrong, and t
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by smithkl42 10y ago
Catholic theologians have spent a lot of time analyzing this problem. The short version is that there's a pretty big moral difference between giving money to somebody (even if you know they're going to do something evil with it),
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by smithkl42 10y ago
Adults also get personal choice as to which TV programs they watch, which beverages they drink, which candidates to vote for, whether to join the military. The option is not whether to constrain the choices available to children - it's
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by smithkl42 10y ago
That's kind of overstating things, isn't it? Yes, what HP did was balls-up stupid, and I'll think hard before buying anything from them, but companies have liberties too. They have rights to free speech (you don't want t
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by smithkl42 10y ago
Good point. And I can see that I would have made different (and probably cleaner) design decisions in certain places if strict null checking had been a part of our code from the beginning.
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by smithkl42 10y ago
Huge TypeScript fan here - been using it since its 0.8x days. And I'm very interested in the new --strictNullChecks compiler flag. But I'm trying to implement that on our current codebase, and I'm coming to the conclusion tha
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by smithkl42 10y ago
Though presumably not $6+ trillion, right?
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by smithkl42 10y ago
In hindsight, I'd certainly agree :-). At the time, given what we were trying to do, it was really the only platform available to us, as it was the only way (at the time, or since) that we could get raw access to local audio/video
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by smithkl42 10y ago
Bob Muglia did something similar with Silverlight back in 2010. As I'd invested two years of my life into a Silverlight-based startup at that point, it effectively killed two years' worth of work, and left me rather soured on Micr
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by smithkl42 10y ago
Not sure I understand that. Bublé does require transpilation, doesn't it? It's just easier to configure than Babel, which is notoriously painful.
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by smithkl42 10y ago
Agreed. It really left me wondering, "Am I hurting myself by taking all that Claritin and NasalCort and NasalCrom and all those other anti-allergy meds that have made life livable again?"

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