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by spdionis 8y ago
> Fractional reserve is exactly that banks lend out a fraction of the money that they take in Isn't it a multiple instead of a fraction? Banks are required to keep in reserve a small percentage of the actual amount being lent, which
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by spdionis 8y ago
What baffled me is that if you have a mouse with side buttons you just cannot use them in any type of shortcut. Mouse support is generally terrible in OSX.
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Steam is a product, Valve is the company.
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by spdionis 8y ago
It's just that some of the streamers' content is so good that you don't need to pay them, you want to. It's also about personal connection with a community, which is something that was lacking on the internet after the
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by spdionis 8y ago
For research and curation of content.
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by spdionis 8y ago
Indeed the main point to provide context in the scrum process is the refinement meeting.
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by spdionis 8y ago
That sounds like a reasonable outcome...
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by spdionis 8y ago
I think the idea is that eventually we will be able to reverse engineer it though. If you think about what advances we've had in the last centuries, this could definitely be possible a few decades/centuries down the road.
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by spdionis 8y ago
Dota 2 is probably harder to beat than starcraft 2, and no, the AI didn't actually manage to beat a pro team, it failed.
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by spdionis 8y ago
Thought experiment: imagine it was a buddhist monk. I am sure the reaction here in the comments would be at least slightly different.
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by spdionis 8y ago
JetBrains definitely doesn't want a similar ecosystem and having things that work properly 100% of the time baked in is why people use the IDEs.
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Opera will block those annoying cookie dialog boxes on its Android app(theverge.com)
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by spdionis 8y ago
For the same reason POCs or unfinished software runs in production.
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by spdionis 8y ago
What kind of engineer would ever drop all the user's data to just... restructure the database?? Before this thread I would've exclaimed "That's unheard of!".
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by spdionis 8y ago
In a way, after 3-4 years, there isn't much difference whether you have to update your self-hosted service, or the SaaS you're using is finally removing the functionality you rely on after having deprecated it 2 years earlier. The
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by spdionis 8y ago
Is that a joke website or serious?
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by spdionis 8y ago
Is duplicating models that big of a problem? Just an honest question, hoping to get more answers/opinions besides parent's.
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by spdionis 8y ago
As GP said the network is inherently flakier and slower and yes, we are very close to the physical limit.
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by spdionis 8y ago
I think C++ is the only one that doesn't have interfaces.
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by spdionis 8y ago
extends != implements
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by spdionis 8y ago
Active Record should be considered an anti-pattern and is definitely in violation of single responsibility at the least. Myself, I wouldn't even put any business logic in the User object, except maybe representational logic (e.g. have
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by spdionis 8y ago
Sometimes while reading/writing modern PHP it feels like it's more functional than OOP. It's definitely easier for your code to be pure and simple instead of becoming a stateful mess. To make it a stateful mess you'd hav
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by spdionis 8y ago
I just meant that to simplify literally everything you could just work only in post-tax numbers like the rest of the world does. Obviously this would indeed increase tip amount, but it would definitely decrease confusion and probably fix it
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by spdionis 8y ago
I'm lucky enough that I haven't cut on my sleep much during my adolescence or my college studies. Today I feel awful every time I sleep less than 7 hours, and moderately dysfunctional if I don't sleep 8 a few days in a row. B
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by spdionis 8y ago
Isn't the problem the other way around? In Europe taxes are included in the price from the start.
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by spdionis 8y ago
Adding to that Simppe Made Easy, also by Rich Hickey
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by spdionis 8y ago
Would you prefer google keeping all access logs to your account forever?
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by spdionis 8y ago
You are hereby informed that all technology systems may have vulnerabilities that may be exploited. Duh.
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by spdionis 8y ago
That actually happens. Also bridges are built with a much bigger lifetime in mind and require (proving GP's point) a much bigger investment.
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by spdionis 8y ago
The GP is talking about remote work.

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