srdev

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by srdev 13y ago
There's a wide gap between giving objective, straightforward criticism and being insulting. The latter is not necessary to get one's point across. The latter is also what Linus did, and what many in the programming community encourage, un
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by srdev 13y ago
No its not. When faced with a scalability problem, they decided to ban certain uses rather than fix the root cause. Bitcoin isn't going to be able to grow beyond a niche currency if Satoshi Dice's level of activity causes such large probl
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by srdev 13y ago
Nothing he said tries to frame them as evil. It was an accurate statement.
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by srdev 13y ago
Programmers are, in essence, creative problem-solvers. That skill set is difficult, if not impossible, to commoditize. Building a house well may require some creative problem-solving, but it is not as frequent or as important when compare
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by srdev 13y ago
Do you have statistics on how often you've hired long-term out-of-work people and the frequency of said people to be sub-par employees?
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by srdev 14y ago
The problem is that simply saying that we should treat it as background noise is functionally indistinguishable from defending it. Bad behavior should be called out and discouraged.
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by srdev 14y ago
SpiderOak claims to.
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by srdev 14y ago
Rather than open it directly in Excel, open a blank workbook and use the data import functionality. This lets you specify the type of each column. Its not a perfect solution, but its a passable work-around.
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by srdev 14y ago
Group brainstorming is also about building a consensus about the ideas produced. People are more invested in ideas where they've put their mark. It may lead to bike-shedding, but sometimes that necessary if you want everyone to be investe
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by srdev 14y ago
The author is propagating the stereotype that introverts are anti-social. This is not the case. We simply require more time to ourselves for mental wellness. This does not preclude socializing or going to larger events. The author could
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by srdev 14y ago
Likely its an argument to use parameterized queries which fix the SQL injection problem altogether. I'm not familiar with Ruby, but surely they support it in 2013?
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by srdev 14y ago
The "proprietary player" was just a Python script that made a temporary decrypted the video and ran VLC against it. So he just changed the Python script to keep around a decrypted copy rather than re-encrypt it away.
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by srdev 14y ago
How do you fill the gap for me, the consumer, of not having chargebacks available? Chargebacks are a net plus for me.
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by srdev 14y ago
While one should design things as if it is, hacking is not, in fact, inevitable, and its possible to run properly-secured money-handling services. Speaking from personal experience. I realize this is a common sentiment in the Bitcoin commun
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by srdev 14y ago
Yes, I agree. I do think that a lot of Hacker News contributors have blinders on, wherein they devalue the work a big, established service has done, and compare smaller, less-established companies favorably to the same, because they have th
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by srdev 14y ago
Paypal is an established service, and you can check its track record. Coinbase is a new site, so we have no information about its track record.
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by srdev 14y ago
I'm not sure I like this handwavey security argument. There are lots of services handling money that don't get hacked, at least not in ways that cause a loss of said money. Treating being hacked as a foregone conclusion is rather bad prac
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by srdev 14y ago
Poor documentation, leaky abstractions, poorly thought abstractions (requiring multiple calls to the API to accomplish common tasks).
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by srdev 14y ago
In my case, items fulfilled by Amazon get my first look and a small price premium, due to convenience in shipping. Just another data point from the customer side.
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by srdev 14y ago
I don't know how it is with most interviewers, but for interviews that I do: If you don't know a term, just ask. I'm more interested in whether you're familiar with the concept and can apply it than whether you know the appropriate term.
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by srdev 15y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think you provided a link.
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by srdev 15y ago
I was looking at using Hulu Plus to augment my Netflix subscription, but when I found out that even the paid version had commercials I changed my mind. At one point they were experimenting with a "Watch one long commercial at the beginning
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by srdev 15y ago
These aren't mutually exclusive things, and his argument could be extended to the military industry as well. It's just a reflection on his part based on an experience he had.
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by srdev 15y ago
By the same token, I've inherited projects where the developer did not take scalability into account and avoided "cogs" for quick development turn-around. Putting the "cogs" in afterwards was incredibly painful, and a lot of development e
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by srdev 15y ago
I believe that its because his games typically don't sell as well as the publishers' other games. Psychonauts, for example, was a critically acclaimed game, but flopped commercially. People like to chalk this up to the publishers being stu
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by srdev 15y ago
They don't have to have an intricate understanding of medicine, but they should understand the issues well enough to be able to make informed decisions. If they do not understand, then they should bring in experts. For example, if you wan
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by srdev 15y ago
They're not going to be able to get around the fact that the third-party they're entrusting their files to don't care about their data as much as they do. Its not a technology problem. You could pay more for a service that has a contract
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by srdev 15y ago
I'm not comfortable with using an outlier as a data point, no. I'm also not comfortable when outliers are also used to prove the opposite (effort is useless, luck is everything, etc). We should not be using outliers to form our understand
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by srdev 15y ago
That's a shame. I was hopeful that the Nexus would present an ethical option for smartphones.
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by srdev 15y ago
The point is that nearly all the modern computing technology you're using is using what you call "slave labor" at some point in the supply chain. You name-drop Apple, and the article name-drops Microsoft, but its also Intel, IBM, Samsung,

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