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by sseagull 5y ago
And I think this supplanted the earlier "four horsemen" terminology. Originally: Intel, Cisco, Microsoft, Dell Then (in 2007): Apple, Research in Motion (Blackberry), Google, Amazon
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by sseagull 5y ago
We have had to remind (older) family members at times to not send pictures of their young children/relatives if the pictures have any nudity or could possibly be considered suggestive. Even if not illegal in any way, it’s one of those
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by sseagull 5y ago
I’ve always had in mind “you can’t have simplicity without consistency”. Applies to user interfaces, code structure, and APIs as well. The more consistent something is, the less you have to remember. But it can be really hard to do things c
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by sseagull 5y ago
> Ever start a new job with a bulk of code you didn't write? Worse, ever take over code written by novices who ignore common conventions? Yes, I have seen lots of this in scientific computing. However, things like too many/not
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by sseagull 5y ago
I will interpret this as a little tongue-in-cheek. But see my comment on mathematics :)
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> no one knows for sure that it cannot cause a problem It is extremely hard, if not impossible, to prove a negative. By all available evidence, the vaccines are "safe" for some level of "safe". What more evidence do y
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by sseagull 5y ago
Society at large always has control over individuals if it deems it beneficial for the society as a whole. See: restrictions on dangerous weapons, childhood vaccinations, taxes, mandatory evacuation orders, safety regulations, …
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by sseagull 5y ago
The benefit is that ability to compile that old code, even if it takes some flags or marking it unsafe or whatever. There is a lot of old code that will never be rewritten but is still valuable, and I believe we will waste a lot of time jus
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by sseagull 5y ago
I would love compiler options for enforcing better practices and prohibiting old style code (no using bare new/delete, stricter implicit casts, etc.) It wouldn’t fix everything but would go a long way. It’s a little bit of a peeve of m
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by sseagull 5y ago
What other endeavor could you take a break for a few years and then come back and still basically be at the same place where you left off? Pro golfer? Concert pianist? Physicist? Hell I forget what half my codebase does in a matter of week
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by sseagull 5y ago
I feel like that is about right, especially with the higher standard deduction. I bought a house early last year for 250k. Including all the interest, fees, taxes, etc, plus all my family's medical expenses, and even things that I&#x27
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by sseagull 5y ago
There are many possible deductions, however a lot of people can’t/shouldn’t use them because of the large standard deduction. The question is how many people file taxes which are basically W2 plus standard deduction? My bet is quite a
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by sseagull 5y ago
I generally agree with everything, but thought I would just use this as a springboard into a related topic: > What’s the difference between a “bug” and “defect”? Well, one’s a bug and the other’s a defect, duh! This kind of issue is comm
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by sseagull 5y ago
Well, software/service names as well. iMessage, iCloud, iMovie. But I agree it is a little less standard than KDE putting K in front of everything
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But the proposed solution to that seems to be "learn more languages", which is not exactly effortless. I feel some people love learning new languages, while others just want to get shit done. C++ seems geared towards the latter -
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by sseagull 5y ago
> Every single argument I've seen against C++ in systems code has been specious: people act like typing "g++" instantly implants a copy of the GoF book in your head and turns you into a design patterns robot. "I don&#
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by sseagull 5y ago
I do have to try mamba sometime but I feel like there is something more than python slowness going on. I use Gentoo and its package manager is written in python. Even though it is more complex (IMO) it doesn’t have nearly the same slowness
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by sseagull 5y ago
I have an environment (somewhat complicated but not that bad really) that occasionally takes more than an hour. Oh and if there is a conflict somewhere, it goes into some conflict detection routine that will take hours and not produce anyth
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by sseagull 5y ago
Everyone has a line of how much they are willing to change their language, though. There will always come a point where someone will think some change is "silly", even though the old term may have upset some people. And almost eve
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by sseagull 5y ago
I think the argument is really about transferablilty of skills. I already know how to manipulate compressed files because I have to do that in other places. And once you realize logs are just text files, I can immediately transfer all my sk
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by sseagull 5y ago
Also note that that only includes organic molecules. There's another 85-ish natural elements in the periodic table that could be important, but is much harder to synthesize or compute. Although including heavier elements can blow past
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by sseagull 5y ago
Some people like it, some people don't, and there's no issue with that. I second the other comment about how it is like solving mysteries, with a combination of trying to get to know people that you've never met and can never
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by sseagull 5y ago
I use gramps fairly extensively for some semi-serious genealogy work and love it. It is extremely flexible, while also trying to remain true to standards such as GEDCOM. One thing I love is that, as a python programmer, I can script various
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by sseagull 5y ago
I believe teaching is a somewhat specialized profession, or at least a very separate skill from knowing the subject. I am just getting into teaching now, at a college level, and finding it is a completely different beast than everything els
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by sseagull 5y ago
> how will people know that this is what they need to do? Why has the tech community at large completely failed to educate people on the basics of something used by billions of people daily and affecting increasingly-important parts of t
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by sseagull 5y ago
You can ignore the stuff from the CEO, yes. But once you get a letter from a lawyer you should at least have a lawyer look it over and possibly draft a response. It can sometimes hard to tell frivolous vs. serious letters, and ignoring a se
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by sseagull 5y ago
I feel like blaming developers (or management) for this is just fighting human nature which never ends well. Rather we should look at deeper root causes, like why these initial assumptions keep changing, and why there is so much churn in so
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by sseagull 5y ago
Oh man, I mentioned the time limits in my other comment. But citadels and stuff took sooooo long. Depending on your setup, it could be months until everything was built up. I remember impatiently checking the countdown on my citadels (28 da
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by sseagull 5y ago
One aspect of TW that I feel would be missing from any modern reincarnation would be the time limit you usually had on a BBS. Only being able to play for a set time a day is basically unheard of now. But it made you want to play it all the
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by sseagull 5y ago
Thanks for putting it succinctly. I was going over some REST design principles and the "no verbs in the URL" thing is just really awkward and not intuitive (and something being non-intuitive leads to complexity in my opinion). As

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