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by sseagull 5y ago
But it seems like it may start trading soon https://seekingalpha.com/news/3698743-lianluo-smart-closes-m...
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by sseagull 6y ago
Wasn't this also the story of a dating site (whose name escapes me. OKCupid? PoF?)? Original owner wrote an article about how paying for a dating site is a bad idea. Money is offered, article disappears. Searching is failing me at the
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by sseagull 6y ago
Imagine the support infrastructure farmers and family need (schools, medical, stores, some entertainment maybe). And then all the infrastructure those workers need. It’s not like every farmer is happy living in a tent alone, traveling offro
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by sseagull 6y ago
This is a really good question, and a bit deeper than it first appears. So here is some semi-educated spitballing (I'm a chemist, but thermodynamics was a while ago): 1. Immediately after ignition, you have a low-volume, high-pressure,
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by sseagull 6y ago
There are always extremes, of course. But I find that a large share of technical debt could have been solved from the beginning with a little bit of foresight and planning. Of course stakeholders often have a way of upending your beautiful
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by sseagull 6y ago
> 5. Happy Path Focused Preach it! I am dealing with this now, having taken over a project from someone who thought this way. Yes it works, but is full of bad error handling, cryptic exceptions, race conditions (particularly TOCTOU bugs)
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by sseagull 6y ago
Has it always been this way? I’m not that well versed in stock market history, but I hear it claimed that when companies gave out regular dividends, then the stock price would be correlated to (present and future) performance, as that gets
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by sseagull 6y ago
> But once she turned 16, she was suddenly a pedophile and a stutory rapist because I was only 15? Again, that seems insane. After some high-profile cases (usually involving minorities and disapproving parents), some states in the US hav
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by sseagull 6y ago
I think you took this differently than what I intended, although that is partly my fault. What I meant was more along the lines of “do you regularly jump into the deep end on new projects that were started/maintained by someone else?”
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by sseagull 6y ago
To each their own. I find almost all functions I write are really designed with one type in mind anyway. One difference may be if you primarily work in your own projects or work with other people’s projects. And how skilled the other develo
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by sseagull 6y ago
I thought like you at one point, but then jumped into a moderately-sized project that I was unfamiliar with. It took months to get an intuition for what the data was that was being passed around. Inside a function you need modify, you are p
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by sseagull 6y ago
But even semi-controlled isn't fully controlled. I've always wondered about what happens when the system really gets off the 'happy path'. Maybe there's an accident, and police are directing traffic? Does the truck
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by sseagull 6y ago
There is also an element of each project optimizing to its own minimum. If each project selects the best language, tech stack, hosting stack, etc, for itself, it creates an overarching complexity across projects. Fixing this requires lots o
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by sseagull 6y ago
Not exactly HTML, but webservers typically support server-side includes (SSI). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
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by sseagull 6y ago
It would still be a significant amount of money for a lot of companies. Remember, we are looking in hindsight that it seemingly paid off. A few years ago, this was just an educated bet; only the richest companies with money to burn (from se
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by sseagull 6y ago
I'm guessing the ncurses-based IM client based on libpurple (in other words, the text-based version of pidgin). Which I used quite a bit when that kind of thing was more useful
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by sseagull 6y ago
I have managed to block them with some filters & ublock origin. At least for now. Reading posts on r/uBlockOrigin, there seem to be multiple versions of facebook, and what works for some doesn't work for others. I don't u
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by sseagull 6y ago
Oh I completely agree. I am mostly just annoyed at the slanted comparisons, saying that something like Python is ”simple” on some absolute scale. I teach Python to scientific programmers. There are a lot of little details and corners that a
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by sseagull 6y ago
But the common argument against C++ is that you need to know a large portion of the language because someone somewhere might be using it, and you may have to read and understand their code. So even things that are optional in python should
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by sseagull 6y ago
That's fair. I come from a scientific computing background, where old code is sometimes treasured, even though there is increasing pressure to "modernize". But the older code often has several decades worth of testing across
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by sseagull 6y ago
Actually I feel it is the opposite of that. Existing code can be battle tested and reliable, with lots of unforeseen bugs encountered and fixed. But those bugfixes made the old code difficult to work with, and rather than take the time to u
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by sseagull 6y ago
You put this fairly succinctly. And I agree wholeheartedly. I think of the phrase “adding epicycles” when this kind of stuff starts happening.
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by sseagull 6y ago
Seems like Popehat’s Rule of Goats applies, then. And therefore he is not credible. For the unfamiliar (contains NSFW language) https://twitter.com/popehat/status/858722120620265473
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by sseagull 6y ago
Can you explain where? I just booted up a relatively clean copy of Excel 2019 and can't find it after a couple minutes. I see a few autoformatting options, but nothing corresponding to dates. The only options I see are similar to this:
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by sseagull 6y ago
> the only reasons to use C++ over Rust are for compatibility with existing code/libraries, or lack of Rust expertise on the team and no time to learn Rust But these are huge reasons. It is the difference between theory and practi
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by sseagull 6y ago
2020 feels like it has already lasted several years, so I can understand 2018 feeling like more than just 2 years ago :)
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by sseagull 6y ago
I know it doesn’t seem like it, but Trump was elected in 2016, and took office in 2017. He was president when that comment was written.
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by sseagull 6y ago
I figured mynameishere just searched youtube to find what episode audiometry was talking about and happened to see the comment. Although your idea is cooler :)
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by sseagull 6y ago
I know “abducting people” usually has a stronger connotation. However, at least one of the “kidnapping” videos, as described and justified by the Deputy Director, shows an unconstitutional arrest. Should the police be punished for breaking
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by sseagull 6y ago
In theory, yes. However teachers need to adapt materials to their own style of teaching and to their audience. It can be very hard in practice to teach someone else's materials and have it be 'good' and engaging. Think of it

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