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by ssmoot 10y ago
Your business expenses are not my problem. The grocery store doesn't get to charge people when they order too much perishable fruit. Your of a different opinion, that's your prerogative. Just don't expect everyone to feel the
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by ssmoot 10y ago
> What, exactly, is "entitled" about asking someone to cancel through a simple process on the same web site they signed up with? The fact that you feel entitled to their hard earned money, despite providing no service or value.
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by ssmoot 10y ago
If you tried that with someone who cared, you could get taken to small claims court. And it would end up costing you a lot even if your defense prevailed. In TX at least, companies are not allowed to use lawyers in small claims court. You a
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by ssmoot 10y ago
You can have a different political opinion without being hyperbolic and going all "wake up sheeple!".
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by ssmoot 10y ago
It's not though. This is why Agile is such a failure. Because people don't actually read the Manifesto. It doesn't say planning is unimportant. It doesn't say contract negotiation is unimportant. It doesn't say time
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I played around with a Franklin PC 8088 when I was a kid for a couple years that we had it. I tried BASIC but never got close to my goal of writing a Tic Tac Toe program. Didn't know how to read input. Didn't even know that the &q
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by ssmoot 10y ago
She makes the exact argument supporting the parent though. That having people who look like her was incredibly important to her decision going into tech. Which is a real problem IMO. I didn't go to school. Most of the programmers I kno
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by ssmoot 10y ago
> Definitely not satirical! His own daughter is criticizing him after all. I guess that should be obvious at this point. I thought there might still be a discussion until you pointed it out. That does pretty much settle it. Thanks. As fa
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I thought his posts on the subject were a mix of pragmatism and satire? A "this is how the world works, you've got this, here's what you'll face". Was it not meant to be satirical? Was he genuinely advocating squeez
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by ssmoot 10y ago
> People put minimal effort into it. I don't think that's true. Parenting is much harder than coding and you don't get to check out because you're "burned out".
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by ssmoot 10y ago
module Numeric def times(&b) (1..self).each(&b) end end It's really no different than the Scala you'd write for the same thing: implicit class LongHelpers(l: Long) { def times(f: => Any)
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by ssmoot 10y ago
That's just Array.forEach in JS. Or in Scala: (1 to 5) foreach { _ => println("look, a line!") } That's really nothing to do with Sets.
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by ssmoot 11y ago
I really dislike Either personally. I much prefer Scalatic's "Either with attitude" Or. It's also the only natural use of infix type notation I'm familiar with so that's kind of neat. I frequently see Either ab
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by ssmoot 11y ago
I don't believe Erlang goes around magically imposing it's own timeouts on message handling.
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by ssmoot 11y ago
You've done something wrong then? Or maybe using experimental features? I might play with them a bit, and it can be frustrating to wait, but I've never launched anything on -experimental before. I was referring to "cheating&q
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by ssmoot 11y ago
I'll concede that. But you have to admit this is an incredibly niche problem space. OTOH the JVM will have much higher throughput on the other 99% of apps. Don't get me wrong. I like Erlang. It's definitely in my top.. Uhm...
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by ssmoot 11y ago
Akka checks most of those boxes AFAIK. And there's really not much you can do in the way of cheating unless I misunderstand you. Or at least idiomatically you wouldn't cheat in Scala anyways. Speaking of which, I just realized the
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by ssmoot 11y ago
And maybe in a project with truly massive memory requirements that's an issue. I've never encountered it (as an issue that is) But I only got into the JVM on 1.6 with Jruby, made the switch to Scala around 1.7, and have been on 1.
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by ssmoot 11y ago
I guess the accidental mutability is a good point. Working in Scala, I've never encountered that. You do learn not to close over local scopes in futures pretty quickly though.
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by ssmoot 11y ago
This seems like it could've been called "Why Actor Systems Matter". If you're on the JVM, I'm not sure what Erlang buys you in practice. It's slower and more obscure. It has a much smaller ecosystem. While proc
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by ssmoot 11y ago
That seems really dubious. The entire price of an S80 is less than half a base Model S and aside from a dated computer has a far nicer interior in every way. Of course I'm biased. Owned six Volvos. Always thought you couldn't buy
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by ssmoot 11y ago
That's just not true. The Escalade gets a score 258% lower than the average. That's abysmal. And from your story, it sounds like you could've done a lot worse than to pick up a subscription no? Look, I'm not a CR fanboy.
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by ssmoot 11y ago
Apple has a reputation for Just Working. The Model S has a lower than average reliability rating. Just because I, individually, might buy a lemon MacBook doesn't make Apple an unreliable brand. The Cadillac CTS for example has a much b
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by ssmoot 11y ago
OTOH I've had a 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee snap the left driver axle and needed the transfer case, the differential, the axle obviously, etc replaced a couple month into ownership. It was in the shop 74 days total. Didn't lemon it.
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by ssmoot 11y ago
Github isn't exactly a utopia of UX. Yesterday I was looking for a way to refresh an old fork with upstream. I'm pretty sure there was a button for this at one point. I looked. Couldn't find it. So instead I had to: $ cd
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by ssmoot 11y ago
I'm not sure what you're referring to about cost. Maintenance? Performance?
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by ssmoot 11y ago
I don't have much practical experience with Storm, but I was pretty interested in it a few years back. After working with Akka more and more the past year, I have to wonder what would inspire someone to choose Storm over it though. Akk
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by ssmoot 11y ago
That's buried into the dash though. So... 35 degree viewing angle maybe? No way the floating near the cup holders tablet can be final. It's have to be like a 55 degree viewing angle? It would have the most distracting, just plain
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by ssmoot 11y ago
There's enough opportunity to go around. There was 1 grocery delivery place I was aware of for us (Artizone.com) and they shut down. Postmates doesn't even deliver to my Dallas address, despite claiming to deliver to Dallas. What
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by ssmoot 11y ago
For me it's because there are very few databases (you can count them on one hand) that check the following boxes: * Document or SQL Storage * Integrated Full Text Search * Can transparently survive a node going down (load balancer or c

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