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by strictfp 9y ago
Again, I think it's a culture thing. He gets little to no automatic respect for being the maintainer. So either he has to engage in another endless discussion on the merits of the subject matter, or he has to shut the discussion down.
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by strictfp 9y ago
I think Linus is extreme, but I can totally understand that he got fed up with being nice and getting ignored. I don't agree with his conclusion that people don't get him reprimanding them, though. I think they mostly get it, but
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by strictfp 9y ago
"This is not confusing enough to be considered C++"
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by strictfp 9y ago
Why not Rust? Given that you aren't very familiar with niether C++ nor Rust, I'm not convinced that C++ is saner or faster.
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by strictfp 9y ago
There must be a real hellhole down there...
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by strictfp 9y ago
Government warfare is really the worst thing that has ever happened to the internet. I wish they would leave this old-fashioned territorial thinking to rot in the material world.
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by strictfp 9y ago
Ok, "a few bits" error prone then :)
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by strictfp 9y ago
"...you like PostgreSQL enough to attend a conference". Future classic right there. (Not being sarcastic, I loved that joke)
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by strictfp 9y ago
TL;DR: Business people only listen when you explicitly talk about them and/or money.
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by strictfp 9y ago
Limiting the benchmark to engines supporting matching sets of regexes seems unnecessarily narrow to me. Is matching a set of regexes not equivalent to matching a single combined regex? Something like "(?:a)|(?:b)|(?:c)"? If so, wh
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by strictfp 9y ago
The hipster culture is the culture of counter-culture. A hipster aware of their hipsterness would therefore violate their internal value system. So yes, it's hipster thing. But the hipster is not aware. Or is at least pretending not to
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by strictfp 9y ago
It also behaves differently if you open the csv from inside excel rather than if you doubleclick the file in explorer. And we haven't even gotten to file encodings yet.
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by strictfp 9y ago
Well, my take on this is that you can't fight the system. But you can change system. There are numerous books on change management in business, and most of them conclude that it's a lot easier to start a new company than to change
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by strictfp 9y ago
Well, you might disagree with me, but I agree with you! Jokes aside, I think that you can light a fire of self-worth given enough positive reinforcement. But there is always a limit on how long you can keep this fire burning. Let's say
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by strictfp 9y ago
I think you over-interpreted my statement juuust a little bit... ;) I am simply criticizing the common norm of blaming the bullied person for not being cool enough. I have no problems with my self-esteem and I think well of myself. But I am
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by strictfp 9y ago
No, it's a misnomer in my opinion. And that hides a rather nasty twist in human relations: In order to shun someone from a social group due to their non-conforming behaviour, the group cannot simply accept that they are willingly exclu
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by strictfp 9y ago
The problem is that I don't think you can build a nice feeling about yourself, in a non-narcissistic way, if you receive a lot of negative feedback from your peers. So while I agree with your conclusion that self-compassion helps with
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by strictfp 9y ago
I'm not so sure I buy into that theory of yours any more than the article. My personal theory is that self-esteem arises from the fact that you are aware of your acceptance in a social group. Knowing that you are welcome calms you and
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by strictfp 9y ago
While you have a point that they might sometimes be counter-productive, I think that emotions are decision drivers which operate on a higher abstraction level and are a way for the mind to compile vasts amounts of experience and deliberatio
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by strictfp 9y ago
People aren't rational actors for a reason: Sometimes things are easy to argue for but aren't that great in practice. And so by following your heart instead of your head, you sometimes make seemingly illogical but objectively bett
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by strictfp 9y ago
Re-use the expoit to resign the new guy.
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by strictfp 9y ago
Or 3) you do like golang and erlang and build really lightweight green threads so you get the programming model of approach 1 and nearly the same speed as number 2. This of course requires extra effort to prevent blocking of OS threads and
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by strictfp 9y ago
I think this one runs deep and the fact that VW got caught actually means that they are one of the least guilty ones.
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by strictfp 9y ago
To be as concise as I can, I would say that Spring Boot is a framework which minimizes the amount of "code" you have to write at the cost of everything else. And this means that it's hard to understand what is going on under
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by strictfp 9y ago
Why Spring Boot? Just curious. I work with it daily and have grown to detest it.
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by strictfp 9y ago
A big problem I find with signatures is that I'm not sure what extra security they provide in cases such as this. If the binary can be changed, how can I be sure that the attacker hasn't been able to change the sha1 file or has be
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by strictfp 9y ago
Well, the probability approaches zero asymptotically as the number of questions approaches infinity...
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by strictfp 9y ago
No, I think it's valuable as a work log and bucket of ideas on how to improve security. It's just how it's framed that irks me.
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by strictfp 9y ago
This list could just as well be called "List of security stuff I learned about when making my product". Some of the stuff is just Draconian, certainly not applicable for any arbitrary web developer.
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by strictfp 9y ago
Economics would also be really hard to understand if it didn't operate on the real world: something very familiar to us. I can imagine a mathematical version of economics operating on some abstract constructs designed to emulate an eco

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