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2821.
by sublinear 4y ago
No offense intended, but it's worth noting these are all examples of coincidence, not cause and effect. The same music and personalities would not have resonated with someone else, many people dislike computer science and switch majors
2822.
by sublinear 4y ago
The principle of "owning" sections of code to avoid what we now call "merge conflicts" is as optimal today as it was then regardless if version control is used or not. Same holds true for thoroughly testing all edge case
2823.
by sublinear 4y ago
I agree. Mounting a "dist" directory and spinning up nginx is a one-liner command for Docker. Using a static site generator would be a single for loop. The rest is a small amount of CSS. Bonus points if you write the selector nece
2824.
by sublinear 4y ago
> That's not true. Razors are the canonical example of a product sold below cost, there are many others. Trivially wrong. Heated seats are not required for a vehicle to function.
2825.
by sublinear 4y ago
Nope. The cost of the hardware is always necessarily still passed on to the customer before they even pay for the subscription to "unlock" it. It's double dipping. It makes no sense to gamble that upsells will be successful i
2826.
by sublinear 4y ago
Totally agree. Not many forms of communication require as much careful decision making as coding. You can do it fast or you can do it right. Getting priorities straight is a matter of competence, not culture. If you've ever wondered wh
2827.
by sublinear 4y ago
How can you possibly know someone is wrong until you've heard them out? It's very much worth questioning what your accuracy threshold is before deciding to interrupt. Maybe they're wrong about a minor detail but have a much b
2828.
by sublinear 4y ago
For what it's worth I highly disagree with a lot of the opinions in here. Waiting prioritizes clear communication at the expense of some time that is almost always justified. People who wait are typically detail oriented and have the i
2829.
by sublinear 4y ago
It's extremely obvious to me now that the difficulties my parents had were down to a lack of personal experience with life in general. Seems like a bad choice to learn life's lessons while also trying to bring new ones into the wo
2830.
by sublinear 4y ago
It's a percentage of a base unit. i.e. the amount of flour used is 100% of the base unit amount. Sounds like you want the total percentage which is just as easy to find. Given their example, the total is 170%. The proportion of flour t
2831.
by sublinear 4y ago
Any difference can give rise to discrimination. It would just move up to the next least expensive items such as books, transportation, etc. Would schools even need to exist if everyone was the same?
2832.
by sublinear 4y ago
I almost agree. Poor optimization is trivial to avoid even without "proper analytics" or "proper QA". Code won't merely feel fast if it's reasonably optimized. Taking shortcuts around slow code is harder work t
2833.
by sublinear 4y ago
I find it depressing that developers are so willing to blame themselves over a basic fact of life. Let's categorize performance into 4 poorly-defined groups: perfectly optimized, highly optimized, reasonably optimized, poorly optimized
2834.
by sublinear 4y ago
"there should be no lambda in Python" According to this blog post there isn't, and yet there is? I'm more confused by the way this was written than Python's implementation of the "lambda" keyword.
2835.
by sublinear 4y ago
Agree and I don't understand why anyone reacts to these blatant requests for comment from overt marketing anymore on HN. It's extremely naive to think these articles have any interest in mind apart from determining what sells with
2836.
by sublinear 4y ago
They don't have to milk the user when they do that to themselves. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem there are many PC-exclusive publishers around anymore for several decades now.
2837.
by sublinear 4y ago
If your goal is to publish a high quality independent game, Steam is not relevant. If you have something truly original and worth sharing, the audience is more than desperate to find you and they will regardless of your marketing strategy,
2838.
by sublinear 4y ago
I hope you also have a wonderful evening/night but I wouldn't call this "high quality discussion". If the comments were technical in nature and direct from the people involved in the creation of this film, I would agree.
2839.
by sublinear 4y ago
I agree. Regardless of opinion on the 00's pop culture, or the cohort of people reading this at the moment, this isn't relevant to the spirit or function of HN. This isn't reddit.
2840.
by sublinear 4y ago
This may be true in specific cases such as dealing with legacy APIs that cannot be namespaced, or what's being shown in the article. Otherwise I've far too often heard this excuse to justify poorly written code in dire need of a r