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by sunchild 15y ago
And who gets to decide which trades are rolled back? By what criteria?
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by sunchild 15y ago
And therein lies the seed of the eternal cat-and-mouse game that is key management. Technically, each layer of security you impose is also an impediment to the bitcoin market's liquidity.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Honestly, I'm more worried about companies like Citi allowing users to change the uid param in the URL to access someone else's account data than I am about kids in it for the lulz.
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by sunchild 15y ago
This is 100% correct, but getting it in writing is (almost) always better for enforceability. Also, notice that I never said anything about signatures... * Since I mentioned that IAAL above, this comment is not legal advice.
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by sunchild 15y ago
IAAL, and I do agree with you that contracts are overkill in many cases. However, if you are complaining publicly about another business breaking promises, I think it reflects poorly on you that you didn't get those promises in writing. T
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by sunchild 15y ago
If these were really "promises", they'd be in writing, no? Why is this being handled in a blog post, and not in a lawsuit for breach of contract? Something seems to be rotten in Napa Valley...
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by sunchild 15y ago
I'm just going to start linking to Shoshin every time I see a weary, old coder blogger post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin
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by sunchild 15y ago
Actually, your comment sounds more like r/programming than anything I've seen on HN lately. Github comments are usually on-point, because nobody comments on github-hosted projects unless they're actually working on the project. The exceptio
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by sunchild 15y ago
And experience, to be fair. I think these guys need to get in touch with zen concept of "the beginner's mind".
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by sunchild 15y ago
Why not patch the ORM then? Personally, I suspect most of the issues people experience with ORMs starts with poor data modeling. Also, I'm not sure what "large, complex systems" means, but it doesn't sound like the use-case for an ORM to b
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by sunchild 15y ago
I would love to hear about an example of this kind of case. My experience is that ORM queries, used properly, deliver predictable results. If they don't because of a bug in the ORM, can't you just drop down to the native query and move on?
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by sunchild 15y ago
What is it about coders and blogs that brings out the "cranky old man" vibe? An ORM is an insanely convenient way for newbies to use various data stores while avoid learning umpteen different query languages. The teaching value of ActiveRe
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by sunchild 15y ago
You aren't required to use Haml. The point is that if your front-end designers can't adapt to it, they're not trying very hard.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I'd really have to question the skills of any person who can't adapt from HTML to HAML. If you can do erb, you ought to be able to do HAML within, at most, an hour of pushing stuff through HTML2HAML. Speaking of which, HTML2HAML works near
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by sunchild 15y ago
I reiterate: if you treat the proceeds as revenue before the contingency is lifted, you are effectively gambling with the funds.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I don't mean to diminish accounting as a discipline. I'm sorry if I came across that way. My point was that the cash position doesn't reflect real revenue until the contingency is cleared. At best, you can "gamble" with the money while y
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by sunchild 15y ago
Which gems are we talking about, specifically? If it was abandoned, then you should be replacing them anyway. Backward compatibility is vastly overrated.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Accounting tap-dancing. It still nets to zero income unless the contingency is lifted.
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by sunchild 15y ago
"people don't use Rails because they want to use Rails, people use it because they're afraid of anything else" Nonsense. Almost doesn't deserve a response, but...people use Rails because they agree with many of the choices made by the fram
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by sunchild 15y ago
"I skipped the Rails 3 upgrade just simply because I couldn't justify the time sink." This is where you lost me. I spent about 2 hours, aggregate, spent solving upgrade-related problems across a bunch of different apps. Where is the time s
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by sunchild 15y ago
It would be very poor business to count that money as revenue. If anything, that money is in escrow. The float value might be significant at Groupon's volumes, but it's just plain sleazy to count unredeemed voucher proceeds as revenue. Al
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by sunchild 15y ago
To those who downvoted me all over this thread: 1. Remember Enron? Lehman? Arthur Andersen? WorldCom? Parmalat? Countrywide? I could go on. I suppose the rule is "you're an amazing entrepreneur (unless you get caught)"? 2. It's you and
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by sunchild 15y ago
I'm sorry that you have such a cynical view of the world. Fortunately, many people (including people who make decisions about laws and regulations) disagree with you.
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by sunchild 15y ago
You're seriously taking the position that making money is the sole measure of business success? Legality, morality, etc. are irrelevant? Good for you, I guess.
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by sunchild 15y ago
You completely missed my point, which was that the ability to make money is not, in and of itself, the only measure of success as an entrepreneur.
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by sunchild 15y ago
By that measure, the cold-callers who sold mortgage derivatives to pensioners are the greatest entrepreneurs in the history of the world.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Can anyone tell if this is connected to the RSA SecurID compromise?
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by sunchild 15y ago
"Browser" itself is an inherently vague concept. Is iTunes as it exists today a browser? How about Twitter clients that render HTML/JS? When you isolate WebKit and the other rendering engines as OS-level services, it's even fuzzier.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I agree with what you say, except I would take it a step futher – both Apple and Google are moving toward the same place. For Apple, the "rich client" experience starts on the desktop, with cloud-based data stores. For Google, the "rich c
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by sunchild 15y ago
It seems to be more or less universally true that anyone complaining about a particular language, framework, platform, IDE, text editor, etc. is staring into the abyss of whatever outdated, outmoded, outmaneuvered way of thinking that they'

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