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by sverhagen 2y ago
> two different Python programs show zero differences under a white-space-suppressed diff. This must surely be a bad thing? How would this signal an unfortunate indentation change between: if foo: bar() bar2() And: if fo
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by sverhagen 2y ago
This may be controversial, but I find 2-character indented Javascript, coming from my 4-character indented Java, for the projects I work on, as much of a shock as moving between braces and Python. Particularly if it has been subjected to an
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Also, not good for diversity. You know, if you're into that sorta thing.
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by sverhagen 2y ago
I think what the OP is trying to get across is that storing text documents in which you're live-editing, will cause a lot of updates, and that these updates may be relatively big in the database (the size of the whole document) compare
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by sverhagen 2y ago
> and 4 isn't borne out in my experience To bolster your point, aren't there whole countries where stores and street sales float on top of QR codes?
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by sverhagen 2y ago
You getting stranded and stuck is one thing, I guess. This could arguably happen with your own car too. But what if that USPS supervisor, or in another situation some upset business owner, makes much bigger deal out of it, things could esca
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Well... it's some parents... and then from there it's peer pressure on the other kids, who then go beg their parents for one too.
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by sverhagen 2y ago
And under-engineering is the result when you don't sit down at the beginning of the project and plan for the known scope and requirements of that project. They are both bad ways to go about it. So, like the title says: "just enoug
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Sure, but what's the point if the entire universe is pushing you toward Git. I understand that Mercurial has non-zero usage, just not anywhere where I ever worked.
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Personally, I enjoy that we rally around a common set of tools, as an industry. And Git is probably the best choice in its category. But that may have to do as much with adoption and network effect as it has with inherent quality. It's
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by sverhagen 2y ago
For what purpose? A lot of folks use Testcontainers to embed Postgres in tests.
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by sverhagen 2y ago
I don't think keys need to be distributed per se, rather made available at a URL that can be served by the same service that issues the tokens? You could call that distribution, but that's probably not what you meant. I agree that
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Are the rules different at night? Besides being even more strict? I think not.
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Verizon owned a drone startup, they even participated in congressional hearings related to drones, yet they still couldn't extract bvlos waivers from the FAA for testing. How much bigger and influencial should a party be?
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Amazing that a popular site can be shut down for a year, and then come back on top after that, without getting its lunch eaten by new competitors that use that whole year to catch up to them.
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Yeah, reliably... I think that ACID SQL databases are still silently saving many peoples' butts on a daily basis, with safeguards that NoSQL databases are a lot more selective about.
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by sverhagen 2y ago
While the startup I worked at, a few years back, was decidedly dabbling in the NoSQL space, using Elasticsearch, OrientDB, and Neo4j, the rockstar dba that we hired to help our crowd of mostly Java folks, was very convincing that everything
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Well, having some limitations seems reasonable. I think it's fine we don't allow smileys in street names. Or a while just is extended ASCI characters. It just seems that an apostrophe should be okay. Also weird that a local govern
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by sverhagen 2y ago
In companies with a healthy culture, maybe. But if staff unionizes, how's Amazon going to make them pee in a bottle to squeeze out a few more deliveries, without running into trouble with the union. I'm sure other companies have t
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by sverhagen 2y ago
I thought that was all pretty funny.
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by sverhagen 2y ago
I had this fight for a few years while I worked on the development of parking systems (ie. kiosk/pos systems used in parking garages). The use of those flags was so deeply engrained in that industry... For Dutch speakers, folks in Belg
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by sverhagen 2y ago
After having been in an abusive relationship for a while, and having liberated yourself from it, I imagine a lot of folks wouldn't go back, even if that other person has presumably improved their ways...
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Did those ex-Twitter folks get their severance money yet?
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Doesn't it depend on severability provisions in the license, or for the lack thereof, a severability ruling by a court, whether the license is voided if the liability limitation is ruled to be illegal? Or... to become illegal, in case
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Wouldn't I be able to just "accept" the license, if I knew that by law the liability limitations were not enforceable? There's still plenty of folks clicking through boilerplate labor contracts too that stipulate non-com
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Of course I didn't know that, but if true, that's wonderful. I am saddened by the ongoing destruction of value when a decent product or company is acquired, and then shuttered because it's not quite the juggernaut the acquire
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by sverhagen 3y ago
You can, if you paid for it yourself. As long as the employer doesn't "pay, reimburse, or in any way finance your personal license".
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by sverhagen 3y ago
And skeptical they should be. Overestimating benefits, whether it's for a tool or something like a re- architecture, is right up there with underestimating effort, probably highly related... Doesn't mean there aren't worthwhi
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by sverhagen 3y ago
Developers (or anyone) buying tools can often also be a sort of local optimization, at the expense of the larger organization. For instance fragmentation, so that you can't find things through a single search anymore, or need to log in
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by sverhagen 3y ago
On first reading of the main GitHub page, I didn't take it that way. On second reading, I guess it could go either way. But there's talk about having reimplemented the network stack, so maybe that implies they just repurposed the

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