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by tabtab 3y ago
But if you don't blend the two, then you have a DRY violation. Someone should only have a say a field (column) is required in one and only one place, for example. The framework should take care of the details of making sure both the cl
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by tabtab 3y ago
I keep saying this and will say it again: what's really needed is a state-ful GUI markup language. HTML+DOM+JS+CSS is the wrong tool for the CRUD/GUI job, and force-fitting it has inflamed the area so bad many don't want to e
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by tabtab 3y ago
To beat competitors, not have tons of beemers for beemer sake. The motivation is relative. The 3 big "robber barons" of the late 1800's use to send each other brag-grams over who was richer.
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by tabtab 3y ago
"Gimme gimme gimme!"
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by tabtab 3y ago
Re: "Autoit feels dated" Being old by itself isn't bad. What's an example practical downside of its old style?
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by tabtab 3y ago
How does AutoIt compare to AHK? I realize AutoIt is not open-source (free EXE), but besides that what are the key differences? The AutoIt VisualBasic-like language looks easier to learn for those of us who grew up on Microsoft. Can anyone c
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by tabtab 3y ago
Is there a sample or tutorial that jumps right into typical examples of what's different or special about it? I tried to find such, but the docs get lost in syntax details and other minutia. I want the ADHD-meat-and-potatoes tutorial.
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by tabtab 3y ago
Next you'll tell me light is both particles and a wave. This scientific saucery must stop! Order it to pick one or jailit!
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by tabtab 3y ago
How would Republicans fix it? Give everyone guns? The GINI index is increasing, making desperate people inevitable.
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by tabtab 3y ago
Twitter is broken. It's Musk's ant-farm toy now.
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by tabtab 3y ago
I've personally seen abuse of the system. It's indeed rotten in many ways, robbing unemployed citizens of IT jobs.
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by tabtab 3y ago
Too bad the New Horizons probe can't make an L-turn to go visit one of these.
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by tabtab 3y ago
There's always Lazarus, a more or less Delphi clone. Being open-source, it's harder for a greedy or incompetent vendor to yank the carpet out from under your org. I've considered abandoning web-dev for Delphi/Lazarus. Th
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by tabtab 3y ago
Fixing genetics bugs on a wider scale would be a medical game-changer. A good many debilitating diseases could be cured.
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by tabtab 3y ago
Dark matter is really a joint venture between God and ET to bleep with us.
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by tabtab 3y ago
Then you just get fancy regression formulas. With enough layers and "bars", epicycles "work" in terms of predictive power. It's usually better to find out the underlying mechanism rather than merely satisfy predicti
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by tabtab 3y ago
> The two teams were definitely separate and had little day to day communication with each other. While not tightly intertwined, they studied each others' work, sometimes stealthily.
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by tabtab 3y ago
"Launch fast and break things."
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by tabtab 3y ago
Doesn't work in Australia.
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by tabtab 3y ago
The "C" family has one of the worst case/switch statements out there. When Java et. al. cloned it, they should have provided an alternative. Perhaps keep the old style for backward compatibility, but provide a new one with di
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by tabtab 3y ago
Flowers are relative newcomers. This is because it required a relatively tight relationship between insects and plants. Coordination between species is trickier to evolve.
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by tabtab 3y ago
You can think of Lisa as R&D, for the Mac team borrowed and reworked Lisa ideas to fit them into affordable hardware.
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by tabtab 3y ago
> State sponsored programs can move fast. Kennedy gave his "man on the moon" By hiring private contractors and throwing lots of money at them.
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by tabtab 3y ago
My thinking is not coherent enough while asleep to run all those experiments. A few times I've asked "am I dreaming?" in dreams, but following any step-by-step process after that thought is just not in the cards. My thought p
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by tabtab 3y ago
> I’ve migrated rdbms to wide column databases like Cassandra or dynamo because we had specific requirements that rdbms were not fulfilling. I'm curious of a common situation. Could RDBMS be improved on that area, or do they inheren
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by tabtab 3y ago
Much of the world and even individual economies are becoming "winner take all" due to variations on the network effect: everyone goes there because everyone else goes there. China became the world's factory by having lots of
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by tabtab 3y ago
GPT4 already obsolete? Geez, we got the wrong bot, silly heads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdRMVhlNP5I
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by tabtab 3y ago
Most countries don't tolerate hate speech where the poster(s) implies a particular group is evil and/or out to ruin civilization or "flush our wonderful culture" or similar. It's not even necessary, as you can say &
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Test a tool's domain fit: work backward from psuedo-code
1 points by tabtab 3y ago|0 comments
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by tabtab 3y ago
x = foo01(); y = foo02(x); z = foo03(x, y); Contrast with: foo03(foo01(), foo02(foo01()) ); x, y, and z were named by humans, giving them domain meaning, whereas a debugger would give the second one no

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