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by tabtab 4y ago
It's possible to tint concrete and use different tints for different sections to make it less concrete-ish.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Another critique of FP. (The headline is sensationalist, so don't let that ruffle you.) https://www.reddit.com/r/DilbertProgramming/comments/qg99f0/...
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by tabtab 4y ago
Most rank and file business and administrative apps don't need "direct" concurrency. The web server and database provide it more or less automatically most of the time, if you don't do anything "odd". If you di
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by tabtab 4y ago
Soldier A: "Oh no, we're boxed in!" Soldier B: "Relax, it's a good thing."
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by tabtab 4y ago
Switching DB's does happen, but it is generally rare in my experience, and usually a strategic mistake. Those who do it usually underestimate the migration time. It's not economical to spend a lot of time up front to prepare for a
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by tabtab 4y ago
Yes! Web stacks have grown too convoluted and round-about. I used to do what's now called "full stack development" for small and medium applications. But that's almost impossible to do well and efficiently because web st
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by tabtab 4y ago
Does anyone know of a project that puts an XML wrapper (markup) or command line interface around X Window? That way one can use or interface with an X Window "browser" without writing C.
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by tabtab 4y ago
We usually put most "constraints" in the database. It's often a D.R.Y. violation to echo them in code.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Spelling correction: "Wozniak", that is Steve Wozniak.
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by tabtab 4y ago
A critique of FP per "mainstream": https://www.reddit.com/r/DilbertProgramming/comments/qg99f0/... (The title is sensationalist, the opinion more nuanced.)
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by tabtab 4y ago
I remember Isaacson's interview of Woznick, and The Woz stated he felt Jobs could have done most of the great things he did without being a jerk. In other words, the jerkiness appeared to be a quirk and not a business tool from Woz&#
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by tabtab 4y ago
In business and administrative applications, there are very few reliable "invariants". Demo examples often use physics and geometry for a reason: Mother nature rarely changes those. Biz is different: new legislation, corporate edi
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by tabtab 4y ago
As a general rule of thumb, fully explore and exhaust your "monolith" options before you switch to Microservices. They quite often create more problems than they solve.
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by tabtab 4y ago
In my personal opinion and observation the "bad stuff" is indeed usually what makes food taste good: salt, sugar, starch, fat/oil, MSG, etc. There does not seem to be any way around that. In the end most will try to find a co
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by tabtab 4y ago
No, but because they didn't get medical treatment and were often overworked even when injured. I guess I should have clarified that part because I did not mean to fully clone 100% the peasant life-style.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Note that I'm not proposing HTML nor HTML browsers "go away". They just do some relatively large niches poorly. I have suggested we have 3 different sub-standards for A) Documents [HTML's original purpose], B) Media&#x
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by tabtab 4y ago
Why trolls will decide, just like now.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Eat & exercise like a medieval peasant to be healthy. Oil/fat, sugar, salt, starch (bleached and de-fibered flower) should be avoided. However, these things make food taste good. The ugly truth is healthy food is bland. Any "t
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by tabtab 4y ago
1982 was the worst recession the US had since the Great Depression. Our family struggled then; unfond memories. I'm not a believer in astrology, only pointing out that 1982 was not a happy time.
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by tabtab 4y ago
There is not a single viable sub-reddit to debate politics with both sides active. The moderators are either clearly partisan, or they are very picky about the rules such that you have to learn their "world" to enter.
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by tabtab 4y ago
When they approximately "line up", bad astrological waves are supposed to bleep up life.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Still better than 90% of the crap web pages out there.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Here's a list of common GUI elements that HTML/DOM lacks or does poorly: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/otixwo/comment... Summary of list: * Statefulness tied to session
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Ask HN: Could Java Applets and Flash have been done right? DOM is limiting
4 points by tabtab 4y ago|4 comments
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by tabtab 4y ago
Re: similar to genetic programming A genetical algorithm was also what I was thinking of. One could devise some kind of symbolic (textual) way to represent a wiring/circuit diagram (graph) and evolve the most efficient "learner&
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by tabtab 4y ago
Preserving sufficient structure of the brain is the most important. Hearts may not be a good test.
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by tabtab 4y ago
What's the sun-shaped thing in photo #2?
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by tabtab 4y ago
I thought they "half-won" that case.
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by tabtab 4y ago
COBOL has a lot of built in business and CRUD idioms that would require fairly large Python libraries to reinvent. COBOL is a domain-specific-language and Python isn't.
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by tabtab 4y ago
There's very little objective about "software engineering" beyond fitting the specification and not running too slow. Almost every "rule" can be challenged, as it makes assumptions about the human brain, which is no

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