tofflos

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by tofflos 8y ago
I love reading about the work that's being put into old apps like Console and Notepad. Keep it up!
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by tofflos 8y ago
I've used them for storing time series data. I was storing one value per row and ran into performance problems. Worked really well.
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by tofflos 8y ago
By the way "The Psychology of Dreaded Tasks" is a really good name.
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by tofflos 8y ago
In the "Learning How to Learn" course, that was mentioned in the MOOC-discussion a while back, they suggest tackling this by focusing on process over product and tying a reward to it: "I'm just gonna sit here and do taxe
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by tofflos 8y ago
I came here to say the exact same thing. To me the hypothesis put forward by the author (SO influencing the popularity on HN) seems unlikely. I visit HN to find out about new technology and only visit SO when the technology I've alread
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by tofflos 8y ago
Ah, then you're into mechanics. Excess power is continuously converted into increased rotational speed of a very large turbine at a hydro power plant. But the increase in speed takes some time due to inertia. The hydro plant operator h
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by tofflos 8y ago
You've already received a lot of good answers and some of them go into the underlying mechanics. Here is a simplistic ("business") explanation to go with them: If too much power is being produced the system will eventually fa
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by tofflos 8y ago
> Why not demo it live? Why only play recordings? Because consent.
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by tofflos 8y ago
It would have appreciated the software updater telling me that that I won't be upgraded because I'm on the previous LTS instead of insisting that there aren't any upgrades available - this while I'm reading the release n
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by tofflos 8y ago
Costly compared to what? Did anyone figure out what the article is comparing against?
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by tofflos 8y ago
I know they put in a lot of hard work on improving the product... But I wish that they would divert just a minuscule amount of that effort into changing the font to something other than Arial. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Just
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by tofflos 9y ago
I don't really see what encryption gets me over deleting the events. The end result is the same - the event log is unusable for replaying this particular projection. Why take on the extra complexity of adding encryption? Immutability i
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by tofflos 9y ago
I see plectrums! ;-)
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by tofflos 9y ago
We can be more productive but the bar keeps being been raised as our productivity goes up. Customers expect more in terms of non-functional requirements such as usability, performance, maintainability and security. This in turn fuels an arm
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by tofflos 9y ago
Why the hate? The methodology is sound, the results are interesting and they show that there is some room for improvement in language support. Also the source code has been provided in case anyone wants to alter the benchmark to be more com
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by tofflos 9y ago
Just throwing in a argument against hardware keys like Yubikey compared to SMS: Phones are good in that that their owners depend on them and will notice that their phone is missing in a relatively short period of time. Whereas lots of peopl
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by tofflos 9y ago
Vegeta. https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta . The following post covers an approach for generating some randomness. https://thisdata.com/blog/load-testing-api-interfaces-with-g... .
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by tofflos 9y ago
Nice. I rarely use window functions and find them a bit arcane. This was really accessible.
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by tofflos 9y ago
Is disabling autofill really a solution for the majority? These publishers are handing over their users' credentials to a third party. If enough people disable autofill they will just move the script to the login page and capture their
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by tofflos 9y ago
I'm not super familiar with American politics but I've come to realize that voters who want more "omph" should vote in the primaries. The republican primaries had 31M votes. The presidential election had 137M. In the pri
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by tofflos 9y ago
I liked Clean Code. Give it a shot.
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by tofflos 9y ago
Encourage them to start using password managers so that it becomes more difficult to steal the identities of congressmen.
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by tofflos 9y ago
I love that there are people working on nano and the nano-styled website. Also excellent release notes. I just wish that nano in Bash for Windows was more recent than version 2.5.3 so I could try out the new features. ;-)
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by tofflos 9y ago
Wait what... Oh. You mean the country.
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by tofflos 9y ago
It's never going to change. Just like it hasn't changed for the Church. Sure, _now_ the Church takes care of little old ladies but don't forget the bad old days when they had the Inquisition! It's only been 200 years. ;-
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by tofflos 9y ago
The article mentions home grown authentication and authorization mechanism and suggests that we stick to proven solutions. The problem is that, at least within the Java community, that library-, framework- and application server authors are
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by tofflos 9y ago
Very funny. I should probably edit my comment to say "may very well have been a successful project" but I like the way you burst that bubble so I'll leave it as it is. ;-)
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by tofflos 9y ago
The IT industry regularly does exactly that. The other engineering disciplines get too much credit for being executed perfectly according to plan and delivering flawless results. Examples: Bridges that have cracks. Roads that become too sli
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by tofflos 9y ago
I fully support learning for learning’ sake. But you could also view the new features as solutions to problems. If you don’t feel you’re having problems then you’re probably not missing out. There is no inherent value in using the new funct
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by tofflos 9y ago
Are there any plans for allowing hash indexes in uniqueness constraints such as the ones created for primary keys? It seems like a good fit for an index that is specialized for equality checks.

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