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by tragic 11y ago
A good while yet, I'd expect; a lot depends on Windows 10 uptake. The browser-formerly-known-as-IE is currently running ahead of Chrome and FF on ES6 implementation, but if everyone sticks with Win7 for the next half decade it won&#x27
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by tragic 11y ago
Science Fiction is a great, great record - really good entry point for the avant jazz scene.
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by tragic 11y ago
While you're technically correct, bear in mind that the central difficulty with microservices is managing dependencies. The worst-case for dependencies across service boundaries in a system with n services is (n - 1)*n. If n is 3, you
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by tragic 11y ago
Disclosure: I work on the website of a blue-chip dead-tree newspaper. But I agree. As someone else said in another comment, the basic requirements of a news site is, let's be honest, Web 0.5 stuff. Look, some text about stuff that happ
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by tragic 11y ago
From my limited experience, scrum can work (defining 'work' as 'make people more productive'), and even in the classic situations that give rise to the flaccid variety (I work for a blue-chip media corporation which is
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by tragic 11y ago
Well, there are surely more than three orders of magnitude more computers connected to the internet today than the 60,000 Paul Graham reports people guessing at in 1988. Put another way, as dreadful as it is, Superfish was never at risk of
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by tragic 11y ago
I'm just getting unicorns everywhere. Sprint review in an hour. Damn, I love wednesdays.
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by tragic 11y ago
I read it, start to finish, on the can. It probably helped that the men's room at work seems to be some kind of Faraday cage, so whatever is cached in your mobile browser when you lock the cubicle door is your reading for the duration.
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by tragic 11y ago
I've mentioned this before, but there's a lot of music stuff written in Haskell - tidal[0] (DSL for live-coding electronic music, not the 'save Jay Z from penury for $20/month' initiative that has just clobbered its
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by tragic 11y ago
> And there aren't parts like that on a more open PC? I mean, if your USB port or display stops working, it's going to be a bit of an undertaking fixing it, glue or no glue. Depends how you define "more open". With a
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by tragic 11y ago
Eh, it gets the basic monospace-preserve-whitespace stuff right. It's good enough for me 99% of the time, and if it isn't, I normally want to be debugging somewhere other than a chat app. What Slack does very well is giving a good
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by tragic 11y ago
Sigh. From my angle, I've been learning/using the CUA-type keyboard shortcuts since I was about 8 years old - so that's 20 years now, and 16 or so before I wrote a line of code. The question is not 'how quickly can I lea
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by tragic 12y ago
To be fair, OP does both. "His design for MXE was more potent than its parent, ketamine, which is generally used as an anesthetic but is prized by users for its ability to deliver an out-of-body experience."
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by tragic 12y ago
I always find these discussions kind of odd, because there seems to be an unspoken assumption that the world is divided into 20yo CS grads and 40+ greybeards. The truth is that a lot of people get into software outside that track nowadays.
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by tragic 12y ago
Plus: as soon as you have some people on-site and others remote, simple things like updating the board are done at best inconsistently. Having a standup with your remote devs on hangouts/whatever can save you a whole day's duplica
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by tragic 12y ago
I think the bigger issue is that coding is about knowing what the hell you're doing. Copying a snippet manually forces you, as a side effect, to read the code, and read it more slowly than you otherwise would. You notice the limits of
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by tragic 12y ago
It really depends, probably on the labels concerned. My own short, happy, musical career is documented in full - that is, eight tracks on obscuro progressive house labels from 2008-2011. Nobody will ever want to listen to them, except me. (
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by tragic 12y ago
That's part of it, yes. But code at the end of the day is just text, and at least the github interface is able to do word-by-word diffs. That ought, in the end, to be enough. The other issue is that non-technical people, in my experien
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by tragic 12y ago
Every time? I mean, very many times (for example) you're pulling in some JSON from a server app, which will have types properly enforced at the database and/or application level. There are still gotchas around defaulting to true,
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by tragic 12y ago
That's a good spot. I suppose it's a lot easier to declare one's intention to create a backwards-compatible subset than to actually create one. Hope the V8 people are open to revisions on the details at least.
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by tragic 12y ago
This is the problem. GP mentioned London: I live in London. I see a lot of art in London. (I lived in Hackney Wick for a while, which at the time was basically a pile of art studios plonked into rotting industrial estates. There were some,
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by tragic 12y ago
From the follow-up[0]: ""Bad programmer" is also considered inflammatory by some who think I'm speaking down to them. Not so; it was personal catharsis from an author who exhibited many of those problems himself. And wha
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by tragic 12y ago
For me it was also the 'groups', which were basically a free one-click alternative to PHPBB, albeit more primitive. For many niche interests, it was actually livelier than reddit is today. Persistent security holes plagued them, t
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by tragic 12y ago
Writing is a bit like code. (Or perhaps that's the other way around.) The real work is not typing, but organisation of the material, creating a structure of exposition - what you could crudely call 'design'. As I understand i
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by tragic 12y ago
I can't think of any other reason, but it should at least be optional, as it often is even at the app level - Spotify lets me choose whether to stream on 4G and even set a different quality setting. On Android, updates only happen auto
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by tragic 12y ago
Presumably it would apply only to your LTE carrier, not built-in device limitations. That is a very weird thing for Apple to build in to a phone/tablet though...
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by tragic 12y ago
"situation normal": OEMs looking for a way to make a quick greasy buck. "All f ked up": self-explanatory. Not "cyber-attack": despite conspiracy theories I've heard about the Chinese government, my belief
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by tragic 12y ago
> Mongo is great for when you're rapidly developing a product and/or still operating at a small-medium scale. Yesterday somebody from a node-based consultancy gave a talk at work about microservices, where he remarked in passin
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by tragic 12y ago
The weird thing about Alcest is that he swore blind he'd never listened to any shoegaze until people started making the comparisons. But there's similarities with black metal, in that the harsh tremolo-picked guitar sounds of the
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by tragic 12y ago
They did.[0] My favourite album of theirs is Pygmalion, though, which is much more like Talk Talk's late stuff or something like that. I'm guessing they're sticking to the Souvlaki era stuff now, for top nostalgia-reunion val

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