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by twodave 6y ago
I think this hides/hints at a greater point, though. C# or Java is a technology choice (among many, such as which ORM to use or even whether to use an ORM at all). All technology choices have an impact, and, in my experience working wi
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by twodave 6y ago
I'd amend to this "... or composed of local string literals". Programmatically-generated SQL can be advantageous in terms of maintenance, readability and even performance, depending on the situation.
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by twodave 6y ago
I hate tracking as much as the next person, but a simple reading of the "You've gone incognito" screen ought to make obvious that its primary purpose is to hide your activity from others who use the same device. It's lit
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by twodave 6y ago
I think this can be measured in how long it takes another capable programmer to get up-to-speed in your codebase (accounting for the overall size/complexity of the domain, of course).
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by twodave 6y ago
Maybe mildly off-topic, but one thing I can't help but keep in mind during my day-to-day is this continual unspoken fight I have against the mundane. I'm sitting in the 10-15k hour range right now, and I already feel like many of
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by twodave 6y ago
Of a total of 2.7B, so roughly 10%. It's not an insignificant number, either as a percentage or on its own, but it's not close to a majority (or even a meaningful minority), either.
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by twodave 6y ago
I was definitely not trying to introduce an agenda. I will admit I was a bit naive about how my words were going to be taken by some (really just a couple people who took my comment in the _worst_ possible light, in my opinion). I really ju
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by twodave 6y ago
I’m sincerely sorry. I didn’t realize that the mere mention of gender and ethnic discrimination being a problem in general was all that controversial. I was hoping to be a source of encouragement for OP, but seeing how people responded I un
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by twodave 6y ago
Congratulations and thanks for writing this. It is easy as an American male to overlook how much harder others might have to work to achieve what I think of as very approachable goals. You've not only put in all the work but also had t
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by twodave 6y ago
IMO this and referrer URL are the only information that ought to be able to be shared between two different domains via the browser. Either put it in the query string so the user can be aware of it or leave it alone. Of course, there are do
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by twodave 6y ago
First you say, "I don't know anyone who has ever said this," all the while appealing to the age and authority of your own philosophy. Then I bring you evidence that people have been saying this for 100 years and you imply it&
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by twodave 6y ago
Most decent CI tools will just clone the one branch needed for deploying and build/deploy from there. Cloning it fresh each time can rule out artifacts from past builds having an impact on the current deploy.
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by twodave 6y ago
Definitely--when working solo I tend to only write tests for things I actually want to run in isolation (and usually just to save time running the full codebase) or to establish some concrete expectations that I need to be aware of changes
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by twodave 6y ago
The "every commit must be independent" ideology sounds nice when you write it down, but often you'll have such large changes that in order to make them independent you'd have to basically finish an entire feature. In th
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by twodave 6y ago
As J.B.S. Haldane wrote, nearly 100 years ago: [begin quote] If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason for supposing that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that d
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by twodave 6y ago
Can you explain this further? It sounds an awful lot like you're dismissing my viewpoint without really putting an effort in to argue your side, which would be rude. While that may be the case, I'm going to overlook it. The argume
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by twodave 6y ago
I'm simply asserting that a lack of free will constitutes lack of control over one's own thoughts. Do you disagree with this or am I just not communicating well? Edit: I'm also not saying anything that hasn't been said b
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by twodave 6y ago
There are probably more reasons you may have gotten a D- for it--I'd think a fair professor would have allowed such an argument assuming it was well-thought-out. There are of course plenty of professors (especially in philosophy) who g
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by twodave 6y ago
If you really believed that you wouldn't say things like "we understand". Because if you really believe there's no free will then all human understanding is a sham.
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by twodave 6y ago
I speak of reason and truth as human constructs. If we cannot be sure that we have free will, then, while truth exists in abundance, we have no ability to validate it. I say this all a bit tongue in cheek because I absolutely believe that w
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by twodave 6y ago
Also I thought by calling this whole debate nonsense I would be seen to believe that free will must exist. It's simply not derived from some haphazard biological coincidence, in my opinion.
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by twodave 6y ago
Yes, in my opinion the only way for reason and free will to exist are if some supernatural being were to grant it to us. That said, in order to truly have knowledge of anything we must first be able to assert free will. Otherwise even this
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by twodave 6y ago
I didn't intend to imply that truth would not exist--rather that we'd have no way to validate it, truth and reason being human concepts. If we invalidate our own faculties (I don't see any other way to categorize not having f
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by twodave 6y ago
This sort of debate always struck me as nonsense. If our actions are not derived of our own free will, but just exist as a small part of nature, then if you follow that thread far enough you’ll understand that all reason and truth would als
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by twodave 6y ago
Funny how perspectives can differ. I was just coming to comment how the UI was clearly not as polished as the competition. It's just the obvious stuff: Typing in a passcode: dots are too small, not spaced out enough Keyboard: it feels
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by twodave 6y ago
Automated crawlers were not the threat I was trying to guard against--it's more the 40 year old creep looking for pictures of kids on people's blogs and being bold enough to leave disgusting comments that I wanted to get away from
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by twodave 6y ago
All the contents of my house are publicly accessible to anyone who wants to break a window--this data is less important than any of that stuff, I just didn't want it sitting out on the curb, so to speak. Edit: I hadn't thought abo
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by twodave 6y ago
One could--but that would be a lot more difficult to work with (if one ever wanted to, e.g., write a new post it becomes out of reach for my wife who isn't a programmer)
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by twodave 6y ago
Well, for one, "cracking the password" in this case would take an attacker much longer than just going to find some other family's blog to creep on. And there is no entry point for a directory listing (default page is being t
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by twodave 6y ago
I've actually got a Jekyll + Github Pages[0] setup that I've managed to password-protect pretty effectively[1]. Essentially I took my wife's wordpress content, ported it to markdown, and slapped ALL the content inside a direc

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