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by vaer-k 8y ago
> Ruby was optimized for the developer, not for running it in production," says Sid. "For the things that get hit a lot and have to be very performant or that, for example, have to wait very long on a system IO, we rewrite thos
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by vaer-k 8y ago
The main reason that forces me to extend my search from ddg to google is when I need to filter by past year. Why doesn't ddg have this ability yet?
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by vaer-k 8y ago
Finally an AWS service where the name makes sense and describes what it is. I hope this is the start of a trend.
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by vaer-k 8y ago
> 29. Be sparing with pronouns in technical writing. It's better to repeat a noun than have it be unclear what "it" refers to. This is the most valuable piece of advice I hope most readers will take from this article for t
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by vaer-k 8y ago
> Some people might be worried that their chosen distribution will not build, test, and package OpenJDK correctly, but if you don’t trust your distribution to build packages, you shouldn’t be using it at all. Can anyone say which distrib
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by vaer-k 8y ago
I've reached out to people with it, and it turns out that they actually respond! Who'd've thunk? It's nice for encrypted cloud storage too.
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by vaer-k 8y ago
Or, I just don't like when people summarily dismiss and deride things that don't personally appeal to them, even when others find value in it. I think it's hard to justify calling my direct response passive, regardless of how
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by vaer-k 8y ago
You should identify yourself if you're going to act in the role of a moderator. I think my comment still stands tho: why do you choose to moderate my comment with a swipe but not the original parent comment?
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by vaer-k 8y ago
Not so. It would be the equivalent of a cop pulling you over in an unmarked vehicle and without identifying himself as a police officer.
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by vaer-k 8y ago
I commented to complain about his swipe; you commented to complain about mine. I'm not sure where we're going here.
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by vaer-k 8y ago
I like DFW. I just think he's a witty entertaining writer. I'm far from what I'd consider an intellectual. Love pop culture, video games and other "dumb" stuff. Thanks for the generalized insult though.
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by vaer-k 8y ago
Uh, yeah, that's precisely what I said, so. Agree. What about what I said indicated to you that I think cartoons are a requirement?
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by vaer-k 8y ago
I really hate when people pretend their opinion is fact
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by vaer-k 8y ago
Geez, man. Really, "Learn You" and "Brave and True"? Those books are 95% pure instruction, and you have a problem with them because they include a small captioned cartooned image every 10 pages? The tutorial in this post