waffletower

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1. 721.▲
   by waffletower 6y ago

   This article is the epitome of faulty generalization. Visual astigmatism is one of the most common eye conditions. Reducing the quantity of light on the screen greatly reduces glare and light scatter for those effected. And this is only
2. 722.▲
   by waffletower 6y ago

   AWS EMR is a fairly straight-forward and reasonably cost-effective method to manage ephemeral Spark clusters on Amazon Web Services.
3. 723.▲
   by waffletower 7y ago

   I heard Al Yankovic's first radio airing of "My Bologna" live on Dr. Demento back in 1979. He went to the same college as both my parents. Everything lined up for me to like this guy and think he was great. However, by the
4. 724.▲
   by waffletower 7y ago

   This is a beautiful looking site but is decidedly designed for Japanese readers. I will leave cultural commentary aside. While the romanized names are large, they are incredibly awkward to read being rendered vertically with rotation. I
5. 725.▲
   by waffletower 7y ago

   I use Cider every day professionally. It is so far from being a rock in any way. Embarassingly inconsistent release to release. Every major release has a new major bug. The REPL lag in Cider 23/Emacs 26 is stupefying. The more tex
6. 726.▲
   by waffletower 7y ago

   I am a professional Clojurist. I have used Emacs for decades but honestly and succinctly -- it sucks. Especially Emacs 26. Cider breaks in new random ways every major release. Clojure tooling is its (only) weakness.
7. 727.▲
   by waffletower 7y ago

   If the author had contemplated this sentence before writing this pained and narrow-minded treatise: "Why thinking should start before writing", engineers would be slightly more capable of interacting with and designing for other h
8. 728.▲
   by waffletower 7y ago

   I imagine that C# is used less and less within Azure's infrastructure and embracing other languages such as Java where appropriate. This would go well beyond direct Java runtime support. C# cannot compete with the Java ecosystem for op
9. 729.▲
   by waffletower 7y ago

   Being mystified about the value of Java to Microsoft suggests that you lead a somewhat insulated life in software development.
10. 730.▲
    by waffletower 7y ago

    This blog post ought to circulate annually.
11. 731.▲
    by waffletower 8y ago

    Amazing that this has-been company is so desperate to inflate its reputation that it posts such laughable conjecture on Hacker News.