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by xtrumanx 12y ago
It was bugging me that the target of the "rosser" link was not pointing to the comment he shared his bulk update technique so I dug it up for anyone else interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9018756
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
I feel "The But Guy" shouldn't belong in this list. I would prefer that potential deal-breaker issues be identified as quickly so we we don't waste time on something that is infeasible.
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
> You could take an item out of both bags until you exhausted the supply of one bag. If the other bag was simultaneously empty, then you’d know they had the same cardinality. Well, since you can't exhaust the supply of an
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
Oh, now I understand why that's error is such a big deal for people. I guess it never clicked for me since whenever I come across it I usually also have access to a stack trace or that line number which threw the error.
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
I'm not too knowledgeable about type systems but to me "undefined is not a function" is simply the by-product of a dynamic/weak type system. That complaint can be equally applied to ruby, python, etc. Can't I misspe
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
Is option number 1 "Use JavaScript Carefully" really that hard? Bjarne Stroustrup's quote seems more and more relevant to me every time I hear complaints about JavaScript. "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
Sorry for the dumb question but I think I'm having a hard time parsing and understanding the quote. > And if you don’t have the first (integrity), the other two (intelligence and energy) will kill you. If you hire somebody without i
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
I remember when it launched here. First few issues got a ton of upvotes and visibility upon release here but then the PDF editions weren't free to download anymore and it didn't get as much attention on new issues. I really wish t
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
Well there are other options: Q2/Q3 2015, mid 2015, etc.
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
I read that book and I've gotta say fans of it have really oversold it. It has some good advice but I found some tactics questionable due to appearing as insincere to me. I also find it weird that you characterize your wife's intr
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
> investors agree to grant higher valuations... in exchange for guarantees that they'll get their money back first if the company goes public or sells. Is that not normal? To pay your investors and other preferred stock holders firs
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
Why not just go for a million dollars? It worked once before and I've always thought there was no reason why it shouldn't work again after the original faded from people's memories. I still don't get why businesses go fo
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
Don't be too scared about their apparent lack of awareness. I don't think it's because he has no idea. It's just corporate-speak like when folks talk about their product changing the world and all that. I'm sure int
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
Well here's how I used it. My query was joining two tables with a left join and I was using the array_agg aggregate function (which aggregates a series of rows into a single array) on a record on the right table. Since the right table
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
> Please quote the section of my comment that gave you the idea I had an accusatory tone, and explain how it differed from your comment I was replying to. Someone is downvoting every comment I leave in this thread but I'm going to g
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
I knew my constant browsing of HN would pay off one day. I didn't even know filtered aggregates were a thing and solved a problem I was having just by discovering it. Thanks for the submission neverminder.
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
> ...unless specifically approached. I don't even think that's a good idea. I don't live in the U.S. or in the western world for that matter but from my reading of all issues in the tech industry from HN it seems to me the
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
I think she misinterpreted the Code of Conflict as she also tweeted: > Am I alone in reading the second para of [the Code of Conflict] … as deeply fucked up? YOUR FEELINGS ARE UNACCEPTABLE. Wat. The second paragraph begins with: > If
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
To be clear, by "I don't think I can safely ignore the rest of your comment" I meant I shouldn't let a comment like your stand unanswered. You're accusatory tone set me in a light that made me look like The Bad Guy™
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
I'm not sure what the point of replying to my comment is if you're not going to answer my question to you. Here it is again if you missed it: Are you saying even if it wasn't a rape by whatever your very own definition of rap
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
No, that's not what I'm saying but I don't think I can safely ignore the rest of your comment even if it is based on an incorrect interpretation of my comment. Where'd you get the inkling that I thought it was important
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
Are you saying even if it wasn't a rape by whatever your very own definition of rape, you would rather call it rape to express outrage? Of course those "everyone's a lawyer's" types are going to crawl out of the woo
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
I treat the issue like the issue of remembering the operator precedence rules or just using some extra parenthesis. Although I feel remembering where semicolons are needed is simple I still use them anyway for personal preference.
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
How long did it take to figure out it occurred? Do you have any stats on how many people hit that machine? Would be hilarious if someone who went to SO to figure out why the IIS splash was showing instead of his app happened to hit that pag
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
I don't think that would have helped as I'm pretty sure she tweeted something to the effect of "SendGrid's got my back" shortly before getting fired.
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
> We learned that accidentally sticking a server with nothing but naked IIS into rotation is really bad. Sorry about that one. Wait, does that mean what I think it means? Did someone get an IIS splash page when visiting SO? I was going t
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
Do you think its unacceptable to criticize the best product in a category because there's nothing better than it? His point was DVCSs like Git and Mercurial may have been an improvement in lots of aspects of version control system but
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
Some of the React devs were using Atom during the React Conf. I assumed they did so to have more interaction with apps that use their library to find more opportunities for improvement. I wonder if they'll be switching back to whatever
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
Also another textbook example of the toxicity of humanity. Shall we all just write that bunch off? Or maybe we can perhaps accept that in any sufficiently large group of people there are bound to be some assholes and not judge a whole &quot
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by xtrumanx 12y ago
Reddit and HN allows a great way to express your disapproval. I don't believe people change their opinions because of it. They either decide to shut up about their opinions which they know will attract downvotes or they move on. I empl

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