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by yarper 10y ago
I had this thought too - my MAC address is not likely something google have access to (not in the normal operation of a network as it's stripped at the next hop)
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by yarper 10y ago
> Right there, they're opening up their developer audience to a much larger group of people than is possible with C++ or even C#. Maybe this is true, but I'd hazard a guess that most developers are not web developers. [1] Most
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by yarper 10y ago
Wow! I did not know the dropout rate was so high for the OU
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by yarper 10y ago
Ideally you need to use httpOnly cookies to store your JWTs too.
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by yarper 10y ago
All sectors or organisations being "disrupted" have become slow moving or invested in the status quo. No quicker way to get slow moving than have huge amounts of tech debt.
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by yarper 10y ago
A lot of companies actually have sprung up with this logic. Thoughtworks, 8th light etc
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by yarper 10y ago
The problem with this is that badly written software actually costs more to write than a properly engineered product. Sure, the initial impulse is cheaper if you hire all greenhorns but after a year? after five years? When the business deci
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by yarper 10y ago
A set of good engineers vouching for someone is about as good as it gets.
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by yarper 10y ago
A small variation to this is to ask "Hey, sorry is it important?" People tend not to think themselves or what they're doing as important for whatever reason. It also sets the scene for future interactions. Oh and sometimes it
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by yarper 10y ago
ah, fair enough!
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by yarper 10y ago
for 1. there's map_err(..) which accepts a closure e.g. `try!(foo().map_err(|e| format!("{}", e.thing)));`
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by yarper 10y ago
After writing Rust in production for a while, the biggest bugbear I have is the naming/file structure. I end up a lot with this; src/main.rs src/combobulator/mod.rs src/combobulator/tests.rs s
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by yarper 10y ago
Visual studio code is also the best option for writing Rust on any platform these days (imo!). Haven't noticed myself buying more microsoft products, but have noticed how much more interested I am in what microsoft is releasing these d
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by yarper 10y ago
This looks cool! I initially thought by the title you'd made a new grub, but was pleasantly surprised!
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by yarper 10y ago
People get tired, sick, frustrated, panic - part of being a responsible engineer is accepting you're as fallible as the next person and building in protection against your own errors. However, if "the engineer" that caused th
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by yarper 10y ago
It's amazing how quickly it descends into "one of the engineers" did x or y. Who was steering this ship exactly? It's really simple to point the finger and try to find a single cause of failure - but it's a fools er
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by yarper 10y ago
Different strokes for different folks
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by yarper 10y ago
Please don't try to make cats vegan or vegetarian - and please stop anyone that does - I'm surprised the author didn't bring this up.
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by yarper 10y ago
getting a bit off topic now - but I'm curious as to if async/io has improved performance by much? Do you have any benchmark comparisons?
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by yarper 10y ago
Why not use Iron or Nickel?
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by yarper 10y ago
https://github.com/ninjabear/nickel-bootstrap You might be interested in this
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by yarper 10y ago
And sqlite is going to be an order of magnitude faster, being written in cross platform C. I do think there's a gap for a sqlite-like cross platform native "in a file" nosql-db however..
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by yarper 10y ago
Can someone explain the benefits of a US-style healthcare system vs nationalised tax funded healthcare? All I see from threads like this is a lot of Americans bickering over their own healthcare, and as an outsider I don't really know
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by yarper 10y ago
Do we? "Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians." - Edsger Dijkstra
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by yarper 10y ago
This also features in the show!
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by yarper 10y ago
For those interested, C. S. Forester's Hornblower book(s) became a pretty good TV series[0] starring Battlestar Galactica's own Jamie Bamber! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornblower_(TV_series)
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by yarper 10y ago
It's actually very hard to imagine a true extinction level event now. Despite the comments in this thread, it's unlikely to be nuclear (there's just not enough power there - the Earth is really big). If the Earth's popul
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by yarper 10y ago
As a native English speaker, I found most of these to be rubbish. For example, #1 is no phrase for "bon appétit". Yeah we do have a phrase for that - it's bon appetit. What's slightly more annoying is that bon appetit ju
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by yarper 10y ago
Most countries don't have class action lawsuits (at all). So it's not really a free market way of doing things.
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by yarper 10y ago
Courts are also very slow comparatively - that and american style "class action" cases are not applicable to many countries, where it may be the case that each individual must file a separate case.

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