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by yason 9y ago
> I didn't enjoy having to keep Slack open all day to > make sure I don't miss out on what people are up to. Why did you feel you had to keep it open all the day? Just skim the channels for anything interesting and/or r
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by yason 9y ago
I don't get that, really. For at least a couple of decades there has generally been some internal instant messaging system at whichever company I've worked for. Nerds used to like plain local IRC server. In some places the expecte
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by yason 9y ago
A funny counter observation is that because computer user interfaces have got progressively slower and slower (as it typically takes a "long" time to open documents or process something) people don't necessarily trust the rig
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by yason 9y ago
And during all this time none of the buyers did verify the applied method and operation of the detector by taking it apart or at least by doing a positive check with known substances and materials that should've "made the thing be
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by yason 9y ago
Maybe I just don't have your problems, but I'm still not seeing this as much of an issue at all. Surely problems are always personal, this all did start with the term "pet peeve". For me, one of the peeves that comes b
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by yason 9y ago
A simple case is hiding the implementation and exposing a public API. Let's use objects to make it something C++ ought to be good at and C ought to be bad at. In C, you write a header file adder.h: struct Adder; struct Adder
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by yason 9y ago
I almost assumed there must be such people employed but then concluded there cannot be because of the problems mentioned in the article. I'm happy to hear this is how it has been planned and very unhappy to hear that the theory is appa
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by yason 9y ago
Given the bureaucratic complexity of welfare and social support in most countries there might be a solution to a problem nobody wants to see. Welfare support has long time ago reached the level where it's difficult if not impossible fo
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by yason 9y ago
While my pet peeves might be different than the author's I agree that C++ makes you work very hard to keep things simple and produce something that is beautiful. Just "avoid the complexity you don't absolutely need" does
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by yason 9y ago
Abstraction is a tool to help in your thinking. The abstractions that are useful or needed depend on what you're doing. An abstraction is basically a license to not care about the details once you have sufficient proof that you can do
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by yason 9y ago
I've sometimes wondered why patents and copyright have diverged so greatly. The latter has been inflated to near-eternity by corporate lobbying whereas patents still, in practice, have a limited lifetime which itself also hasn't r
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by yason 9y ago
Too bad it's struggling: A380 won't go anywhere overnight but in comparison 747 was in production for decades. Compared to 747 and many other wide-body aircraft it's a wonderful plane. Sitting on the second deck gets you by f
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by yason 9y ago
Buying at $8 would be easy. Not selling at $200 would be hard. Not selling at $2000 would be even harder.
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by yason 9y ago
An ORM is both a more native way to represent data rows in the application and a convenient wrapper to automate much of dealing with SQL and result sets. But only a fool would wish to see an ORM as an object-based abstraction over SQL. Dyna
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by yason 9y ago
It's amazing how temporary things are. I never used AIM much but if I had I would have a lot of history in my life with a particular service and now they would pull the plug. Ditto with Facebook these days. Or hosted software like Goog
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by yason 9y ago
It's my understanding that it's the local municipalities who don't let them build, fearing traffic congestion and losses in land value, generally being wrong on both accounts.
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by yason 9y ago
I wouldn't want to get alert quickly in the morning. I much enjoy the pleasant and unique slowness of the mornings and I wish to wake up slow, get up slow, and enjoy my breakfast slow and let the energy gradually rush back into my bo
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by yason 9y ago
I tend to agree: "There is something bigger brewing here. Something much bigger. This is one to keep on the radar." https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/11/european-...
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by yason 9y ago
The problem is if social security number is used not only for identification but authentication. Knowing someone's SSN shouldn't ever get you anything: SSN could as well be public information, ideally. I don't know about the
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by yason 9y ago
People jsut set their animations too slow. (Seriously, nothing should ever take longer than 500ms) They could start with 500ms and subtract 100ms from each UI activity after each time it is used until the delay is 0ms. The user would lear
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by yason 9y ago
If the odds for contention are low then something like a futex is pretty snappy, too. Lockless solutions do naturally fit in certain cases. For example, producer-consumer queues where there's only some invariants that need to be respec
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by yason 9y ago
Driving with shared cars, Uber, hybrids, evs, and self-driving cars doesn't fix the one and ultimate problem with cars in cities: space. A person walking needs maybe 0.5m². Self-driving electric Uber still needs ~50-60 m² of space per
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by yason 9y ago
Disregarding how easy it would be to hide stuff in the system to the extent that school staff can't find it I find it hilarious how attractive complexity is. It used to be pen and paper, maybe a slide rule. You couldn't cheat exce
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by yason 9y ago
How large are those binaries? I would be surprised to see practical performance degradation in uncompressing executable code before jumping to the program on today's machine. The largest binary in my /usr/bin/ is 50 mega
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by yason 9y ago
Or non-significant early cases where the stakes aren't too high and rulings that will lead the path to precedence can vary.
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by yason 9y ago
disclaimer: this is not legal advice, I am not a lawyer Just curious since this keeps coming up. Why would people add these IANAL disclaimers, especially on an anonymous forum? I would assume that if you wanted to stand out as a lawyer in
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by yason 9y ago
since the downvotes are painful to me. Why?
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by yason 9y ago
We can settle with "good enough" which is a popular way to a pleasant mental state in general, too. Every time I've made pizza the stuff I've put in the oven has been pretty good when I take it out. The pizza usually com
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by yason 9y ago
Rock-bottom pricing brings rock-bottom customers. Yet still they will complain that is costs too much. If you paid the rock-bottom customers to use your SaaS, they would complain you pay them too little.
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by yason 9y ago
Registering and getting copyright should depend on providing a no-strings-attached source format to a universal archival organisation. If you intend to sell your product or defend your copyrights you would have to have it registered and arc

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