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by yebyen 7y ago
I'm compelled to invoke the "Ninety-Ninety" rule when I hear about solutions like that, although I'm sure it works sometimes, in my experience it usually turns out more like this. The first 90% of the work takes 90% of t
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I just sat through a two day training/workshop session called "Design Thinking" during which we learned about techniques to interview stakeholders, and how to empathize with their needs and concerns (specifically without solv
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by yebyen 7y ago
I am a Vim user, and if I had a group leader tell me that I had to use some different editor because we are all learning how to do this job together, and that learning how to use the editor properly was part of learning how to do the job, I
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by yebyen 7y ago
Yeah, you can get that, "um, exact case" too, with Rails in 2018, ask how I know it's easy to trip over while switching between web servers like Puma and Unicorn, because of the different way they each handle objects threadin
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If it was simply a population problem, then why do long-time residents tell me that it wasn't always this way? Specific reforms intentionally undertaken to solve known problems with the system, made the system work better. As a life-lo
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by yebyen 7y ago
Echo this sentiment from another Midwesterner, ex-pat former New York State resident. I moved to Indiana and have not had the experience of incorporating a business entity, but the experience I had at the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles h
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by yebyen 7y ago
I was going to suggest that, but couldn't find it myself... If this is the same rust migration tool that my Rust friend was telling me about last week, he was saying that it's probably inspired by Rails, as the author came from a
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I've been following this through the lens of Beeminder (and "Quantified Self") -- taking away the idea that if you know your own willpower better, you can do magic tricks like "only promise what you can deliver on"
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Ah, thanks for the clarification. My understanding about the effects of caffeine is not based on anything other than hear-say from people who seemed to have done their research better than I have, but from what I did hear, caffeine on an e
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You're saying this based on what exactly? I've heard that coffee/caffeine is most effective at boosting sharpness when your stomach is not empty. (I'm under the impression now that there is more than one reason why coffe
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When I was made aware of Urbit, there was someone prominent related person, a friend project of Nock or something, who had developed another competitive functional OS of his own, some kind or other, if memory serves, who had also parted way
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My understanding of the design is that scarcity and hierarchy facilitates a scalable network, with respect to reputation and spam prevention. If the cost of an identity is non-zero and non-negligible, and the supply of permanent identities
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Likewise! And thanks to you too!
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Sale is one way the power gets more concentrated or distributed, perhaps unfortunately universal truth in today's world, not only for Urbit galaxies. I am a galaxy holder and, as the record may show if the record remains intact, all I
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The original Urbit system also included a scheme of political "banners" so that you could avoid speech which was unpalatable to you, in order to allow conscious self-organizing into groups of like-mindedness, and as I recall also
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by yebyen 7y ago
Software is always a third-party. The builders of the system are not the system itself. There was a great talk at RubyConf last month which touched on this, called "Collective Problem Solving in Music, Science, Art" We interact w
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One of the core concepts of Urbit's naming schemes' origin and systemic ethos is that by naming a thing (or by reusing an existing name for a perhaps closely related thing) you confine and constrain the newly created thing in ways
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I'm not going to ask you for a citation about that (as I don't know what part of Urbit you imagine embodies the political philosophy that you are in disagreement with, and I don't imagine that I want to know) but I will let y
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I think it's actually important to understand how much the computer manufacturers don't really appear to want the free state to become the default. (Not from a "look at these jerks" perspective, but from a benchmarking
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I thought it was worth noting, as I follow the CNCF and their numerous projects, but I hadn't made the connection myself. Not to take anything away from the accomplishments of the Quay team or their contribution, there is definitely va
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This is really great! I recognize your username because I met you at Kubernetes Community Day AMS, after Helm Summit, when you told everyone your username from up on the stage... By the way I loved your talk "Convergence of Communities
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Well then I guess you've reasoned yourself into a nice position from which you can claim the problem I routinely handle cleanly almost every day, is out of scope and unworthy of attention. This is the one important feature of Ruby tha
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It's kind of shocking to hear these two quoted as "different than most" requirements – as a Ruby developer, this sounds like exactly a thing that any engineer supporting production systems would need routinely. RVM and bundl
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It's worth noting for any non-Latin understanders that you can put those words in any permutation and the meaning in Latin is the same.
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Is it clear, though?
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I have to treat it as history now, because it's in my trunk. If it turns out to represent a test failure, then I don't want it in my trunk, but it's too late. Even though we waited for CI and only merged when the suite was
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> If you care about tree snapshots then each commit is a promise that "I have made these changes, and afterwards the entire combined codebase still works and makes sense" This is an unreasonably high bar to reach for each commi
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Making a commit with two parents is shooting yourself in the foot, because every other kind of commit can be summarized as a single diff, which means you can definitely do bisect without misery. What is the simple diff content of a merge co
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> If there are any conflicts then it will force you to stop and resolve them Rebasing does this too. Can't we compromise, and agree to never allow "git pull" to spontaneously and unthinkingly create a merge commit with tw
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I read the headline and said "I don't even know what a Flesch-Kincaid test is." Then I read the article, and realized that I actually do use this test every day. TIL The Boomerang extension for Gmail applies a test, in the f

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