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by ythn 8y ago
Sometimes I wish we had more constraints because I fear we've all forgotten how to write fast and lean code in favor of semi-fast but very bloated code. I remember back when I first used Windows 95, opening programs was very snappy and
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by ythn 8y ago
> I think there is a lot of tribalism in the js community and liking one framework Judging by the fossil thread the other day, I'm guessing there is tribalism in any area that requires "investment" to learn/master. Th
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by ythn 8y ago
This is probably the same reason GitLab transitioned from a goofy looking mspaint mongoose to a slick angular logo
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by ythn 8y ago
Didn't intend for it to come across as personal, just pointing out that it would be very hard to make unbiased statements about git when you have a dog in the fight. It would be like the Myspace founder/creator badmouthing Faceboo
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by ythn 8y ago
It's just weird when I read stuff like "Yeah, I've had to do a bunch of maintenance on our legacy webpack/Angular 2 system" because in my mind webpack and Angular 2 are still very recent technologies, just not recen
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by ythn 8y ago
> Yeah, horrible legacy projects that are a pain in the ass to maintain How can a "legacy" project be using noSQL? In my company, "legacy" projects are projects that have been around for 10+ years. MongoDB hasn't
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by ythn 8y ago
In my day we called "decentralized apps" simply "programs".
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by ythn 8y ago
You wrote bitkeeper? Well of course you are biased against Git - it was basically Linus's middle finger to your business model
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by ythn 8y ago
I still think algorithmic passwords are safer. I could get access to all of your passwords via a simple keylogger to scrape your manager's master password. There's no way you can get at mine because the master password is the algo
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by ythn 9y ago
> Unity and Unreal have made things we couldn't have dreamed of possible. Such as mountains of bloatware/shovelware template games clogging up every single online store and platform.
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by ythn 9y ago
https://builtwith.com/
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by ythn 9y ago
On some of the high traffic tags (Java, C++, Python) there are a few high rep users that will swoop in on any basic-level question within seconds and close as duplicate/off-topic/too-broad, etc. So on the one hand it is not very n
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by ythn 9y ago
I haven't found that to be the case if I do my due diligence. Even if I get down votes, people in the comments are generally helpful. I recently asked a question about int64_t -> double casting collisions, and even though I was init
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by ythn 9y ago
> was the first ever, and so far only, movie that has brought me to tears What about "Life is Beautiful" and/or "It's a Wonderful Life"?
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by ythn 9y ago
> Diapering a child now takes about $1,000 a year for an average product. That doesn't seem right. Are these people buying the smallest quantities possible? You can buy ~300 diapers for $30 on amazon. That's only $360 /yea
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by ythn 9y ago
I don't really like these kinds of articles. It's like "Hey, look, publicly shame this non-technology company that probably never gets bug reports for not jumping to immediately fix my bug report!" Seems (just a little)
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by ythn 9y ago
Metaphors are weaponized all the time by political or religious entities. Abortion: "removing a parasite" vs "saving a human life"
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by ythn 9y ago
What is the relationship between overpopulation/climate and poaching? I was under the impression poaching was more of a consequence of China's huge homeopathic market than Africa's temperature or population density.
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by ythn 9y ago
AFAIK climate change is a small factor in the endangerment of African species. I could be wrong, but is seems like it's not even close at this point compared to poaching.
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by ythn 9y ago
> We — a woman-founded, women-led company I don't know why, but this made me want to stop reading the article immediately.
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by ythn 9y ago
OTOH sometimes I will be like "Huh, I haven't seen a post from so-and-so for quite some time now... I wonder how they are doing? What the... all trace of them is now gone? Oh well..."
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by ythn 9y ago
> I am no believer but I think it's the closest I can feel to God. It's a shared sentiment: "Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the universe." -- Galileo
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by ythn 9y ago
Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater... Yes, we need to get rid of poor shaming, but that doesn't mean we should also get rid of the culture of hard word, frugality, and discipline.
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by ythn 9y ago
Same way strings in python are immutable yet still allow you to delete and recreate. Git repos are not blockchains
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by ythn 9y ago
I would say a "tag" is a better example of a human-readable pointer to a commit. Branches are similar, but automatically "grow" to always point to the tip of the branch.
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by ythn 9y ago
Just wanted to say I love repl.it and use it all the time!
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by ythn 9y ago
> Try that with multiverse. It doesn't work. "Life arose because there is an infinite multiverse and we just happened to be in one of the infinite universes where both the cosmological constants that allow life to be possible a
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by ythn 9y ago
I should rephrase. It's not useful to attribute something to God because then you'll never know how God did it. But maybe instead of approaching every problem with the "how did this happen by chance" angle and answerin
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by ythn 9y ago
Neither is "multiverse". That's just as untestable and unverifyable and mysterious as God.
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by ythn 9y ago
> whereas a good puzzle cannot be impossible to crack. This is a very important distinction. It would be no fun if the cipher on a given cryptographer's tombstone were created with a one-time pad.

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