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by zorga 8y ago
Yes, it's much better code that solves all kinds of hidden problems in the second style. The second style seems ok to you, then you've not yet learned the benefits of abstraction nor of bottom up programming. It's easier to b
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by zorga 8y ago
I think the generally understanding is that psychopaths are born, sociopaths are made.
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by zorga 8y ago
Many of us aren't, haven't worked anywhere but home in nearly a decade; full time remote work is great.
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by zorga 8y ago
I am the GP, I think I know what I meant better than you, which is why I clarified that in the comment you just replied to.
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by zorga 8y ago
If you have a replica, you have two db's already as I've suggested. And no one said anything about uptime; the point was single point of failure, not uptime. When I said single master, I just meant a single db as opposed to a mast
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by zorga 8y ago
A single master db isn't sufficient for any production app; you should have no single points of failure and that includes having at a minimum 2 db's. Clustering isn't a what if scenario, it's a must have for any serious
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by zorga 8y ago
You can't predict what the next great discovery will be, or where it'll come from. Generally however, they're on the theoretical side, not the experimental side, so your point doesn't really stand. Those big machines ra
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by zorga 8y ago
And one would be wrong. The current economy proves without high taxes, gains go to those at the top rather than the middle. The war created the demand, the taxes ensured the workers got the gains.
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by zorga 8y ago
It took both, the above is why there were jobs; the taxation is why those jobs paid well rather than all that money going to just those at the top as it does today. High marginal taxes are a huge incentive to pay your workers better rather
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by zorga 8y ago
That's not a golden age, that's a bad era of American history where industries were corrupt and dominated by monopolies, our best times were post WWII when our incomes taxes were the highest ever, that's what created the midd
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by zorga 8y ago
> but if you steel a few gallons of milk from your local supermarket then you're not depriving them of selling that particular brand of milk either. You've deprived them from selling those specific gallons of milk to someone e
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by zorga 8y ago
> if you could download and 3D print a car, risk free, you probably would steal it. That wouldn't be theft, that would be making your own care. Theft necessarily involves depriving the person you stole something from of having it. I
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by zorga 8y ago
> Host only original content of which you or your registered users are the declared copyright holders. And what magic spell do you expect publishers to cast to distinguish the two when you allow users to post content? Do you have the fa
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by zorga 8y ago
No I haven't... > getting along with your peers is the most important thing No it isn't, hence the yuk. Anyone who thinks getting along with your peers is more important than getting the science right, isn't someone I trus
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by zorga 8y ago
Scientists who aren't climatologists have uninformed opinions about the climatology, aka the climate; they shouldn't be listened to just as you don't poll brain surgeons about the intricacies of heart surgery. Being a scient
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by zorga 8y ago
You've merely reinforced his point.
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by zorga 8y ago
I understand, but science isn't supposed to make life easier, it's supposed to progress mankind's knowledge and that necessarily entails eliminating bad information from the body of knowledge. Avoiding challenging bad papers
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by zorga 8y ago
Obviously, hence the word "too".
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by zorga 8y ago
Wow, that's a clear sign science has become too political. Proving other scientists wrong used to be how careers were made, not something to fear.
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by zorga 8y ago
Sure, but weather isn't climate and fluctuations over a 30 year period of the weather aren't indicative of the trends in climate.
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by zorga 8y ago
That's an anecdote, not data; boomers were the hippy generation, that doesn't mean all of them were hippies.
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by zorga 8y ago
> Bitcoin is piss poor cash Agree, but I'm not promoting Bitcoin, I think it's poorly designed by someone who doesn't understand the properties of good money. Another crytpo with better properties will supersede it. It&#
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by zorga 8y ago
> That is, at least how I read it, a good developer -- with high-productivity tools -- nets about 20loc/day. And I'm saying that's still a terrible measure and not accurate. LOC is simply not a valid statistic to even look
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by zorga 8y ago
That's pretty much what every local bar is. Have you never seen Cheers... that's what bars are. That's what being a regular is. The other regulars become your friends.
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by zorga 8y ago
You just described a bar.
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by zorga 8y ago
> Market dominance is absolutely a fair argument for something being preferred by consumers, It absolutely is not when you're discussing a new technology most consumers don't understand yet or have never used. > unless if yo
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by zorga 8y ago
> A competent, experienced developer should produce about 20 lines of code per day, on average, to have any hope for a decent code quality. That's simply measuring the wrong thing altogether. Lines of code per day produced is simply
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by zorga 8y ago
Solid point, thanks for the additional context.
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by zorga 8y ago
> The counter to your argument is that widespread use of existing payment methods means the market prefers them. That's not a valid argument. The market always prefers what "is" until a critical mass understands benefits
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by zorga 8y ago
Those aren't free, they drive up prices by a few percent and frankly fraud only matters for large transactions and/or untrusted merchants. Bitcoin is cash, not credit, and avoiding 2-3% of fees tacked on by credit card companies i

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