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by zoul 8y ago
We have a kind of “TV tax” here in the Czech Republic. (AFAIK the system is more common in Europe.) It mostly works, the “national TV” is much better than the commercial ones overall, in quality journalism. It is also under a constant attac
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by zoul 8y ago
It’s a good habit to keep the commited code buildable. For team members, easier history changes, git bisect, etc.
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by zoul 9y ago
Like e-mail or the web, perhaps?
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by zoul 9y ago
It’s not much of a choice if we can’t easily change our minds later. It’s more like a long-term investment, and if we are to make a long-term investment, we’d rather invest in a direct relationship with our readers.
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by zoul 9y ago
As someone who runs a regional newspaper, I very much doubt that the future of healthy journalism is in the hands of a big company such as Google. We are already thinking hard what to do with the Facebook monopoly, we would be crazy to volu
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by zoul 9y ago
Are they really worried about too much noise on the site? Please, come on. Is this really so hard to believe? I have been a member of the community for ten years now ( https://goo.gl/JZkqSP ) and have seen the number of low
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by zoul 9y ago
I don’t consider your example of error handling superior to the Maybe monad. It’s more explicit and arguably simpler, but has more boilerplate and is less safe.
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by zoul 9y ago
> That's not solving the issue, it's just hiding it. Operationally there is no difference. It don’t think that’s a fair argument against abstraction and syntax improvements.
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by zoul 9y ago
IMHO callback hell is only called hell because of the syntax. So the solution admired here is mostly the do notation, not monads themselves. (But it’s a great feature that the do notation can be used for a general class of problems represen
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by zoul 9y ago
Obviously all diets have to be LIMO - Less In, More Out. Do they? What exactly does it mean? I had the impression that eating a lot of calories doesn’t mean keeping them – that it depends on what source they come from (fats/proteins&
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by zoul 9y ago
Woolf also does this in a beautiful way. To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway.
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by zoul 9y ago
FWIW, for smaller drive-by fixes you may press the Edit button directly on a file in some else’s repo.
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by zoul 9y ago
I think that’s not possible, by definition. There is no merge commit, ergo no information about the merge. You may or may not consider that a feature.
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by zoul 9y ago
Is that a bad thing? For cases where the document is at least partially written by hand it makes sense to replace XML with something more friendly, such as JSON or YAML.
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by zoul 9y ago
I agree, but it seems to me that being dragged down by technical debt is massively more common in our industry than missing important deals because of excessive emphasis on clean code?
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by zoul 9y ago
$250M sounds pretty behemotish?
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by zoul 9y ago
It’s nice and smart, but also notice how it needs a whole web page to explain and would happily compile after a lot of invisible single-letter changes that would introduce horrible bugs. There is value in the old ways of writing software, I
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by zoul 9y ago
One would hope you would automatically support such a claim with some proof?
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by zoul 9y ago
Unsweetened peanut butter contains 20% carbs and only 10% sugar, but 25% proteins. Looks like sane food to me? (I eat loads of it, so I hope so :)
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by zoul 9y ago
The key difference is the easy availability in the US. It seems to me that the GPs are eager to prescribe you some opiates, whereas here in the Czech Republic they would have to go through quite a lot red tape to do that. Which, given the p
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by zoul 9y ago
I’d say it’s not the immutability that’s so valuable, rather than restricting where it can be done. If the app state can only be mutated in one place in your app and under strict conditions, formal immutability no longer offers that much.
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by zoul 9y ago
It’s not possible to separate form from content. You always get the information in some form, some design. Good design makes it easier to get the information. Times was designed for a different world, I would say that modern typefaces desig
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by zoul 9y ago
The thing is, is it really reasoned discourse when you dismiss centuries of scientific evidence by pointing to a global evil conspiracy?
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by zoul 9y ago
> NASA chose not to weigh in. A spokeswoman told the Washington Post: “we don’t think there’s a debate to be had.” <3
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by zoul 9y ago
Taking a photo of an everyday household item is, in the eyes of the copyright law, an original work of art. It does not matter if they have used it without a license intentionally or not, they just did. What’s dumb is that this is not a poo
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by zoul 9y ago
> The Scott Trust has failed to preserve a newspaper that is fiercely independent. What makes you say that?
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by zoul 9y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_fiction
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by zoul 9y ago
If Apple wants to eavesdrop on you I don’t see how Siri changes the situation. You already have a networked device with a microphone, turning or not turning on an additional service hardly makes a difference.
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by zoul 9y ago
Isn’t it a big loss to move into management when one loves to code?
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by zoul 9y ago
It’s around 64 KB, which means around 10 seconds load time on a modem, if I remember correctly. That’s very comparable to the current state of affairs.

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