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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
I'm downvoting your comment because - that seems to be copy and pasted (i.e. plagiarized) from the original blog post http://danluu.com/clwb-pcommit/ - your submission history suggests you are associated with impr
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
> If you're a landlord or hotelier, Yes. Also: Parent of teenagers.
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Why is /usr/local bad advice?
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
There are quite a few introductions to macros. Maybe like monads, it's a topic where people need to read a few until one "clicks" for them. Having said that, I think this is among the best. The writing style is friendly, the
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Yes. Also: this recent blog post claims Google is willing to remove apps that increase privacy (not just ad-blocking) in a way that undermines Google's business model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8240450
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
> tend to list prices inc VAT in Europe I was under the impression it's a legal requirement to show the inc VAT price. (And, show it as the most-prominent price -- no trickery like showing exc VAT bold, and inc VAT in fine print.)
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Would "responded" include only actual replies, or also no-reply downvotes? I ask because lately I'm experiencing an increasing proportion of the latter. Apparently pg has endorsed these on the grounds that they are the pure l
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
I think another difference is that the bulk of FedEx and UPS customers are businesses -- who typically are smart enough to allocate business among at least two vendors. Short-term this keeps your suppliers honest on price and service. Long-
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Somewhat related: Some who advocate for workplace diversity are suspicious that "culture fit" is often a dog whistle meaning something like "young white brogrammers". I believe that suspicion is justified. At the same ti
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
It is disappointing that you got downvoted. Hopefully it was an accidental downvote due to HN's poor mobile browsing support, as opposed to someone being unwilling or unable to explain why they disagree with you.
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
That's not how I understood it. It says they're doing a hybrid STW and concurrent GC. (a) A mutator may be stopped for up to 10 ms of every 50 ms by the STW collector. (b) If more collection is needed, it will transition to a co
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
My new habit: Automatically up-vote every greyed-out comment I encounter. I don't go searching for them, but when I see one, I upvote it without even reading it. I used to read them carefully first, to decide whether I should up-vote.
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
I saw a nice attribution at the end of the post. (But possibly it was added belatedly, e.g. after seeing your comment.)
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Module systems really ought to allow renaming on import. (Such as: rename individual functions, add a prefix to all of the functions, or even do a regexp style replace of all existing prefixes if any.) But unfortunately, from a quick glance
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
^ Q.E.D.
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
> Don't know why you're being downvoted Perhaps because someone who downvotes without replying is the sort of person who would rather click than think. Ironically.
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Does this study have any bearing on "hammock-driven development" vs. the compulsion to start writing code (with or without TDD)?
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Yes, but experience in the project domain(s). Which doesn't correlate with experience using HN. Not even for $tech_du_jour_popular_on_HN.
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
It seems like this fits two needs, for smaller companies and/or people just getting started with EC2. 1. Laziness. Which I don't necessarily mean in a pejorative sense. Maybe someone just doesn't have time, yet, to learn&#x2F
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
> So, I think a better naming would have been... Often I like to use past participles as names for stream or signal combinators. So instead of `map`, `filter`, `fold` -- the names are `mapped`, `filter`, `folded`. For example, given a s
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Yes. And yet, still a better tech story than Yo.
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
If you're in the US, I think the ADA means your employer needs to accommodate you in this regard. (To be clear, I'm not suggesting you get "all lawyered up" and obnoxious. Just ask for a meeting with HR, to discuss ways
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
I think your point is broader. It applies to spreadsheets, Prolog, SQL. A declarative system needs to be "contaminated" by non-declarative pragmas for real-world use. (I think OP made this point.) To do something faster, or to do
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
To be fair, the OP says it is 23 years' worth of tips. I think the intended audience is probably people already using vim for 5+ years, who are ready for this stuff? (As for "just use Sublime", I'd say just use Emacs :P
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Although I agree it's possible (and so "dilemma" is hyperbole), in my own experience it's quite challenging to pile on the features while retaining a simpler experience for more casual users. Realistically: The early-a
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
There's also a "market" of ideas and opinions. The OP expressed one. The OP isn't a jack-booted right-thinking enforcer. The OP isn't even a "moral crusader", as you put it. In a free society, it is perfec
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
This seems like the Innovator's Dilemma as it relates to any product or service that can be used casually but also has "power users". Power users are a mixed blessing. Pros: they give you many ideas what to do. Often they&#x2
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Good point. You're right, it's not as bad an idea. (I still think it's not a great idea. Being regular isn't necessarily the same as being parseable with a maintainable regex.)
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Exactly. Isn't this as bad an idea as trying to parse HTML with regular expressions? [1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
The phrase "would you mind me asking" is simply being polite and respectful, not obsequious (IMO).

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