Aykroyd

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by Aykroyd 13y ago
You can catch garbage comments in code reviews just as easily as you can catch other forms of programming garbage during review. The fact that someone might make a lot of bad comments is not a good argument against commenting, it's a g
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by Aykroyd 13y ago
If I wasn't going to get the benefit of my data automatically being distributed across servers, why would I use this? In many cases, NoSQL solutions seem to be a compromise that you make, giving up ACID (yes I know this has it) and other ni
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by Aykroyd 13y ago
Yes, it is a creative process. I think that a better analogy is to a scientist though. Sometimes, scientists spend a lot of time thinking about what an experimental result means and planning out their next set of experiments. But oftentimes
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by Aykroyd 13y ago
I wonder about that kind of argument. I find it super appealing because I would love to work a lot less and yet get more done. Unfortunately I've found that if I work more, I do get more done. Granted, there's a time for stepping back and t
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
Whether or not it was a good idea for Musk to respond to the review is almost aside the point. It seems as though that is just a part of his nature. If he wasn't the type of CEO who would respond like that, he likely would also not be the t
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
Right. It's a tricky line to walk. But the TedX name grants a certain level of mainstream acceptance to ideas. And it seems like they're trying to prevent people from taking advantage of that to pimp their latest miracle, effort free, libid
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
Agreed. I use python a lot and I hadn't seen that dict comprehensions had been back-ported to 2.7. So while the rest of it wasn't super useful to me, that was.
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
This seems like a nice addition. I would love to see conditional writes eventually as well. I wonder if cassandra ends up evolving into something that looks kind of like a database. It's definitely taken some steps in that direction before
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
That argument doesn't make sense. My outlet for creativity is the content of my code not when new lines happen or how I indent. On the other hand, if everything in the codebase is formatted uniformly it's a lot easier to scan through and yo
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
Agreed. It seems like you'd also want the ability to occasionally hook up to a bigger monitor. Do you find the 11" screen bothers you at all, or have you gotten used to it?
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
I'll be curious to see how he finds the surface keyboard. I'm dubious of the one that doesn't have physical keys on it. I find it really hard to type effectively without that physical feedback. Great to read the year-after follow up, by the
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
Sorry that was unclear. I was referring to the modern backlash against multitasking. Specifically, I'm sure that I can't think productively about more than one thing at a time. There's no question that this system was a technological achiev
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
I love that line about playing asteroids. I was also entertained by the line towards the end of video: "I've always been able to think about multiple things at once but the terminal held me back." It seems like we all very much doubt that w
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
It sounds like you do know how to prioritize. It doesn't make sense to talk about priorities and ignore family and life responsibilities; they obviously come out of the same pool of time as work/career priorities.
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
Oddly, I didn't run away from Objective-C and Xcode screaming. But I have run screaming away from Ruby on Rails a number of times. I do acknowledge that this is likely a personal shortcoming though.
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
I think there's a kernel of truth to that but it's not entirely right. I use Pycharm for my python coding and still like named parameters because it makes clear at a glance what each parameter is in the function call. Otherwise, I'd need to
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
That would definitely be a nicer way to do it. Although, using the builder pattern to create parameters for every single method in your API would be a gigantic pain. Javascript APIs hack this in by taking Objects as params so that you can d
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
From their message "We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most intuitive and pleasurable mailing experience. Now we're joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision — one that we thin
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
I hope that this means that they're investing in email UX. That's my optimistic take on the acquisition. My pessimistic take on it is that they're just getting talented developers and product folks and they're going to have them working on
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
I love these kinds of demos. REPLs are great... it makes me want to go back to using emacs.
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
I agree it's too much. It's got to be the amplifier that's pushing the price up so far right? I'm not sure what else it has that the other boxes don't.
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by Aykroyd 14y ago
These sort of arguments bug me. I won't repeat the great criticisms that have already been made. One of the types of things that he says that get me are completely unsupportable statements like: " Apple products have historically retained
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by Aykroyd 15y ago
I like your first set of examples. I keep thinking it would be great if it were integrated with OpenTable. Then you could ask for recommendations for a restaurant with availability for a reservation at a specific time or time range and then
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by Aykroyd 15y ago
I don't buy it. Having siri respond to a create reminder command with a bunch of computer-read text about what you could buy nearby would be so obnoxious and disruptive that it would undermine the user experience. Who would want to use that
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by Aykroyd 15y ago
Which part Gruber's image do you think would be offensive to those that knew him best? The walking, being in the grass, or being with his family and holding hands? Or are you just you looking for a reason why it's wrong for Gruber to have w
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by Aykroyd 15y ago
The New Yorker article was really interesting. This other article's title is pretty annoying. The title is way too exaggerated. I'm tired of these "click-bait" calculations on the part of media outlets.
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by Aykroyd 16y ago
Wow. Impressive story and an impressive site. Also, thanks for all the details on how your site handled the load. It's a great write-up. Best of luck!
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by Aykroyd 16y ago
Maybe, I'm mistaken but when I think of desktop Java apps pretty much the only significant ones that I come up with are IntelliJ (which I use) and Eclipse. And I'd much prefer something native to the resource hogging of IntelliJ. I don't th
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by Aykroyd 16y ago
True ediff, vc-dir, and ecb are all in there. And I can only speak for my own work-flow but with each of those I needed to make modifications to have it work in a way that I liked. And ultimately never got to a place where I was totally hap
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by Aykroyd 16y ago
I've been hot and cold on emacs over the years. I've used it enough that there is a lot that I really like about it and that I'm annoyed by not having in other editors. But that list of links is the reason why ultimately I have decided to s

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