Newtopian

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by Newtopian 9y ago
"Having never lived in a truly big city I don't really understand why would anyone walk to anywhere, as such more density necessarily means more traffic".. Ok I filtered a bit with what I actually understood... still, you sho
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by Newtopian 9y ago
We had a similar service 20-30 years ago operating mostly out of Quebec and Ontario (Canada). Sadly regulators did not see it very kindly ( http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/province-stops-allo-stop-1.211... ). Story
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by Newtopian 9y ago
with you on that one... a better comparison would be to see how bitcoin stacks up against the power dedicated to porn... or spam
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by Newtopian 9y ago
he should make a revised edition where they no longer consult the Sun God but rather the All Seeing Oracle...
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by Newtopian 9y ago
Regardless of how long it REST or how much you pump it full of SOAP, a spaghetti mess will still be a giant bowl of indigestible pasta.
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by Newtopian 9y ago
for many companies the fitness criterion is locked in proportionality to how much money it costs... for them LGPL is to be avoided at all costs.
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by Newtopian 9y ago
I lock my keyboard away when I leave... I'll sleep better knowing nobody made it off with my 200$ mechanical clacker. As a side bonus I don't get mystery things locked when I arrive the next morning.
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by Newtopian 9y ago
If you annotate your types in python with the appropriate type hinting comments I find I get quite satisfactory code completion and error detection from my IDE (pycharm). Perhaps not as much as VisualStudio might do for me with C#, true, b
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by Newtopian 9y ago
That reading ".NET programming for dummies" to the last page makes him/her an expert programmer
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by Newtopian 9y ago
Given the choice between trial and error engineering and science backed engineering I much prefer the latter. That does not mean doing engineering without the science is impossible just so much harder. They both go hand in hand, nothing m
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by Newtopian 9y ago
A function should be X Lines long... but no longer where X is any number of lines necessary for implementing the ONE thing that function should be doing Any attempt to replace X with a concrete number will invariably sacrifice simplicity fo
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by Newtopian 9y ago
"Socialism is an illusion" ... " please do not try to put one system above other" I guess then it's ok to put one below...
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by Newtopian 9y ago
> Can you make a build in one step? vs > Are all builds handled automatically by a Continuous Integration server? Are two very different indicators. And both are, least in my mind, equally important. One measure the holistic
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by Newtopian 10y ago
Disposable goods are not cheap, they are in fact very expensive. They are perceived as cheap because a very large portion of the true cost is hidden, externalized. Creators have no incentive to create things that are easily recyclable be
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by Newtopian 10y ago
What's worrying is not so much that the petition to be considered as Mass surveillance... but that the petition coupled with data obtained through mass surveillance. Who knows what kind of flag it will raise signing this petition will
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by Newtopian 10y ago
that's just it, ask 100 people what "advancement" and "Moving Humanity forward" and you'd likely get 100 different definitions. Same goes for hapiness.
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by Newtopian 10y ago
F# would probably be a better comparison peer to Scala than C# would IMHO
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by Newtopian 10y ago
Did they rather mean that 4% of leadership roles are help by women ?
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by Newtopian 10y ago
There is one reason that can make it harder for "experts" to teach a subject that others may teach better. Best I can explain this is from a personnal story. I used to do rollerblade... I mean a lot of it. It was my main mean o