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by YCode 10y ago
> People are often praised for building a shiny thing or stopping a fire. Rarely for preventing a fire, or a security issue, or doing the hard work it takes to keep an old system running. A lot can depend on being in the right team at th
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by YCode 10y ago
FWIW anonymous but somehow legitimate sources are often official spokespeople. The reason they won't let reporters attribute statements to them is because while what they are saying is true it's not the official stance of the orga
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by YCode 10y ago
To an ant there's no distinction. They don't think in terms of "this is stinky/dead", more like "this smells like oleic acid so it goes over there." FWIW this was tested by putting oleic acid on bits of pa
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by YCode 10y ago
I wouldn't say they don't have the time or resources. At any given point there are a fair number of ants that are effectively waiting in reserve for something that requires their attention. Don't get me wrong, it's quite
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by YCode 10y ago
Your patronizing tone aside I see what you mean. Yes, that would be "time travel". Again, it just seems like you're being antagonistic here and now putting words in my mouth in a vain attempt to prove your own superiority. Th
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by YCode 10y ago
I don't know if understanding is the right word to use. Over time the ants have acquired a series of triggers and actions that have (apparently) made them more fit to survive. They don't necessarily understand that for example tha
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by YCode 10y ago
Unlike distance, time is unidirectional. Yes, if you could roll back all matter, energy and every other force in the universe you could "go back in time" but the point is that time is a concept and not a force of nature. It seems
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by YCode 10y ago
I think what he means is that time exists in the way that distance or speed exists. It's not a physical force like gravity or magnetism that acts upon the universe, it's just a method for us to understand and quantify what happens
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by YCode 10y ago
I'm not sure it's a thing to be advanced past. Using a language to implement a given pure function is inherent to deploying it. You could develop one universal way to create and deploy functions to different languages, but now you
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by YCode 10y ago
The complaint about gamification on that page is: > gamified contexts such as foursquare might provide expected rewards for activities that do not adequately meet self-determination theory’s three innate needs for intrinsic motivation—re
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by YCode 10y ago
It's not a huge issue, but that you have to use some third party library for styling in a view framework just seems inadequate. Other comparable libraries include styling into their philosophy, but React is irritatingly unopinionated a
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by YCode 10y ago
Millennials are often treated as a foreign entity, some entitled byproduct of the information age, but in reality you're talking about two decades of people whose views are going to vary as wildly as generations that came before them.
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by YCode 10y ago
I'm a big fan of React, but I agree styling is a mess. CSS in JS has many limitations and virtually every alternative adds either another library or some other convention/configuration overhead. Other frameworks struggle with this
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by YCode 10y ago
Ah, that makes more sense. I saw the 1667/3000 numbers and was very put off by them.
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by YCode 10y ago
IIRC isn't the number needed to treat on aspirin pretty high, like in the thousands? I'm not sure how that compares with other treatments or the average but offhand it seems pretty high to the point of asking whether it's wor
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by YCode 10y ago
To be fair, those systems have drastically fewer users connected and it's comparatively easy to scope usage and subsequently resources for them. Whereas with production systems usage and troubleshooting is far more unstable.
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by YCode 10y ago
Do you have some examples of the kinds of things they are deleting?
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I don't understand what this has to do with refuting the original claim: > Ultimately I think Linus's contributions to Software are pantheon, but he should not be looked to for imitation or lessons. His lessons for success are
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by YCode 10y ago
Some food for thought: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3004387/it-management/h... "I’m not a nice person, and I don’t care about you. I care about the technology and the kernel — that’s what’s impor
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There is an argument to be made that a larger organization might be able to take your idea and run faster than you with it. In practice though, most of the time your idea is too small or too risky to be on the radar of those organizations.
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by YCode 10y ago
In React the idea that the state controls the app and as long as you maintain control of your state your app becomes nearly deterministic is powerful. In this way Vue or more specifically two-way data binding struck me as a step back. Or am
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by YCode 10y ago
Funny how people tend to view things like malls and social media as public places. It's a mass illusion we all place on what is inevitably a biased corporate product fully intended to make money. It would be interesting to see what a m
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by YCode 10y ago
I suspect they'll adapt to pull people over for things like sleeping in the driver seat, "embracing another while driving" and such. They could also shift to giving out more domestic or pedestrian tickets for things like musi
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by YCode 10y ago
Article now says "Editor's Note: This post is no longer available on the Huffington Post.", but you can read the intro on Yahoo.com still.