jrgv

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by jrgv 2y ago
The stale old enterprise code is not in public repositories.
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by jrgv 3y ago
> [...] how a typical store with a shopping cart works; do everything on the server side, and just display it to the client. The same concerns apply for a typical shopping cart design. The price can change in between the time when you se
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by jrgv 6y ago
As you wrote in your article, the new category becomes "another thing that needs explaining", and Fastly doesn't explain it well. I guess what's happening is that these companies spend a lot of time internally discussing
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by jrgv 9y ago
The article explains how the site has been designed not to send passwords to the server. Of course, it's up to you to decide if you trust them to keep it that way.
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by jrgv 9y ago
what if your output is more than 2000 bytes? The announcement says that "curl will inspect the beginning of each download", and I think that comparison just turns off the check after at least 2000 bytes have already been output
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by jrgv 9y ago
The "15" is a link to a test case which shows the 15 commands. It's a contrived scenario in my opinion: it assumes that you want to merge a feature branch into the main branch while you're in the middle of working on som
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by jrgv 9y ago
Money that is put into an endowment fund effectively is a lifetime credit for anything.
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by jrgv 10y ago
Maybe they route all traffic through a VPN to Ecuador or something like that? I doubt that GCHQ would be the reason for internet problems; even if they have "a van in the street", they'd have no incentive to impact the qualit
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by jrgv 10y ago
> But if we take it to mean code point, then if the value is a surrogate… what should happen? Surrogates are code points. The spec does not say what should happen if the surrogate is invalid (for example, if only the first surrogate of a
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by jrgv 10y ago
I'd prefer to throw an exception in that else block: throw new AssertionError("Should never happen");
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by jrgv 11y ago
> That's the main advantage of commit messages over comments - they are always fresh and encode the exact lines they refer to. Unless they're something like "fixed indentation".
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by jrgv 11y ago
From the article: "The disabled engine in Johannesburg will make its way back to Sydney at a much slower pace by ship."
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by jrgv 11y ago
The EasyPrivacy block list contains an entry that will block the piwik.js file. Of course, when you're self-hosting, it's trivial to serve that file with a non-default name.
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by jrgv 11y ago
"I learned how scope worked" does not imply that the author was previously unaware of the concept or didn't understand it at all, it just means that there was some aspect that she didn't fully understand until it was poi
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by jrgv 11y ago
YNAB is double-entry but not the way you would normally do it (note, I have no idea how it is implemented under the hood, I'm just referring to how I explain YNAB's system to myself). YNAB essentially puts your accounts (assets an
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by jrgv 11y ago
In financial markets, China is usually considered an emerging markets country, not a developed markets country, so this is not necessarily a contradiction.
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by jrgv 11y ago
"The Chaos Computer Club therefore wants to reward the most beautiful initiatives(?) in 2015 against journalists..." I'd translate this as: "The Chaos Computer Club therefore wants to reward the best investigations ini
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by jrgv 11y ago
There is a caution box in the description, which contains a different warning, and then the warning you have cited is in a second caution box in the "Notes" section, after the changelog and the examples. It doesn't surpri