mreiland

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by mreiland 10y ago
When it's all said and done with, software needs to be consistent and meet the expectations of its users. If it does that, the question of a framework or high level documentation or user stories don't matter. Those are tools used
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by mreiland 10y ago
I don't know, I used to feel that way but over the last few years I've changed my mind. The reason is because I got a hosting company as a client and I've seen some shit. I've written the tools they use for automated VP
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by mreiland 10y ago
Why are you thinking about free speech in terms of things that need to be penalized (or rewarded)? I encourage everyone to avoid answering that question, it presupposes that the mindset that resulted in such a question is valid on some leve
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by mreiland 10y ago
> Inconsistencies in HN moderation are random side-effects of the impossibility of reading all the threads. Unless it's one of mine, of course. Then you seem fairly consistent. ban me or leave me alone.
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by mreiland 10y ago
When we get to that point the answer is to let the local government take over maintence, much like roads. Subsidize it with a tax.
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by mreiland 10y ago
I have no issues with the way you worded that, I would have defended you had dang stepped in to complain about it (and in fact I've done exactly that in the past, which is when dang started harassing me). I was more pointing out the h
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by mreiland 10y ago
please stop following me around dang. One would think you would be warning the person who implied I was a novice programmer, but that would require consistency and fairness. either ban me or leave me alone until I do something that's
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by mreiland 10y ago
yes, his point is that he could be wrong about the hire decision, and going with the mathematics degree is more likely to be right. Whether or not that's true is another discussion, but that's the point he's making. I have a
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by mreiland 10y ago
> If your train of thought is interrupted every time you encounter them, you are way too novice a programmer. You're unimaginative. This conversation is finished.
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by mreiland 10y ago
> It seems like a reading micro-optimization to me, though. It's a "reading micro-optimization" in the same way that not littering your code with comments is a "reading micro-optimization". It makes you pause and
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by mreiland 10y ago
It's more subtle than that. People act as if developers are all a clean slate, which isn't true. developers have personalities with differing values. That super productive developer may just not value the flexibility of the code
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by mreiland 10y ago
except that it can get you banned or harassed. I had deng(dang?) follow me around, and he (she?) was obviously prepping for a ban. At one point he wholesale deleted a comment of mine because it was widely misinterpreted in a sexist way (I
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by mreiland 10y ago
This feels like damage control to me. While your explanation is always possible, that board moved much slower than HN's front page so the idea that the post somehow got lost in the mix when he was actively involved in several other po
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by mreiland 10y ago
I responded to dom96.
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by mreiland 10y ago
I logged back into the forums to try and find it, but I didn't see a way to pull up old posts. IIRC, the issue I posted about had to do with some of the underlying parsers. I was looking at the CSV stuff and I believe one of the types
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by mreiland 10y ago
apparently the humor of the post was lost on a few people...
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by mreiland 10y ago
holy shit, I had no idea. That's cool. edit: and I double checked, because the internet :) http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ye it's true! that's awesome.
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by mreiland 10y ago
the cool kids make fun of PHP. You must not be a cool kid.
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by mreiland 10y ago
I tried to get into nim, but then I started reading the source for some of their stdlib and finding bugs. I pointed it out on the boards and the response wasn't all that great, so I decided to spend my time elsewhere. I started picking
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by mreiland 10y ago
> No, not that kind of offensive. I gave the larping.org guy $10 for legal fees, even though LARPers are strange folk unlike us normal, sane tabletop RPG players. Ok, I laughed. It's kind of true though, I'm always reminded of
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by mreiland 10y ago
I'm still using an iPhone 4S and I have no reason to upgrade. a while back I called to see what it would cost me to upgrade through my provider, and I think I was quotes something like $600 (that's the cheap, 2 year contract vers
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by mreiland 10y ago
I bought my Corolla off the lot in 2004. It currently has 120k miles on it and I've never had a major problem with it. OTOH, I always maintain it by taking it into the shop and having them do what they do. The only issue I'm havi
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by mreiland 11y ago
you mean people in poverty regardless of ethnicity...
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by mreiland 11y ago
squatting once/week is viable if you're extremely experienced and are not on steroids. The more experience you get, the more rest you need between lifts. One of the major reasons why steroids works is because it cuts down on the
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by mreiland 11y ago
That and the horrible fucking cards is the reason I don't shop at wal-mart unless I absolutely must. seriously, I bet in the last 10 years I've never had a wal-mart cart that didn't have problems.
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by mreiland 11y ago
They always have been, I took a tour of their facilities in college. I recall being told at the time that every transaction that goes through any of their stores anywhere in the world is saved to a HD and stored in a vault somewhere. Kind
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by mreiland 11y ago
Strangely, I seem to recall the sentence being: "I far prefer it over dealing with the hassle of a card". I may have misread it.
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by mreiland 11y ago
I agree, but I think "incorrect" is the wrong term, "suboptimal for the problem" would be a better way to phrase it.
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by mreiland 11y ago
The discussion is around gender, the gender of the author does actually make a difference in how the article is received (as it should). People get stupid around gender. If this were an article about christian and muslims, no one would bli
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by mreiland 11y ago
This is what I like to do for the exact same reasons. I get some alone time and I've found I enjoy studying various things during this time. My issue is always that I find it hard to keep a straight sleep schedule. Even when I was yo

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