msvalkon

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by msvalkon 7y ago
I have worked in a team which maintained and improved a legacy piece of software generating a few hundred million euros of yearly revenue. Not technically a website but a critical backend piece of a very popular one. The application was wri
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by msvalkon 7y ago
One can create the stored procedure and store it in an .sql file which can be version controlled like any piece of code. These can then be deployed in a number of ways.
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by msvalkon 9y ago
Sounds like a terribly biased argument. Why would it kill for _thousands_ of generations?
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by msvalkon 10y ago
I find this to be the optimal wow.
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by msvalkon 10y ago
While an unorthodox merge strategy was used, this is what happens when you hole up in a topic branch for a long time. I bet this would've been easier had they merged smaller commits or PR's to master constantly. If one is afraid o
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by msvalkon 10y ago
Correct.
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by msvalkon 10y ago
In Finland, "for life" means 12 years.
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by msvalkon 10y ago
> Frans Carbo, the prison guards' representative from the FNV union, says his members are "angry and a little bit depressed". Young people don't want to join the prison service he adds "because there is no future
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by msvalkon 10y ago
I'm a programmer because I enjoy it, my employer seems to value the results and I am relatively well compensated for my time. We should really make an effort to try to accommodate the people in the programming profession who do not wan
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by msvalkon 10y ago
I don't really understand where the downvotes come from? I find the readability concerns legitimate, and would like to understand why compression algorithm developers feel like this is OK? Is it just the math heavy background? Can&#x27
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by msvalkon 11y ago
I find this hard to believe. You probably need to read the man page and perform the action over and over again. At least personally, I need to do thing X and to achieve that I know I need to use tool Y. I read the man page of Y and very sat
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by msvalkon 11y ago
You could use this same argument to argue against testing software. If one of the people who "gets it" has written this piece of software then there should be no reason to test it because they _know_ it works. Anyone coming in for
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by msvalkon 11y ago
I mostly agree with you but at least India is trying to move to nuclear[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India's_three-stage_nuclear_po...
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by msvalkon 11y ago
I don't follow your arguments. Is there an actual move of trying to ban SUV's in cities or is this something you've concluded yourself? Why shouldn't the industry be able to produce a huge oversized SUV if it can maintai
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by msvalkon 11y ago
"I think we Millenials are, more than any generation before us, desperately in search of our great cause." Look no further, there's a global crisis of climate change that must be solved. We have a cause, but unfortunately not
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by msvalkon 11y ago
Where I work, most of our development (includes building, testing and packaging) is done on remote machines to which we ssh to. Few people prefer gui ide's so most ssh and then run vim or emacs. Having tmux on the server hub is pretty
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by msvalkon 11y ago
It seems to me you are not entirely objective on this. The studies (also mentioned in this article) seem to contradict your view.
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by msvalkon 11y ago
Did you by chance read the article? This has little to do with opening up trade and much to do with providing ridiculous amount of power to any major corporation. EDIT: Suppose I'm a producer of bottled water from Germany. I bottle a l
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by msvalkon 11y ago
This is a very generalizing argument. Universities are free (paid by taxes obviously) in Finland, but there is no such thing like what you describe. In here the only prerequisite is that you have finished high school, then you can take the
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by msvalkon 12y ago
ASN.1 (PER) is also used in the EU eCall -system as the encoding protocol of the data between the on-board unit and the emergency call center.
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by msvalkon 12y ago
And if such behaviour was ever found, the gas chamber ate another person. The Nazi government did not take well to dissenters, especially among the armed forces.
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by msvalkon 12y ago
For linux users, install xclip from your flavor of package managers and then: transfer file.txt | xclip link is copied to your clipboard.
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by msvalkon 12y ago
This sort of culture needs to be weeded out. We are perfectly able to create enough waste as it is, there should be no need to advocate this sort of mentality any further. Either donate directly or don't.
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by msvalkon 12y ago
I agree with the pain points, for me they are unknown and that's also why it feels like I could sit down and write another communications app, but couldn't contribute to the energy sector. The utility bills sounds part sounds insa
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by msvalkon 12y ago
I hate to be that guy but looking at the app startups, don't you think it's easier to write a Yo! app than it is to actually invent and implement a disrupting technology in the energy sector? Effort to ROI in the app business prob
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by msvalkon 12y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by msvalkon 12y ago
Check out Raymond Hettingers Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python talk on youtube [1]. Great talk on avoiding some of the common pitfalls new python developers step in. Exposes some nice language features. [1]: https:/&#
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by msvalkon 12y ago
As a policy, this sort of thing probably would not work but the statistic does not apply to all people. I'd be interested to see a large company which allowed the workers to decide freely. Measuring results would obviously be difficult
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by msvalkon 12y ago
This is true. I have two now. Personal time is now a dusty concept.
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by msvalkon 12y ago
I have to say that the annotation is very nice. Would be a nice feature for something like Github, assuming that developers care enough to do the write up. Might get messy for larger projects though.

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