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Why little bugs can be a big deal(dev.solita.fi)
1 points by noidi 11y ago|0 comments
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What's in a Good Commit?(dev.solita.fi)
9 points by noidi 13y ago|0 comments
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Beyond cargo cult software design(dev.solita.fi)
3 points by noidi 14y ago|0 comments
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JS testing from the IDE with PhantomRunner: JUnit and PhantomJS integration(dev.solita.fi)
1 points by noidi 14y ago|0 comments
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by noidi 14y ago
Note that the installation instructions on that site are completely out of date. You don't need a C compiler anymore, just clone the repo and enable the extension, as described in the README: https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git
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Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database(youtube.com)
229 points by noidi 14y ago|90 comments
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Will Parallel Code Ever Be Embraced?(drdobbs.com)
16 points by noidi 14y ago|8 comments
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by noidi 15y ago
I disagree with labeling work on less-imporant tasks as procrastination. I think it's often (but not always) more effective to breeze through less important tasks that you're itching to do instead of slowly trudging along the highest priori
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by noidi 15y ago
For another clever take on mocking in Python, check out Ian Bicking's minimock: http://blog.ianbicking.org/minimock.html
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by noidi 15y ago
Martin Fowler has spoken against feature branching as well: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FeatureBranch.html
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by noidi 15y ago
> I do a lot of research and learn about programming in my spare time, but have hardly any personal programming projects to show. I think this point is not stressed enough whenever this subject comes up. A person who spends all his free
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We need a Pan-Hacker movement(countercomplex.blogspot.com)
2 points by noidi 15y ago|0 comments
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by noidi 16y ago
I think generally object validation should remain separate from construction. The documentation for Python's FormEncode library explain this well: > Validation is contextual; what validation you apply is dependent on the source of the d
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by noidi 16y ago
From On Lisp by Paul Graham (pages 59-60): If your code uses a lot of new utilities, some readers may complain that it is hard to understand. People who are not yet very fluent in Lisp will only be used to reading raw Lisp. In fact, they ma
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by noidi 16y ago
Nailgun might help you with the startup time: http://martiansoftware.com/nailgun/
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by noidi 16y ago
Thanks for the links! It's nice to see shyness and intro/extroversion addressed as separate things. I've always had a really hard time identifying with descriptions of both introverts and extroverts. I'd really like to read about shy extrov
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by noidi 16y ago
Here's a blog post about this issue that you should find interesting. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/tinted-lenses/200912/scr... My personal point of view is that I do not want to cause any suffering when I can avoid doing so (i.e. w
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by noidi 16y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Don't worry, I'm clearly out of my depth here, so I'm not going to debate you on this particular point any further -- you win. :-) (I still stand by my original statement, but I'm unable to put my point to w
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by noidi 16y ago
Thanks. This is an answer that I find logical and understandable, even though I personally and intuitively disagree with it.
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by noidi 16y ago
Thanks, I didn't think about the viewpoint of "the sheep are going to be herded anyway , it might as well be my dog that has a bit of fun doing it". I don't think the problem is imaginary, though. I still think it's schizophrenic to caus
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by noidi 16y ago
Here's an upvote for taking the time to answer instead of just clicking on an arrow. Re: Somewhat sympathetic answer: I thought the reason sheep can be herded by a dog at all is that they are timid and easily frightened, and think of the do
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by noidi 16y ago
To the downvoters: Do the sheep find being herded by dogs a pleasant experience as well? If not (as I assume), how can you morally justify increasing their suffering in order to reduce that of a dog?
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by noidi 16y ago
How about sharing a bit of the empathy reserved for the bored dog with the sheep, which are essentially reduced from living, thinking, feeling beings to just toys for the dog? This kind of speciesism sickens me.
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by noidi 16y ago
This blog post reminded me of Alan Watts' Music and Life, which is great food for thought when pondering your goals in life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4
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by noidi 16y ago
This is a minor nit to pick, but why is the link to their twitter account on their website a button? Maybe I'm not representative of the common user, but I subconciously expect buttons to do something (e.g. tweet the address of their site o
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by noidi 16y ago
>> I've learned how to use git not so much from intuition but memorization of what all the commands do and how they interact. >Yeah that's what grates me about Git: apparently, unless you're willing to learn all of it from the i
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by noidi 16y ago
Just install the PwdHash Firefox add-on, and keep using the same password everywhere (just prefix it with F2) https://www.pwdhash.com/
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by noidi 16y ago
This is only tangentially related to the post (congrats on the cool new feature!), but my biggest gripe with DGG is that for some reason it never seems find projects hosted on github. Case in point: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=clojure-maven-p
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by noidi 16y ago
Great comment, thanks.
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by noidi 16y ago
Whoops, I got beat by wallflower. Should've refreshed the comment page before posting...

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