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by partycoder 8y ago
tl;dr: Education rant. If you don't like rants don't read this comment. 7 hour a day have no motivation other than preparing kids for 9 to 5 jobs and depriving kids of their valuable time and potential. Software used in education
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by partycoder 8y ago
> that smallness-of-file or smallness-of-function is not a target to shoot for I disagree. Unless you are methodical and know what you are doing (like NASA or the authors of Kubernetes), it is hard to create large functions and files by
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by partycoder 8y ago
If theory of mind is the issue, some pigs display some attributes that could be interpeted as theory of mind. In any case, your argument fell apart because there is no metric you can pick to justify what we do to animals other than: it is w
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by partycoder 8y ago
Other cities offer one way tickets to CA cities to get rid of their homeless.
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by partycoder 8y ago
> in the end, it will benefit humans. And we are more important than pigs. Let's agree with you for a moment and understand what it really means: - Let's say you are N times more intelligent than an average pig. - Now let'
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by partycoder 8y ago
The crimes of these kinds tutorials: - Downplaying the role of error handling - Treating the subjects they cover as a black box - Not warning that the code examples are not suitable for production
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by partycoder 8y ago
Seems nice except for the developer art. Kids are exposed to very high quality material these days.
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by partycoder 8y ago
Have people use an app instead, problem solved. The same people touched the entrance door handle anyways. And if you use cash you are exposed to the same germs.
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by partycoder 8y ago
A server can do way more.
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by partycoder 8y ago
If you define and implement all user stories, in the end what you will have is: a functional prototype, not a product. A finished product can be sold ethically, a prototype cannot.
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by partycoder 8y ago
If you resurrect those technologies they would die again right after. Nobody cared about Windows phone and nobody noticed when it died. It enjoys the same prestige as Microsoft Bob.
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by partycoder 8y ago
You can reapply.
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by partycoder 8y ago
Too late for China.
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by partycoder 8y ago
If your sleep gets interrupted 5 times the same night because of tech debt you are not allowed to fix, or if you are having dinner with your family and you get paged 3 days in a row, I guarantee you that you will lose your shit.
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by partycoder 8y ago
The engine used in Chrome is a fork of the one used in Safari, which is a fork of Konqueror's engine (KHTML).
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by partycoder 8y ago
Safari and Chrome are closely related.
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by partycoder 8y ago
It was a bad decision to make the logo similar to Internet Explorer, that alone is enough reason to not use it. They can change the tech as much as they want. They can hire armies of engineers and make the browser 1000% faster than Chrome..
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by partycoder 8y ago
What you want is to have fewer outages. Penalization is a non-goal.
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by partycoder 8y ago
It is refreshing to see an article celebrating collaboration.
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by partycoder 8y ago
That's what PMs are supposed to be for.
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by partycoder 8y ago
> no one has any problem being on call. How do you know this?
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by partycoder 8y ago
An outage could be caused by infrastructure, by library code, by configuration, by increased activity, not necessarily your own software.
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by partycoder 8y ago
Waking up a developer should be done as escalation. If resolving an alert requires to "turn it off and on again" you don't need a developer for that. Stress and lack of sleep reduces cognitive performance (what you pay for wh
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by partycoder 8y ago
npm itself has more dependencies. https://github.com/npm/cli/blob/latest/package.json
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by partycoder 8y ago
"lexis" is the same as # unix wc -w # powershell Measure-Object -Word
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by partycoder 8y ago
spacemacs and spacevim = slow Can be slower than an IDE
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by partycoder 8y ago
You can all thank Andrew Wakefield, the physician that published the fraudulent paper that linked vaccines to autism. "Immunization rates in Britain dropped from 92 percent to 73 percent, and were as low as 50 percent in some parts of
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by partycoder 8y ago
The choice of node.js means putting developer convenience in front of everything else. The end user does not care about developer convenience, cares about a working product that is reliable.
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by partycoder 8y ago
The most significant form of garbage collection in the ECMAScript community is called npm.
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by partycoder 8y ago
Artificial neural networks, etc. are an abstraction that is inspired on a biological neural ensemble. With many differences... Neurons are families of cells that come in many shapes and most of the time get oversimplified for didactic pur

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