rasteau

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by rasteau 6y ago
The trade off is not installing Little Snitch.
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by rasteau 6y ago
No need to wonder. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/818327945/israel-begins-track... "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the country's Shin Bet domestic spy agency, usually tasked with mon
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by rasteau 7y ago
For most scenarios where estimates are asked of development, there's usually an alternative approach that will yield better results. Cost-benefit analysis scenario: Request: We need to know how long it will take to build X so we can de
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by rasteau 7y ago
I wonder if they were inspired by https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3321612
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by rasteau 7y ago
Regarding cybersnowflake's comment, I think this is relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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by rasteau 7y ago
> The algorithm is secondary to the user group. Neither is secondary; both are essential to the socio-algorithmic evolutionary process. The algorithms are intended to optimize toward some user group behaviour. As the user group's ch
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by rasteau 8y ago
Amen! My last three companies were moving from a monolith to microservices. In every case, the rationale for the move was little more than "monolith development is slow, therefore microservices". Unfortunately for all of them, the
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by rasteau 8y ago
>HTTP was initially designed for transfering static files and static data over potentially unauthenticated connections. It may be more useful to view "transfering static files and static data over potentially unauthenticated connect
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by rasteau 8y ago
It's an issue with the responsive layout. If the window is wide enough the overlap goes away; narrow enough the TOC goes away.
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by rasteau 8y ago
> what happens if two users modify different fields/properties of the same resource at the same time? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.5.8 6.5.8. 409 Conflict The 409 (Conflict) status co
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by rasteau 8y ago
What you describe could also be used to argue that prices are higher than they would be in a competitive market, i.e., that for the 30% ratio it's not that the numerator is too small, but that the denominator is too large.
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by rasteau 8y ago
> an unreasonable number of independent codebases must have identical bugs Entertaining[0] badpun’s skepticism, it is not necessary they have identical bugs, only that their bugs yield similarly biased results. For example, if a signif
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by rasteau 8y ago
The electronic strip search machines are still optional; they'll (eventually) give you a pat down instead.
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by rasteau 8y ago
Hitchens responds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyoOfRog1EM
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by rasteau 8y ago
> 3) If I'm in a hurry and the author is available I grab them and do an over the shoulder review. You might be surprised how much time this saves. One concern here is you may ask questions whose answers are then given to you, and
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by rasteau 8y ago
Yikes! Demanding a bug fix also remediate unrelated, extant style violations is a good way to ensure nothing improves.
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by rasteau 8y ago
I think the author and many folks here have an unhelpful understanding of code reviews. I suggest code reviews' primary purpose should not be to catch bugs or trivial style issues; automated tests and linters exist for those purposes.
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by rasteau 8y ago
"[T]he English language... becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."
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by rasteau 8y ago
> I frequently have a driver who is obviously different than the one pictured in the app. Do you continue the ride? Do you inform the company? > Talk about an industry that needs regulation! I infer that you use Uber/Lyft&#x2
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by rasteau 8y ago
>We need to get between grams and a count of molecules, that's the number. I think that number is only true for carbon-12. >but then we would have some other arbitrary constant we would have to memorize to go from grams to a coun
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by rasteau 8y ago
> In practical terms, the mole helps chemists measure stuff. It helps express the amounts of atoms or molecules in a chemical reaction. Cause a half-mole of oxygen molecules (O2) to react with a mole of hydrogen molecules (H2) and you g
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by rasteau 8y ago
> Ask them if they like people using words like fa---- and ni---- and b---- in the workplace. Low hanging fruit. What about using "guys" when referring to a mixed gender collection of individuals, as in "thanks, guys&quo
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by rasteau 8y ago
The prisoner's dilemma hinges on lack of communication between the prisoners. In the original scenario, communicating prisoners would both choose to stay silent. In the above scenario, communicating politicians would choose to never le
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by rasteau 8y ago
> finding the "joy" of dynamically typed languages and all the "freedom" they give you ... verifying those types at compile-time was actually pretty useful Indeed one of the "joys" is that one can apply th
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by rasteau 8y ago
>what can we do to eliminate the need for insurance? Can we have a network of doctors offices in major cities that we pay a monthly fee to access, where the billing and costs are transparent and sane? We had something like that once, it