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The fundamental problem of programming language package management(blog.ezyang.com)
134 points by route66 12y ago|72 comments
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Data Storage for Modern High-Performance Business Applications(msdn.microsoft.com)
1 points by route66 12y ago|0 comments
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by route66 12y ago
"It worked different three months ago...". But I agree that this is no reason to gave to wade through commented out sections[1] but to simply use the powers of <vcs-of-choice> diff. [1] Including if(0){} abominations
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by route66 12y ago
I definitely recognize these patterns from non-startups. Ingredients: demanding customers, company led by former developers who still avoid all non-coding related improvements as enterprisy . Often it is simply the Peter Principle at work,
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by route66 12y ago
Another important thing he points at is to not write you own incarnation of every library you find lacking but provide patches/support/whatever to existing ones. While it might help your CV to have just another template library (w
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by route66 12y ago
I would want to turn the question around and (genuinely, not rhetorically) ask: which ecosystems right now do have a good security baseline? Am I wrong when I guess Java/.Net/Ruby and possibly more recent PHP frameworks?
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The Pointlessness of Unplugging(newyorker.com)
7 points by route66 13y ago|0 comments
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by route66 13y ago
In this case you are probably right. The solution with separate configuration shines though, when you have many values to configure (notwithstanding keyword args). But, and that is my main takeaway, TDD does apparently (and not surprisingly
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by route66 13y ago
So you see how difficult it is to please armchair psychologists: leaving out the first person pronoun from sentences is also considered bad style by some (with the suggested pseudo objectivity). Others conclude even that the person has no s
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by route66 13y ago
The BoE document linked in the text: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte... ("Money creation in the modern economy")
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The truth is out: money is just an IOU(theguardian.com)
6 points by route66 13y ago|2 comments
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by route66 13y ago
I am probably not smart, maybe not intellectual but most definitely not a lady. As for the industry: seemingly the industry thinks that showing ass and tits on a booth is worth it. That alone says enough. It is not about the ones who are ea
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by route66 13y ago
> I think nobody is to blame here An industry who employs women as booth babes , apparently because staring at a booth babe sells tech better? Stinks.
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by route66 13y ago
Considering the first half: your are playing their game, isn't it? (something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEv1L4MCHj8 )
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by route66 13y ago
I think it's the chinese whisper effect applied to http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html [0] and as such more cult than information. As witnessed by the discussion around here. [0] ("Correctness-the des
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by route66 13y ago
Indeed. That fluff article reminds me of the .NET spam around 2005. Pointing out three times that "the best developers...like to use new technologies": so, they leave you with a pile of smelling javascript over two years when they
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by route66 13y ago
If your code turns into 30 one-liners with 30! unforeseen possible calling combinations thereby exposing an API of irrelevant auxiliary functions to the outside world? Yes.
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by route66 13y ago
It's less about the transactions but the money. >> 3 * 1005.01 => 3015.0299999999997 This might get truncated to 3015.02 and might >> 3 * 1005.01 * 10000 => 30150299.999999996 turn into a real
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by route66 13y ago
Not from an outside view I would say. But when we are talking about the subjective perception of stress, it might as well be that the stress as perceived by the diver or the A&E consultant is not proportionally higher.
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by route66 13y ago
The document estimates that between 3% and 11% of the Yahoo webcam imagery harvested by GCHQ contains "undesirable nudity". Discussing efforts to make the interface "safer to use", it noted that current "naïve&quot
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Using "Tactics in the fight against terrorism" against Tax Fraud(translate.google.com)
1 points by route66 13y ago|0 comments
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The Nineteen-Billion-Dollar App(newyorker.com)
1 points by route66 13y ago|0 comments
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Why the One Appealing Part Of Creationism Is Wrong(newyorker.com)
4 points by route66 13y ago|1 comments
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Why we left AngularJS(sourcegraph.com)
296 points by route66 13y ago|157 comments
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The Man Who Built Catan(newyorker.com)
210 points by route66 13y ago|111 comments
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by route66 13y ago
Isn't it a much simpler explanation that healthcare should never be a free market as one of it's participants, the "patient" is not participating voluntarily? (This is not a direct response to your post, but I place it h
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Hemingway Takes the Hemingway Test(newyorker.com)
52 points by route66 13y ago|18 comments
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by route66 13y ago
You mean, like the Linux kernel with it's GPLv2 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Copyright.2C_trademark.2C... )
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by route66 13y ago
When I search for "Scala" the programming language in that interface, I still get the majority of the results from Italy, specifically the region of Milan (and the Teatro alla Scala ). Might be, because "making a program&quo
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Dutch police seize hidden online marketplace Utopia(pcworld.com)
1 points by route66 13y ago|0 comments

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