towelrod

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by towelrod 2y ago
Yes, but remember the much more important rules of programming: You aren't gonna to need it[1] Do the simplest thing that can possibly work[2] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it 2. https:
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by towelrod 3y ago
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/i... The most interesting part of this article to me was the end, where the author argues about how important High School Debate is and how
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by towelrod 4y ago
I should not have to opt out. GitHub should have to respect my license. I already said they can use my code, as long as they keep an attribution intact (via a BSD license, for example) GitHub is taking my code and ignoring the license. I do
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by towelrod 4y ago
The linked article directly talks about this, at this level of downtime customers are promised a 50% discount. That's what the SLA means, effectively
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by towelrod 7y ago
FIFA hasn't done anything like this, have they? Only thing I can remember recently is when Shaqiri and Xhaka had political celebrations after a World Cup game, and they both escaped punishment: https://www.theguardian.com&#x
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by towelrod 7y ago
Most companies have been trying the "seat at the table" approach for the last ~10 years and this is where it got us.
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by towelrod 7y ago
That post, like everything else I can find about this news, is a year old. Did this really happen?
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by towelrod 8y ago
Isn't there a fairly toxic political question buried in this paper as well? Who is going to decide which behaviors are rent-seeking and which are productive?
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by towelrod 9y ago
This article is based on a naked capitalism article [1] from 2016. That article adresses the China criticism under the section: "Uber Losses Not explained by Uber China and No One Can Explain How Profitability Can Be Achieved" The
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by towelrod 10y ago
> They weren't buying it for portability, like Japanese customers usually did; they were buying it because it was the cheapest way to play videogames That's not true, they are buying a 3ds so they can play Pokemon. Without Pok
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by towelrod 10y ago
Interesting and I might have a use for this professionally. But there is no indication on the main page about how it works (web service? code library?). And it forced me to login on the second page, so I closed the tab.
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by towelrod 10y ago
Or... what? It says "Do not access or use the Site..." but what would be the penalty for using a site like this outside of the terms of service?
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by towelrod 10y ago
Wait, you revoked access from within google, and then the pokemon app was able to give itself access again without asking for permission?
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by towelrod 10y ago
More to the point: Airbnb shifts regular, tax paying renters into a grey market -- non-renting, non-tax paying economy. If a city/country wants to base its rental units on a day-by-day, airbnb model, then fine. The problem is when ai
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by towelrod 10y ago
The person you are responding to never said "because we can't catch their wrong doing all the time"
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by towelrod 10y ago
I can't believe this is still the top comment. If Jacob Applebaum is a rapist, then that is horrible and of course he should step down. But this comment links to 3 tweets that are all duplicates of each other. Is there any reason to
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by towelrod 10y ago
The redacted email also says it contains a picture of the license plate. How could that come from a cracked phone? It sounds more likely that some photo based speed trap has been compromised.
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by towelrod 11y ago
That's not really true. We still run some older Apache camel components that require Java 7. And when Java 8 first came out it had bugs that crippled Solr, it took a long time before that was stable enough to use everywhere.
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by towelrod 11y ago
When you hand over the card, make sure to say "Valar Morghulis".
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by towelrod 12y ago
Also in the older tcl (not sure about 8.5+), it would parse { characters inside comments as if they were real braces in the code. So if you put a comment like: # I want to escape the { in the next line then it would cause your cod
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by towelrod 12y ago
Thanks -- that does seem to be working ok for me. I'm going to try it out, since I'm having a hard time finding a tcllib rpm for RHEL.
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by towelrod 12y ago
Maybe we get different search results. When I search for 'perl json' it leads to http://search.cpan.org/~makamaka/JSON-2.90/ which is a mature and easy to use JSON client. It does talk about backwards
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by towelrod 12y ago
Can you expand on this? What other languages have you learned, and how are they less useful than Tcl?
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by towelrod 12y ago
I frequently write tcl, and I work in a company that has been using it in production for 20+ years. I've written thousands of lines of Tcl, but I only go back to Tcl when I have to work on legacy stuff these days. I wouldn't eve
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by towelrod 12y ago
That's one of the things I like about Ruby DSLs. Because the DSL is just Ruby, you can do things like: [:foo, :bar].each do |attribute| attr_reader attribute end You probably wouldn't want do actually do that
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by towelrod 12y ago
In 10 years time, the NSA will be able to decrypt anything that is encrypted with 2015 encryption. And that's assuming they can't decrypt it now. Privacy is important, but let's be honest, you basically can't hide from
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by towelrod 13y ago
The UX on this site would be better if every link did not open in a new window, especially since each article is so short.
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by towelrod 13y ago
I'm pretty ignorant of MongoDB so I'm genuinely interested in your response: How would you solve the problem in the epilogue, namely "a chronological listing of all of the episodes of all the different shows that actor had e
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by towelrod 13y ago
I think you are missing the point of the article. If you read down to the Epilogue it explains how the "perfect" application still didn't work with MongoDB once the clients started asking for more features. My read was that
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by towelrod 13y ago
Speaking as a 39 year old developer curmudgeon who routinely downloads new apps: I am not going to click around and discover your interface if it isn't obvious in the first few minutes. As an example, the new flat google maps app is a

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