webbore

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by webbore 10y ago
It's important to differentiate the general concept of "Good Enough" as in "that's good enough" from the software engineering approach that, while coined from the same term, is surprisingly more formalized arou
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by webbore 10y ago
If you're writing a lot of ad-hoc queries, I prefer to have keywords on their own line and also put commas at the start of the following line vs end of the previous. It lets you comment stuff out easier as you experiment. In a producti
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by webbore 10y ago
ON second reading I think you are correct. I agree on this point then, as it helps when joining through a denormalized table that references multiple PK ids, ex: I think: user_id = role_id is more readable than the likely alternative:
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by webbore 10y ago
The same public "government largesse" that Gates credits with the microchip and internet is what Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google et al have constantly worked to erode with closed-source, walled-garden ecosystems. They all would
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by webbore 10y ago
I live in Calgary, Alberta which is pretty much the exact counterpoint to Norway with a very similar historical starting point (size, population, dynamics). It doesn't matter who's in power, all our governments spend like drunken
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by webbore 10y ago
The thing about both Buffett and Soros is that they get deals that the general investor, or even really good and kinda famous investor, would never get. For example, Buffet did 300 million in unsecured loans (but with front-of-line payback)
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by webbore 10y ago
This implies airlines compete on customer service, which, with very few exceptions in niche areas, the most certainly do not.
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by webbore 10y ago
don't call it a tweak or nudge when the experiment's parameters were deliberately altered to avoid the outcome the data was indicating. "We had an idea for figuring out where we'd spend our money. We didn't like wha
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by webbore 10y ago
don't forget - a true "growth hacker" only needs the thinnest veneer of ambiguity to really go to town. I think the biggest shame is that under the guise of an experiment they had the opportunity to "really disrupt"
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by webbore 10y ago
If you read Maciej's comments and interpret them as "entitled to what's mine" you are obviously unfamiliar with the general vein of his work. In support of my opinion I expect the man himself to reply refuting this compl
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by webbore 10y ago
The attitude (or opinions) comes from the creator/operator. The service itself appeals to me due to it's utter lack of attitude. What? A vanilla service that people pay for? If the primary criteria is "quality of founder(s)&q
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by webbore 10y ago
I understand why, but it's too bad this is a throw away account; this is a very well thought out and compassionate response.
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by webbore 10y ago
Totally agree - I've contracted as an independent for about 8 years now, often with the same companies over and over, and I can honestly say I went into the office every day totally prepared for it to be my last and leave without a job
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by webbore 10y ago
If your establishment is big enough to have multiple person facilities, you can add a single bathroom as well. Even smaller restaurants seem to have a individual handicap or family washroom. Then label it "toilet" and who cares wh
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by webbore 11y ago
I saw a (I believe) 60 minutes story about WalMart a while ago and they stated they stored everything at line-item resolution for 2 years of sales. With their volume it's an amazing amount of data. UPDATE - did some quick googling and
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by webbore 11y ago
I do quite a bit of library development in TypeScript and one of the biggest wins is with new developers doing their first non-trivial bug fix or refactoring. The compiler has saved us from introducing all sorts of edge-case bugs because it