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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_…

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…

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 exam…

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

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 escape…

Most companies have been trying the "seat at the table" approach for the last ~10 years and this is where it got us.

That post, like everything else I can find about this news, is a year old. Did this really happen?

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?

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 …

> 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 buyi…

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 o…

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?

Wait, you revoked access from within google, and then the pokemon app was able to give itself access again without asking for permission?

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…

The person you are responding to never said "because we can't catch their wrong doing all the time"

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 …

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 c…

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 befo…

When you hand over the card, make sure to say "Valar Morghulis".

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 t…

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.

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 …

Can you expand on this? What other languages have you learned, and how are they less useful than Tcl?

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…

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 would…