cjwhite | 8 years ago | on: Why is writing mathematical proofs more fault-proof than writing code? (2011)
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cjwhite | 8 years ago | on: Why is writing mathematical proofs more fault-proof than writing code? (2011)
I'm sort of amazed that I find anything of value on there, given the same experiences.
cjwhite | 8 years ago | on: The Near Future of Electric Cars: Many Models, Few Buyers
I'll take 200 miles of range and the ease of plugging in every evening at home over 1,000 miles of range and the necessity of going to a gas station.
cjwhite | 8 years ago | on: Men Resist Green Behavior as Un-Manly
As for the bags at least, that's absolutely not what that article says.
In fact, that article doesn't take into account the littering of plastic bags. But sure, I'll grant that if you're the type to reuse bags, you probably aren't the type to litter the plastic ones in the first place.
cjwhite | 8 years ago | on: Men Resist Green Behavior as Un-Manly
Totally agree. Real men aren't cowardly shepherded into accepting bizarre associations between manliness and disregarding the environment.
cjwhite | 8 years ago | on: Men Resist Green Behavior as Un-Manly
God gave us the Earth to be good stewards of. It is sinful to abuse the planet. At least as far as Catholics and Mormons view things.
cjwhite | 8 years ago | on: “Username or password is incorrect” is bullshit
Moreover, the browser could remember the expected shared secret based on its and the server's RSA exchange.
cjwhite | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the most painful problem you have day-to-day as a software dev?
That sounds annoying. I have the opposite problem, but I still sympathize.
Sometimes you get someone making really bad technical decisions so the direction forward looks good to upper management in the short term.
It's a hard balance to meet the needs of the technical requirements and the business requirements, but that's why it's their damn job!
cjwhite | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the most painful problem you have day-to-day as a software dev?
This. Seriously, no one minds if you take breaks where I'm at. I'd bet it's an unreasonable minority of companies which do.
If your company has salespeople, they probably spend a large amount of time chatting. It is what it is. Some amount of it is healthy.
cjwhite | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the most painful problem you have day-to-day as a software dev?
I agree the priorities in that situation sound misplaced, but I would not characterize that as putting technical concerns first. Fatal bugs are a technical concern.
cjwhite | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the most painful problem you have day-to-day as a software dev?
Code reviews where people come up with BS just to have something to say. Or creating a clean design only to have it turned into spaghetti by others.
cjwhite | 8 years ago | on: “Username or password is incorrect” is bullshit
It also seems that would help with not giving out passwords to spoofing sites
cjwhite | 8 years ago | on: “Username or password is incorrect” is bullshit
You're missing the point. Fix the signup form instead of just giving up.
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No worries. I find that in practice the kinds of questions that I can't answer for myself (the kinds for which a natural language question rather than a straight Google search for documentation is helpful) are almost always already answered anyway. So having it a read-only site is not a big deal.
I think their model does indeed turn away a lot of people with good experience and intentions, and even leaves a lot of incorrect cruft lying around, but overall it's a mostly-beneficial source of information, with, as you say, high searchability.