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ai_ja_nai··on Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty New Boss
Unless you signed anything, you have full ownership of the code. Demand the destruction of any working code to Billy or sue him
ai_ja_nai··on The full stack developer is a myth
Question: since breadth usually is the inverse of depth, FSDevs are good enough to stay afloat in all fields; this means that an expert (someone who is specialized) is always able to crush a FSDev in his own field of expertise. So, FSDevs are always the rookies in all fields, compared to specialized devs. Does it make sense to put a FSDev in a big team?
ai_ja_nai··on Debian GNU/Hurd Status Update [pdf]
I don't get all this hate on Linux: it basically sustained GNU project for almost 25 years...
ai_ja_nai··on Debian GNU/Hurd Status Update [pdf]
>Hardware support >● i686 >● start of 64bit support

WTF? They started 30 years ago and still on an 32bit architecture nobody cares anymore?

Beside that, I really don't get the point of all this, seriously. Not from a technological benefit, be warned, but from a user perspective the benefit is almost intangible. Why should the average sysadmin care? Linux is a rock solid kernel that does everything, what is the niche that Hurd is filling?

ai_ja_nai··on The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist'
Enjoy your McDonald sandwich
ai_ja_nai··on The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist'
You would have had a long walk, then :) Apart from joking, you have to try to understand the deep respect Italians have for their roots.

Trust me, nobody would have complained for "a pizza with tomato, mozzarella and garlic". A "pizza margherita with garlic" is a very different thing.

ai_ja_nai··on The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist'
Italy's best part is in its tradition. That's why it's maniacally kept alive.
ai_ja_nai··on The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist'
lol
ai_ja_nai··on The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist'
>Britain is far better for food than Italy I guess that this statement summarizes the real root of the problem
ai_ja_nai··on Google loses data as lightning strikes
So Google has no redundancy at datacenter level?
ai_ja_nai··on Like Airbnb, but for algorithms?
Mashape anyone?
ai_ja_nai··on Discovery of a new irregular pentagon that can cover the plane
we can shape building blocks like those, now
ai_ja_nai··on The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist'
It is untrue because you don't make pizza onboard of an old ship: you can't have the oven over there! You make pizza on the coast, where mozzarella, flour and tomato are produced
ai_ja_nai··on The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist'
My favourite
ai_ja_nai··on The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist'
Untrue
ai_ja_nai··on The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist'
There are 2 problems: First, Margherita is tomato and mozzarella, with optional basil garnishment. Period. It's the recipe as it is and as it has always been; if you add an ingredient that heavily belongs to another recipe, you are profoundly altering the original spirit of the first. Second, garlic is not considered good with mozzarella. As an Italian, I find it really unfit due to the cultural taste I'm accustomed to.

A foreigner ordering margherita with garlic is violating our sense of taste and altering a template that doesn't allow such distorsions.

As a counter example, you can add without problems an egg on a margherita; it becomes a "Bismark pizza", but it's fine since the egg plays well with tomato and mozzarella. Any modification that is an enhancement, rather than a distorsion, is alway welcomed.

ai_ja_nai··on The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist'
Agree.

Italian fast food usually is squared sliced pizza that you eat standing in the shop, or on the go. It's fast because it is continuously produced and therefore, by the time you walk in, it's always already available, steamming and waiting to be cut.

Take away round pizzas usually take more because the are made JIT for you and are considered more of a way to have regular dinner at home without cooking.

ai_ja_nai··on The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist'
It's also a matter of standards: you can't order a dish and make modifications that perturbate the nature of that (like, milk in black coffe or cheeseburger without cheese). Margherita with garlic is equally absurd as marinara with mozzarella.

The only way out from this catch22 would be to order a pizza with tomato, mozzarella and garlic, explicitly omitting any "base template" from which to start

ai_ja_nai··on The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist'
Pizza in Italy is not a sweet dish. Fruits on it are completely inappropriate, as with pasta.

The only exception is the chocolate, but it's allowed in stuffed pizza only.

ai_ja_nai··on Invalid SSL certificate for www.php.net, belonging to cu.be
they fixed that
ai_ja_nai··on Invalid SSL certificate for www.php.net, belonging to cu.be
Notice that this doesn't happen when heading to https://php.net, only for https://www.php.net.

Bad vhost?

ai_ja_nai··on Autodesk Stingray Game Engine
"[...] to make sure your games looks amazing".

Please note the bad collision detection at 0:51 when the player walks through the cube, right as the speaker says that.

Lol.

ai_ja_nai··on Tell HN: Hello
Good luck!
ai_ja_nai··on Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (2007)
Probably it's just driven by the use cases: most vi users (probably) come from server side, where you don't have a mouse. Vi is particularly effective in those circumstances
ai_ja_nai··on The 500-mile email (2002)
old but gold
ai_ja_nai··on List of April Fools' Day Announcements
Language translation company Translated releases a klingon version of its website: http://www.translated.net/tlh/
ai_ja_nai··on AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
Audiophiles are truly a sustain for economy
ai_ja_nai··on The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)
tell me, please
ai_ja_nai··on The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)
I met a lot of cases; in some of them I was on the slow team side and in others I was the lone cowboy.

The problem is not if it happens, the problem is that our industry still sucks a lot.

ai_ja_nai··on The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)
This parable is somewhat untrue, as it pats over the "good students engineers" shoulders, while throwing "cowboy programmers" out in the cold.

Unless you are producing libraries or frameworks, management don't care about internals of software. It's an engineers' problem next time they ask for a modification. Management care about having their problems solved. That's why relations between management and engineers are so notoriously dysfunctional: engineers want to produce art, while management wants to sell stuff to customers.

A manager inspecting a code? Really? A manager congratulating with engineers for releasing a half-working software while going off budget? Seriously? Managers hate engineers as much an normal people hate lawyers: they make everything sound way too complicated to squeeze more comfort zone to roam into.

Lone cowboy programmers that can conjure working stuff in a minimum time are praised by management, and insulted by colleagues.

And, since this parable was probably written by a disgruntled, good scholar engineer, I think this whole story is a little biased...

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