Alex3917

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by Alex3917 6y ago
> I feel strongly like this law was pushed by people who want Uber to be a full-time job. It’s not. Does the app give him the contact info for each of his passengers after every ride so that he can own the business relationship with them
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> a massive slowdown and then on a reboot, the keyboard wasn't found. That seems to happen on MacBook Pros when the computer boots or wakes from sleep with the WiFi turned on, but the WiFi router can't connect to the Internet f
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> It means that the employer does their due diligence, and they will mostly be working with other people who react positively to a challenge. To me, due diligence would be more like using software that someone has created. If it feels sn
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> The mother determines the religion in Judaism. Not since 1983 in reform Judaism.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> I sometimes wonder what the overhead of Docker costs on a Mac. I wouldn't use Docker on a Mac. The fan goes like crazy the whole time, and the battery life is like an hour or less. Whereas with vagrant and virtualbox the fan stays
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Instead of press and hold, it's press, hold, and drag. Definitely annoying when it freezes, but when it's working it doesn't seem that much different.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
The certification process is what gives you the projected electoral college votes. Many states aren’t even done counting the initial vote yet, let alone having recounted or certified so I don’t get how anyone could have a reasonable expecta
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Is it just me that didn't find the name obvious, and perhaps not a good one? It's easy to imagine some sort of stylized green leaf on the wrapper, would would fit well with their other iconography. To understand why it's
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Interesting, but also kind of propagandistic and it definitely doesn't take anywhere near that much time and money. In reality you need two generations of fruit: a first generation where you plant 1,000+ trees with good ancestry, and t
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Flying squirrels need to eat truffles as part of their diet, so maybe the truffles make the squirrels glow pink as part of their reproductive strategy. Since truffles live underground, they can’t reproduce unless some animal digs them up an
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Coturnism(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Alex3917 6y ago|0 comments
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Yeah managers shouldn't be carte blanche naming things. Basically there should be discussions about names during the architecture phase of any project, and any name that gets flagged during code review should get brought up in some mee
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> I've noticed that often people micromanage because they don't trust their team There's also some tasks that just shouldn't ever be done by one person. E.g. naming features and global classes and functions. There isn
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> The phrase technical debt is a red flag itself and probably should never be used. I think the counter argument is that not everything needs to get turned into a negotiation around justifying business value. Each developer should just b
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Generally, you can either convince decision makers that cleaning the kitchen is more profitable in the long run or you can dust off your resume and get out before it burns down. A better commercial kitchen analogy might be mise en plac
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by Alex3917 6y ago
There are frequently weird things happening with the Groovy rankings in the Tiobe index, and I doubt this is accurate. That said, purely as a language (ignoring the ecosystem) it's probably nicer than Python, and I say that as a primar
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Farms are no longer economically viable. Large scale farms at least. Some things like cheesemaking are still viable, because you only need a handful of cows to make an enormous amount of cheese.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Also, most tech companies have presumably stopped hiring junior developers. So if you just taught yourself how to code and want to get a job as a developer, doing WordPress or Magento for some family business might be your best option right
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> If you need a CoC to get rid of someone who harasses others what you have is a deeper problem How many conferences did you run before CoC's became popular?
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> While it may be good work, it's so out of date it's useless as a tool for evaluating the media landscape of today. Then where are all the labor and communist newspapers? Seems like nothing much has changed to me.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
I guess to me using something outside of its original context is just a subset of misrepresentation, in the sense that the value of the practice in question isn't being accurately portrayed.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation Cultural appropriation doesn't mean appropriating things from another culture. It's an actual term with a specific meaning. It means specifically misrepres
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Selling it commercially would be pretty much the exact opposite of cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation would be “posting a shitty, burned, flat loaf saying, ‘Welp I guess this is what the ancient Egyptians had to deal with!’”
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Google's design language is amazing, but their color recommendations are terrible. The problem is that they require lots of contrast to help people with visual impairments, at the expense of making content ugly and unreadable for every
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> The fact that copyrighted works were included in the readme shows it was intended for that use, and the RIAA complaint will likely stand up to any legal scrutiny. This. FWIW Grokster is the relevant case law here, not Napster: https:&
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> And yet, few people take the time to hone the skill. Probably because it is, as you said, quite literally undervalued. Coding is just a writing job, so if you don't think that someone would get hired as a staff writer for The New
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> I don’t see any reference to "white supremacy" in that link. It's a reference to these threads on the Python-dev mailing list: https://www.prettyfwd.com/t/bvCo9Zp3SMeuyZy7qynl0Q/ https:/&
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by Alex3917 6y ago
You can also remove the filter for users, but use site maps to make those posts not visible to search engines.
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The Fungus in Your Cheese Is Having Weird Sex(smithsonianmag.com)
28 points by Alex3917 6y ago|4 comments
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Anyone know if this is likely to hold up in court? It would already be illegal to grow clones of the plant anyway, at least for commercial use, so whether or not the EULA is binding is kind of irrelevant.

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