Calamitous

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by Calamitous 5y ago
I’m curious where you think an appropriate place would be to put those messages?
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by Calamitous 5y ago
Sounds like a startup opportunity you should jump on. ;)
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by Calamitous 5y ago
I’m curious why you switched from kindle to kobo? I’ve used a few kindles over the years, what does the kobo offer that’s better?
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by Calamitous 5y ago
Ruby covers everything but the concurrency story, I believe.
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Ask HN: When to Quit?
64 points by Calamitous 5y ago|87 comments
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by Calamitous 5y ago
Oh, that's nice. :)
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by Calamitous 5y ago
Interesting. I keep seeing marketing on “no hidden flow control”, but I’m curious what flow control is being hidden in other languages? Are they talking about exception handling?
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by Calamitous 5y ago
I have zero interest in sports of any kind, but this has made me wonder if there’s some way I can support this.
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by Calamitous 5y ago
Theoretically. But my experience with acquisitions is that "leave them alone" never ever happens.
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by Calamitous 5y ago
> >90% domestic approval rate I always wonder about these kinds of numbers. Who's asking, and how are they asking? And is there an element of coercion involved?
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by Calamitous 5y ago
"High value customer", if I had to guess.
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by Calamitous 5y ago
Ha, my co-workers choke every time I share my screen and they see my tabs. Then they learn that they’re just seeing one window out of twelve.
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by Calamitous 5y ago
> I no longer work as a doctor. I'm curious if you'd be willing to discuss why?
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by Calamitous 5y ago
I’ve bought Stardew Valley three times on three different platforms with no regrets. I suspect this game will be no different.
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by Calamitous 5y ago
That’s only if being right matters.
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by Calamitous 5y ago
Same way I did 20 years ago, I get to play "guess the number I'm thinking of." Only now I play it with a product person instead of my manager.
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by Calamitous 5y ago
Gemini is gaining some traction in Tildeverse communities. I run a Gemini server on http://Ctrl-C.club that has a pretty good number of users posting things: gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club
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by Calamitous 5y ago
Most of Rich Hickey's talks fall into that category.
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by Calamitous 7y ago
Am I the only person that would love a thicker laptop with more features from Apple? I don't need thin. Thin doesn't excite me. More battery would excite me. More ports. More anything but thin.
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by Calamitous 9y ago
Wow, that was fast.
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by Calamitous 10y ago
How well does that work? I love the hardware, but I'd love to run ubuntu on my MBP even more.
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by Calamitous 10y ago
Nothing is more annoying than skeumorphs. :)
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by Calamitous 10y ago
...or even "kids who should know better".
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by Calamitous 11y ago
I had pretty much the same situation. I think you handled it exactly right.
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by Calamitous 12y ago
I've been using NewsBlur. It works well on desktop and mobile, and is reasonably priced.
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Ctrl-C.club, a Tilde.club-like for practicing programmers(ctrl-c.club)
1 points by Calamitous 12y ago|0 comments
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by Calamitous 13y ago
...yet.
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by Calamitous 13y ago
Interesting. I'd heard that the "Justin Bailey" password referred specifically to Samus' swimsuit, since "Bailey" is an Australian term for swimsuit, and the password could actually be read "Just In Bailey." So... weird coincidence? Or Au
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by Calamitous 14y ago
When did HN turn into Reddit?
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by Calamitous 14y ago
O'Reilly has a book for this: "Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress" http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022565.do Looks good so far, although I'm not more than a chapter into it yet.

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