DJHenk

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by DJHenk 7y ago
> Without ads there would be basically no free content online Citation needed. I don't believe that for one moment. Already people are producing far more content for free each second than one person could ever consume in a lifetime
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by DJHenk 7y ago
I might be becoming an old fart, but I really don't see the benefits. I use vim, so technically I've been able to do remote development for years, but I've never felt the need to. Git makes sure that I have easy access to the
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by DJHenk 7y ago
> And by doing so I avoid giving google the power to cut me off from email because some arbitrary ML gone bad. Technically maybe. But if most of the people you want to mail are on Gmail, as is the case for many, a cut off from Google is
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by DJHenk 7y ago
> I often found that stressing about "semantic html" and the "correct way" is just virtue signaling and in reality, in real projects, if it works it works, and you move on. On the other hand, I have found that most of
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by DJHenk 7y ago
> On the other hand, if you're in a situation where your employer goes over the line (like the person at the top of the thread describes), you can generally just walk away from the job I think this is exactly what was meant by op. W
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by DJHenk 7y ago
> An 8 gig stick of ram costs about thirty dollars. It doesn't make sense to run 4 these days. It does not make sense if 4 Gb mean that you can only run a browser and Notepad. If, however, you are a bit older and you remember the ti
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by DJHenk 7y ago
> It's absolutely game-changing as I'm writing a bunch of stories and need to iterate fast and recompile my thoughts just by typing in 8 characters. Is it? Or are you being sarcastic? Every word processor/text editor that
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> Checking to see if something scrolls is way easier than looking at a design, calculating in your head if the margins look equidistant from one another thus deducing that it must be the bottom of the screen. This is the typical narrow m
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by DJHenk 7y ago
That's why most guidelines for commit messages prescribe a short description and an optional long description. The message in the article does not have a short description, which would have been easy to include. For that reason, it&#x2
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In this case it's not the fault of the law though. Everyone with a basic level of intelligence and awareness of cultural norms, i.e. everyone working at Google developing and marketing these kind of products, is aware that this might c
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In our team it's even less. We rebase and squash to one commit before merging, so one commit can take a couple of days or even a week.
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Sometimes you see initiatives where the tourist board of a city or a region provides a convenient site for booking a stay. But of course they don't come near the SEO power of Booking.com, so the accommodations also put their rooms ther
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by DJHenk 7y ago
Well, with the headaches that differences in HTML and CSS interpretation in browser engines already can cause, I would not look forward to having the same kind of problems with compiled languages. We could, of course, make the thing that c
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by DJHenk 7y ago
Wow, talking about putting the horse behind the carriage. So, people don't have the concentration to read a book anymore. But instead of fixing the cause of this, whatever it is, we mangle them through platforms that weren't desig
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by DJHenk 7y ago
Yes, I would prefer the anesthetic too. The difference between the two that it is very clear that the anesthetic is a tool. It makes it easier to accomplish something, but that something does not change whether you use the aid or not. Where
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> And the disturbing part is that I am not even sure why - on its face value it seems great And that is exactly the reason why it is not the right direction. Think about it. Why would one choose a virtual world over the new one? Because
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by DJHenk 7y ago
> It'd be nice to have an "I've already seen this" button that will mark an episode/season/show as watched so it doesn't keep coming back up. That's not just nice, that is the most obvious "fe
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It is the same as with all frameworks: it promises productivity and speed of development, but in exchange for that the problem that you are trying to solve must fit within the model and the assumptions that were made by authors of the frame
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by DJHenk 7y ago
> You don't lose customers by telling them to switch to Chrome Yes, you do. It might be a very, very small number, so small that you decide not to care about it, but you definitely lose people. The tricky part is that most companies
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> it modernizes payments Payment does not need modernizing. The more 'deals' and 'convenience' they introduce, the more complicated paying becomes overall. This complexity makes it for you, the consumer, more difficu
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by DJHenk 7y ago
No? Well, maybe I have done that somewhere in the past ten years. If that's the case then I probably got out of bed, turned it off and went back to bed again. And immediately forgot that it happened, because it is only a very minor inc
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by DJHenk 7y ago
No, no. If you pay unskilled workers more, they will spend more and the overall economy benefits. There will be more jobs and everybody will be happy. This is called Spray Up Economics.
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> Let's be adults here. This is SO, and I imagine you've used and enjoyed the use of their services just like the rest of us. Support them by letting passive ads sit on the edges of the page If we're adults, lets also ackn
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Nice. I am glad they did not make things too polished. For instance, in the Beastie Boys video there are these freeze frames with artifacts that seem easy to "fix", but probably would degrade the overall experience by being too pe
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A book is something that you can point to and say "I made that". Regardless of the content, a book is not fleeting or ephemeral. These days people will even look up to you if you are capable of reading one. So it carries weight, b
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by DJHenk 8y ago
There is also https://www.twitrss.me/
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> The only way to get better is by painting... you'll have to paint a lot As with any creative skill, especially the ones that involve fine motoric skills, one cannot skip the practice. The advice I once read about learning how to d
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by DJHenk 8y ago
> Without it, we probably couldn't even have phones that look anything like the ingots we tickle—the whole notion of touchscreen typing, where our podgy physical fingers are expected to land with precision on tiny virtual keys, is v
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Definitely. I have had i3 on every computer I use for a couple of years now and I don't think I will ever go back to a conventional window manager. No matter the thing I'm doing, every useful or efficient placing of windows is alw
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by DJHenk 8y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. My main gripe is that people insist Ruby is 'easy', because it 'looks just like English'. Yeah, well, it doesn't. Programming languages are different from normal languages because they have d

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