Icathian

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by Icathian 6y ago
That makes sense to me. I only picked up vim a couple years ago and just bit the bullet and bought Practical Vim because I was drowning. Easier defaults, or a 'beginner mode' seem like a perfectly reasonable evolution. Thanks!
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by Icathian 6y ago
Those two tools seem very different, I'm not sure what a combination of them would be. Would it be a modal editor? Would it support the shell functionality vim has? Would it allow plugins? It's like asking about the perfect co
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by Icathian 6y ago
Certainly, but shaming and shunning are interpreted by the human conscience as damage in very real ways. You're not wrong, but I think modern sensibility has such an adverse reaction to using shame as a deterrent that we refuse to cal
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by Icathian 6y ago
Failure here is obviously defined as ceasing to exist. Deliberately missing the point of their argument does not strengthen yours.
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by Icathian 6y ago
On the one hand, from a systems perspective, this is obviously true. But I wonder at what point you have to draw the line and quit excusing any and all behavior as the result of misaligned incentives, and simply hold people morally and ethi
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by Icathian 6y ago
Even the crappy little cowboy CRO I worked for had a fleet of CRA's go out and manually verify documents against the EDC. It's required by law. I think the FDA audit also repeats that process with a random sampling for some stud
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by Icathian 6y ago
I'm not sure I agree with that. 7k "normal" machines for any given value of "normal" seems like it would always be easier than 7k "normal" machines and 200 oddballs. Is the sysadmin tooling for Windows r
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by Icathian 6y ago
Double irony points for using a Heinlein-ism in the post too.
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by Icathian 6y ago
You seem to be under the rather odd impression that all of the limitations you agree to when you enter into contract with another entity are supposed to be ignored. Just because you're doing business with someone who has a reputatio
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by Icathian 6y ago
I tried several times but could never get through Diamond Age. Snow Crash is one of my all time favorites and Zodiac was stellar, but that one just never clicked for me.
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by Icathian 6y ago
I have fastmail bookmarked waiting for me to find some time to switch over my gsuite admin and some cname redirects off of Google's platform. It's definitely past time for me to get a little less dependent on them.
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by Icathian 6y ago
I wonder why the sudden influx? Is it as simple as a bunch of researchers stuck inside on quarantine? Or is there some underlying architectural flaw that's been discovered recently and riffed on? Any insight this community has would
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Zerodium to Freeze Purchase of Several iOS Vulnerabilities(twitter.com)
7 points by Icathian 6y ago|2 comments
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by Icathian 7y ago
The devil is always in the details. Deciding who pays to host new platforms, who gets to gatekeep content, etc ad nauseum, would likely sink any such effort. Frankly, that seems like a long way to go for what is effectively twitlonger. If
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by Icathian 7y ago
I agree in general, but I do think there are occasional counter-examples that stand as proof that you can have real flexibility and power without building a mudball. fork/exec, map/reduce, etc. These are foundational for a reaso
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by Icathian 7y ago
I specialize in building internal analytics tools and apps, so my experiences are mostly with a single client or a small team running a business functional area.
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by Icathian 7y ago
Customers, in my experience, want to have their cake and eat it too. Nobody wants complex, cumbersome tools, but they do want every iota of flexibility they can imagine delivered in unrealistic timeframes for vanishingly small budgets. Com
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by Icathian 7y ago
Also currently a student in the program, and I agree this would definitely earn one of my remaining slots. The current OS courses are already considered some of the best, and this would be a great addition. Fingers crossed.
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by Icathian 7y ago
I would argue that GSuite, Google Drive, and Gmail (the only things I currently pay Google for) all offer pretty excellent value, even at the free tier (for those which have one).
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by Icathian 7y ago
For me the big one was using linux VM's on a windows host. If I want to work with Linux command line tools by far the easiest way is to have VS Code ssh'd into my VM and a few terminals open. I get the comfort of my normal daily
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by Icathian 7y ago
Sure, nothing strange about that. But having to quit a job because management can't get their heads around remote work is inconvenient for everyone involved. It would be much better if that weren't necessary, no? That's th
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by Icathian 7y ago
Nobody minds if that's what works for you. We object when you force it on employees because it's what works for you, regardless of what works for them.
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by Icathian 7y ago
Yes it is. They backed a couple hilariously bad bets in a big, public way, and people like feeling smarter than rich strangers. I would be curious, though, if there are other funds with similar scope and track records to Vision 1 that have
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by Icathian 7y ago
I believe that you're right about why languages aren't chosen, but miss the alternative explanation. Languages are chosen for speed of deployment and ease of use, almost nothing else. From the dawn of time, when C and Unix beat
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by Icathian 7y ago
While this is true, it seems to me that most companies don't actually have both choices. Instead it's "training + market rate compensation" or "you will forever struggle to have enough senior devs to accomplish you
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by Icathian 7y ago
This rings very true to me. I'm working on moving over to an SWE role in the next few years for many of these reasons. I'll just add one: the business absolutely doesn't care how you get your answer, only if they're re
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by Icathian 7y ago
Stocks function as a medium of exchange for the vast majority of cases. Squatting on a dollar to make interest isn't abusing the dollar. Web domains function in a thousand different ways, and in some cases a medium of exchange metapho
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by Icathian 7y ago
Genuinely curious here, how can an IDE be toxic? I haven't heard any such thing before.
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by Icathian 7y ago
I'm curious as to the real impact. Facebook has the means to mitigate this quite easily. I wonder what's gained from this, if anything.
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by Icathian 7y ago
Border Gateway Protocol is just one routing protocol, calling it "the fundamental protocol" is stretching a point. That award probably goes to TCP. Maybe IPv4.

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