Igelau

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by Igelau 5y ago
In my experience, management digs its heels in on scope and time anyway by bringing in more people. Usually lots of them, and the cheapest people they could get.
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by Igelau 5y ago
Velocity is derived. It's scope/time.
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by Igelau 5y ago
I used Source Code Pro all the time until I found out about Comic Mono.
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by Igelau 5y ago
It's not worth the hell that would ensue with people suing each other because their letters look too similar. Letters have to look similar -- that's the whole damn point!
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by Igelau 5y ago
> Some scientists believe there may be too many whales for the population to sustain itself. That's the one no one wants to hear. Commercial whaling is practically extinct. Sustainable hunting (like Norway and the Minke) might actua
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by Igelau 5y ago
This is the car, not the driving.
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by Igelau 5y ago
It looks like the answer is "no", with the addendum that waveform synthesis has been on the TODO list for a while: https://github.com/alda-lang/alda/blob/master/doc/list-of-in...
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by Igelau 5y ago
You make a good point. It's been a long time since "do a cout" seemed like a reasonable way to think about output in C++.
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by Igelau 5y ago
This is how I answer my kids' questions. "Why? Why? Why?" Buckle up, kid, we're going down the rabbit hole. They usually get bored before I do and have learned to back off when I slip into presentation tone.
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by Igelau 5y ago
Really I think the mistake there was not forking Elm. Maybe the fork wouldn't have been popular long term, but at least they'd ship.
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by Igelau 5y ago
Lisp has always seemed like the most teachable FP language to me. I imagine it would be hard to start elsewhere.
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by Igelau 5y ago
> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. Why is this comment on hacker news?
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by Igelau 5y ago
> Tether is rat poison It would be very useful if we could kill vermin with it.
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by Igelau 5y ago
Fire was listed as essential. All I was saying is that the internal combustion engine is the fire. Take what you will.
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by Igelau 5y ago
In other words, a fire.
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by Igelau 5y ago
Nice food truck.
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by Igelau 5y ago
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by Igelau 5y ago
"Rent-seeking is the effort to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth." The accusation here, right or wrong, is that this is what crypto and the bot are ultimately doing. Note, this may have you r
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by Igelau 5y ago
It's as annoying as the popular misconception that we have any real choices regarding our elected officials and their policies. Uhh, yeah, let me just build a whole slew of candidates from scratch who actually want to do anything about
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by Igelau 5y ago
I think it's a tortured phrase for Ivy League.
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by Igelau 5y ago
Sounds like someone who has seen way too much of how the sausage gets made.
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by Igelau 5y ago
Passwords are in tiers, ranging from the "must be stupid easy so my in-laws can use my Netflix" tier to the "Can't be stored in the password manager because it unlocks the password manager" tier. I use diceware with
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by Igelau 5y ago
> So he was a Swiss person doing a PhD at a Chinese university He'd been advised by Gallen to deregister with a plan for how and when to re-enroll. It's pretty obvious in retrospect that they did this so they could have a trapd
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by Igelau 5y ago
> if using the same version of Postgres should be enough
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by Igelau 5y ago
I suspect the strict dress code requirements at mine are secretly an anti-homeless measure.
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by Igelau 5y ago
> walled garden of algo driven attention optimising dark pattern The devices are further enabling this. My first smartphone had a physical keyboard. It was the best . Now you can't find one at all. Makes me just that less likely to
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by Igelau 5y ago
Directory sites like that are hard to find now. IIRC search engines can't/won't tell legit ones from spammy link farms.
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by Igelau 5y ago
> CF employees have been getting targetted online. Sounds lovely.
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by Igelau 5y ago
Like GP said: "almost never"
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by Igelau 5y ago
There's a time to parse mathematical expressions, a time to leave refrain from parsing altogether.

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