JoBrad

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   by JoBrad 7y ago

   This is exactly the way I do math in my head.
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   by JoBrad 7y ago

   Except for Maps, Gmail, Messages, Photos, Search, and (due to the servicing model) Play. I could be forgetting a few.
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   by JoBrad 7y ago

   Alternate “clean” way, but sort of hacky. raise ValueError(“File exists, not uploading: {filename} -> {bucket}, {key}”.format(**locals()))
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   by JoBrad 7y ago

   Node calls it a protocol scheme. https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v12.x/docs/api/url.html#url_u...
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   by JoBrad 7y ago

   I was really asking about the keywords he typed that showed the "slides" in the terminal. For instance, when he typed in "builtins" at the beginning, it cleared his screen and then showed a quick ASCII art image. I suppo
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   by JoBrad 7y ago

   Any idea what tool he's using for the "slides"?
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   by JoBrad 7y ago

   Haven't had the chance to use Python much lately, and immediately thought of how much JS/TS could benefit from comprehensions like this: zipped = {apple.stem: apple.core for satchel in satchels fo
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   by JoBrad 7y ago

   I remove semicolons from JS b/c I feel like they are a bit of a hack. Except where it's required by the language (for loops, which are becoming less used quite rapidly), your code generally shouldn't be so complex as to requi
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   by JoBrad 8y ago

   In the US poll workers are volunteer positions, as well. In my portion of the country (Southeastern US), they are mostly retired folks. Incidentally, I’ve always been impressed with how friendly and helpful they are, even when the there is
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    I like the colored parts of speech
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    You’re totally right that it’s much harder to run fiber across the US vs a much smaller country. However I don’t think you’re accurate on a few other points: > the “subsidy” is really coming out of their own pocket ISPs lobbied really ha
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    While I don’t know what providers have to do to actually access it, the Universal Access Fee is supposed to be there for exactly this kind of reason: providing internet to rural areas that wouldn’t otherwise get it, due to low population le
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    Parenting is always a novice’s game, so it’s fairly easy to find fault. Even the article makes it obvious that the “problem” had an obvious and easily corrected solution.
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    The article mentions that she tried grilling her son about why he was doing this early on, without success.
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    Humans are definitely more complex than machines. But that complexity often causes people to jump to incorrect assumptions, or even just shut down in the face of that complexity. Breaking the problem down into what you know and then solving
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    Whoa - Nim seems really cool! Thanks for mentioning it. I like that it also compiles to JS, and seems to be pretty active (latest release was just on Dec 31).
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    I haven't used Coconut beyond some dabbling last time it made HN's frontpage, so someone with more experience may be able to provide a better answer. However, the syntax is based on Python 3, and they use their own builtins for bo
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    I’m sure a lot of people might start out that way. But if you get free money for parking your cash there, why not use that money to dabble in some trading? Seems like there is little downside for the company, and potential for upside for th
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    Unless they made the edit very recently, he is credited on the credits page.
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    Hasn’t for me.
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    The PDF that @danielvf posted mentions gyroscopic benefits on page 20.
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    That guy has some fantastic videos. I particularly loved the episodes where he cooks fries, and also omelettes. Good mix of entertaining with a bit of knowledge.
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    I always thought of Bluetooth as a form of wireless USB. It’s specifically designed to connect devices in close vicinity.
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    I think this was actually addressed and back-ported to 2.2+, with PEP 238. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238/
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    by JoBrad 8y ago

    A deque can have a fixed length, and its elements are mutable. https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/collections.html#collect...
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    by JoBrad 9y ago

    I thought my second sentence addressed this.
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    by JoBrad 9y ago

    Context is everything. The number 123456789 is not illegal. But if associated with other information such that this value is understood to be a social security number (if it were a valid SSN), it becomes illegal to share it, or even have it
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    by JoBrad 9y ago

    FTA > "It’s not Swiss watch precision," said Gerhardt Meurer, an astronomer from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in a press release. "But regardless of whether a galaxy is very big or very sm
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    by JoBrad 9y ago

    Comcast had data caps on their broadband packages in Nashville until Google Fiber showed up. GF has shown very little expansion here, but the other guys definitely felt it.
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    by JoBrad 9y ago

    To add on to the design issues: I routinely get calendar invites which show up as a calendar invite in Gmail, but I cannot accept or add them to my calendar except on the web. This is using the Gmail app. I can’t accept them at all in Inbox