JohnL4

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by JohnL4 6y ago
In my experience, accountants want to capitalize software development costs (makes the bottom line look better) but must expense maintenance (i.e., bug-fixing). So that translates to a (slight?) preference for quality software that has fewe
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by JohnL4 6y ago
I'm with you. If I want to subtotal and subtract one subtotal from another, I'm popping over to excel. But... columnar text is a big win.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
I've been slowly getting more and more into org over the years (decades, really). It's nice to just have a simple little text mode that results in easily readable text. Good for brainstorming and scribbling notes. Everything else
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by JohnL4 6y ago
"Python was a niche language"? What niche were you in in 2002? Java was going great guns and Pascal/Delphi were definitely a thing. Or are you just saying "a pox on all statically-typed houses"?
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Lenovo is chinese, right? How many other (big) chinese companies have been through Dell's cycle as you describe it?
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by JohnL4 6y ago
In my experience, "biodegradable" plastic requires high-temperature industrial composting and still generates toxic breakdown components.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Ah, true.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Heck, PERL? Pretty sure CPAN was the first of its type.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
FORTRAN? LISP? Self?
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by JohnL4 6y ago
No. Liquid H2 is incredibly fluffy. You get more H's (and crackable bonds) in hydrocarbons, as elsewhere discussed.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
(1) Trust your instincts. Really listen to that inner voice. (2) I forget. No wait! I remember! Be really careful who you have kids with (see item (1)). Most mistakes you can walk away from, but when an innocent human life (or two) is invol
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by JohnL4 6y ago
I don't see the argument for pointers. If you want C++, use C++. Re checked exceptions: they're great. Document how your code can go off the rails or prevent it.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
"the ecosystem" The truly great thing about java is sun somehow created an ecosystem, a community. Probably by leading with specs, always, and not implementing anything but the core. So, you wind up with a real marketplace and a
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Where did /ig take you? Also, "not the same"... can you be more specific? (And which tool?)
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by JohnL4 6y ago
How did RSS go downhill? Other commenters in here have mentioned their readers of choice; I can add mine: NewsBlur. Turns out RSS is still in pretty common use, as far as I can tell, unless you can point to a handful of sites that aren&#x27
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Seriously, why does this question keep coming up? What am I missing?
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by JohnL4 6y ago
I get the feeling it was a pretty international effort.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
P.S. sometimes Orgzly/Drpbox when mobile. Evernote being my bookmark tool now that Delicio.us has been nerfed. (If it's even still around.) (Also this P.S. because Materialistic doesn't seem to allow editing.)
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by JohnL4 6y ago
I've recently started using org-capture and org-agenda (LONG-time org-mode user with a hot-key (Auto HotKey) to bring up emacs). Seems to work pretty well. (I'm always at my keyboard during the work day, and sometimes even when n
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Why is this even a topic on HN, with 77 (+ mine) comments?
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Nice bit of detective work. As for the downvotes, I guess the nail that sticks up gets hammered down?
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by JohnL4 6y ago
So... highly political, but to all the Americans here who just couldn't bring themselves to vote for email lady because she was just too neoliberal: mazel tov!
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Hypothes.is is great, but: annotations and living documents don't mix. I learned angular 3 years ago by annotating angular.io. Mistake. Now most of my annotations point to deep space because the text is gone or altered beyond recogniti
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by JohnL4 6y ago
A link to one of your responses would be spiffy.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
The tiobe headline itself is about rust. Java will decline because (1) so many hate on it, (2) there's always the new shiny, (3) Microsoft will never give up. No single language will replace it, though. At least not for a long time.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
As soon as I hear "your call may be monitored to ensure AWESOMENESS!" I know money is changing hands.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
I'm sorry, if you can no longer code in a 9-pt font on a high-DPI screen, you have to quit. I don't write the rules.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Interesting. I, too, use 120. It makes diffing code easier.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
FTI? FYI? At any rate, thanks for the clarification.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Off topic, but have you transposed left Ctrl and caps lock? That saved me from real pain, not kidding.

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