JohnL4

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by JohnL4 6y ago
"for now" being key. Nothing like this is ever fixed.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Plenty. A subroutine is a service. A library is a service. A Windows daemon is a service. The vendor I just inked a contract with provides a service. A web service is a service. I really hate that word when used without further definition.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
As a developer, if I catch an exception handling some piece of data, I'm logging that data. Nothing irks me more than a file-not-found exception without knowing WHICH file. For example.
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by JohnL4 7y ago
> 1) a "dude" is gender and ageless, of no persuasion, has neither skin nor eye colour, and so on. In that case, s/dude/person/g Language affects thought, right?
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by JohnL4 7y ago
Yeah, this. I'll add: Keep a todo-list/journal sort of thing and document each work item as you complete it. I'm working on a stupid side project myself and every day I hit a new hurdle, something I don't know, so (almos
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by JohnL4 7y ago
Not sure what the fix is. List of collapsed nodes stuffed into my browser's local store? Or expanded ones, if I came into the topic w/all nodes collapsed.
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by JohnL4 7y ago
Oops, replied to the wrong comment. Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22716127
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by JohnL4 7y ago
State isn't saved, so when I come back to the conversation (since there are instantly more comments than I can read), I have no bookmarks and I have to go through again, re-figuring-out which branches I'd like to collapse again.
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by JohnL4 7y ago
Me too. :-)
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by JohnL4 7y ago
Long-lived thread as emergent community? :-)
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by JohnL4 7y ago
(Ha! dang! I just read about you in The New Yorker!) Branch pruning, a la trn (threaded read news). Allows one to tune out unproductive flamewars. Kinda goes hand-in-hand with facilitating long-running threads. Some version of killfiles, bu
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by JohnL4 7y ago
Your comment about professional moderation led me to Google up this article: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th... Wow! Great article. (Also: as of 2019, TWO, count 'em, TWO human mo
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by JohnL4 7y ago
On Twitter, I tend my feed somewhat aggressively, following folks who post worthwhile stuff, unfollowing those who devolve or who drop below some signal-to-nose threshold. On Usenet, there was always the killfile and thread branch pruning (
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by JohnL4 7y ago
Pragmatic stuff first, then emotional. :-) Pragmatic: when hearing praise, my thoughts are sometimes, "yeah, yeah, cut to the chase." I guess you gotta read your audience. Emotional: It IS easy to be negative. We also tend to over
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by JohnL4 7y ago
[googles...] https://hbr.org/2019/09/how-to-create-an-online-community-th... For what that's worth.
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by JohnL4 7y ago
I wonder if there are good subscription-based communities out there. Having to pay a small fee seems like a good filter for people who aren't a little more "serious". (Definition of "serious" left as an exercise for
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by JohnL4 7y ago
This "unprecedented in our memory" thing gets me. Polio was feared in the 1950s, and pools and movie theaters closed and physical distancing was recommended. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012
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by JohnL4 7y ago
As has been said before: ignore the boos. They usually come from the cheap seats.
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by JohnL4 7y ago
Other than memeorandum (techmeme mentioned several times but not memeorandum??), there's The Weekly Sift ( https://weeklysift.com/ )
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by JohnL4 7y ago
Plus Craigslist. Reuters and the WSJ are old proofs that people ARE willing to just pay for quality news. Note also that national news is fine; it's local news that's in trouble.
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by JohnL4 7y ago
Similar here. Deepest sympathies. However: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/refactoring-source-c... ?
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by JohnL4 7y ago
Oof. All these Linux-on-desktop replies. (1) The web is (slowly) destroying MS on the client-side. Sure, there's a ton of existing WinForms/WPF stuff now, but I think new development is on the web. (2) Linux is destroying MS on th
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by JohnL4 7y ago
I assumed that was part of the joke.
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by JohnL4 7y ago
Selenium being the cure for Mercury poisoning, but I guess that's neither here nor there. :-)
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by JohnL4 8y ago
Me too! Except around 1982. :-) Memories....
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by JohnL4 8y ago
Holy cow, the olds came out of the woodwork. Good to see, because I'm one, too. 57, been using emacs since 1982 or so. Mostly org-mode these days, plus whatever weird hobby language thing I'm doing (Haskell, now). Swapping control
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by JohnL4 8y ago
Underground rocks are not static. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saprolite
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by JohnL4 8y ago
Packet radio, I'm guessing.
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by JohnL4 8y ago
One assumes Amazon & Google both see that possibility and are developing some in-house expertise on those projects.
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by JohnL4 8y ago
Microsoft's replacement for IE, now with less horrible.

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