LorenzoLlamas

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by LorenzoLlamas 9y ago
Hey man, there may be a LOT of things going on here, but I can relate. If I don't get my day STARTED by 6am (or so), I see it slipping away from me. Others below have alluded to it, also. Diet and exercise are important (but the world
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by LorenzoLlamas 9y ago
I really don't see why anyone, including and especially programmers, use mice these days. That is, assuming you have a great (read: Mac) multi-touch pad. If you are in graphic design or animation/film, maybe a mouse is quite usefu
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by LorenzoLlamas 9y ago
Rats. I was hoping they would all go away within 5 years. Thought maybe the extra 0 was a typo. Disappointed. How can serious people still be on Facebook more than five years from now? This is demoralizing enough for me to subscribe to USA
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by LorenzoLlamas 9y ago
Ugh. Why is everyone excited about yet another online directory? Is it because it is tech conferences and people here are just jazzed by lists of dorky things they can do besides mow their lawns (sorry, for folks outside SF who actually hav
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by LorenzoLlamas 9y ago
There is no "the US". There is only "we" (if you reading this are a US Citizen). And it doesn't really matter whether if we have a "right". Question is: Do WE go after data if WE think it is important to d
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by LorenzoLlamas 9y ago
Yet another post about "technology improvements" that basically is some company (Github) with an axe to grind that wants to reinvent the wheel but has nothing new to offer. To be more clear, no one is writhing in their sleep, or b
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by LorenzoLlamas 9y ago
Maybe I missed it, but did someone point to the actual site with "millions of visitors and 5 PETABYTES of traffic per month"? Is that right? Don't want to seem harsh, but I don't care for unqualified rants against a name
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by LorenzoLlamas 9y ago
Totally hilarious. Exaaaaactly. O.M.G.... 25 ways to reach someone, and no one is home. What is wrong with folks? Is this guy desperate for contact? And yet, is there an actual contact form on that mess of icons? What are even half those ne
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by LorenzoLlamas 9y ago
That's true of your name, your address, your DOB, SS, and your phone numbers. Nothing stopped those things from being given out and collated by third parties. Nothing will stop email being given the same treatment. All the tech tricks
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by LorenzoLlamas 9y ago
What? Really? No one but one other uses TextEdit? At least among Mac users? And before that, I used NotePad on Windows. It's notes. It doesn't need to 'sync' to your mobile device and be in a cloud somewhere. It's j
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by LorenzoLlamas 10y ago
Madness. If you want black and white dashboards in your office or home, or if you want to mount it vertically and read PDFs, just get a matte HD monitor, and set it up for B&W on your software settings. Then, you can turn it into a fish
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by LorenzoLlamas 10y ago
It's crazy to think that hackers/developers/etc are using all these cloud-based things with slow interfaces and controlled schemes by third parties. I'm not even a true geek and I find this behavior a bit bewildering. Wh
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by LorenzoLlamas 10y ago
No, but I do avoid "articles" on Github pages if they still have the format of crankydev.github.com. I don't know why, but they all follow a similar format. I mean, buy a domain name and map it, right? As for Medium, folks he
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by LorenzoLlamas 10y ago
Goodness. Seriously? Another notes "app"? Longevity exists in ASCII text (UTF-8 if you must be a Modernist). Portability exists in simple plain text files. Privacy exists in keeping them on your own blankety-blank drive and backin
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by LorenzoLlamas 10y ago
I think saving to PDF is overkill and takes up extra storage. Unless it is necessary to save images and charts associated with an article. These days, most images associated with articles are just file images someone tossed in for drama&#x2
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by LorenzoLlamas 10y ago
A few people mentioned Python. Me, too. I left PHP (mostly) and can't stand the ascendency of JavaScript for everything under the sun (it's madness right now). I recently chose Python as my "go to" language for everythin
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by LorenzoLlamas 11y ago
Well... personally I have to discount your examples of hardware "innovation" since I was talking about software. But on that note, my iPhone isn't that much better than a Palm Pilot. Let's see... notes, calendar, emai
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by LorenzoLlamas 11y ago
Surely you all jest. Simple script in Any Real Language to scan your HTML and, if desired by all you JS junkies, your JS and compare your CSS to each page and spit out report by frequency of us on each page. From not-used to most used. So,
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by LorenzoLlamas 11y ago
As well noted, Glassdoor and other places already do this. Why do software developers feel compelled to constantly "invent" things we already have plenty of. Do something unique, original, or amazing. Stop copying everyone and jus
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by LorenzoLlamas 11y ago
That means you were 'bought' into thinking it was a good idea by a mere $10,000. Maybe you should have actually been paid $30k more all along - and still.
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by LorenzoLlamas 11y ago
I almost want to answer this as a more broad approach: X is falling apart - alternatives? And the answer is: If X is free, expect it to fall apart. Why would anyone host your content for free forever? What did you really expect? Eventually
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by LorenzoLlamas 11y ago
Not sure why what app being used is relevant. Plain text is all we need to write anything like this. You could use Markdown if you must (and must you?), but whether you use VIM or emacs or sublime slime or something else, two things are cle
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by LorenzoLlamas 11y ago
A few thoughts: 1. This sounds and smells like 'bait'. The reason it isn't being upvoted is because people question the motive of the OP who hasn't explained why he wants to toss out $2500/month to someone else who
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by LorenzoLlamas 11y ago
Well, first let's not associate your 'depression' with 'work'. Sure, work can suck. Losing jobs and running through a cycle of them in a short amount of time can be sucky, too. I've been in sales. Looking for w
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by LorenzoLlamas 11y ago
I use a MacBook Air 11". Say what you will, but here was my thinking: 1. The whole point of a laptop is portability (but not to the excess of a device that doesn't sit on a table with an attached keyboard. You'll find tons of