Pyrrhuloxia

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by Pyrrhuloxia 14y ago
You might be able to make the case that short variable names are reasonable as long as they are common and used consistently. I am not completely sold on this, but for example LLVM has a lot of 1 character variables where 'I' is always the
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Paperman - Disney short that merges computer-generated and hand-drawn animation(youtube.com)
3 points by Pyrrhuloxia 14y ago|0 comments
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User-curated annotation of knowledge(hypothes.is)
3 points by Pyrrhuloxia 14y ago|0 comments
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by Pyrrhuloxia 14y ago
Great to see, for certain, not just for VS and Git, but for distributed version control systems in general.
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by Pyrrhuloxia 14y ago
There's no conflict here. You can build it on Git/Mercurial/DARCS/whatever and make it easy for those who are capable to use the command-line or their favorite Git GUI, and at the same time have a visual interface that hides all of that und
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by Pyrrhuloxia 14y ago
Totally understandable if it makes the most sense for the people you see as your primary customers for this. Out of curiosity, did this come out of the aaronsw Hackathon at Noisebridge this weekend? [wish i had been able to make it there, b
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by Pyrrhuloxia 14y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that when a person is depressed or manic they are not thinking in what you might consider a "logical" way, or in a way that treats events with proper proportion and perspective. Thoughts can be very disorganized
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by Pyrrhuloxia 14y ago
I don't have a lot of data on this, but I recall reading that one significant factor involved in increased incidence of suicide is when there is a great discrepancy between personal expectations and actual achievements. Along with this it w
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by Pyrrhuloxia 14y ago
Whole-heartedly agree with what they are trying to do, but I wish they were using a git repo rather than a text control that requires you to be online.
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Fork the Law(forkthelaw.org)
7 points by Pyrrhuloxia 14y ago|12 comments
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by Pyrrhuloxia 14y ago
She seems to be a relatively inexperienced recruiter (a few short stints at big-name startups) who decided to start her own firm. Check her site: main.is It renders horribly on my non-retina desktop display in Chrome, and is unbelievably sl
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Preference for youth in tech recruiting (aka ageism)(twitter.com)
2 points by Pyrrhuloxia 14y ago|3 comments
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by Pyrrhuloxia 14y ago
> I think that the way to beat the stigma is talk openly about it. Easier to say than to do. If you're depressed / bipolar / schizophrenic and talk about it openly it can make people very uncomfortable, which can result in their not wan