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by SPBS 6y ago
I wouldn't say that it is cringey, but I agree with the sentiment. It always seemed kind of weird that programmers would attach themselves and identify with a programming language tribe, even though they are very well capable of learni
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by SPBS 6y ago
sidenote: `G$i<Right><Enter>` is completely unnecessary. Just press `Go` (end of file, open new line below) and start typing.
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by SPBS 6y ago
https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/25015/display-in... Wow it looks like every thread is full of spam comments, really unfortunate.
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by SPBS 6y ago
Why is it such a weirdo thing? I don't want to bleed money every month just to listen to music. Or put up with ads. Owning mp3s is the most straightforward way to achieve that.
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by SPBS 6y ago
To those who say frameworks are needed because the stdlib is not enough: No, the stdlib defines very clear interfaces that libraries can implement. The result is that you can drag and drop middlewares from multiple packages into your codeba
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by SPBS 6y ago
I visited https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54702974 to confirm the lighthouse scores in their article, but the Performance consistently scored ~30 instead. Why is there such a large gap between what I'm seeing
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by SPBS 6y ago
I've edited 1GB sql dump files in Vim with no problem. I had to turn off my vimrc for it to work, but 300MB should be no problem as long as you are using barebones vim. For performant buffer-wide operations (:g, :%s), I had success wit
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by SPBS 6y ago
I'm in awe that the comment was written entirely based off reading the title
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by SPBS 6y ago
I find the notation compact but confusing. Are Thing and Category essentially tables? What does `thing {T, C}` mean, if T already means Thing?
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by SPBS 6y ago
I was previously considering to make my next phone an iPhone (better integration with my MacBook), but I recently discovered Youtube Vanced and realized that if I'm ever going to watch non-trivial amounts of Youtube on my phone it migh
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by SPBS 6y ago
The only mantra about code organization I subscribe to is that it should be as simple as possible. Sometimes it means using several layers of abstraction like in this article. Usually it means just writing the damn thing in the most straigh
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by SPBS 6y ago
If your shell scripts are self-contained pieces of logic, you can use any language to write it. If you want to leverage external programs available in the shell, shell scripting is still the best glue language.
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by SPBS 6y ago
https://blog.coeo.com/a-cheat-sheet-for-isolation-levels-in-... The standard technique is deciding which isolation level you want to use for your queries.
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by SPBS 6y ago
> Ibis uses SQLAlchemy internally, but aims to provide a friendlier syntax for analytics code. What about SQLAlchemy makes it unfriendly for analytics code? The last time I looked at it, SQLAlchemy Core had a pretty good fluent interface
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by SPBS 6y ago
This article is not talking about how broken Google-style algorithmic interviews are. It's encouraging Google-style algorithmic interviews by bringing them to the candidate as soon as possible. This is achieved by making candidates pay
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Facebook Is Discontinuing Its Notes Feature(digitalinformationworld.com)
1 points by SPBS 6y ago|0 comments
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by SPBS 6y ago
All this complexity that would have never been needed if Twitter just kept their glorified blog post aggregator as a static website.
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by SPBS 6y ago
10 message email chains aren't the only alternative. There can be a prominent "I need support" button that pops up a chat widget when clicked . Or a "chat with us about pricing" button that pops up the widget when
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by SPBS 6y ago
Yeah it's mentioned in this blog post https://blog.jooq.org/2014/01/06/the-sql-languages-most-miss... that SQL is missing Common Column Expressions, and that using Common Table Expressions reuse columns
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by SPBS 6y ago
The main focus shouldn't be on keeping the commit small, it should be on ensuring that the commit comprehensively encapsulates a unit of change in the codebase. Dogmatically pursuing such small commits will lead to a noisy commit histo
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by SPBS 6y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/avestura/status/13117539940716666... This guy is just straight up begging for a PR merge so that he can get his free T shirt -- I'd wager a good portion of these PR submitters have
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Lessons Learned While Building Reddit to 270M Page Views a Month (2010)(highscalability.com)
1 points by SPBS 6y ago|0 comments
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by SPBS 6y ago
how did it even know you'd broken up? that sounds more worrying
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by SPBS 6y ago
Also related: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html "It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that
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by SPBS 6y ago
It's not just about preventing bugs. Types restrict what you can do with each variable, such as what methods/members exist on the variable and what valid operations you can do with it. It makes development easier because you don&#
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by SPBS 6y ago
I agree with language, but I wasn't thinking about any neurological benefits. Just speaking a few languages can unlock so many opportunities in life.
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by SPBS 6y ago
Interesting, "Sign Up" is bad but "Sign Up Free" performs better (even though signing up is usually free). I guess humans really are just monkey-brain and need incentive keywords to appear so that they're interested
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by SPBS 6y ago
Tests also have the advantage of input automation. They have the disadvantage that you can't poke around at the environment once they're done (unless you drop into a debugger).
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by SPBS 6y ago
Forget about letting employers come up with a number first, in Singapore it's a common practice for HR/Recruiters to directly ask for your last drawn salary (so that they can match it/bump it up by a fixed amount). It's
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by SPBS 6y ago
> It reminded me of using VIM as an IDE - not an IDE, a big pile of stuff that isn't integrated. I started using VIM as an IDE when I started programming and I believe it cost me a year of time - I should have gone straight to a con

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