SanderNL

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by SanderNL 3y ago
> Write aesthetic, simple code This is incredibly “draw the rest of the owl”. If it was easy to do that we would all do that. Step one to become a good developer: be a skilled developer. Thanks for that. Also, overlapping skill is less u
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by SanderNL 3y ago
This creates noise. Regular users shouldn’t be commenting on the quality and usefulness of other people’s comments. Oh wait..
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Say MS decided to lock down your access to Excel and all your business is nicely tucked away in those beautifully handcrafted sheets. It's not a binary thing and we can argue semantics, but MS is definitely holding some keys here.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I get it though, a bit of mingling is good for morale and most people are pretty nice. But.. if socializing is important why not do it during office hours?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
IMO this kind of misses the point because now you have a fancy system to handle your documents, but the rest of the company is using a million variations of just about every system you can think of including having folders named "tem
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by SanderNL 3y ago
It would be cool if an app could use an user-provided “codecs” for all sort of common (media) things. That way I can determine an acceptable risk myself customized for my circumstances. Maybe I’ll use an open, safe but feature incomplete we
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Oh, I didn’t mean it like that. I meant it “increased”. You are right. I agree, it’s nothing negative and it can be a superpower. The lockdowns - while societally a major disaster - where something of a personal net positive for me (which I
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Don't want to awaken any sleeping dogs here, but what the author describes reminds me more of social anxiety and/or self-esteem issues than introversion. I'm an introvert. I can sit still and not speak to anyone for weeks and
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by SanderNL 3y ago
How would they survive without? What is “sequential memory” if I may ask a stupid question? (Other than memory that is ordered.. sequentially)
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I agree. It seems to be useful material, but calling it CS is a bit of a stretch. The index makes me think of some huge tome I once had, something like Intro to Operating Systems.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
The impressive thing here is the Analogue Pocket (“modern gameboy”) that actually does the heavy lifting. Sold out unfortunately.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Just here to note that it is amazing I can just copy-paste the request and get a summary with all your guys’ suggestions. Don’t forget "Embedded Linux Primer" by Christopher Hallinan.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Apparently nobody cares, because both consumers and employees keep flocking to the same soulless behemoths en masse to get their fix and their CVs padded. Also, employees will dump their employer the second they can. Let’s not pretend this
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by SanderNL 3y ago
That sounds .. interesting. Are they REM dreams?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Kings are a poor comparison. It’s a shit job and sucks in all kinds of surprising and non-surprising ways. Are our poor better off than financially independent aristocrats of yesteryear? The kind that can be “an artist” or something their w
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by SanderNL 3y ago
That depends on the size of your bribe. I'd also start a meditation practice of some kind, because you will need a lot of patience.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
This is not novel in any way, but its style and the way you can ask questions can definitely help shape your ideas and steer you towards topics to research further. If you are not overly familiar with these concepts I can see this being hel
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by SanderNL 3y ago
If anything this renewed my respect for journalism and historians. Just keeping a bunch of boxes with papers around is quite useless without knowing why they exist in the first place.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> you will have a feeling as if your face is squished against the pillow That’s an excellent description. I watch myself fall asleep occasionally and this is indeed the case. Sometimes it’s like I’m flattened entirely or squeezed into a
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Exceedingly interesting and impressive amounts of dedication. There is also a lesson in there about endless chasing of technical details instead of going straight to the source of all mysteries: power and the people that hold it. Many softw
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I, too, hail from those lands overrun with the elemental curly brackets. Yet my understanding has matured and is now ready to receive new wisdom and insights. I would be careful assuming too much about us, who are wise in the ways of the wo
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You utter these heresies whilst holding 10k files each containing 10 demonic incantations. Let us not sink into unproductive musings of the intellect, but meditate on the nature of the pendulum swing.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
To be fair, we tend appreciate these kind of features when we are on the other side, buying, say, IKEA furniture. I respect, but don't particularly want to support professional carpenters if given the alternative. E.g. you can have che
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Be sure not to disturb this apprentice's troubled mind with such highly advanced topics as server side includes and related sorcery. Do not awaken the Ancients for only the pure of heart will survive such an encounter.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
We are constantly bombarded with the idea that society is progressing - towards.. "something" - and change means "good", because "moving forward". Ergo, yesterday's things are inherently worse. IMO I think
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Interesting. Indeed, why not just ask “what would you like to be called?” and maybe for administrative(?) purposes ask the full name. Naming is a tar pit and even Westerners might like to be called John when their name is Winstonshire. Let’
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Good sir, I am not looking for trouble. I concur, my argument is nebulous at best. To be clear, I think Elixir is marvelous. This post spiked my interest in it actually. Sorry if I come across ignorant. That’s because I am.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You keep insisting HN is not providing comments up to your standards. Let’s not go there OK? I just disagree with your analysis. I think it is too simplistic to state GCs cause this and Elixir somehow magically causes 95% efficiency boosts.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Me too, but then I see everyone hosting their code on github and I’m not quite sure what the substantial difference is.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
That does not in any way explain a drop of 95%, which IMO is ridiculous and points to other issues. The system they created now is totally different from the one they had. It’s more efficient by an insane margin. Choice of language seems li

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