Sileni

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by Sileni 8y ago
Running an old T440 Thinkpad to do my work programming. Mostly doing data analysis. Never ran into an issue with any kind of speed or capacity, and I love the keyboard. I have a gaming laptop as well that I don't bother to carry around
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by Sileni 8y ago
I was in the "$100 phone, cheapest possible carrier" camp for years before getting a Pixel 2. I was using my phone for work and really needed something with clearer reception. It doesn't seem like call quality is really affec
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by Sileni 8y ago
Is anyone really surprised? "We're not going to pay you enough to ever actually own anything, so you'll have to rent most things for the rest of your life, and you're still going to be living paycheck to paycheck."
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by Sileni 8y ago
We really messed up the "superstar" aspect early on. Anyone else remember John Romero? He single-handedly made an entire industry reconsider "Great man theory". After that, the idea of the "rock star developer"
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by Sileni 8y ago
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
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by Sileni 8y ago
Did you sleep through 2008? Only poor people experience recessions now. Corporations put up record profits.
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by Sileni 8y ago
I've really wanted to dig into functional languages like this, because I love the theoretical benefits they provide, but haven't really sunk my teeth into one in a way that would let me understand the flavor. Let me ask, were you
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by Sileni 8y ago
I'm nervous about the effect that losing this will have on people. How many people have you heard stories about where they "dropped out" for a couple of months/years and came back with a completely different view on lif
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by Sileni 8y ago
Google analytics is really easy to set up, and would allow you to see what lead to your page. That would mean you have a google tracker on your site though.
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by Sileni 8y ago
It's going all the way through to the other side, in the spirit of Camus. The world is so saturated with absurdity that absurdity is the only place to grab hold.
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by Sileni 8y ago
I don't think anyone was surprised by his choice. It was part of his person. He knew the other side well, and didn't try to hide it. That's what made him stand out to me. He wasn't singing the praises of every place he w
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by Sileni 8y ago
This sounds like a great opportunity to just go build the thing they needed then offer it back to them as a service or for a licensing fee. Then you have the option to offer it to other companies as well.
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by Sileni 8y ago
We're not getting stronger as a country. A handful of corporations are gaining massive influence over our political and legal systems. The "small farmer" is precisely what our country was founded on and was considered our str
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by Sileni 8y ago
This might not be particularly useful, especially if you're not the owner, but the relative sizes of elements on the page reminds me of early phone browsers in a really uncomfortable way. I couldn't look at the page for more than
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by Sileni 8y ago
Eh, I liked it. Many writers in the tech space are trying to be as concise and clear as possible. If this article had been more 'academic' in that sense I think I would have lost interest after a few paragraphs because, well, noth
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by Sileni 8y ago
It's a remake of Warcraft 3. Kinda like the final fantasy 10 remake
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by Sileni 8y ago
So your intention is to skip all of the other nutrients your body needs to recover after a workout? That doesn't seem wise. I guess it's your body though.
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by Sileni 8y ago
A real meal has everything your body needs to recover. Shooting back some sort of energy drink is a stop-gap, at best, and prevents you from noticing your body's needs, at worst. Hence ending with "Go find some protein". If y
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by Sileni 8y ago
No. That's just more software engineer hand waving to avoid taking responsibility for the way their products have changed the emotional landscape for real people in the last couple of decades. It's like saying the CIA wasn't
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by Sileni 8y ago
Per volume? Not quite, but not really measurably different. The CO2 dissolved in the solution has to take up some small amount of space. Otherwise it's basically identical; our bodies interact with enough CO2 in a day that you simply a
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by Sileni 8y ago
I think the comment you're replying to is trying to strengthen that ability. Now you don't have to convince some critical mass of your friends to switch over; you just switch over to the new platform, which everyone is connected t
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by Sileni 8y ago
Nah, just use a js file from a different "free template!" for every function on the page. Added benefit of stressing the templating engine depending on the back end.
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by Sileni 8y ago
Yeah, that was kind of the point. You have a car because the alternative is absurd rent or absurd travel times. You lost the tutoring money because that's how the world works. Income streams disappear, without a real reason. This is ho
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by Sileni 8y ago
The tree is too big to fail? That's it. I'm done with 2018.
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by Sileni 8y ago
Someone made a chemistry joke that went over your head. Dextrose is sugar. Common in corn syrup, to be exact.
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by Sileni 8y ago
It was also harder to hire outside of the US back then, so the latter may be more likely.
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by Sileni 8y ago
I like the tutorial, but I don't know why you would use PyQt these days. Tkinter is more permissive and has wrappers like appJar which make it disgustingly easy to put together a quick, ugly GUI. If you're building a desktop app t
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by Sileni 8y ago
I think that's what he was referring to by "bottom-up programming". Essentially, make your abstractions air-tight and grok-able and you never have to worry about what the abstraction contains again.
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by Sileni 8y ago
Just wanted to say, as someone who's been following this on the fringe for years, I really appreciate you using words that were easily searched. Really let me step through what you wrote effectively even though I didn't recognize
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by Sileni 8y ago
I'd be a bit worried that was like playing Russian Roulette. At some point, the companies have to actually correct right? I imagine the reason they were able to take the hit was the number of people waiting to buy low already. That num

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