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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> Imgur is a joke and became what it was literally founded to avoid It literally fails utterly at the singular thing it is supposed to do. Makes me feel less bad about my own managerial driven development.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
You're pretty fast.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Electricity == low carbon Not a good starting point for a discussion.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Do you use it in open source projects of commercial applications? If the former, I'd be interested in looking at it. I think xplorer² is written using WTL.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
How does it kill compression?
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
My favorite of these kind of stories is https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii... They introduced a special mode for the memory (de)allocator that allowed a (disallowed) pattern that Si
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> Lotta people will say "if you don't like it, quit" but I've never understood this I'll explain it to you: it's the only thing that works and the only thing that does not make you look like a big hypocrite.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> Any kind of injection of dependencies should be done via an explicit method/constructor parameter. These kinds of statement make me question whether you have ever worked with any framework that is not under your control.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Construct 3 is pretty good, but it's just not as easy to deploy self contained applications, and browser variations are an issue.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Alternative title: how to ruin free tiers for everyone
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
If making Bazel work on Windows is a side effect of Firefox using it, what's not to like about it.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
I've heard "Brotzeit" only in Bavaria or relating to a Bavarian style meal.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Still safer than using an off-brand or Smasung fingerprint sensor.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> Apple's 30% cut is completely orthogonal to their human review. Several billion in income allows them to hire more staff. It's up to them to view this as orthogonal.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Interesting: as soon as you look into real SW instead of academic examples, Haskell is just as messy as any other language.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Much of this is not due to goodwill of owners, but unions.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
I'm just told to not write so much bullshit.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Pulling GitLab into the "ICE is literally Hitler" smear campaign; nice smear campaign.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Adamatzky is someone to follow for these things: https://twitter.com/andy_adamatzky
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> They are not a political movement, they're a death cult. Making a video of a dog doing a Hitler salute is not the downfall of civilization.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Businesses optimize for low middle management quality (being able to keep track of attendance == good enough), not for good grunt quality.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> The typical Norwegian workday lunch break is only about 30 minutes. That's also pretty much the way it is in Germany.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
And Microsoft invented AJAX and the dynamic web.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
SAP sucks companies dry.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
The mindset of people expecting Apple to do certain symbolic acts, but finding it perfectly fine to continue pushing billions into China is somewhat baffling.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> Should you now remove Safari because it allows you to access data that would potentially help with criminal intent? Worked for gab.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
No, just using plain QML. Basically, it's a C++ application with application logic written in JS (using a rather bad JIT), and where we went wrong was writing a lot of application logic in JS rather than just writing the UI specific ap
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Very underrated pioneer in a lot of areas.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
I see the moderators as (major) part of the problem. > There was a time when the most valuable asset of the Stack Exchange network was the people who freely contributed their time and energy to build communities in support of its mission
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> JavaScript isn't really that big of a problem or a performance killer. The DOM is. I'm using QML, which is JS without DOM. JS is absolutely a performance killer. Migrating stuff from JS to C++ in a dumb way (no architectural

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