adimitrov

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by adimitrov 7y ago
But it is an informed risk. I was hired to do work in 4 different languages, on the frontend and the backend, plus CSS and HTML. I get to weigh in on UX decisions, I get to design service infrastructure. Was I born this way? No. I need this
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by adimitrov 7y ago
> Part of me still thinks that he just wanted to learn/use the JNI and that project seemed like the perfect target. Lol. As a dev who sometimes goes off chasing wind mills, that's 99% of the reason why I do it. I find something
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by adimitrov 7y ago
I'd say my vision of an ideal technical career parallels an ideal academic career: the Juniors learn, grads do grunt work (but sometimes that's the most interesting stuff), post-docs do their own projects and lead small teams, and
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by adimitrov 7y ago
I developed RSI from typing up long equations and calculations in TeX on a German keyboard layout with Emacs. It was a nightmare. I switched to Vim, and a Dvorak layout. I really like the feel of Dvorak - every time I have to type Qwerty fo
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by adimitrov 7y ago
> For some reason It's not called Balkanisation for no reason. Sincerely, a person from the Balkan.
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by adimitrov 7y ago
You, and I, all of us, in fact, will have to change our lifestyles in order to preserve the habitability of our planet for us and our children. Our current culture is unsustainable. Pointing at coal in this context is whataboutism at its fi
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by adimitrov 7y ago
While nextcloud has a lot of features, a kanban board, caldav and all the bells and whistles, what it lacks is a usable file sync feature. The bugs have been open since way before the thing was called next cloud, but they have not been addr
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by adimitrov 7y ago
The way to reduce clutter in strongly, statically typed languages is to use strong, robust type inference. For example, Java is pretty terrible at type inference (still) and you have to annotate types almost everywhere (Java 8 had a very
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by adimitrov 8y ago
A few hundred? There's plenty of folks who already think animal testing is barbarism. Unfortunately, like the "doctors" of the bad old days, for medical purposes we don't really have a choice, do we? We do, however, have
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by adimitrov 8y ago
It's not an issue to know both keyboard layouts. I know 3.5 layouts (QWERTY, QWERTZ, Dvorak, Bulgarian BDS.) Colleagues have a switch. setxkbmap -option compose:ralt or whatever your DE wants you to use.
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by adimitrov 8y ago
As a Dvorak and Vim (Spacemacs, really) user, I don't get this argument. It's not about speed. Sure, some people say it's about speed, on either side of the debate, but I'm not a faster typist, nor a faster editor, nor w
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by adimitrov 8y ago
Firfeox Reader mode. It's basically a modern pure HTML browser. With images even. Well, sometimes. If the site's markup isn't garbage.
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by adimitrov 8y ago
I use der Log, as do most of my colleagues. I also say "der Blog." Duden seems to agree with you, but I'm still not convinced. It's probably a regional difference.
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by adimitrov 8y ago
It doesn't have to be recent English loan words for German dialects to make things weird. http://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/runde-5/f15a-f/ (fyi: Butter is a loanword from Greek. I've heard "das Bu
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by adimitrov 8y ago
> Somehow, they tend to all place the noun in the same gender. That's not generally true, especially for German. I've heard "der Blog, das Blog," "die, das Email" "die, der, das Factory" … etc. Loa
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by adimitrov 8y ago
If you're on Firefox, you can just open the reader view, anywhere.
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by adimitrov 8y ago
> Worst case, you have to wear a cast for a while, while still going to work and earning a salary. It took me a while to parse that… then it struck me: right, you don't naturally get paid leave of absence for illness or injury in t
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by adimitrov 8y ago
You do have a point that this kind of data is, in fact, collected by mass government surveillance. I don't think the reverse holds, though. Politicians will not end up understanding private people's concerns over surveillance, bec
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by adimitrov 8y ago
So far, it seems that the data dumped is purely "personal effects." E.g. pictures of children, phone numbers, private chats with family. Democracy and public policy do NOT benefit from this kind of "transparency." This
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by adimitrov 8y ago
Yes. Yes, actually, I have. It's neither slow, nor do I find its interface bad. Actually, I think it's way better than Chrome on Android, because I like the way the new tab functionality works (and I sometimes keep around 20-30 ta
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by adimitrov 8y ago
Firefox for mobile is an excellent browser, and the only one I use. It supports extensions, such as uBlock without rooting the phone. The user interface is good, the browser is responsive and reasonably fast. Honestly, I don't know why
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by adimitrov 8y ago
I like BrowserStack, and I use it a lot at work, but it's way too slow to be part of the core code, test, debug loop, simply because it's far from a native experience. As long as that's the case, support for Edge/IE is
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by adimitrov 8y ago
> In our society the people that fall into the conversion group are generally wealthy and the people who fall into the latter group may or not be. [citation needed]. Telemarketing used to target people who could only barely afford it, an
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by adimitrov 8y ago
Thanks for your pointers. I had actually read (parts of) Resnik's diss and further work, but apparently it had slipped my mind, or I just forgot about it. Your work sounds really interesting, too. I hadn't heard of Firth's mo
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by adimitrov 8y ago
It's good, though, that the European countries stood together and told Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook to get bent and go home! As an EU citizen, my response to "we're sorry not sorry but due to recent EU laws,
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by adimitrov 8y ago
They apply to communication . That's the fun thing. Ultimately, implicatures (a corollary of Grice's Maxims) are an information theoretic concept, though I haven't yet seen research that treats them as such. I would love to
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by adimitrov 8y ago
This common "criticism" of Grice's Maxims isn't one, but a misunderstanding of the Maxims themselves. In everyday conversation the Maxims do hold, that's the point. When they break down, you get "marked" e
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by adimitrov 8y ago
Serious answer: yes. It's terrible for you and contains palm oil. There are better alternatives.
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by adimitrov 8y ago
Perhaps there could be, but not with the ruthless efficiency and disregard to environmental damage that farming in export-based agrarian economies tends to happen. We mop it up, because we don't care, and the damage done is far, far aw
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by adimitrov 8y ago
No, at least not in Standard Polish. There are three voiced sibilant affricates in Polish: d͡z, (alveolar) d͡ʐ, (retroflex) and d͡ʑ (palatal.) The sound of rz and ż is indeed always a voiced (laminar) retroflex sibilant, but and here&#x

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