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> So if your code is literally the same, there's no reason not to extract it into a function. Isn't that how we ended up with left-pad.js?
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by amorphid 9y ago
Pretty much! I haven't played with that feature myself, but Erlang's telecom origins help explain this feature. If you're upgrading a telephone switch with N live calls, it'd be optimal to not have to kill those calls
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by amorphid 9y ago
I was in a 22' Excelsior near a gray whale when it decided to breech. Big whale + little boat == feeling of awe + healthy sense of how big the boat is not.
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by amorphid 9y ago
Did you ever look into whether the orcas' behavior might have been an attempt to knock you off the boat? Your story reminds me of this video of seal-hunting orcas making waves to knock seals into the ice. [1] I assume you weren'
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by amorphid 9y ago
We use ZFS at work. ZFS wants enough memory to be happy. One learns usually learns how much memory is too little by not giving it enough memory. Basically ZFS is great if you want the benefits of ZFS, and are willing to deal with the tra
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> The information is available via their site, but that does not make it public. Could one offer fair information if there's no reference to Southwest? Is having a website full of listings like "flightno: 123, flight_datetime:
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by amorphid 9y ago
It's pretty hard to make a case for transitioning from something that works pretty well to a new thing in general. The nicer the old thing is, and the wider it's been adopted, the harder the sell. That's just the way it is.
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by amorphid 9y ago
I can see the appeal of doing because it's cool. That's the primary reason I'd consider going into space. I'm not sure roughing it in a balloon would be the my idea of a good time once the novelty wore off. I wonder i
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I reckon we'll master terraforming worlds here in our solar system by the time practical (or impractical) interstellar travel becomes a thing. We can get to Mars, Venus, Titan, etc. Will it ever be possible to get to another star sys
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by amorphid 9y ago
Imagine a person who is the paragon on personal finance, wise & disciplined in all aspects of borrowing & spending; I was the opposite in my college days & grad school days :) It's better now. Yay!
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by amorphid 9y ago
> You'd be 29 by the time the bankruptcy fell off your credit report 7 years for chapter 13, 10 years for chapter 7
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by amorphid 9y ago
As someone who exited a chapter 7 bankruptcy (all dischargeable debts wiped out) in 2010 with $140K USD in student loans, I can say with certainty that student loan debt sucks.
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Indentured servitude is also illegal.
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> Most days it's just stress and I'm not happy. As a formerly stressed & miserable former business owner who bootstrapped the entire operation in the beginning, I can tell you that to my stressed out past self everything I
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by amorphid 9y ago
If don't mind answering, I'd love it if you could provide an example or two of features that are implementable enough with support libraries, but would be a pain to build without them.
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by amorphid 9y ago
Could such advances have been possible if fueled by an extremely wealthy family? It only takes one person w/ resources & ambition to say "I want <something>" to kickstart a movement. Say Marcus Licinius Crassus [1]
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by amorphid 9y ago
My username => amorphid I want 'amorphid', not 'amorphis'.
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For me personally, working in an open office is increasingly a non-issue, even with the ol' ADHD. I spend so much time in an office working with people who are remote, ~80% of my distractions come from my computer, not the physical sp
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by amorphid 9y ago
There's no protection from being a moron. Is drinking a glass of wine a day moronic? Maybe. Is drinking wine like it was water moronic. Yup.
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It's pretty normal to memorize your 9 digit social security number, in the same way you know your phone number. Because the SSN card is a fundamental piece of identity theft, it's common practice to NOT carry the number in your w
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by amorphid 9y ago
One basic reason is that immigrants often find it easier to open a business than interview for jobs. It's hard to answer the question "tell me about yourself" in a culturally relevant way when you are still learning the basi
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Just don't make me memorize a 4096 bit key :)
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For any given problem, I usually describe <my current favorite language> as being less crappy than every thing else that I've tried. Every language has disappointed me when I try to do thing those languages were never designed t
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by amorphid 9y ago
Mildly off topic... For Chromecast users, I discovered that there's a wired Ethernet dongle you can use to eliminate the need for wifi... https://store.google.com/us/product/ethernet_adapter_for_chr... This p
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by amorphid 9y ago
Suggestions for YouTube I've seen here and elsewhere I like: - flagging a video suspends a video, not the channel - flagging a video hides the video (or channel) from the user who flags (this is one of my favorite features on Reddit, a
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That has been my experience as well.
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One thing we, or at least I, haven't seen is the remote equivalent of a whiteboard. Or pen & paper.
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by amorphid 9y ago
I never got into the pre-web stuff, so I don't know exactly what the differences are. Don't those things still exist? Isn't the comment section of this HN post a form of async, text-only communication?
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by amorphid 9y ago
For the occasional quick & dirty search, Google images could work. You can filter for usage rights. Example screenshot... https://imgur.com/a/dZ3VH I didn't see the usage rights filter on the mobile site, but
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by amorphid 9y ago
It isn't easy. Welcome to the grind! Figure out how to market without spending money. SEO, a few emails, word of mouth, social media sharing, etc. If you're product can't grow this way to the customers you serve, maybe fi

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