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by amorphid 10y ago
I actually started tackling this myself a few days ago. For a while, my off hours coding was an attempt to learn things I needed to know at work. But that got pretty old. For the last few days, I've been coding things that are inter
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by amorphid 10y ago
It'll be interesting to see if/when a non-antibiotic solution to killing bacteria comes along. I read about an approach a novel approach a couple months ago that uses a polymer to destroy bacteria.[1] I'm not qualified to c
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by amorphid 10y ago
Elixir does have a Windows installer. And yes, I was testing out the WSL.
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by amorphid 10y ago
I was playing around with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) a couple weeks ago. I tried & failed to install two programs on WSL, Elixir & Debootstrap. It's worth mentioning that WSL isn't intended to be 100% Linux co
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by amorphid 10y ago
I've been writing Elixir for almost a year, and have yet to build a Phoenix app. I did write a Plug hello world app once, just to see if my container was wired up correctly.
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by amorphid 10y ago
It just took me 8 clicks and a couple swipes to disable JS in my mobile browser, Chrome on Android. Another 8 clicks and couple swipes to enable JS. Is there a faster way to do that?
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by amorphid 10y ago
Thanks for clarifying.
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by amorphid 10y ago
I don't want a tainted blood transfusion, so it does affect me.
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by amorphid 10y ago
I'm find it less of a value, too. I increasingly find better prices elsewhere, partially because I really don't want to join Prime. After browsing Amazon first, I bought a postal scale on eBay, and a refurbished laptop on Neweg
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by amorphid 10y ago
I don't hate JS, but I do find it a bit taxing to write JavaScript that might have bugs due to unexpected behavior in the language. I'm in the process of rounding out my self-taught programming mojo with some intro to CS courses,
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by amorphid 10y ago
Not an expert on the subject, but I recall hearing somewhere that selling blood gives people an incentive to lie about their health history. "Do you shoot up illicit drugs with shared needles?" "Um... No. No I do not."
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by amorphid 10y ago
There's nothing that prevents that. However, Ruby is traditionally thought of as a language written in C, and the gold standard for a Ruby interpreter to be 100% compatible with anything that runs on MRI. So writing JVM specific exte
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by amorphid 10y ago
A lot of it might just be timing. Dev Bootcamp (the original bootcamp?) started up when Rails was the cool kid on the block, and it was a break out success. They proved there was a market, and the busy model was easy to clone. A bunch of
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by amorphid 10y ago
Is there a happy compromise that is good for both a company and its employees? One thought that comes to mind is hazard pay in the military. A and B are in same role and share the same base pay. But A works at a desk, and gets no hazard p
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by amorphid 10y ago
I mostly enjoy streaming music, as I find it a hassle to manage a music library. For about 3 years, I was a paying Pandora member, and mostly happy with it. I had created one super station with 250-ish artists. One day, I decided to crea
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by amorphid 10y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look.
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Ask HN: What online CS degrees would you recommend?
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by amorphid 10y ago
> At this rate people will soon use "alphabet" as a verb the same way they made "google" into a verb: New headline => Alphabet alphabetizes Titan Drone Internet Project
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by amorphid 10y ago
My U.S. History teacher grilled us every week on knowing US states & their capitols. You have to show weekly improvement, and finish the term w/ 100%. Regarding spelling, I plead not guilty by reason of autocorrect+gorilla-fingers
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by amorphid 10y ago
Thanks! That bit about McMurdo is interesting. I doesn't surprise me, but I didn't know, that they send and receive thinhs via ships. I always hear about McMurdo as being inaccessible by plane during some chunk of time during th
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by amorphid 10y ago
My bad :). My head said Dover, and my hands wrote biggest city I could remember. Don't tell my 8th grade U.S. History teacher. He'd have an anuerism.
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by amorphid 10y ago
A few questions: * How long will it take for "Deleware" to melt? * Is ocean ice this large called an iceberg? * Does is get an official name, like IIS Wilmington (international ice station, capital of Deleware)? * Have large ice s
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by amorphid 10y ago
Reminds of a scene in JAG where the main characters, 2 US military officers, steal a Russian jet. The Russians wonder why they stole the plane, as they could have just bought it. [1] I miss that show. [1] https://youtu.be/
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by amorphid 10y ago
That's kind of like asking which employees at a bank are responsible for keeping cash in the vault. Hopefully it’s a group effort.
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by amorphid 10y ago
A version of that idea was the winning project from the Reboot Democracy hackathon last month in San Francisco. They called it AdStrike. https://twitter.com/rebootdem/status/808456933795475456 http://a
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by amorphid 10y ago
The tax man can verify that bought coins were bought and sold, but not who initiated the transaction. I can buy 5K worth of bitcoins, print them out on a sheet of paper, sell you the paper for 5K. When the bitcoins hit 100K, you sell the
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by amorphid 10y ago
>> he only draw back is I'm now in a position where I feel like i want to go back to school to bone up on Computer Science basics.. Man, I totally know what you mean. I had done primarily Ruby & web stuff one tends to use wi
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by amorphid 10y ago
I did an online boot camp about 3 years ago. It was a good deal, because the price was right and I viewed it at structure for my self learning. That program no longer exists, but the have something called LaunchSchool now. Something like
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by amorphid 10y ago
Development is my dream job. The day to day is completely different than I imagined, but a good fit for me overall. Learning how to be content in spite of all the blockers to "just coding" had not been trivial, but doing anythin
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by amorphid 10y ago
Have decent traffic, and they'll probably find you.

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