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by amyjess 8y ago
Stuff like this is why I've gone from being horrified by Brexit to hoping for a hard Brexit. The UK can do better than being stuck with Article 13.
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by amyjess 8y ago
I find it always decreases readability. I literally cannot read C code that does this, now I'm going to have to worry about encountering unreadable Python code. Edit: Also, it violates both "explicit is better than implicit"
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by amyjess 8y ago
Yeah, for all she knows, he may very well have been a spy for the Kim regime, or there might be a hidden microphone present or something, and she and her whole family could end up sent to gulags for answering him. I'm honestly struck b
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by amyjess 8y ago
Interestingly enough, Stan Lee always preferred the term "comicbook" on the grounds that writing it as one word made it more clear that it was its own thing and not just a book that's comedic. Another term I've seen band
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by amyjess 8y ago
You could also add Maison Ikkoku to the list; it was the definitive romantic comedy in Japan, and for a long time all new romantic comedies were compared to it, even with the dismissive "I liked this better when it was called Mais
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Then make a Page. I know a few people who maintain Pages specifically for this reason.
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This is an excellent article. The only thing I'd want to see added to it is a section on gradual typing, a la Perl 6.
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In which case, running youtube-dl when you discover something you want to keep around for good is going to be a better solution than Napster.
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by amyjess 8y ago
My townhouse complex switched from having us hand-sign paper leases to using DocuSign last year, and it's been wonderful. Being able to just click-sign through a lease that requires almost every other page to be signed is a godsend. My
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by amyjess 8y ago
Thank you!
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Hmm... the headline has me wondering what was the first time one YC startup bought another YC startup. Is this the first time? Or has it happened before?
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Interestingly enough, I first heard of Itch not because of the games they publish but because they've become quite popular in the transgender community as a platform for publishing light novels with transgender themes.
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> As an employee, I want to be free to negotiate my own wages based on my merit. Two things wrong with this. 1) Professional unions, such as Hollywood and sports unions, do not establish rigid payscales like non-professional unions. They
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> Um. Yes. Wait, there are people that use influxdb _without_ kapacitor alerting??? People who use InfluxDB for reporting, not for alarms. Our reporting team uses InfluxDB-sourced data to send customers reports on things such as bandwidt
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by amyjess 8y ago
Also 3) Joint productions like Lilyhammer where Netflix partnered with a foreign broadcaster to produce. So something like Lilyhammer that was a joint Netflix/NRK production means it's a Netflix Original in the US and aired on
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It started out as one, but it hasn't been run by GNU in years and years, probably well over a decade now. It's currently operated by the GNOME Foundation.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Yeah, when I was in college, I self-hosted a Serendipity blog (and a NewsPro/Coranto blog before that) for a while before moving to LJ, and I moved because of LJ's social aspects. Having that friends list was a huge benefit, as wa
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by amyjess 8y ago
BusyBox is not a GNU project. It's GPL, sure, but being released under the GPL doesn't make it GNU.
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The platform nowadays is heavily dependent on systemd and either GTK+ or Qt, none of which are GNU.
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Android doesn't feel like Linux because Android throws out everything Unix-y about it, not because it isn't GNU. The Nokia N900 wasn't a GNU system at all—the userland was a mix of a non-GNU libc and BusyBox—but it still felt
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by amyjess 8y ago
In my own case, I moved from LJ to Facebook not because of any change in LJ policies but because I found myself naturally gravitating to Facebook. More of my friends were on Facebook, the UI was better for social stuff, and I found that I w
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by amyjess 8y ago
Or for that matter, Greek. It absolutely drives me up the wall when I see uppercase lambdas used for A. For example, the car company Kia styles their name KIΛ, which makes me think "Kil". Or the monitor company AOC writing it ΛOC.
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by amyjess 8y ago
The rationale was that on Windows 3.1, the company would put all of their stuff, not just the program executable, in the Program Group. So not only would you have the program, but you'd also have the readme and the uninstaller and anyt
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by amyjess 8y ago
I've learned that the best way to make sure I don't forget to put my phone charger in my purse when I go to work in the morning is to point at the outlet and say "Charger, set!". I got the idea after the last time an art
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by amyjess 8y ago
> Putting your application inside your company name was (is?) part of the guidelines from Microsoft. That was part of the Windows 3.1 guidelines. On Windows 95, Microsoft's guidelines specified that your applications were to appear
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KDE already does this. Screenshot from my system: https://i.imgur.com/csWWl9Y.png And this is on Arch, which means that almost all software is unmodified from upstream.
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> Normal-sized widgets which left enough room for content vs. the huge widgets we use today for some reason (it's weird for me to say this, but Linux desktops are the worst offenders here) This is one reason why, on Linux, I prefer
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by amyjess 8y ago
Ultimately, there are two issues that come into play: 1) Our state government is often at odds with the cities on this. Case in point, the Lieutenant Governor and the state legislature nearly passing a bathroom bill in 2017. It was only sto
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It doesn't extend very far into the western suburbs, though. Example: https://goo.gl/maps/TZDgVrsLsbE2 At the same zoom level here are some exurbs of Dallas (Frisco and McKinney to be specific) which are pretty cl
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We have an interesting relationship with taxes. We have no state income tax, and our gas tax is low enough to force most new highways into being toll roads, but our property taxes are sky high. In fact, we have higher property taxes than Ca

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