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by anyonecancode 6y ago
One of my kids was asking what the biggest building in the world was, which led to what I'm sure was, from his POV, an annoying discussion of what he meant by "biggest" and, eventually, my accidentally stumbling across this.
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Littlest Skyscraper(en.wikipedia.org)
10 points by anyonecancode 6y ago|2 comments
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by anyonecancode 6y ago
Picked up doom-emacs last month for org-mode, and am slowly getting into it. Then a couple of weeks ago started using beancount, with the emacs mode. So far I'm still far more comfortable in vim and the terminal -- even, for instance,
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by anyonecancode 6y ago
Not as remote, but on the same general topic of small, very low population islands: A Glance at Daily Life Among the Caretakers of Britain’s Small Islands [ https://nyti.ms/2IlfSgu ]
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by anyonecancode 6y ago
> Whereas it takes a shitload of money to obtain money transmitter licenses in the USA to operate in every state, it’s trivial to accept huge amounts of money across state and international borders once you create a cryptocurrency walle
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by anyonecancode 6y ago
First time I ever saw tidal flats like this was in Maine this past summer. We stayed at an RV campground in the mid coast, and the tide was out by several miles. Kids and I walked out a ways enjoying the little pools, but the tide did come
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by anyonecancode 7y ago
Another angle on this is the economic models. Physical social spaces are generally social as a side effect -- it's not how they make money. People go to a restaurant or a bar because they want to be around other people, but bars an res
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by anyonecancode 7y ago
I'm not sure -- in the physical space, a lot of the constraints are social, but they emerged in the context of physical constraints. You could, for example, walk into a restaurant and start haranguing the people there, but generally pe
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by anyonecancode 7y ago
Substitute any decently large physical collection of people for NYC. Same overall point I was trying to make applies.
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by anyonecancode 7y ago
"In my estimation, the larger and broader a group is, the more it'll approximate human culture and interaction as a whole. It shouldn't be a surprise when the negative parts of those things (e.g. war, strife, hatred) emerge,
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by anyonecancode 7y ago
And in a future where software-dependent devices have expiry dates, we can debate if worries about using them past their published expiration are warranted or are examples of social panic. I think a future where those debates happen, as opp
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by anyonecancode 7y ago
Maybe a better analogy isn't milk, but car seats? I was surprised to learn about car seat expiration when I became a parent, but it makes sense -- the materials themselves break down over time, and safety standards and research evolve.
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by anyonecancode 7y ago
I think that like any category of evaluation, it works best if it's specific, consistent, and planned. Eg "Part of our culture is that we are collaborative; when we discussed code reviews and the candidate said they think they are
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by anyonecancode 7y ago
Thx!
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by anyonecancode 7y ago
Some of our repos use one adapted from this: https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-con... I will note that a code of conduct, while possibly part of the solution, will not be the whole solu
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Ask HN: Drawing/Drafting learning resources for devs?
9 points by anyonecancode 7y ago|2 comments
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by anyonecancode 7y ago
I'm one of those that likes git, finds it decently easy to use, and is much more productive because of it. But I do think there's merit to complaints about git. There's a wide range of experience, skill sets, and programming
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by anyonecancode 8y ago
I actually have a concrete example that I've been working on this week. At work we have a java service that creates an Excel workbook with several tabs. When the original authors of the code wrote the service, the specific tabs it need
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by anyonecancode 8y ago
Seconding all the call outs about focusing on changing environment rather than relying on will power. In general, I think people have a tendency to expect to much on simply "willing" themselves into doing something, then feel guil
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by anyonecancode 8y ago
I second this. It wasn't until I adopted this practice that the staging area really made sense to me. I find it helpful not just for making atomic commits, but as a way of remembering what I was actually doing, so that I can write a go