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by auvrw 13y ago
although the two aren't mutually exclusive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorator_pattern
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by auvrw 13y ago
> whereas you can implement multiple interfaces? right, duh/derp.
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by auvrw 13y ago
so the (only?) difference between an interface and an abstract class in java8 is that interfaces can't have data members.
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by auvrw 13y ago
http://conkeror.org/
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by auvrw 13y ago
so just to double-check: no chance of this making it into iceweasel, right?
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by auvrw 13y ago
> But the endless march of APIs is pretty tiring to me i hear you on that one > and I do everything I can to isolate myself from that. but still, you can't stop thinking about design entirely. when a new ideally-pure-C-but-C++-i
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by auvrw 13y ago
> before clicking on a link, you'll hover over it. unless you use vimperator or similar. the demo handles this though, giving a hover time of infinity.
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by auvrw 13y ago
ran across this link, which might be helpful for people familiar sysvinit but not systemd http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-3.html tl;dc: systemd replaces the bash scripts you're used to gr
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by auvrw 13y ago
heh, i wouldn't know anything about ruby. that was flask, of course. the promise of clojure to me (aside from liking lisp) is similar to that of node: only having to maintain one codebase for both client and server sides. also, reall
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by auvrw 13y ago
as someone who knows next to nothing about cpu architecture but has watched most of the videos, it seems as though all the concepts are broadly familiar ones to experienced architecture people, but the details of every corner are slightly r
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by auvrw 13y ago
> In most real situations writing the code is the easy part, figuring out what it should actually do is the hard part. true that. i said more or less the same thing myself shortly after starting work at a big company. just replace &quo
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by auvrw 13y ago
ah, i dunno, compare (defroutes app (GET "/" [] "<h1>Hello World</h1>")) and @app.route('/hello') def hello(): return "hey" seems about equivalent.
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by auvrw 13y ago
in the absence of a relevant plug for a library that i've written ( shame ), here's one for a library that someone else wrote http://www.infoq.com/presentations/private-backend tl;dw: next time you build a w
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by auvrw 13y ago
> So, in urban areas of the US at least, it really is just a matter of software. and, if you're really zealous about it, the firmware. there was a high-priority FSF project a while back for free wireless router firmware. that list
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by auvrw 13y ago
sounds like a plan, although for anything that's fundamentally about incremental saves (like git), you're going to be competing with tarsnap. i still don't have a dropbox account. i use rsync for the compression if there&#x2
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by auvrw 13y ago
awesome! i still prefer fuse-ing my local file system to server over ssh rather than over google drive or dropbox's protocols (dunno if the latter is even possible), but the so-called "webscale," bomb-proof redundancy is lac
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by auvrw 13y ago
upvote, because this is the correct answer to the question "how does this work differently from d3," as opposed to the question, "what are the advantages/disadvantages of using this over d3." a quick f12-for-firebug
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by auvrw 13y ago
so i really just want to say something like, "yeah, but Parsec is still awesome," but then i saw someone got downvoted for a similar comment with Rob Pike in place of Parsec, so what can i add to the discussion? perhaps just that
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by auvrw 13y ago
> my own experience with people who are like this have you met many of them? i mean, perhaps some people oversell themselves, some might even tell outright lies -- but this guy fabricated entire identities. i'd like to think that th
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by auvrw 13y ago
i used to want an olivetti typewriter... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Olivetti-Valentine.jpg ... didn't know they made computers.
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by auvrw 13y ago
> Always talk to an actual lawyer if you have serious concerns about this stuff. :-) yeah, but lawyering-up isn't cheap either, so perhaps i can glean some general insight from hn :) :/ ? but let's say you're working
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by auvrw 13y ago
> Now, there are a couple of nuances to this new policy: > 1. Rackers are encouraged to contribute on their own time, and if they wish to contribute during work hours they must obtain approval from their manager. > 2. If a Ra
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by auvrw 13y ago
> months that's a drastic overestimate. at some point, procedural languages really are all more or less the same. sure, there are different notions of types, variable scope, modularity/oo-ness, etc., but someone who knows a b
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by auvrw 13y ago
"stay out of malibu, lebowski!"
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by auvrw 13y ago
i have a dumbphone (motorola razr) that i use when i go out. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/01/14/In-Line i don't feel this way at all. i probably spent about 1/4 of la
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by auvrw 13y ago
> I think you mean that classes are first order, but I don't want to put words in your mouth please do. i'm a language user, not a designer. > what features make javascript or Python a good reason to switch? or, for a mostl
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by auvrw 13y ago
actually, i feel like a taking a little time to read non-technical stuff (like fiction or history) and exercise makes the time i spend coding more productive. of course, it's possible to overdo it and go on a reading jag that eats up
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by auvrw 13y ago
yeah, go is fun. i'm always surprised to find out who's good at go. i've known some video game developers to be better than some grad students. so to return to the article, being good at these games, like any other skill, is
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by auvrw 13y ago
did some searching... turns out you can get medium content as rss feeds as well.
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by auvrw 13y ago
this, but without the contentious overtones. wait, let me back up for a moment wrt the original article. that screenshot in the article is not emacs. i can't give you a screenshot of emacs, because emacs doesn't even depend on

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