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by azangru 4y ago
Could you point out specific parts of python that are easier for someone with C/C++ background as opposed to Ruby? I remember starting with Ruby (after rudimentary CS50-level C), and finding it quite reasonable and logical, and nicer t
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Here are my specific annoyances: > Command+tab: switch between apps Problem scenario: Open two windows of a single app and place them on two different screens. Now open another app and focus on it. You want to jump between this second ap
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> I thought the same until I saw my boss with a basic MacBook setup move around his OS, programs, and IDE faster than me. Could you tell us how he does it? Every time I have several windows of the same app between two displays, or one wi
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Wasn't this a typical reaction of traditionally educated readership to the Modernist literature? Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's La Recherche had a similar reception at first, didn't they? How did the public acquire a taste
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> The narrative that frameworks = bad and vanilla js = good falls apart quickly IMHO in medium to large sized projects since the complexity has to be abstracted in some way in order to reach a realistic timeframe for completion. Consider
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> This is absurd. I fail to comprehend why you would say so. The parent's (D_Alex's) thesis, if I may presume so much as to formulate it, is that (1) NATO is a threat because it is "expanding eastward", i.e. admitting
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> Wait, "it takes two" implies some consent of both parties. Yes. In this case, both parties consent to threatening each other with their nuclear arsenals. They consent to gradually raising the stakes in this poker game, and ev
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What makes you think that Kadyrov is Putin's likely successor? Anything could happen, of course; but as a Chechen and a demonstratively, fervently devout Muslim, Kadyrov would be an even scarier figure for the outwardly Orthodox Russia
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> I mean, no predictive power, so why not throw out all the lessons about Nazi Germany and all that? Why waste time? I've been wondering the same. History at school is very rarely taught as a serious academic discipline — rather, it
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I checked out the link. Didn't the parent comment say that it was Putin — italicized — who threatened to nuke Ukraine? Wouldn't the evidence for that need to point at specific Putin's words to that effect?
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Concern. And an effort to prevenr a war.
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> If, merely hypothetically speaking, of course, the wanted to establish an empire under their rule, without regard for what others within that future empire want, what makes you think, that it will stop with that one country the aggress
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When Putin announced that he was putting his nuclear forces on high alert back in February or March, it was not to threaten Ukraine, but to threaten NATO countries who might come to its assistance. I have not since then heard him threaten U
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> led by an obvious despot that rigs elections and murders high profile citizens outspoken against them ... as part of an ongoing revanchist campaign ... Sorry for asking, but how is this part relevant to the question? If the invading co
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by azangru 4y ago
I think what the parent is suggesting is that NATO's tango with Russia (it always takes two, remember?) puts the world closer to the brink of annihilation. In a context when, as the title article suggests, 70% of the world population (
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by azangru 4y ago
I don't know what value that would add to the conversation — surely you don't expect a random guy on a forum to propose a comprehensive military strategy? I can only share my personal preferences. If the choice is between living a
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I am not sure this question describes the situation accurately, considering that the invaded country doesn't have nuclear weapons, and the invader wasn't threatening a nuclear attack against the invaded country. Your question migh
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There were nuclear bombs in the 30s?
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> If vile, selfish, psychopathic maniacs make the decision to end the world then so be it. I am afraid it's not just the vile selfish psychopathic maniacs, but also the general population, incensed by the media. For example, one mig
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> Do you not think that there's a case to be made that white supremacy has found a voice in certain parts of the internet? > If you do agree, how would someone go about discussing how to tackle it without being dismissed as woke?
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> What's woke about any of the points in the article? Assuming this is a sincere question - take the sentence "the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any on
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> By using Rust for both our frontend and backend, we have a unified stack of Rust everywhere, simplifying our hiring. > I can write web apps in another language than JavaScript > I can write web apps that are fast Yeah, this is wh
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by azangru 4y ago
The blog post is littered with React code (plus Apollo). Which part of the problem was specific to the workers - and how can this lesson be generalized to any FE framework, or no framework at all?
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> Most developers have a lot of features to add and bugs to write, time spent reviewing other people’s work does not add a lot to your bottom line. Does not add a lot to your bottom line? This is the mindset of isolated individual contri
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A handbook? Isn't it more like a hand article? The pdf from 2018 is 6 pages long.
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I do not think I have ever received a useless pedantic criticism instead of an answer on StackOverflow. Not that I've asked that many questions — only about a hundred — but I haven't encountered the useless criticism you are talki
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I'm trying to remember someone's words that if <politician(s)> were a woman, there wouldn't have been <bad things>. As if... Google has so far suggested to me Boris Johnson's "if Putin were a woman...&qu
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It featured in various frontend podcasts and online meetups. I'd say, web developers who are keeping up-to-date, know.
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> Nokia's Maemo (now Leste). I thought the successor to Maemo was Sailfish...
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Reading through the docs. It's amusing and a bit disorienting to see a combination of React syntactic idioms (JSX, things starting with "use") and RxJS idioms (the Finnish notation, in which reactive things end in a dollar si

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