barefootcoder

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by barefootcoder 1y ago
Be careful when playing the bird songs. A few days ago I clicked on the cardinal song that was in my identification list and the male cardinal nesting in my hedge went NUTS and I’ve not seen either of them since, and used to see them daily.
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by barefootcoder 3y ago
I'm in complete agreement with you. I use i3 (still using Xorg) and find the ability to have multiple desktops that I can move atomically between monitors to be far better than having to position windows individually. I put reference
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by barefootcoder 3y ago
Already been done, I was one of the recipients of the 1984 tomato seeds and we planted, grew, and ate them... https://parkseed.com/seeds-in-space/a/13/#:~:text=In%201984%... .
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by barefootcoder 3y ago
Funny, if not helpful, error message: pw = getpwuid(getuid()); if (!pw) usage("You don't exist. Go away!"); I find it interesting that originally each command was a separate executable.
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by barefootcoder 3y ago
Oops. Autocorrupt got me. Houseflies.
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by barefootcoder 3y ago
I think I had one lay eggs in my house. A few weeks ago, on a day when I hardly opened a door for more than a few seconds I suddenly found at least 100 horseflies in my house. I was sucking them up with a hand vac and releasing them outside
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by barefootcoder 3y ago
I think you've overlooked the realistic useful lifetime of the product, and how long the novelty factor would last -- if you price it according to that duration I think that you'd find the hourly rate to be far higher.
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by barefootcoder 3y ago
Because the query is an interruption. Frustratingly, about 30% of the time (or more!) the person who sent me the hi doesn’t send their actual question even if I respond almost instantly after it’s sent, so I’ve stopped responding to a bare
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by barefootcoder 3y ago
I'm not the one that you responded to, but I had no idea that HN had rate-limiting -- shows how little I comment or post!
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by barefootcoder 3y ago
That doesn’t bother me quite as much as when partial results are displayed and then change a few ms before you can tap the one you want such that you touch the wrong one.
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Ask HN: What UI/UX trends do you find most baffling and annoying?
3 points by barefootcoder 3y ago|6 comments
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by barefootcoder 4y ago
Ugh, the resistance to such a simple and useful thing drives me nuts. I’ve also used the soap dispenser as an indicator, but I can’t get my wife to do the same or pay attention to the signal when it’s set. Moreover, she half pre-washes ev
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by barefootcoder 5y ago
About 4 or 5 years ago I was working at one place as a consultant where I’d previously been an employee. Being a consultant I provided my own hardware. I needed really beefy hardware for the project, so I bought a brand new Thinkpad P50, c
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by barefootcoder 5y ago
So “we had to call an ambulance because the car was installing updates” is a real potential scenario?
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by barefootcoder 5y ago
More than just speed sensitive volume now. Replacing the stereo in my van requires a conversion box (Maestro) that deals with the various car settings that are done through the stereo, such as dome lights out duration, dash clock setting, a
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by barefootcoder 5y ago
Put it on your own terms. Every time I've purchased a car for the last 15ish years, I decided on the model, specs, and price I want to pay. I then searched inventory at every dealer within 2 hours of driving and emailed their interne
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by barefootcoder 6y ago
I get a bit frustrated whenever a Google search for some how-to item leads to a YouTube video leaving me thinking "this should have just been text with some pictures", but I've come to the conclusion that it's all about
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by barefootcoder 6y ago
Diversity brings value by bringing different perspectives to the problems we solve and the solutions we seek. We all have blind spots, and having a broader perspective can help us see more than we would otherwise, even where we’re unaware t
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by barefootcoder 6y ago
I have an honest question for you and others who are directly impacted by this, and would love to hear your perspective. I work on a software team that has the usual level of diversity, an almost equal mix of East Asian, Indian, Middle-East
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by barefootcoder 6y ago
Being from that part of CA, we had classes and field trips about Ishi almost every year through primary school. Such a sad story.
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by barefootcoder 7y ago
The word netiquette was used a lot in the very early 90s. I suspect few of today’s users have even heard the word. It’s an unfortunate digression.
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by barefootcoder 7y ago
No video, making me even more suspicious of the claim.
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by barefootcoder 7y ago
Why do you say that it's good vs email? In my mind they're for different purposes. Slack for urgent matters, email for asynchronous communication that isn't quite as urgent. Email is also better for things that the recipient
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by barefootcoder 7y ago
I love the keepass ecosystem, but would never recommend it to family who isn't very computer literate, and the iOS offerings are poor, with kypass being the only full functioning one, and it's closed source and a little buggy. I w
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by barefootcoder 7y ago
The problem is that they don't even give you the option to add the names yourself. You can use it, very crippled, without giving them your entire contact list, but it's almost unusable.
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by barefootcoder 7y ago
Thanks for that. It's a great idea to let people try the feature out.
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Ask HN: SW Consultants/Contractors, how do you isolate client data?
2 points by barefootcoder 10y ago|0 comments
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by barefootcoder 10y ago
Good old archie... http://archie.icm.edu.pl/archie-adv_eng.html
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by barefootcoder 10y ago
I shared mod privileges with somebody on reddit and my subreddit was closed for excessive spam within days -- I learned my lesson!
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by barefootcoder 10y ago
No. I have no control over the software stack for this project, so for now I'm focusing on what they use first.

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