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by bbotond 10y ago
The main reason I use bash instead of PowerShell on Windows is autocomplete for git [1]. [1]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/gi...
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by bbotond 10y ago
I think it is done with UV light here in Europe.
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by bbotond 10y ago
Nice list. Maybe it's just me getting older and grumpier but I see the word "awesome" being overused so much that it has completely lost its original meaning. If everything is awesome, nothing is.
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by bbotond 10y ago
Sometimes when I'm stuck with a hard problem, I find the simple and obvious solution in a dream. This happens most often when the problem is algorithmic. When I struggle with modeling problems, I often solve them in the trance-like sta
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by bbotond 10y ago
The third screenshot [here][1] is hilarious :) [1]: http://strlen.com/treesheets/docs/screenshots.html
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by bbotond 10y ago
+1
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by bbotond 10y ago
For example, a random number is passed as a parameter, so that the function can be kept pure.
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by bbotond 10y ago
Do you think it is possible to find accurate metrics for the performance of creative thought workers like software developers or programmers? I have a very strong feeling that there are important qualities that are required for both of thos
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Microsoft shows off Photoshop on a Windows 10 device with a Snapdragon 820(neowin.net)
3 points by bbotond 10y ago|0 comments
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by bbotond 10y ago
Best way to convince someone that they will never, ever have any chance of understanding functional programming and therefore should not even bother trying it.
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by bbotond 10y ago
My guess is the FP (especially Lisp) crowd.
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Computers for Cynics 2 – It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC(youtube.com)
2 points by bbotond 10y ago|0 comments
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by bbotond 10y ago
Agreed, it has been extremely useful to me too for translating various Hungarian technical terms into English. Naming classes and database tables is much easier this way because most often the right term cannot be found in even the most det
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by bbotond 10y ago
I disagree. A lot of "simple" ideas we take for granted today evolved over thousands of years. The wheel, for example, took a lot of time to appear, place value is a notion we take for granted today but it became widespread only a
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by bbotond 10y ago
> most early humans were aware of the possibility of farming Maybe, but for them to be aware of it, someone had to come up with the idea, right? Farming isn't an obvious idea at all if hunting and gathering is all you've done y
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by bbotond 10y ago
A very good one if you are interested in (mostly .NET-based) application architecture is Jimmy Bogard's blog on Los Techies: https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/ Some great posts: https://lostechies.com&
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by bbotond 10y ago
PDF is great if you want to print but nothing beats the simplicity of a PNG for displaying on a web page or inserting into a Word document.
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by bbotond 10y ago
I have been using yEd ( https://www.yworks.com/products/yed ) for many years on the desktop and I've been looking for a decent online alternative for almost as long. This looks very promising, the only thing I miss
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by bbotond 10y ago
The first comment, written by none other than Peter Norvig, is also worth reading. EDIT: link - http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2016/07/06/literate-programmin...
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by bbotond 10y ago
Thanks for the explanation. The book looks quite interesting. But that still doesn't explain why the armies of Western nations seemingly committed less and less serious atrocities. Or is that just an illusion because "history is w
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by bbotond 10y ago
Can someone knowledgeable about Japanese culture explain why those war crimes were so common?
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by bbotond 10y ago
Even if you picked a fake answer, that doesn't stop someone from brute-forcing it, which is made very easy by the limited range of possible options.
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by bbotond 10y ago
That's just appalling.
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by bbotond 10y ago
Man I hate those security questions with a passion. They are super weakly protected backdoors into your account. Here's how I deal with sites that require them: site: "What is your first teacher's name?" me: "'
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by bbotond 10y ago
Well, I was hoping for something at least a little bit more sophisticated.
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by bbotond 10y ago
Could you give an example of how it is possible to take over an email account just by having an e-mail conversation with the owner?
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360M reasons to destroy all passwords(medium.freecodecamp.com)
2 points by bbotond 10y ago|0 comments
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by bbotond 10y ago
Thank you for this. I've learnt to ignore "curated awesome list of X" pages because they tend to be dumping grounds for hundreds of links Google returns for a sloppy search about the topic. By contrast, the resources here are
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JavaScript “maze generator” in a tweet(twitter.com)
1 points by bbotond 11y ago|1 comments
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by bbotond 11y ago
The site seems to be down. Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Mf9074z...

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