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by beefsack 9y ago
Easily missed, but at the bottom of the page they're selling a SkiFree shirt[1]. I got one for my birthday a couple of years ago and it's my unashamed favourite geeky shirt I own, even though it looks a bit silly and isn't a
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by beefsack 9y ago
Aren't the FreeType patches less relevant now since the new v40 interpreter[1] was released? [1]: https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.htm...
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by beefsack 9y ago
There's some cool things to note about Xi which make me more excited about it: * It's being written by Raph Levien, known for his work on Inconsolata, Ghostscript, and font-rs[1] among other things. * The design goals includ
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by beefsack 9y ago
I feel React.createElement is so unergonomic it's not really an option to use directly. A lot of React supporters mention it when people criticise JSX, but I don't think it's a pragmatic alternative.
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by beefsack 9y ago
I think a lot of people here would be in the same boat with Slashdot. For me: - Slashdot - Facebook - AltaVista - Google Reader - BeyondUnreal
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by beefsack 9y ago
> I know this makes me sound old, but I really wish popular open source projects would just stick to IRC as it just works and doesn't require any proprietary client (and isn't trying to turn into video chat, screen sharing, etc
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by beefsack 9y ago
The funny thing about your statement (which I generally agree with) is that it applies in Microsoft's favour on the desktop.
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by beefsack 9y ago
I can completely see myself using this on my Postgres projects, but something like this would be most useful for me at work. How feasible would it be to port this over to MySQL / MariaDB? I know EXPLAIN output on MySQL is much simpler
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by beefsack 9y ago
Along the lines of your analogy, I wouldn't have papers strewn all over the desk, I'd have them in a pile or in a folder. Reversing the analogy I feel this is similar to using bookmarks or saving a list of links.
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by beefsack 9y ago
I've been interested to try programming using proportional fonts for a while, but really like ligatures and don't want to do away with them (I'm using Hasklig at the moment.) Does anyone have a recommendation? I'm having
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by beefsack 9y ago
Culture is one of the vitally important things which make us unique as humans. Both as an Australian and as a linguist it's painful to understand how quickly indigenous culture here is being lost; my narrow and focused view is on langu
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by beefsack 9y ago
All of my other code workflow (terminal and editor) is in a dark theme, having to switch to GitLab to review an MR can actually be quite uncomfortable to do because there's such a leap in contrast. The dark theme I use is Dracula[1], i
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by beefsack 9y ago
Is this relevant to the linked article and general topic?
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by beefsack 9y ago
It's quite frustrating seeing people complain about Git usability like it's some broadly accepted and objectively bad thing. As frivolous as anecdotes are, I took to Git very smoothly and I found it to operate in a very obvious an
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by beefsack 9y ago
In my experience, Redux seems to fit better with those coming from a FP background, and MobX seems to sit well with those with OOP backgrounds.
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by beefsack 9y ago
The problem is that it appears most people actually want noise, and it's becoming especially apparent as a lot of these content channels become more mainstream. Anyone who's been on Reddit for the majority of the site's exist
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by beefsack 9y ago
Very impressive, and as a developer who prefers using languages with strong type systems, I'm particularly intrigued by efforts like this. Most of the examples seem to contain 1.5MB of JS. My gut feel is that it isn't terribly low
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by beefsack 9y ago
ripgrep[1] is functionally incredibly similar to grep and ag, but is significantly faster[2] and supports a wider range of character encodings. In its short lifetime it has already become the default search tool for VSCode. I've switch
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by beefsack 9y ago
I've read the first few pages, and am really appreciating the level of detail this goes into. Fantastic work and a great resource for people wanting to dive into React's internals.
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by beefsack 9y ago
You're right, there are some incredibly niche channels around. I collect poker chips and there's even a channel for that: Jon Hobby's Great Poker Chip Adventure[1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/Hobby
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by beefsack 9y ago
As a counter-anecdote, frivolous as it is, most of my mates and I are early-30s tech people and most of us sub to channels and actively go to YouTube to watch them. I'd say quite a number of people here would really enjoy Numberphile[1
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by beefsack 9y ago
"Should have bought" is nowhere near as painful as "had but didn't see the point and lost the wallet." We were one of the relatively early businesses to accept BTC as a payment option, and even though we only took a
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by beefsack 9y ago
Audacious[1] set to the classic skin has been my media player of choice for a number of years now since Winamp went crap and I moved away from Windows. It's basically the same as the old Winamp[2], including shortcut keys. It's s
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by beefsack 9y ago
I'm starting to get to the point where I wish people weren't allowed to call advertising supported products "free." I don't know what other term would be better, but I feel like users are paying some non-monetary co
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by beefsack 9y ago
Will check that out, cheers!
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by beefsack 9y ago
I'm running Rust on Lambda at the moment for a PBE board gaming service I run. I can't say it runs at huge scale though, but using Lambda has provided me with some really good architectural benefits: * Games are developed as comma
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by beefsack 9y ago
Geal is very helpful too, he pops up around the place in the Rust community and is responsive on the nom Gitter channel.
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by beefsack 9y ago
People are talking about Mobike being innovators, and their business sounds like it's doing really well, but bike sharing is a concept that's been around for a while. Melbourne Bike Share[1] was founded in 2010, though apparently
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by beefsack 9y ago
> I wound up with hard to remember email logins You could easily argue this is a symptom of a different problem.
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by beefsack 9y ago
I use Webpack in a couple of projects, but it only seems to fit well for single page applications that fit their near-standard configurations. We tried to replace Gulp with it at work for some relatively complex software but it was an absol

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