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by belfalas 4y ago
I can't remember the source, but I remember learning that his specialty was 5-point perspective and he could keep most of the drawing visualized in his mind before he even started. But he also improvised a lot and made decisions on the
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by belfalas 4y ago
The length of the article is how you know it's the real Steve Yegge. :) Youngbloods: if you have not spent time with Steve Yegge's old writings, please go check them out. Much good received wisdom there.
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by belfalas 4y ago
It's after the year 2000 - definitely a joke on Bret's part. He is very big on keeping computer history alive and contextualizing things. You're meant to pretend Bret is giving the presentation in 1973; e.g. his comment about
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by belfalas 4y ago
There's not much new under the sun. Virtual machines were created in the 1960s, for example. The wisdom I was given by an old hand is that the computer industry goes through a cycle of focus: disk, network, CPU - at any given time the
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by belfalas 4y ago
100% bullshit and such a typically American way of looking at it (I am an American). Look how fast the world changed when Covid hit. Achieve a change in values and the whole world will turn on its axis.
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by belfalas 4y ago
Fascinating - Idris and Haskell are represented but no Clojure.
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Samplebrain – sampling software by Aphex Twin(bedroomproducersblog.com)
1 points by belfalas 4y ago|0 comments
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by belfalas 4y ago
The more, the merrier!
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by belfalas 4y ago
Mahabharata translation by William Buck is great for Westerners like myself with no prior introduction. I liked the Ramayana also in William Bucks translation.
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by belfalas 4y ago
This is the correct answer. For an additional perspective see this classic: https://dhemery.com/articles/resistance_as_a_resource/
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by belfalas 4y ago
Tried and true: every once in a while I look at Billboard Hot 100 and other ratings. The top pop artists are not necessarily awesome but often further down the list is good stuff not in high rotation on the ‘trending’ lists.
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by belfalas 4y ago
I used to think this was a compelling argument. Unfortunately, child labor is really good economics. So is slavery. An economics textbook I studied at university calculated the value of a slave in the US before the Civil War. Conclusion? “P
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by belfalas 4y ago
> If you’re making $25mil in revenue why is it out of the question to pay for licenses? Turn it around: the kind of company that makes $25mil in revenue does so in part by figuring out what expenses it can negate or avoid. If they don&
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by belfalas 4y ago
“You won’t forget your assignment if you tack it onto the fridge with a magnet.”
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by belfalas 4y ago
> Somewhat jokingly, I think it would be easier to switch the US over to the metric system. Sorry friend, that is not a joke - at least this was attempted once! :)
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by belfalas 4y ago
Trivia: there is a whole discipline of astrology people have used to play the stock market called horary astrology. Curious and entertaining to read about but I would not advise it as a strategy!
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by belfalas 4y ago
The title is a play on words referencing the name of the Swami. Alice 'took a journey' in Satchitananda (guided by the Swami) which helped her through the mourning process.
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by belfalas 4y ago
For the gentle people out there wondering what is Satchidananda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satcitananda
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by belfalas 4y ago
Simple: ACH is the 800-pound gorilla of banking in the United States and the established players basically have zero incentive to change. It is in fact only a losing proposition for them. The banks make great fee-based money from the ACH sy
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by belfalas 4y ago
> Your network team has a way into the network that your security team doesn't know about. This one is true, and even if you right now go and try to make it not true for your company...it will become true again later.
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by belfalas 4y ago
> And people wonder why I have a pathological disdain for marketing folks. For your Monday catharsis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0
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by belfalas 4y ago
Willie Brown, once the mayor of San Francisco, had this to say about e-mail: the 'e' is for "evidence."
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by belfalas 4y ago
I recommend everyone to read the SQLite documentation to see an example of excellence in technical writing. The other week a commenter here linked to this site as well: https://diataxis.fr/
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Ask HN: Digital Ocean having issues with Container Registry?
1 points by belfalas 4y ago|0 comments
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Gitea 1.17.0 is released – includes package registry support(blog.gitea.io)
230 points by belfalas 4y ago|72 comments
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Every programming should care about UI design(silverhammermba.github.io)
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You Might Not Need jQuery(youmightnotneedjquery.com)
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by belfalas 4y ago
> I saw Zed Shaw do a presentation using factor and decided to spend a weekend playing with it. I saw the same presentation back then and also spent a weekend with factor. It was a really valuable experience. The language was so differ
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by belfalas 4y ago
Julia Evans guide is a great companion: https://wizardzines.com/zines/networking/ Very different format!
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by belfalas 4y ago
One of my university professors liked to quip: next time someone tells you that you're arguing semantics, ask them what semantics means. That'll teach 'em.

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