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by betageek 8mo ago
This is one of the vanishingly small instances of actually representing the tech industry well in media, even if there's a lot of exaggeration and they elide the boring stuff. There are so many scenes in that gave me deja vu. Everyone
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by betageek 1y ago
By "Lightning fast management tool" you mean "virtualised table"?
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by betageek 1y ago
I too spent far too many years in the adtech industry before realising that what I thought I was doing (helping fund cool things on the web) was not what I was actually doing (destroying the web as I knew it.) Having left it behind in the e
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by betageek 2y ago
Not even wrong
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by betageek 2y ago
I think that's a bad misreading of the article, and life in general. When the author is saying "better" he's talking about the whole makeup of a person, not just a single advanced skill. Being amazing at maths is extreme
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by betageek 2y ago
+1 for this, I may end up buying this anyway but aside from the piano I have a Arturia Keystep Pro hooked up to a few synths that can sequence 4 channels, would be amazing to have this work with that setup and record all the midi channels a
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by betageek 2y ago
Just so you know, it's not just Sweden, kids around the world all love eating at Ikea ;)
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by betageek 2y ago
This isn't an article for computer scientists, and I think he covers this pretty well: "While Levy calls him a “world-class computer scientist who has authored definitive texts in the field,” he also describes Raghavan as “choosin
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Remix web framework aquired by Shopify(remix.run)
558 points by betageek 4y ago|205 comments
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by betageek 5y ago
I'm kind of disappointed, Apple make such a big thing of being green but keep making machines that aren't upgradeable in these tiny form factors. I was really hoping for a more affordable Mac Pro with easily accessible memory&#x2F
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by betageek 5y ago
I don't understand why people are holding JS to a higher standard than other languages, is it just because it used to be easier? Knowing nothing about Java, I wouldn't expect to open a Java file and know what every line means. The
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by betageek 5y ago
CTO and lead developer on a focused project are very different jobs - my guess would be he relaxes from the very strategy and soft-skill heavy day job by diving into a challenging problem that keeps his dev chops up and lets him focus on a
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by betageek 5y ago
This looks really great, something I could use and would pay for when polished but there's definitely a few issues for me at the moment: * Why go fullscreen and modal? I want to drag in links from docs, email, other browsers, have it s
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by betageek 5y ago
Hard disagree on Ancillary Justice, I thought it was a standout book, and considering it won the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C Clarke, Locus First Novel, and tied for the BSFA award I wasn't the only one.
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by betageek 5y ago
CSS-in-JS alone doesn't give you many tools for that kind of stuff, but if you use something that integrates more design system-style theming it's pretty easy - have a look at https://chakra-ui.com/ and click on t
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by betageek 5y ago
PG essays === Tech Horoscopes
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by betageek 6y ago
This is one of the most useful posts ever to grace the front page.
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by betageek 7y ago
This is really great, would love something like this for pure maths.
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by betageek 7y ago
+1, tried a few things and just get '0 screenshots imported' all the time, looked in Console and couldn't see anything obvious. Also please add some kind of support contact method as the only link to you in the app is a Twitt
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by betageek 7y ago
It is one of the great mysteries of life how an author can write a couple of books (this and Speaker for the Dead) that are literally all about loving the 'other' and still be homophobic. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by betageek 7y ago
Unless I'm very much mistaken, there are no application specific configs set on default install of Wacom drivers, just a generic 'All' profile. If, and only if, I had set up an app-specific config, then maybe Wacom would be v
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by betageek 7y ago
Ted Chiang wrote an interesting novella, The Lifecycle of Software Objects, about that very subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Software_Obje...
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by betageek 7y ago
Or go virtual modular https://vcvrack.com/Rack.html and keep your house
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by betageek 8y ago
Run tests against Canary, you will have plenty of time to update. How is this different from normal native apps when OS updates break things?
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Wait, Have We Really Wiped Out 60% of Animals?(theatlantic.com)
26 points by betageek 8y ago|5 comments
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by betageek 8y ago
Thanks for at least trying to answer the question, just to be clear, I'm 100% convinced in climate change and some kind of extinction happening, just querying the '60% of all animals' headline.
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by betageek 8y ago
Is this true? It is hard to believe that killing off 60% of animals on the planet would leave us with a functioning ecosystem. It's also very hard to work out what the facts are here without finding yourself in climate change denial la
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by betageek 8y ago
For every anecdote you have about code reviews finding bugs, I have my own anecdote about people writing code going through a thorough code review process and the code crashes the first time an end user tries to use the functionality. Sou
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by betageek 8y ago
Learn how the debugger works for whatever language you use. You will be very tempted to just use logs as it's way easier and debuggers seem intimidating, but take a day out of your schedule to learn the debugger. When you really have n
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by betageek 8y ago
Where are the live demos?

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