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by blondin 7y ago
yeah but i am afraid pg is not relatable anymore (to most of us anyway). devoting more than 20 percent of your time to problems that are unfashionable but dear to you is ill-advised because: a. they don't pay the bill b. they take time
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by blondin 7y ago
sure... but html is not easier, if not harder. can't bother to get printing correctly either. i will take PDF any given day.
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by blondin 7y ago
wow! those aren't tech companies, are they?
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by blondin 7y ago
yep, devigners are out of control :)
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by blondin 7y ago
i have seen this one on trending php projects on github quite often. as a side note, the php community is quite good at coming up with cms projects. i wonder what makes the language so nice for writing content management systems in? might b
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by blondin 7y ago
totally agree with you on this one. it's becoming a hn's favorites hub here. that's not a good thing.
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by blondin 7y ago
thank you! was having the same thought as i was going through the examples. and when the unix example came up, it dawn on me that the author is clearly omitting the background of these people to make a more compelling point. yes they did gr
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by blondin 7y ago
we need to re-invent the whole internet and mobile... we can't possibly have apps for anything that spark our interest. that just won't work!
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by blondin 7y ago
meetup.com worked for me in the past
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by blondin 7y ago
it's saddening and upsetting that such benign acts are blown way out of proportion by people, often with agenda, who simply are not happy or can't let other people go on with their life! it just seems that we can't agree on a
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by blondin 7y ago
> why should the reviewers be obligated to give you the benefit of the doubt? because that's what they are supposed to be doing? and beside, i wonder if those reviews are actually free...
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by blondin 7y ago
this has got to be the most readable license terms i have ever seen. it was so intriguing that i pretty much read all of it! i wish other businesses were similar.
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by blondin 7y ago
> no one _was ashamed_ of the company or how it made money. do you think the sentiment has changed since? last time when the occulus VR targeted ads news broke, some prominent people defended them on twitter. that took me by surprise. co
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by blondin 7y ago
funny how these things are. while they are suing google, genius is out there pushing their presence on youtube. if they end up winning, curious how this is going to play out.
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by blondin 7y ago
a bit like "pip freeze > requirements.txt" then?
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by blondin 7y ago
pip is not yet in the standard library. as opposed to venv.
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by blondin 7y ago
> it does is freeze the dependency tree using Pipfile.lock sorry but what does freezing the dependency tree mean?
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by blondin 7y ago
it has become mental for me at this point. i tend to skip anything done by netflix studios... it has to do with the rate at which they are pumping out movies, shows & documentaries. most of them are not very good. but netflix has some o
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by blondin 7y ago
> "Header only" libraries are an anti-pattern in C says who? care to elaborate?
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by blondin 7y ago
what about disabling by default and letting us opt-in?
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by blondin 7y ago
> …equivalent of throwing your old computer into an empty ditch on the side of the road, and getting mad when someone responsible comes by to recycle it for you. a better equivalent is realizing that that computer might have important st
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by blondin 7y ago
> The real world is very much about optimizing for and beating tests. thank you. it's awesome for someone like PG to bring the subject upfront. but what you are saying resonates with me. genuine interest is missing in our field, and
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by blondin 7y ago
off topic -- it made me happy to see a news paper from japan and in english too. i browsed around to see what they were covering and even if the news was gloomy, it was somewhat refreshing to see another perspective on what's going on
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by blondin 7y ago
> it's a better target for attackers because it's always on you let's not jump to conclusions here. but if attackers are really targeting your phone, then security and safety should be your first concern. it's beyond
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by blondin 7y ago
> one more substantially less intrusive wow! this needs proof and evidence. you can't just pull this out of nowhere? afaik it's becoming harder & harder to get data out of your phone without you unlocking them. now, if you
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by blondin 7y ago
wow this reminds me of borland delphi and mfc components and libraries. now with subscription on top of it. it might actually work because it did before for highly specialized gui components.
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by blondin 7y ago
if you sign in using your google account (or perhaps use chrome) they still know and record your searches. typing "!g" in ddg just sends the query to google. everything else applies i think.
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by blondin 7y ago
well what i am getting from cantrill's article is that they wanna build the hardware and the software together. i think maybe on-prem contracts with ibm or dell might not be the target here. in fact open firmware got mentioned a few ti
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by blondin 7y ago
> bring your whole self to work is a quote from mike robbins. not google. although i don't know if he works there or for them. but since we are on the topic. i have always wondered about people who work in teams whose sole purpose i
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by blondin 7y ago
GP must be talking about the shortcut procedure to do it that is taught in schools. also maybe they are specific about they way they do long division in the US? it was a surprise to me in college too and i have a french background. it'

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