blunte

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   by blunte 6y ago

   VSCode dark is default. You can switch to light modes if you wish, but it starts out dark. At least in that app you have choices. Fortunately most modern editors and IDEs give you options.
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   by blunte 6y ago

   Here's a tip - whether in light mode or dark mode, you can turn your screen brightness down.
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   by blunte 6y ago

   The unfortunate trend is people producing otherwise useful educational Youtube content (particularly developers) in dark mode. They surely don't realize they are losing some portion of their audience due to any of a few reasons (not t
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   by blunte 6y ago

   I predict that dark mode, like the open office, is a hyped up fad that will eventually be proven to be largely detrimental. Except in the cases of saving battery on OLED displays or viewing a screen in very low ambient light environments, d
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   by blunte 6y ago

   The s-expressions in lisps and clojure are one of my favorite attractions. There's so much less cognitive load when the syntax is so simple. Elixir, another great language, has a painfully complicated syntax (plus a lot of syntactic su
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   by blunte 6y ago

   Sure there are degrees of badness. Doing something less bad than you could have done doesn't make your action laudable. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
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   by blunte 6y ago

   Microsoft was someone infamous in the past for taking other peoples' technology and using it without paying for it, and later settling in court for small money. Amazon very certainly has bad behaviors with respect to allowing counterfe
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   by blunte 6y ago

   I also doubt people searching for an available domain name for their new business would find his hobby "cheerful".
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   by blunte 6y ago

   I don't know the guy, but we have plenty of high profile individuals in tech (not all of whom started FB), who have a very different or diminished sense of ethics. I guess it's just shocking to see someone stand up and proudly di
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    by blunte 6y ago

    This hurts potentially legitimate users for the benefit of one person. Of course it's nothing new, as there have been people doing this with domains and practically every other resource humans have ever needed. You could say, "We
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    by blunte 6y ago

    Maybe I missed a section in the post that provided any argument for why there should be a revolution at all. Granted, if there were a revolution, tfa did make the case for why he should lead it.
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    by blunte 6y ago

    But unfortunately that's not how publicly traded companies operate. The highest paid execs just hang around for a few years, and almost regardless of how the company performs, they exit with a nice package and move into another compan
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    by blunte 6y ago

    And soon, first truly literal interpretation of "underground drifting".
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    by blunte 6y ago

    My point is that both PHP and Javascript owe their popularity not due to their merits as languages, but rather to being in the right place at the right time - time and positioning.
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    by blunte 6y ago

    Is Intel really so blind that they didn't see this coming or even have detailed inside info about it? I would wager that they knew, but execs chose to protect their personal short term interests overt those of the company and its long
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    by blunte 6y ago

    I would not consider this representative of any Dutch accent I've heard from living in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, or Nijmegen. Nor even for the strange Zeeland Belgian accents. This sounds like an odd Russian Dutch English combination.
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    by blunte 6y ago

    It's like an ugly C. It's a perfectly reasonable choice for web development, just like a Chevy Caprice is a perfectly reasonable car for a taxi service (as evidenced by the thousands of them in NYC, still plodding along). You&#x2
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    by blunte 6y ago

    If there's room for Javascript, there's room for PHP. Both are sloppy, inferior languages, but both can do anything you need. And unfortunately, both have immense momentum from being first in the web game.
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    by blunte 6y ago

    Oh my god. I never knew this had a name, but it very much fits my behavior. I crave solitude and control over my own time and attention, and the only time to get that is while the rest of my timezone sleeps.
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    by blunte 6y ago

    I didn't read it as character assassination. I read it as a reminder that we're should not romanticize and fill in details that were not there. People interpret history differently, and it is a problem when those interpretations
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    by blunte 6y ago

    You can teach beginner programming with a subset of what python offers. Same with Ruby. Printing to console, assigning to and mutating variables, looping, conditional, and basic arithmetic require few keywords and very few extra symbols. Th
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    by blunte 6y ago

    Not to be contrarian, but Python is even simpler than Basic. You don't have GOTO, but you don't need it. Just using a subset of Python language you can do anything you need, and with less syntactic noise.
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    by blunte 6y ago

    Can't imagine why Australian wine needs protection... Who would try to copy it?
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    by blunte 6y ago

    Does anyone know with authority why apple is explicitly against allowing development ON the iPad?
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    by blunte 6y ago

    I want a low latency handwriting tablet which can store and access all my data, including photos and videos. It does that now. I also would love to be able to develop on it for times when I'm on the road or in the air (and not sitting
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    by blunte 6y ago

    True, but that was a long time ago. And now they _could_ make a compelling data center device if they decided they could capture a decent part of that market. They could take the Mac Mini concept and reconfigure it a bit like blade servers
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    by blunte 6y ago

    > ... by someone who doesn't really understand the difference between ... This is who you're talking down about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gass%C3%A9e
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    by blunte 6y ago

    I second this. In fact, it's the #1 reason I don't enjoy "Ruby" anymore. Ruby as a language is great if you stick to a small subset of its capabilities (meaning, largely skip the metaprogramming, and definitely skip th
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    by blunte 6y ago

    I guess it could depend on your definition of "glide", but I doubt that anything gliding at supersonic speed would have a very good glide ratio. Thus, it wouldn't really cover much ground even thought it might travel quite a
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    by blunte 6y ago

    I mean looking at human existence over a period of a few thousand years, and/or looking at a global distance rather than continental or even local.