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by bmpafa 9y ago
Well, more accurately, they appear to have come for the pimps.
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by bmpafa 9y ago
> Fed will have to reverse course, sacrificing the dollar to maintain asset prices and ability to finance government. It's not within the fed's mandate to worry about the price of the dollar or equity prices (until employment i
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by bmpafa 9y ago
Why BTC / ETH and not, say, bonds? I would think BTC / ETH would be anathema to someone fleeing volatility, no matter how bad the S&P got, but I am only a casual watcher of any market.
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by bmpafa 9y ago
Fun related story: I once stumbled on a minor(ish) UI bug in IBMs PaaS dashboard and reported it via their contact form or whatever, even included an animated gif screen cap. _five months later_, I got a reply asking to explain further. I c
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by bmpafa 9y ago
I found WebStorm a bit overwhelming when I first tried it (I was fairly new at the time), which made any workflow a little difficult for me out of the gate. That, and I remember Staples of the JS ecosystem (eg ESLint) being somewhat difficu
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by bmpafa 9y ago
my opinion is that Facebook gets a darker rap for all this b/c they're famously more aggressive at engineering addiction. Maybe Google works just as hard at this, but it's pretty plain that FB's put a lot of effort into
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by bmpafa 9y ago
I'm a JavaScript / typescript guy, so for me these past few years VS code has been leaps and bounds ahead of WebStorm w/ extensions,etc. But lately I've been using Datagrip for SQL stuff,and geez, did Jetbrain crush the
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by bmpafa 9y ago
^ this. also, there's an entire family of laws[1] designed to protect people from certain risks they take on when they decide to help someone in dire need. These are all extreme examples, but I think the parent post example (not giving
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by bmpafa 9y ago
Most any form of helping someone out carries risks. Part of what makes acts of kindness praiseworthy is the acceptance of those risks for the sake of another person.
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by bmpafa 9y ago
I underwent cognitive testing for ADHD,and it was more rigorous a process than I expected. They administered a battery of tests, among them a few controls to screen for malingerers. Each was narrow enough of a task to believably evaluate a
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by bmpafa 9y ago
He's got full control right now, and opinions of him seem pretty negative overall (esp. wrt privacy/trust). I can't imagine it'd be any easier to manipulate opinions en masse if he were actively seeking office.
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by bmpafa 9y ago
> ... wonder if year after year eventually that is going to give me arthritis or increase the chances of it. This is precisely the reason I picked-up an ergodox [1] when my wrists started to hurt from `ctrl+whatever` key combos. moving m
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by bmpafa 9y ago
...which are just the spam mail of 2008, which were just the extra-volume used car ads of 1999, which were just the pushy salesman of the 19-aughts. Everything new is old and notification prompts on first visit are still a terrible idea.
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by bmpafa 9y ago
nice site, but i'll never understand the thinking behind "let's ask if they want to receive notifications immediately upon first page-hit" does anyone actually click 'yes' to that prompt?
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by bmpafa 9y ago
Brilliant. Though if IoT botnets were bad, I'm terrified of what IoPeePee botnets might be capable of.
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What the hell is Prisma? A look at the latest tools in the GraphQL stack(medium.com)
1 points by bmpafa 9y ago|0 comments
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Web browsing for badasses: Hacks and tricks for people who are okay at computers(medium.com)
3 points by bmpafa 9y ago|0 comments
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“The issue’s complicated,” say teens huddled in closet eluding shooter(medium.com)
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by bmpafa 9y ago
I guess we're approaching a sort of Atwood's law for GraphQL. Here's the GraphQL version of PostgREST: https://github.com/postgraphql/postgraphql
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by bmpafa 9y ago
I've been using GraphQL for a bout a year now on several projects. the 'flexible' part for me comes in more advanced scenarios like: Once I establish a relationship between two entities (`Types`), I can fetch an arbitrary com
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by bmpafa 9y ago
This is the same taxonomy they taught in my college (a military academy). Freshmen learned to lead (what we called 'manage') themselves,sophomores to lead 1-2 freshmen, juniors small teams,and seniors organizations (100+ students)
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by bmpafa 9y ago
Love it-you had me at 'childish and stupid'
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Stop lying to me, email marketers(medium.com)
25 points by bmpafa 9y ago|17 comments
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by bmpafa 9y ago
I evaluated using RSS for aggregating blogs for my graduate-school-aspirant users / clients. The challenges I faced were mostly b/c of poorly formed RSS feeds on blogs I wanted to aggregate, but as someone who does a lot of web sc
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Ask HN: What do you look for in an applicant's GitHub?
59 points by bmpafa 9y ago|56 comments
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by bmpafa 9y ago
> I remember when I first quit facebook. I still had the habit of quickly pressing "F, enter" for months after I quit. Same.when I run a distraction blocker, I often don't realize I'm firing another ’ctrl+t,f,enter&#x
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by bmpafa 9y ago
When asked for comment, a rep for Vikings' Local 12th denounced the move as "wreckless, even by our standards."
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Indoor ax-throwing / beer-drinking range to open in Greater Boston(bostonglobe.com)
1 points by bmpafa 9y ago|1 comments
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by bmpafa 9y ago
Nope. Raging against double-spaces post-period was all the rage a few years back[1], so I'm sure it raises quite a few curmudgeonly hackles. [1] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011&#x
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by bmpafa 9y ago
Easy-peazy! Makes me wish I still had a numpad :/

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