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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
I imagine the least abandoned would be something that comes late in a series (or at least from an author with many similar books), where basically everyone who picks it up already knows that they will like it (those who don't were filt
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
Fashionable problems are the ones for which you'll have the easiest time recruiting employees, raising funding and generating press coverage, even taking into account that their fashionability leads others to pursue them.
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
The problem with this: out/image-id: $(shell find src -type f) is that if you delete a file from src (without also modifying or adding a file), make won't consider image-id to need rebuilding
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
That would help, but I think the root problem here (of the debugging difficulty, not the actual perf problem) is the Windows approach of having lots of unrelated services running together in a single process (svchost)
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
A common reason people don't do it the way you're suggesting is dogma about code coverage. If the code has branches for each possible case, and then an "else" to cover anything else (which raises an exception indicating
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
I've never seen "landed" used as in the second sentence, but I was definitely able to understand from context that it was not being used to mean the same thing as in the first sentence.
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
Don't the majority of people still watch TV on their TV? I don't care if their service runs on my computer because it's confirmed they will have an app for PS4, which is how I already watch Netflix and Hulu. I know there are
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
But exactly because it's easier to "stumble upon" the right answer, I think this may be worse for games. I like feeling as if it's necessary to come up with the solution in my head and then do it. It's not satisfyin
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
I have Google Wifi and its mostly been great. I don't think it makes sense if you don't need mesh; the whole point of the thing really is that it is the easiest way to set up a home mesh network (or maybe it isn't, but in the
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
The conventional technique in poker is to glance at the seconds hand on your watch
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
The basis for investing should be connecting companies that actually need money with the money they need. If a company is already making enough money to fund its whole operations plus make a profit that it can use to grow, and it isn't
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
> It will silently fall back to a very slow transfer. Why would it be silent? The computer would hopefully show a small notification that the transfer is happening slower than it would with a newer cable
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
I use jupyter notebook for Scala. I like having the same repl software for multiple languages. The kernel I use (almond) is based on Ammonite, but I believe there are others out there.
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
That was from The Simpsons way before Mad Men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO0JaecRWy0
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
It's also telling that even with every other possible answer being given by someone, there's still no one who wants XML.
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
Why can't/ don't phone makers like Samsung set the search engine on their Android phones to whatever they want (whoever pays them the most) which would make the Android default irrelevant? Is leaving the default alone part of
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
There was a super interesting article in the New Yorker a few years ago about the smuggling of unreleased albums out of CD manufacturing plants back in the day. Your experiences remind a lot of that: https://www.newyorker.com&#x2
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
I was getting my Master's in 2003 and Haskell was very hot amongst all the professors and students who were into functional programming. I learned it because of group projects where we could pick the implementation language and that&#x
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
I try to use PS4 Pro as my "smart TV", but I end up having to use the TV itself (which runs Roku) sometimes because of its larger app base. You can't watch Starz through PS4. You can watch Amazon Prime, but not in 4k.
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
Maybe it's okay though? Is there real evidence to back up the sentiment that kids have less fun (or get less exercise, develop less physical skills, etc.) in modern "safe" playgrounds?
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
> DON'T FUCKING CHANGE THE INTERFACE That's why it's important to have good UX people to help you get it mostly right the first time
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by bobbyi_settv 7y ago
> lowering of float point code What does this refer to and how is it handled better in .net than in java?
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by bobbyi_settv 8y ago
TVs aren't expensive anymore. He says he got a TCL from Costco. I just checked their website and the 43" model costs $239. No platform has more and better apps than Roku. A box is a closed platform just like Roku. Any of the thing
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by bobbyi_settv 8y ago
I love that we continue to refer to private/ incognito browsing as something mainly used "when you’re planning a surprise party or gift".
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by bobbyi_settv 8y ago
Are the frequent apple.com requests the phone checking to see if it has a working internet connection? And if so are those responsible for the http (as opposed to https) traffic because they want to see if you're on a captive portal?
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by bobbyi_settv 8y ago
But gnu make can be built for freebsd without already having other gnu stuff (or itself), right? If so, is it really unreasonable for another gnu project to expect you to get gmake first and use that in order to compile the project?
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by bobbyi_settv 8y ago
Just in case, next time you should manually read each of the 100k messages.
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by bobbyi_settv 8y ago
What's the "one tool" for Java? Is it Maven? Ivy? sbt? Gradle? You may say some of those are "build tools" rather than dependency tools, but I don't see how it's different than what we are discussing in Py
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by bobbyi_settv 8y ago
Yeah. I've considered moving from Google Play Music to Spotify, but I don't know if I'm ready to deal with Youtube having ads on my phone and TV (I know that ad blocking is an option on my laptop). The actual "Youtube pr
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by bobbyi_settv 8y ago
Murder, candy and "black like my soul"? I think the kid's been listening to Die Antwoord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkmiDwp_HC4

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