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by bollockitis 8y ago
That's interesting. I have been considering a similar setup. Are you running this from Linux?
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by bollockitis 8y ago
I owe my entire career to GWBASIC, QBasic, and Turbo Pascal, all of which was done from an IBM PC. When I first discovered UNIX by way of Red Hat Linux I was utterly confused: all of those absurdly named directories in my root! And where we
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by bollockitis 8y ago
I switched to Firefox a week or so ago for the same reasons. My issue is that I can't make Firefox usable for me without a bunch of tweaks. For example, scrolling with the mouse wheel feels like scrolling through mud. I like smooth scr
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by bollockitis 8y ago
It's not really fair to call it bloatware. Bloatware serves no purpose other than to sucker users into paying for something they either don't want or don't need. systemd serves a purpose, has benefits for the user, and doesn&
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by bollockitis 8y ago
Exactly. Taste is subjective. If you remove the color, the packaging, the story, and dull the flavor by chilling it, you haven't eliminated variables in some pseudo-scientific taste test, you have effectivity eliminated the taste itsel
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by bollockitis 8y ago
All of the debate about risk and life expectancy and carcinogens, etc. is fine from a scientific perspective, but don't forget to enjoy your life and to allow others the opportunity to enjoy theirs. For most of us, the "goal"
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by bollockitis 9y ago
Exactly. Meaning is subjective. Chasing down a bug can be an exercise in patience, diligence, and an opportunity to improve one's skill. The activity itself is irrelevant.
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by bollockitis 9y ago
Anon1096 clearly stated that he was speaking for himself (or herself) but I agree with him: I want privacy but I don't necessarily need complete secrecy. This isn't a zero sum game: Telegram and Signal can coexist and serve differ
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by bollockitis 9y ago
I could have written this myself. I did a lot of web development before JavaScript exploded and have since done mostly back end work. Every time I hype myself up to learn any of this stuff I feel like I'm chasing my tail. "Wait, I
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by bollockitis 9y ago
During slow periods I would pick a technology I wanted to work with (within reason), and begin working on something I figured would be an improvement on our current systems. I ended up writing a lot valuable stuff that was highly praised bu
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by bollockitis 9y ago
How is this pronounced? Like it's spelled, or like "javelin?"
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by bollockitis 9y ago
Aren't alternative JVM languages subject to the same potential legal issues that sparked the Oracle lawsuit? Don't languages like Scala, Groovy, and Kotlin still make use of many Java APIs?
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by bollockitis 9y ago
Now imagine that to be hired as a carpenter you had to first prove that you have worked on dozens of pieces of wood before anyone would even consider you. Of course, the analogy falls apart here because we can expect most carpenters to have
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by bollockitis 9y ago
Great tips, but I would add that those 2 hours spent exploring the code can actually be useful. I often need to read the code a few times before the big picture starts to come into view, so unless I need an immediate answer, I usually prefe
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by bollockitis 9y ago
And Kotlin is targeting LLVM too. It's too early to tell how that will work out considering that much of Kotlin is dependent upon Java libraries, but it's promising.
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by bollockitis 9y ago
This is amazing work! While watching the video, my jaw dropped when you selected "componetize." I'm looking forward to playing with this.
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by bollockitis 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what does everyone despise about Groovy?
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by bollockitis 10y ago
My wife works at a regional cancer center and many of them do indeed have this kind of schedule. It's built into their contract.
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by bollockitis 10y ago
Very well said. As the father of two young children, I can confidently say that becoming a parent has brought me some of the worst pains of my life, yet also some the highest, most incomparable joys. Until you have children, this contradict
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by bollockitis 10y ago
It's fascinating that so many of you saw it as obviously fake. Going into the film without having even seen a trailer, I was so confused. I couldn't tell if that was an excellent recast or CGI. Only something about his eyes seemed
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by bollockitis 10y ago
Same here. I was very reluctant to buy an Apple-branded router, but after going through half a dozen routers in just a few years, I figured I'd give it a shot. I have had the same router now for 4 years. I was just thinking the other d
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by bollockitis 10y ago
Some doctors are more open minded than others. I use an ecig to deal a smoking relapse after being quit for 7 years (sadly, the addiction never really leaves you), and from my unscientific and informal poll of pulmonologists, thoracic surge
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by bollockitis 10y ago
Not really. It implies that the owner no longer has faith in Samsung products and has switched, so I'd say it's relevant. They could have said that he replaced it with "another brand," which would have been more appropri
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by bollockitis 10y ago
> You can also try to leverage the feeling to stop yourself from wasting those 50+ hours rewatching Game of Thrones and instead putting that time into becoming more like someone who you perceive as being less mediocre than yourself. Isn&
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by bollockitis 10y ago
> And here I am imagining what it would be like to first astronauts landing on one of your worlds. What would an explorer feel upon seeing vast cities and machinery, but seeing no trace of the people who built it. This reminds me of Clar
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by bollockitis 10y ago
I too abandoned Atom after a few month trial period. It has potential, but it just had so many issues that, upon opening Sublime Text again, I heaved a huge sigh of relief. That's not to say Atom is bad, but even now it's a bit ro
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by bollockitis 11y ago
For the past year I have been working in PL/SQL it's like being on a different planet. The language is clunky and difficult to work with. The culture is weird (everyone uses TFS for version control, for example, if they use a VCS
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by bollockitis 11y ago
Erlang is probably not the best example. Programmers using Erlang are almost certainly of a different caliber than those using Ruby and Python. I don't think it's very productive to study dynamic versus static typing without also
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by bollockitis 12y ago
> Funny thing was that our local cable network showed the "extended version" (with the sentry turrets, scenes with Newt's parents, etc) and for years I thought I'd imagined some of those scenes because the extended ve
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by bollockitis 12y ago
Out of curiosity, could you share an example of how this compares to Clojure or Scala? I am not familiar with either.

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