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by brightsize 9y ago
"Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming." http://coconut-lang.org/
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by brightsize 9y ago
I'm glad to hear that, I will definitely try again. F# looks pretty sweet and I have a couple of half-baked Scala side-projects that might port nicely to F# and Suave.
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by brightsize 9y ago
Thanks for the pointers, I will definitely check both of these out. In my last attempt I got to the "can compile 'Hello World' from the command line and even debug it in VSCode" stage but after that things quickly went o
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by brightsize 9y ago
I'm an experienced Scala dev but after reading the "fun and profit" ebook F# looked really interesting. Naturally I tried to take the next step of creating a small webapp with it on a Linux dev machine. Unfortunately I ran in
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by brightsize 9y ago
At least where I lived in Germany, in cities, there were dumpster-sized stand-alone donation bins labeled "Kleidung und Schuhe" (clothing and shoes) everywhere.
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by brightsize 9y ago
What sort of support?
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by brightsize 9y ago
I see this all the time and have assumed it's related to difficulties correlating outbound messages (to the spammer) with responses. Also within a message thread the service sometimes fails to respond to the most recent email from a s
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by brightsize 9y ago
++1 for "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America". A fascinating read, it's the narrative of writer Barbara Ehrenreich as she goes undercover and participates in the minimum-wage economy in the US. It recounts not ju
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by brightsize 9y ago
More details: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/train-derails-from...
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by brightsize 9y ago
Coconut is a compile-to-python(2/3) language, not just a library, so if you use it you have to be OK with using a transpiler in your project. Here's one way you might write one of the examples in Coconut: ([1, 2, 3, 4] |
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Vancouver, WA Is the Most Hipster City in America(movehub.com)
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by brightsize 9y ago
You are correct. LLCs don't pay federal business income taxes. An LLC can retain earnings inside of the company but the members are still going to be taxed individually as if the earnings had been paid out to them. US S-corps work
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by brightsize 9y ago
> one of the companies I recognized was Darn Tough, a sock company. I picked up a 3-pair set of theirs a few years back and they're still my favorite socks. I have one pair and they are truly unbelievable. Ordinarily socks may last
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by brightsize 9y ago
> Do you realize that most power/utility companies in the US are private and do want to make a profit and pay dividends to share holders? You're right, and I don't understand why the discussion here seems to insist that th
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by brightsize 9y ago
Here we go (Blu Studio Max): adb shell am start -n com.mediatek.engineermode/.EngineerMode This is going to be a fun morning.
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by brightsize 9y ago
I have a Blu Studio Max (2017) with a MTK chipset. EngineerMode is installed and running.
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by brightsize 9y ago
There IS an argument for it. Around a year ago we had a freak windstorm here. It was an amazing experience - took down trees and tore apart roofs all over. I'd never seen houses crushed by trees before. The power was out for days in so
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by brightsize 9y ago
Same here. Anyone at my door who I don't expect is either proselytizing for their religion (looking at you Mormons and JWs), begging for money, or trying to sell me something.
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by brightsize 9y ago
>It's perfectly fine to tell my boss that I got too drunk on Friday Hell if you worked at a startup, you and your boss might have both gotten drunk at the office together after raiding the "fully-stocked beer cooler". The
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by brightsize 9y ago
I'm imagining a situation where Susan Startuper wants her HN fix 20x a day just like everyone, but refuses to pay for the "Hacker Channel" subscription with her ISP. She still gets access but only at 128kb/s. In some are
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by brightsize 9y ago
If net neutrality is axed I'm moving to Berlin to live on Max-Beer street. With HN throttled I'll need a new addiction.
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by brightsize 9y ago
> As someone mildly but frequently peeved by the mispronunciation “kwubec” Growing up in southern Vermont, only 150 miles or so from the border, that's how we all pronounced it. Here, in Spokane (city/county/tribe), new
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by brightsize 9y ago
Sometimes it comes from the top. "Managers and supervisors can now legally require their workers to participate in politics as a condition of employment. For instance, in most states, managers have the legal right to mandate worker att
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by brightsize 9y ago
> You can't run a country where people don't perceive themselves as being tied together Perhaps not, but we could choose differently w/respect to what they're tied together with. For example, the wall-full of soldier
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by brightsize 9y ago
>Perhaps, I can write a geat Montana story about a forrest service ranger, who leads a double life cutting fences, torching wasteful mansions and getting into conflicts with poachers, extractors, and rich asshole "rancher" and
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by brightsize 9y ago
FWIW, ProtonMail also allows you to export your public key from their service. People who you give the key to can use it to send PGP encrypted mail to your ProtonMail mailbox. Unfortunately this isn't bidirectional, there's no bui
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by brightsize 9y ago
>Removing terms like “recent graduate” and “digital native” could help encourage older professionals to apply for these positions. Or, "you'll join a young team of developers ...", a type of phrasing that makes it very cle
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by brightsize 9y ago
I grew up in Vermont and the woods are full of old stone walls put up by farmers and cellar holes where their buildings used to be. Not just on the edge of the woods, but deep within them too. I'm not a student of farming but I don&#x2
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by brightsize 9y ago
Oh $deity I can't tell you how many times I've run into this. Usually the "marketing" person has a comfortable 9-5 job and wants to do the startup work in the spare time available when not attending to work or family res
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by brightsize 9y ago
One such: https://www.gskforyou.com/

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