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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I'm not talking the only advantage, I'm talking what's going to convince people to use Linux for desktop in the first place. What would be a good one-minute pitch in 2019? Because when I first started, nearly 15 years ago, Li
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
What sold Linux for me was trying Ubuntu on an old dusty laptop that had been sitting in my closet for a few years. It installed fast and ran fast and I got a good feeling for it in less than an hour. If the default windowing system was slo
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
When I started using Linux, in college, the advantages were that Ubuntu, and others, were super light-weight and a great way to give life to old hardware. Also, if you were interested in programming, it was a pretty good way to discover how
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
A lot of people who are interested in management (including CS people wanting to make a ton of money), have this idea that 'survival of the fittest' is just everything killing everything else all the time. The line of thinking is
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I've known younger programmers think the speed difference between ++i and i++ is enormous and that using the wrong one is the sign of an incompetent programmer. But they don't necessarily know why or agree which one was the good o
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
No, but many younger people nowadays seem to think it's a necessity, even for a simple static page.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
My wife still uses Windows (out of familiarity) and I have to fix her computer whenever there's a problem. I can confidently report that, when it comes to type and frequency of bugs, it is the exact same Microsoft it always has been.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Slightly off topic, but I was just thinking about how when I was young, I was under the impression that most of my work week would be showing up on time, and doing work for roughly 40 hours a week. In my 10+ years of office experience I nev
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Just the general feeling of having to constantly dig through the documentation trying to suss out unintuitive things that would be easy in other frameworks. And poor (imo) naming conventions. And a lot of other little annoyances. No one spe
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I really love Elixir as a language. Phoenix looks nice from a distance, but I found it to be very ugly and messy when you get down to the nitty-gritty. I wrote a personal project in Phoenix but I'm thinking of translating it, because I
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I lived in China for several years, and I had to travel around the country for work. Having one big timezone with no DST makes everything easier on everyone all the time and the fact that the sun sets a bit earlier or later on the peripheri
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
"I'm the best in the world at something. I guess I'll write a Medium article."
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
You and me have an extremely different definition of personal vendetta!
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I quit Reddit about a year ago, and the straw that broke the camel's back was me mentioning this in passing, and having literally hundreds of neo-nazis flood my inbox with all kinds of indescribably insane messages.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
1) I like about 75% of the recommendations I get, which is pretty good compared to other recommendation sites I've used. 2) I love the fact that Goodreads has an old-fashioned feeling. Modernizing it would mean a front-end JS framework
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Remember when Reddit investigated the Boston Marathon bombing and discovered that it was Sunil Tripathi? And then Mr. Tripathi went missing and his body was discovered several weeks later? Thank God we have Redditors to break the case.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
That's like saying the Tang or Song eras didn't exist because they don't apply to Western Europe.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Hmm, a headline with an extreme claim that seems completely unbelievable to anyone in the Pacific Northwest? I'm sure this is a legitimate article headline and not just clickbait, so I'm going to move my mouse cursor right on up t
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Yeah. I asked because I really like Python's libraries in general, but I found Flask to be so-so, and I just recently worked on a large project in Django, which I hated. I was hoping there was some kind of up-and-coming framework in Py
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Are any of these extremely good compared to a framework not written in Python? For example compared to Rails or Phoenix?
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I feel old. I can literally remember dozens of silver bullet technologies I was told were necessary to know ("you're not a real professional if you don't..."), and then forgotten by nearly everyone. All of these were sup
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
It feels like a worse and more ridiculous version of Yahoo Answers. Half the answerers don't know what they're talking about and half are marketing departments.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Why on Earth is Alan Kay on Quora?
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I got dragged into clickbait, read 15 paragraphs of fluff till I actually got to the point of the article, and now I hate myself.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Names sounds like an NES emulator. Maybe one using GTK+.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
It may be an anti-pattern, but is it considered harmful?
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I know, right! I mean, concentration camps, repeated claims that the head of state cannot do anything illegal and is above the law because he can pardon himself, repeated claims it should be illegal to criticise the head of state, repeated
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
This is the first time, in my life, that I've seen an article criticizing Facebook's business practices without having a 'like on Facebook' icon. Fortunately there is a Twitter icon, so you can rest safe knowing this out
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
In Portugal Portuguese it's Ananás.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I really loved the name, but there was a bit of disconnect because I thought something named pineapple would lead me to a more exciting, artsy page.

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