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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Buried lead: Ikea sells a bookcase named 'Billy'.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
"Facebook is controlling people's minds and ripping apart the social fabric. Also, you'll notice some 'share' buttons to the right of the article. Remember to 'like' us!"
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Remember when MPAA released a closed-source Linux distro with the intention of gathering incriminating data on university students? That was pretty weird.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Yeah, a dev mode would be nice.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I can only speak for myself, doing mostly web dev/maintenance for local businesses at this point in my life. I started trying to freelance online, with little success. When I mentioned to a dentist that I was freelancing he asked me to
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Julia looked interesting to me, so I tried 1.0 after it came out. I have a oldish laptop (fine for my needs), and every time I tried to do seemingly anything, it spent ~5 minutes recompiling libraries or something. So I've been waiting
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I freelanced on Upwork for a bit. It was all the worst aspects of having an abusive boss (the platform itself), and all of the worst aspects of freelancing (unpredictability, getting ripped off by shifty clients). "Creepiest shit ever&
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Did it? People seem to use Clojure a lot, other dialects are popular with hobbyists, and some of the most enduring computer science books of all time use it. How many other languages from the 50s can claim that kind of wide use? Aside from
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
2edgy4me
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I like playing with different web frameworks, but the article had a bad hype:information ratio, so I googled the Svelte homepage, which I think is really well presented: https://svelte.dev/
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Google any recipe, and there are at least 5 paragraphs (usually a lot more) of copy that no one will ever read, and isn't even meant for human consumption. Google "How to learn x", and you'll usually get copy written by
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
In the late 60s, people took long hair very seriously, up to the point of writing angsty, tormented songs like "Almost Cut My Hair" by CSNY. Five or six years before that, "long hair" meant someone who knew a lot about c
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I'll always remember Wagner James Au from Old Man Murray.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
You've got to admit, though, being the most scummy social networking site is a pretty big achievement.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Serious deadline art criticism.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Agreed. I'm just happy to have a style guide that's tasteful enough and well-known among Ruby users. For me, one big advantage of the guide/Rubocop is being able to let other people worry about the little details and variatio
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I remember when Microsoft bought Github, they flooded open source-related sub-reddits with astroturfers who kept posting slight variants of the the same talkpoints, the funniest and most persistent of which was, "You have to admit that
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Ask HN: Why do more and more websites have light grey text on white backgrounds?
2 points by caiocaiocaio 7y ago|5 comments
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Between the title and the first paragraph, there is a prominent 'like on Facebook' button, so the subtext is pro-Facebook no matter what is written in the article.
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by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Most of the time historians use the phrase 'Dark Ages', nowadays, they mean the time from roughly the mid-sixth century to about Charles Martel, where there are only a handful of written and architectural records remaining, almost
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by caiocaiocaio 8y ago
Better stock up on picture postcards and souvenirs.
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by caiocaiocaio 8y ago
Totes random.
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by caiocaiocaio 8y ago
His behaviour was sexist enough to elicit massive protests because he kept sexually harassing his female students. The earliest protests against him were in the 60s.
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by caiocaiocaio 8y ago
I can't believe someone could read Feynman's sandwich story and still recommend that book.
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by caiocaiocaio 8y ago
Relevant song: https://youtu.be/FgoC15Lom-M
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by caiocaiocaio 8y ago
As with every anti-Facebook article I have ever seen, multiple 'like on Facebook' buttons are clearly visible. The first is right under the header. The second is on a sticky div that appears when you scroll down a bit, and which i
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by caiocaiocaio 8y ago
Medium grey text on a white background makes this almost unreadable. I don't know what point he was trying to make, because tow paragraphs gave me a headache.
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by caiocaiocaio 8y ago
My main objection is medium grey text on a white background.
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by caiocaiocaio 8y ago
Like almost all articles criticising Facebook, this has a prominent 'like on Facebook' icon/link. It is first among the social media logos. Unlike most articles criticising Facebook, their logo is not fixed and permanently vi
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by caiocaiocaio 8y ago
Mouse over the green icon in the corner, and you will see a 'like this on Facebook' button. I have never seen a single article criticising Facebook that didn't have one.

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