chalcolithic

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by chalcolithic 5y ago
(Un)folding a 100+ comment subtree is kind of slow, don't you think?
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by chalcolithic 5y ago
>The consonants are easy I wish. My teachers have no problem telling apart my j and q, but I rarely hear the difference despite all the cosonants in my native language coming in palatalized/non-palatalized pairs.
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by chalcolithic 5y ago
Yeah, but Wordpress is an open market, it's vast and very competitive. Other CMSes don't look attractive in that regard
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by chalcolithic 5y ago
I can only assume that a lot of work by salespeople was performed in every single such case?
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by chalcolithic 5y ago
It boggles my mind that someone pays for a CMS. Given the abundance of free options what are they paying for?
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by chalcolithic 5y ago
Thank you for such a detailed reply. Couldn't the show stoppers be resolved with some work on the current plane? It's not like they've found out that the airframe is no good and they have to literally start from scratch, righ
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by chalcolithic 5y ago
I admit that I'm completly clueless when it comes to aircraft and I understand that the final price tag on F22/F35 is very upsetting but I don't understand why those programs cannot be salvaged. Couldn't those planes be
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by chalcolithic 5y ago
We generally don't remember how bad the internet search was before Google came along, but it was really, really bad. I have zero evidence but I'm pretty sure that some time ago some industry heavyweights asked themselves "Why
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by chalcolithic 5y ago
I always assumed SE got voting right because why else are they the top dog? I never felt any need for them to exist because programming forums (or usenet groups earlier) exised since forever and once Google give us usable search(sorry, Alta
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by chalcolithic 6y ago
Ironically the link is dead for me - access denied by Cloudflare. Will I ever see a side of Cloudflare that'll make me hate it a little less? They give me more grief then all the other CDNs combined.
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by chalcolithic 6y ago
Makes me wonder if structuring the school curriculum in a way that'll teach everyone to rebuild the technological civilisation from scratch to a fairly advanced level is a good idea.
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by chalcolithic 6y ago
> The lack of a JDBC-like API/SPI hurts many languages included Node and Rust. I always wondered what is a use case for Rust service that talks to a (non-local)database. First people pay borrow checker tax, get a chance to have an a
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by chalcolithic 6y ago
If you did that for money - that's OK. However if you love programming but aren't good at it - quitting is not the right move. I'm constant under-performer who failed to get a degree and failed many projects after that. I wou
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by chalcolithic 6y ago
Congrats on releasing it! The same idea was on my todo list for almost a decade:) Have you figured out how to promote it (that's what stopped me from implementing the thing)?
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by chalcolithic 6y ago
My first step when evaluating new (software development related) technology/product/service is to google Hacker News for it. Great value for the time spent. You may try cutting leisure browsing time and use HN as a tool.