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   by chris_st 10y ago

   Quite a few of my dreams seem to be slightly scary situations (dangerous behavior of other drivers while I'm driving, for example). This makes me think that we have a "scenario generation" engine as part of our brains, and so
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   by chris_st 10y ago

   I think, also, that Toyota still seems to understand the idea of a long-term investment. Other brands seem to be seeking the "short term fix" that will sell more cars this year, in search of immediate profits. Hats off to Toyota.
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   by chris_st 10y ago

   > Biggest personality wins. I'd argue that a "big enough" personality (thinking of some past cow-orkers here) cause disruption and difficulty no matter what the situation. Right now we're hiring people with personalit
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   by chris_st 10y ago

   > documentation is only available in English As a native english speaker, I'd like to politely disagree with this phrase! (and that was the GP's joke... since they're using so many made-up terms, it effectively isn't
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   by chris_st 10y ago

   Ah, you're right. It's "just" a linter... but a pretty good one.
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   by chris_st 10y ago

   You might want to check out rubocop[1]. It does static checking, and we're pretty happy with it. 1: https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop
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   by chris_st 10y ago

   For folks just a little further into React, there's a great project called Storybook[1] which lets you put your JSON and React components, individually, into a really nice UI to try them out. Earlier HN discussion[2]. [1] https:&#x2F
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   by chris_st 10y ago

   I believe they're just soft links to the latest/appropriate version of the executable under the /nix/... directory.
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   by chris_st 10y ago

   Firebase does support a REST API that I've used successfully from Rails. So back-end access works pretty well.
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    by chris_st 10y ago

    Thanks for this reply -- it's so interesting to hear about what happens in other disciplines. One reason HN is so cool!
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    Thanks for the update! That's great it's profitable.
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    That's a great story, and it looks like a good game. Could you elaborate on Steam sales? Non-steam? Thanks!
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    > However, scientific study on this topic has been inconclusive. I remember reading of a study comparison that found that in the USA, where serif fonts are the norm, that serif fonts are more legible. In Europe, where sans-serif if mo
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    Very nice library! I think that the "no collapse" thing is the right way to go. It's simpler, and really no cognitive load... you can ignore any text in the article you want :-). Also, when you go back to the page, it's
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    Surely you've heard of Redox[1]? [1] https://github.com/redox-os/redox
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    > Good to see it's being commercialized... again? Swore he had a company. My reaction exactly :-) I got to attend their training in 2003, at Cycorp, which is still around [1]. Some REALLY amazingly smart people. I wonder if he&#x
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    I think it says a lot about how popular Go is in Korea that the games would even be on street signs like this.
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    I highly recommend "The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography" by Simon Singh. Really readable history of cryptography, without much math.
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    Took a philosophy class in college, where we read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Got a big shock about halfway through the book when I closed it and saw "Non-fiction" on the spine!
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    You might be interested in the SubUser[1] project, which does exactly this application siloing for Linux. [1] http://subuser.org
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    I second PopClip as a fantastic product, incredibly useful. Their DropShelf[0] tool is also useful, but not nearly as much as PopClip. But definitely worth the money. 0: https://pilotmoon.com/dropshelf/
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    > Who knows what Ctrl-K-X belongs to? WordStar?
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    Ah, thanks. I sit corrected :-)
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    Of course, but then 2 * 4 + 5. In Smalltalk evaluates to 18.
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    > I guess you need to be good with children in order for this to work. Not quite sure what you mean by this -- I'd think that saying compassionate things is not age-specific? Can you think of compassionate things to say to anyone?
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    I guess you have to do this to avoid the name clash with Tigris's delta[0], which is the default if you do `brew install delta`? I'm not sure this is the best solution. [0] http://delta.tigris.org
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    The problem is when other scientists do literature searches, Then the next problem is that journalists find something interesting and publish it as fact, and so both laymen and scientists are lead astray.
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    Are they ashamed of the software or something? I honestly can't comprehend why so many projects are so shy about telling us what they actually are! I think the thinking is that, "Hey, this is an announcement for us, and our frie
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    I believe that, with JetBrains tools, it installs its own JRE as part of the product installation (at least it does for RubyMine on OS X). So if your corporate overlords allow the IDE itself, you're good.
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    by chris_st 11y ago

    Emberconf 2015 was (as near as I could tell) 95% mac.