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by cjohnson318 2y ago
TIL playing cards were printed with a blank reverse side that people used for scrap paper, lottery tickets, business cards, birth/death announcements, etc.
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
I think Rails's big contribution is the idea of convention over configuration. Maybe this my own myopia, but Django feels like Rails, and NextJS also borrows from Rails. I've only managed one Rails project in production, and I had
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
Honest question: is uv more reproducible/portable than cramming your Python project into a Docker container? I've used pyenv, pip, venv, and a couple of other things, and they all work fine, at first, in simple scenarios.
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
Okay, but what did you reasonably expect?
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
I think this is the thesis: > By telling the world directly what your community respects, you might induce them to change what they respect, or to join your community. I think we're all pretty clear what different communities value,
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
The Target brand Good & Gather eggs were $9.49 in Boulder Colorado this week.
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
Yep.
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
I read a short historical fantasy novella named The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson. It was very good, and it has interested me in Venice ever since. It's from 1987 but it's very gender-bendery and fun. These sound like great place
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
Oh man, I'm down. I have The Labyrinth of Solitude on my reading list, it's not pre-Columbian, but I think it's a cultural touchstone, and it's a Mexican writer, not some American that knows just enough Spanish. I read L
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
Game of Thrones. I was just making a (bad?) joke about the popular conception of things that happened between Caesar and Napoleon.
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
Such an excellent book. I get that it's a summary of 2,000 years in one medium sized book, but every single page was new to me.
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
Anything off of the beaten track of Pharoahs -> Greece -> Rome -> GoT -> WWII is pretty under-appreciated. I've been reading more about Byzantium, the Ottomans, and the Persians and it's been fascinating. We never real
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
I learned Spanish at a two year old level by focusing only on the top 24 verbs, in all (major) tenses first. So, ir, ser, estar, tener, haber, hacer, poner, poder, venir, ver, decir, dar, etc., in present, preterite, imperfect, future, cond
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
I'm not sure why this has been downvoted so much, this guy states something that might upset some people, but then goes on to provide a pretty sober list pros and cons. This is the kind of content that we want to encourage on HN.
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
Yeah, I know one kid that threw a chair in school. We use public education because I think it's good for kids to be independent at an early age. It can't be healthy to spend 16 years within bluetooth range of your parents at all t
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
To underscore your point, I've met 5 black engineers in 13 years as a software developer. To put this in perspective, my high school was 50% black, and my college was 30% black. Somehow I got where I am, but almost none of my classmate
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
Very important to be able to read the room on this one. Some people love to talk about themselves, and are turned off if you do not engage with them. Others are very private and don't want to discuss anything outside of work. A fair nu
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
We just talked about my development experience and management style. Gang of Four never came up, so the OOP thing was unexpected and confusing.
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
I'm 40; you're fine. I put down Instagram last year, and I never even think of it anymore. Your mind evolved over millions of years, "short form content" is not going to rewrite that. Once you delete that stuff off of yo
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
True that. I just got some "honest feedback" that I didn't agree with at all. I'm all for criticizing myself, but this feedback totally missed the mark. I didn't have deep enough experience with "object oriente
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
I'm more interested in how and why Avedis III decided to immigrate to America, the Armenian Genocide happened only a few years later. Either he saw the writing on the wall, or he picked a very, very lucky time to move a 300 year old bu
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
I've been contracting and taking care of legacy software this year. My initial parallel steps are to ask questions, read the code, write tests and literally any kind of documentation, all while trying to implement features. You can spe
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
You can have small languages, sure, but then you run into awkward extended clarifying clauses. The thing that makes languages difficult is that almost all vocabulary is sparse. The "Top N" words in a language are always pronouns,
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
> There's a bit of hand waving around installing Ruby (which is still more difficult than it needs to be). For real. I put together a simple Jekyll blog, and figuring out gems and this and that after not looking at Ruby for 15 years
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
There's nothing more annoying than putting my cursor on text, and then having a pop-up block that text.
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
Dude, flying snake is my favorite. I've had a pretty bad week, and this really made my day. I miss the weird internet, with sprites and CMYK bright green. Great job.
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
> I suspect that the cure-is-worse-than-the-disease thinking in places like Red America might not be nearly so strong. I think the anti-vaxx crowd will fight back much harder against vaccines in any future event, at least at first. They
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
What do you mean by "institutional settings"? I'm just talking about a daycare where my kid can learn their letters and make friends in the neighborhood. That's kind of an institution I guess, but I wouldn't describ
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
If the government wants to increase the birthrate, then they should something about childcare expenses, like make them tax deductable, instead of building OkCupid.gov. If we're just going to print funny money every year anyway, then us
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by cjohnson318 2y ago
Arabic is significantly more difficult for English speakers than a Romance language, but you're still able to draw a straight line from symbols to sounds. Once you learn the alphabet, sounding words out in your head isn't difficul

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