curiousGambler

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by curiousGambler 8y ago
Libraries find their roots in academic institutions, a context in which they are absolutely intended to be a place of study, not just a repository of books.
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by curiousGambler 8y ago
I disagree... 1000s of tutorials explaining how to do things incorrectly just leads to thousands of crappy productions deployments. I’d rather say, “no tutorial? Ok, to the docs like the old days,” than be misled by a shitty tutorial.
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by curiousGambler 8y ago
Yeah it's definitely odd, and rationally makes zero sense as you've pointed out, but feelings are weird, especially feelings of nostalgia and tradition.
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by curiousGambler 8y ago
No opportunities for US based footie fans?
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by curiousGambler 9y ago
Does Discord have any remote software engineering opportunities, or is everything on-site?
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by curiousGambler 9y ago
Any idea how they did it? Stenography or just catting things together like this example?
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by curiousGambler 9y ago
Care to elaborate? Edit: Cuz steaming? lol
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by curiousGambler 9y ago
Bagel, lox, cucumber and cream cheese has become my new favorite thing lately (bonus points for a squeeze of lemon, capers or some red onion if those things are to be found). However, I of course have no bagels or bagel accessories on the o
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by curiousGambler 9y ago
I get the impression Go runs the microservice space. It's built for it and is incredibly fast despite the GC. I don't see Rust claiming that position anytime soon.
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by curiousGambler 9y ago
Why anyone would name anything "clippy" again is beyond me.
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by curiousGambler 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editions_of_Dungeons_%26_Drago...
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by curiousGambler 9y ago
Or they're hiring them all so they all have conflicts of interest when the antitrust shit hits the fan and they end up in court.
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by curiousGambler 9y ago
My friend groups use it for dinner etc. despite most places being able to split checks because it's easier for us to figure it out amongst ourselves than burden some waitress with splitting it (even if their software makes it easy, the
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by curiousGambler 9y ago
Really? Interesting... can you elaborate/provide some reading? I'm a software engineer with a smidge of basic networking experience so not completely clueless, but definitely inexperienced with DOCSIS and this sort of residential
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by curiousGambler 9y ago
Out of curiosity, why is an AJAX post of JSON with credentials embedded bad practice?
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by curiousGambler 9y ago
This is one of two honest answers to this question, thank you. (The other is "I'm old enough to have been using text email since before graphical email clients were a thing and don't want to change.")
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by curiousGambler 9y ago
hehe my monitor is totally a reason I go into the office
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by curiousGambler 9y ago
should've used version control \s (truly sorry for your loss!)
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by curiousGambler 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what was the reason for the partial fast? And how did it affect you? +1 on the giant salad for minimal calories! If you don't use traditional, calorie packed dressings you can really fill up on a small amount of calor
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by curiousGambler 10y ago
> You’re lucky I wrote it. I read this, and was like "screw that, I'm not going to read it," and then was like, well let's see, and after reading, wish I had stuck with my initial gut instinct to close that tab. smh.
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by curiousGambler 10y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and am coming to the conclusion that it's similar to dead-weight loss in a taxation scenario. As a society we've accepted the "lower efficiency" and deadweight loss of rej
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by curiousGambler 10y ago
That and economies of scale forcing the small farm's prices higher. I do wonder how often small farms hide price discrimination behind "economies of scale" though.
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by curiousGambler 10y ago
I was at ng-conf a couple weeks ago. Talking to the Firebase guy at their booth, he goes "You should talk to the RethinkDB guys, it's the same thing but open source." I got a kick out of it.
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by curiousGambler 10y ago
Interesting! As an American I'd never heard that name for it. Usually it's called Collatz conjecture or the hailstone numbers in my experience. All those names and more are included on the Wikipedia page it seems: https:/&#x
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by curiousGambler 10y ago
Yes! Agile with a small 'a' is something I talk about at work too often. I don't want to be "Agile" but rather "agile" as in the definition of the word, "able to move quickly and easily."
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by curiousGambler 11y ago
I don't think we'll care quite so much that a 20 minute drive is now 25 minutes when we have wifi and sitting in the car is basically like sitting in our living room. Driving slow is only tedious when you're doing it, not whe
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by curiousGambler 11y ago
To be fair, I don't think the point of gource is to be "useful" so much as "cool and interesting"
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by curiousGambler 11y ago
In the same vein, gource is pretty cool. It shows the same sort of graph, but animated as it changes over time. So you can watch the project develop, and even see who was working on which files at which time. It's great to put up on a
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by curiousGambler 11y ago
"I'm not an expert, just a speculating Internet guy who has read (and listened to) relevant information from time to time" On the topic of languages, I wonder if the Germans have a word for this yet... If so, English speakers
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by curiousGambler 11y ago
I joke with my roommate that I should buy stock in that winery. I almost always have a bottle of their Carmenere on hand. I was also pleasantly surprised by the juicy fruitiness of their Pinot Noir, but haven't found it since! One note

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