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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Not a great bit of writing. But sure, it's certainly true that people above the age of 35 who grew up thinking of themselves as liberal/left wing are going to have some discomfort with young progressives and their obsessions with
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I know people say Amanita muscaria is hallucinogenic, but my understanding is that it is pretty poisonous. Liberty Cap (Psilocybe semilanceata), on the other hand, is also common in Europe at least, and of course is well known to be very ha
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I think it makes more sense in context. The author is quite well-known and used to work for Microsoft.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I agree with this. You sound expert and provided a definition. I don't think we should expect serious professionals to mess around altering the words to make it look like it didn't come from the source that it did come from. In fa
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Yes, that’s how it worked. The rather major point you are missing is that things change.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Org-mode is amazing and has a lovely community. But I'm really not sure it's a good idea to use it for authoring LaTeX documents because that makes it impossible to work with others: however amazing org is, the fact is that it&#x2
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
US salaries are much more than salaries in, say Europe/UK (for software engineers). Is it worth maintaining US citizenship in order to make it easier to work remotely for US companies from outside the US?
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Yes, honestly, I love lisp, although my only claim to being a lisp programmer is that I'm the author of some emacs packages. But I have to admit that yes I've noticed a definite tendency for people in the emacs lisp community to
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
You write lisp without auto-inserting the closing paren when you open a paren? I honestly don't think that's a good idea. It's also something that's contributed to lack of lisp adoption -- people trying to write it witho
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Ruby has a GIL too, as far as I understand. Is the GIL in Ruby comparable to that in Python and present for similar reasons? If so, does that suggest that it's a genuine design constraint rather than a bad design decision? You don&#x27
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
You meant "other thread" rather than "other process", right? But that doesn't take much work at all -- just a mutable data structure as a global variable.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
There have been several idiotic comments by lisp proponents in this thread and this is one of the stupidest. You appear to be criticizing all programmers that use libraries. You, and your peers, are coming off as arrogant and ignorant hobby
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Do any non-emacses have anything like paredit?
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
You must indeed be getting very old. The purpose of the library is not to implement its own landing page.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Dawkins has an excellent chapter/essay on the fig/wasp relationship. At the end of Climbing Mount Improbable I believe.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I did say "read". Clearly anyone can do that if you put it on github. I also think that if you put your code publicly on github you shouldn't be surprised if people copy snippets from it. But I really have much less faith in
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
If your code is on public github you’re evidently happy for people to read it. VS code is open source.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Don’t be silly, that’s not a hard question to answer. Because github is by far the world’s largest accessible repository of source code. Training on microsoft’s code would be incredibly restrictive and only cover some languages. Actually so
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
These people place more importance in their dogma than they do in human progress.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
The trouble with comments is that good taste as well as intelligence is required of the comment author. If you cast your mind over your colleagues you see the problem.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
OK thanks I didn't know and deserve my downvotes!
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Ah OK thanks I had no idea. I gladly accept my downvotes!
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
That's not how to use the word "bollocks".
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Ah. Good point. The cheques/checks!
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
That might not be a Japan thing: in the late 1990s / 2000s the US was behind Europe (as well as many bits of first-world Asia I guess) with respect to cell phones and consumer banking. For example, free SMS messages came late to the US
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
On the contrary, it is inappropriate to pander to silly people who have “sensitivity to where information comes from”. You just have to read that phrase to see how wrong it is. The very nature of information (as opposed to opinion) is that
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Is the following at all reasonable? REST is for when you are building an API for broad “public” consumption (where “public” might mean public within your company). But many teams are actually building APIs for a very narrow audience; often
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
(This is a criticism of the literature on education, not of the Show HN project) > Three Learning Problems > Attention, Retention, Reflection This sort of stuff is such nonsense. Notice anything missing there? How about “Understanding
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Yeah tab didn’t work for me either. But then I turned off tab for autocomplete in settings and that seemed to fix it. I didn’t understand, but try it.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Agree with your sentiment. But there is a solution: You: “Great, that might be good. Please stay here while we write and run the tests for that. (Our engineering handbook emphasizes how important tests are, as you know.)”

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