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by dbrueck 3y ago
A long time ago I gave up on trying to convey much meaning in version numbers, and have used YYYYMMDDBB (BB = build number for that day, starting at 0) for well over a decade, and I love it. There are many 'pros' to this approach:
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Well, it was soon after they really got their shipping rhythm going. I got mine in the mail, it sat on my desk for a few weeks because I was busy with other stuff, and it made me sad to just have it sit there unused. I wasn't completel
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Sold mine for $300 on ebay.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Unfortunately, this take is overly simplistic for a lot of scenarios (I'm looking at you, broadcast TV).
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Infuriating fact if you have to deal with historical time stuff: in the U.S., it used to be that not only could each city decide whether or not it observed DST, it could also decide on its own when DST began and ended. It was this way unt
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by dbrueck 3y ago
For fun you should also release it as an Electron app, without even a hint of irony.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
His points are why I like Svelte. YMMV, but for me it hits the sweet spot of not having to do a lot of stuff by hand like we did in the jQuery (and earlier) days while also not being this massive, intrusive thing.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Anecdata: I know several life coaches and the main thing they have in common is that their personal lives are all a hot mess. It's one of the most depressing examples of "those who can't do, teach".
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I love iTunes, in the sense that I credit it with being the thing that got me to abandon the Apple ecosystem. I don't miss the constant battle with that cursed program.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Yeah, it is in fact very sensible. The following is an uncharitable take but here goes: the stereotypical social media conservationist will be 100% anti-logging because there's no room for nuance - you either love the planet or you&#x2
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Be sure to make complete use of any subsidies you can get through the marketplace. For example, if you saved up some money to live off of while you get your business going, it's very possible that your net income for the year could be
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Self-employed since 2009 (can't believe it's been that long). Started out doing dev-for-hire work with a friend: web sites and mobile apps mostly. Along the way we built up a "war chest" to self-fund something of our own
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I wonder if it would make more sense for the previously-traversed UI to move off to the side, rather than having the user move to follow it, as a way to reduce the amount of mouse travel required from the user. They'd always need to mo
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> blind faith as in the US That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with there, friend!
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Darn, I wish they had named it breakout wars instead.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I think the problem is that if you can't fix whatever is causing your body to attack your own pancreas first, it doesn't really matter if you're able to slowly regenerate the insulin-producing cells - you can't make any
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by dbrueck 3y ago
From the public info at least, this is one of the better examples of how to handle layoffs: generous severance, an apology that sounds sincere, a reasonable amount of info, etc. To the commenters saying this is just about juicing profits: o
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Hehe, to me these contrarian comments are strongly reinforcing my point about overzealous pedantry. :) Of course the specific string '6174' is specific to base 10, but the idea itself can be applied to other bases. Here are some
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> It's just a coincidence that only works in base-10. What? Not at all. In fact, trying it in other bases, as well as with other numbers of digits (in both base 10 and other bases), is a useful way to get some insights into why it h
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Eh, I don't know - it doesn't really add much value most of the time, because these days more or less everyone uses base 10 by default, so it's entirely reasonable to assume base 10 unless stated otherwise. An argument again
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> devs passionate about programming languages, python is a relic they hope vanish Statements like this are obviously untrue for large numbers of people, so I'm not sure of the point you're trying to make. But certainly it'
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by dbrueck 3y ago
To each his own, but the things you list are largely subjective/inaccurate, and there are many, many, many developers who use Python because they enjoy it and like it a lot.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
If you're interested in learning more about the challenges and tradeoffs, both Jython ( https://www.jython.org/ ) and IronPython ( https://ironpython.net/ ) have been around for a long time and there'
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> Sorry, but that makes zero sense. Well, I hate to break it to you, but I've been using Python in large production environments for nearly a quarter of a century now and either I'm just extraordinarily lucky, or it does in fac
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Yes! Python has worked tremendously well in those scenarios - the things that make it good for small projects can scale up very, very well. Similarly, I've worked on very large, multi-team projects where the language was statically typ
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by dbrueck 3y ago
But for the people using the tools, that's largely a distinction without a difference.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Well, thank you very much, because I'm really enjoying it. So far I've only tried Netflix and PhrasePump, but both are very helpful. I'm honestly surprised by how well the Netflix integration works. I have a good friend from
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Your comment sent me down a rabbit hole that led me to https://www.languagereactor.com/ and it's great so far. Thanks!
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> I thought that this would look for unique words rather than just cycle through all words It appears to be cycling through all unique words.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Linkception, sheesh. Here's the story with /one/ layer of links removed: https://thenewstack.io/donald-knuths-2023-christmas-lecture-...

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