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   by deeg 5y ago

   For myself, it's because it's physically prohibitive to have competing roads but it is possible in most cases to have competing internet providers. In general I am of the opinion that fostering competition results in the best inte
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   by deeg 5y ago

   I'm totally with you. Most of these lamentations are not people missing the old internet but their old selves, when everything was new and exciting. The OP rues the loss of Geocities but most of those sites were terrible and hard to r
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   by deeg 5y ago

   There is some irony in naming an ergonomic keyboard after a Soviet tank. WW II-era Russian tanks had the reputation (possibly unwarranted) of being horribly uncomfortable.
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   by deeg 5y ago

   What states are you comparing? Massachusetts and NYC locked down pretty hard and their post-April numbers look pretty good compared to, say, Texas, Florida, and South Dakota.
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   by deeg 5y ago

   I have hotkeys and chrome/firefox extensions to make it very fast to start and navigate a Google search. I don't have to remember all the different docs; I can use the same key-based workflow for all my searches. Over time I&#x27
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   by deeg 5y ago

   I'm an older developer and I google constantly. I deal with Java, Typescript, Scala, Ruby, Python, and bash on a regular basis and sometimes I forget the syntax or method for an operation. I can usually find it within seconds.
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   by deeg 5y ago

   I've been a fan of AR for years now and I use his rub and techniques. I've built my own temperature controller with a RPi so I can sleep soundly on those 24-hour cooks.
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   by deeg 6y ago

   This wiki page can explain why better than me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy
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   by deeg 6y ago

   I assume that Jeff has changed his mind on this because Discourse does not have down-votes (with the caveat that Discourse has a different audience from HN). I wonder what made the difference?
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    by deeg 6y ago

    Thanks! It's on the list :)
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    by deeg 6y ago

    Shameless plug : for a little while now I've been working on a project with others to try a different approach. We use a higher level abstraction that does a better job of modeling the data than language-level objects. This eliminates
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    by deeg 6y ago

    Thanks for the lengthy response! I wish I could try it out before buying one.
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    by deeg 6y ago

    > I have an older unicomp and a newer unicomp since the retooling last year. How does the newer unicomp compare to the Model M's? I have three Model M's (work, home, and spare). I bought a Unicomp around 2010 because it has U
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    by deeg 6y ago

    I've got you beat. :) I'm using a Model M from '86 and I have PC-AT -> PS/2 -> USB dongles. Still works great, though.
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    by deeg 6y ago

    I'm largely with you on HP. Most impressive was how JKR was able to keep Snape's loyal/evil question unresolved to the very end and still come up with a plausible explanation for it all. Rereading the whole series shows litt
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    by deeg 6y ago

    These kinds of articles come up occasionally about how good things were back on the day but I think it's largely due to forgetting all the problems, like: - BSOD - Running out of memory and trying to shift stuff to high mem. - Software
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    by deeg 6y ago

    I think there's some rose-tinted nostalgia going on with MySpace (which still exists). I remember being assaulted visually and aurally on so many pages that I stopped visiting them. I want there to be sites where people can let their
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    by deeg 6y ago

    Has any company created a pin-compatible clone of the Raspberry Pi Zero? I've got some projects that use the Zero but the hardware is starting to feel slow.
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    by deeg 6y ago

    #11 literally changed my life. I used to debate people online and get irrationally upset when I couldn't change their opinions. Reading that xkcd was like getting a dope slap. I still debate but I rarely let myself get upset and if
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    by deeg 6y ago

    I tell everyone who will listen that the people you work with are more important than the business space. One of my happiest jobs was writing software to process insurance claims. My most miserable job was working on interesting mathemati
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    by deeg 6y ago

    I have a theory that the developers who like Angular have a background in dynamic web frameworks. We're used to having an opinionated structure. Throwing in code that goes against the opinion leads to pain but if you work with it you
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    by deeg 6y ago

    I don't have a good answer. My original comment was just to point out that I don't believe social media can be treated like the telephone. From a legal/political standpoint SM is on new ground: a privately owned (i.e. non go
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    by deeg 6y ago

    I don't think it would work that well. Phone conversations are private and so there won't be much pressure to crack down on hateful or false conversations. Social media is very public. I'd say it's closer to radio than
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    by deeg 6y ago

    Agreed. His base cause appears to be "self interest" but hasn't that always been case? What's different about today that makes self interest a bigger influence? To reparaphrase a popular quote: those who forget about t
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    by deeg 6y ago

    I am very very pro-nuclear and I don't have any major disagreements with this article. However, any such article needs to also address accidents. I believe the most fervent anti-nukers fear accidents and while you'll never be ab
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    by deeg 6y ago

    Thanks for the summary! This is why I almost always come to the comments first.
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    by deeg 6y ago

    With hands-free phones I never felt like I was wasting my time on hold. However, this might save my sanity by not making me listen to the awful music over and over.
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    by deeg 6y ago

    I think the reason is slightly different. I worked for a web company that made most of its money on ads. Companies have an army of marketing "specialists" whose job it is to find "incremental revenue". Their performan
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    by deeg 6y ago

    Excellent and well-written answer. I hadn't considered the dead weight of the generator. It's more proof that questions with seemingly simple answers rarely exist in the real world. As a friend of mine (a data analyst) likes to
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    by deeg 6y ago

    The back-ticks and $? are shell standards so I would expect those to be familiar to shell scripters. I agree that if one knows nothing about any of the languages then neither is much better.