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by dilandau 6y ago
This is exactly what PushBullet was hoping would happen, so I don't know why they're surprised. Everyone loves a good "Google's algorithms are destroying my livelihood and I have no recourse" story... Why? Because i
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by dilandau 6y ago
C++ was big. Comfortable navigating a very large and complex codebase, being able to understand complex rules-based systems, and of course knowledge of equities and financial markets. But they'll teach you everything you need to know a
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by dilandau 6y ago
I remember going blind to the "Update adobe reader" popups back in 2005 when I was using Windows XP. I can't imagine it's gotten better in the past 15 years.
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by dilandau 6y ago
That is short term assistance, it won't be free (taxpayers will have to help cover this), and when it runs out then what? In other words, I think you completely fail to understand the impact this is having on the poorest people. If the
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by dilandau 6y ago
I'm hopeful that more states will follow this lead. At the outset the shutdowns have undoubtedly helped prevent a massive tide of sickness that would have overwhelmed the healthcare system. Let's not forget that this was always th
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by dilandau 6y ago
I am learning to spin a pen around my thumb. I am getting there. The spins are starting to be pretty aesthetic.
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by dilandau 6y ago
It's so difficult to imagine a) getting ahold of someone at Google who can actually help you, and b) having some sense of assurance that they will actually help you. "Google deleted my X" posts always rise to the top on H
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by dilandau 6y ago
I suspect at this point it will require a new interpreter to fully address the deeply-embedded assumptions about memory access and bytecode execution in CPython. This has been tried many times, though, with only PyPy really seeing much trac
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by dilandau 6y ago
>We hear you and are eagerly looking to improve things. Joking aside, isn't this just what people should come to expect from the company that has always tried to normalize the "no support and no service" model? If these an
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by dilandau 6y ago
Completely agree. HTTP isn't affected by any of the politicking going on in Mozilla, but it certainly affects users. Purporting to be a user-agent, Mozilla (and to a degree the other big browsers) have taken away a few of the sharp obj
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by dilandau 6y ago
What with the virus and how it played out in nyc I wouldn't be surprised to see a large migration out of cities in the coming years.
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by dilandau 6y ago
Ignoring the awful attempt at conversational writing, this is bad news for Americans in the long term. Short term we add liquidity, allow hedge funds to delever, and prop up a market everyone wants to crash. Longer term the taxpayers (indiv
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by dilandau 6y ago
Nice take. Yes design/frontend has rarely been about actual design. Backend web has rarely been about engineering either, I'd say. Just look at all the elastic search engines left open to the public internet as proof of unconscion
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by dilandau 6y ago
Xfce is undoubtedly my favorite, but it's gradually adopting all the trendy crap they're strongarming into gtk. Expect full client side decorations and super huge widgets in the next release.
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by dilandau 6y ago
What would I do without you, Debian? Thanks team for all the work, if you happen to see this. It is very appreciated.
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by dilandau 6y ago
More to the point is that a bunch of dumbasses were speculating on oil futures without understanding the nature of the market, and no ability to take delivery on the oil in any event. Nobody should be holding those when they're so clos
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by dilandau 6y ago
That doing the right thing, even when it seems unfair, even when I shouldn't have to, always works out for the best. Doing the selfish thing, even if I'm justified, even if it makes sense, ultimately never leads to getting what I
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by dilandau 6y ago
PHP is great. Nothing comes near as close when you just want to shit some SQL-queries onto a page, or add some basic interactivity. Just drop your scripts in /var/www and let apache do the rest. It's like magic.
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by dilandau 6y ago
The fed bailed out the fucking junk bond market, but we'll see lots of legit companies go bankrupt in the next few years as this plays out. Politicians have confused the shutdown. It was intended to reduce the likelihood of overwhelmin
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by dilandau 6y ago
Just wear a mask.
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by dilandau 6y ago
Imagine using githovel. Just host it yourself.
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by dilandau 6y ago
This has to be the lowest-effort bait I've seen in a while. Rather than point out all the things wrong with this question, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader.
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by dilandau 6y ago
I guess if you're larping as Google it helps to have a list of the lore. I prefer to stick to the Unix Canon myself.
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by dilandau 6y ago
Interesting venue to post this on. But as it's the afternoon in the US workday, it's a fair chance that many responses will come from US tech workers who are slacking off or taking a break from their job and were enticed in by the
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by dilandau 6y ago
Since the author appears to be in the comments, I'll ask here: What benefits does this provide for the common Nginx usage (reverse proxy to a number of Python/etc application servers)? I see automatic HTTPS and HTTP/2. Am I m
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by dilandau 6y ago
I am surprised to see a high-profile software engineer take this step. It seems from the post that his motivation was mostly in protest to the company's efforts to shut-down any form of worker organization. It's these strange ways