djur

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by djur 3y ago
Historically, one of the defining characteristics of "civilized" peoples has been their capacity for spectacular mass bloodshed. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be any meaningful correlation between the ability to create great a
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by djur 3y ago
Which organs are you referring to?
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by djur 3y ago
A lot of what Phoenix has to offer comes from Elixir language features and the Mix build tool. To the extent it's possible I can't imagine it would be pleasant or useful.
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by djur 3y ago
What greenhouses do you mean?
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by djur 3y ago
I pretty much only ever see DHH saying it.
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by djur 3y ago
Most people might agree with that, I don't know, but I know I don't think your first example is clearer. And I've had the operator precedence rules memorized for decades. Parentheses save my brain a step. The second example i
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by djur 3y ago
Hey, a true code stylist will stand out even after the autoformatter does its work. ;) It's good to have Rubocop included by default, but I wonder how many teams are using the "omakase" Rails at this point? I don't think
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by djur 3y ago
If the company is already going under, why not do something kind before you go? Isn't preventing needless pain the right thing to do? This kind of seems like treating people badly just because one won't be around to receive any co
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by djur 3y ago
Why wouldn't I?
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by djur 3y ago
Python, Ruby, Perl. Languages where hashmaps are a builtin.
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by djur 3y ago
I used to use Dillo on a MacBook 3400c that I'd installed Linux on. That and Links. It's nice to see it again. I'm curious how much of the web is usable with it. Many of my favorite websites are still pretty basic HTML.
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by djur 3y ago
The comment you replied to wasn't complaining that the meme was being misused, but that the original tweet itself misconstrued the book it was referring to. This isn't a prescriptivism vs. descriptivism situation, it's a matt
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by djur 3y ago
It looks like all of the emergency notification features are available in the free version. The data is obtained from public agencies. I know in the US there's a wide variety of apps that present data from NOAA and that you can also ge
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by djur 3y ago
Why not use the name? It's very memorable.
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by djur 3y ago
This goes way back. Over a century ago a guy named his beef extract after the Victorian equivalent of the Force from Star Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril
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by djur 3y ago
It's real and has existed for several years. They licensed the name and branding from the Evangelion rightsholders. It got attention today because their Twitter account got rate-limited due to frequent updates related to the earthquake
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by djur 3y ago
There's a product called "Soylent" and a company called "Palantir" -- lots of precedent for this kind of thing.
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by djur 3y ago
Implicit tail-call elimination outside the context of tail-recursive algorithms causes behavior that is surprising to programmers working in languages where stack traces are used for debugging (i.e. it removes frames from the stack and obsc
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by djur 3y ago
"if" comes before the condition, "?" comes after. For a lot of people this seems to significantly improve readability.
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by djur 3y ago
This style isn't efficient in JS, though, because it produces a ton of garbage to collect. TCO doesn't really make it more efficient, just possible.
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by djur 3y ago
The article doesn't explain why (and it should) but it does mention that this version is very slow and offers a version that doesn't have the same problems.
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by djur 3y ago
Ironically, this is a case where one of Lua's most controversial features comes in handy. Tables can be initialized with both named and sequential members. In this case, "class" is a named member and the `input` element is se
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by djur 3y ago
The Horse and his Boy is unadaptable at this point. You'd have to change too much for it to be filmable.
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by djur 3y ago
Like 75% of it is a great adventure story, but boy, that remaining 25% is rough sailing.
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by djur 3y ago
Nah, Dawn Treader is extremely Christian and it's my second favorite. I just don't think it tells a very engaging story. It's a static narrative that spends most of its time in the same few places. A lot of the major events h
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by djur 3y ago
I agree with you on this. Chronological, or chronological with omissions (perhaps with later backfill), is always a good choice. With Discworld I can see people choosing to read just subseries. (I read Discworld completely out of order and
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by djur 3y ago
I can't imagine how jarring the transition between _The Magician's Nephew_ and _The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe_ must be if you read them in that order for the first time. They're tonally very different -- Nephew feels
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by djur 3y ago
I eat stuff with bones in it all the time, as do most humans. I was a vegetarian for years and the inclusion of gelatin in foods where it isn't immediately obvious was certainly annoying. As was the inclusion of non-vegetarian products
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by djur 3y ago
For a lot of tech startups the underlying business domain can be nebulous and change significantly over time, and then you end up with substantial organizational debt. Well-established firms can get away with (and benefit from) more differe
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by djur 3y ago
Who is that? Google isn't turning anything up.

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