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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Lots alternative for mail, even self-hosted can be pretty polished. Google drive doesn't work on Linux so it's a non-starter for me. Have you looked at PCloud and Dropbox?
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Oh, so like python. Explains the poor performance. I did not know that. thanks.
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
I hate how Google Contacts and Calendar are so much superior to any other offer. I can easily find alternative to everything google except for those two. Especially true with Contacts I feel like I'm doxing everybody I add to it. I hav
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
So execution speed, fair enough. FWIW, I've been staying away from Clojure because of the JVM. A lot of us are wearing the scars of the JVM battles!
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
The JVM? What about the battle-tested Linux kernel? If you compile your racket apps to a native binary, you can run it directly on the Linux kernel, and benefit from 25 years of use in production! People deploy Golang and Rustlang apps ever
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
> I wouldn’t want to use racket for applications that would have thousands or millions of concurrent users. For programming in the large, clojure wins by a long shot. Can you explain why? Because it's been used more in big prod envs
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Great initiative. I often wonder why Racket isn't used more in the industry, especially when you see much more niche languages being used... One note about your site: You are subscribing people to a mailing list without sending a confi
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
> Why should a company use it over Clojure? Not wanting to support the JVM ecosystem.
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
It might take months to be be able to use its full power and be efficient (delivering at a high velocity), but as someone who was proficient in python but had never used pandas it took me just over a week to write a process to clean data an
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
I hadn't realised they only produce a desktop only, I was looking at their laptop line.
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
To each their own style. I am much more efficient with a track pad and 3 buttons. I wish they offered that as an option on their laptop line. A smaller touchpad is better for my workflow as I only use them for 2-finger scrolling and it leav
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
I would love to support them, but I need a trackpoint and 3 buttons.
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
And Usenet still exists.
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
And old.reddit.com.
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
> I've seen plenty of software engineers with guaranteed incomes settle into their jobs and slack off Make everybody a contractor! Let employers vote with their wallet. You slack off, you don't get renewed. I've been a con
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Twitter doesn't work if you want to know what's hot out there, because lack of threading, awkward interface, no possibility to organise by subject. Finally the need and concept of "following" people, but by default you d
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
> The feature was introduced in 2015 to replace “favourites”, a star-shaped button that allowed people to bookmark tweets to read later. I have been using "favourite"/"like", like a bookmark, so am I going to los
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
I wouldn't use it even it if were open source or public domain!
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
In my experience "regulatory wall" is created by not refreshing regulations often enough, and by corruption and lobbying creating regulation with the sole purpose of limiting competition, instead of protecting the consumer. We nee
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
In a lot of countries in Europe, it is difficult to fire somebody. The service issue is cultural, in two ways in fact: - in Europe a waiter constantly asking how it's going, is the food good, etc.. is considered intrusive, not &quo
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
But that's true for non-tip workers too. Service is a bigger thing in the US than it is in Europe. It's a cultural thing. Tips doesn't change that.
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
One of my kid threw a temper tantrum in a restaurant, so I walk with her to go sit in the car together till she calmed down. She was screaming and crying while we were walking and a stranger with a concerned look asked if she was my daughte
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Tips are an after the fact, unilateral, non negotiated contract. The only function they provide is a power trip. They should be discouraged. Industry where it has been traditional to tips take the freedom to cut nominal pay, and let custome
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
IMO society can solve cutting corners by bringing regulations and more competition, not less (more competition means service becomes a criteria when choosing). In fact, I'd want those regulations regardless of uber/lyft/tax
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
I have to disagree. Past a certain age, you will learn a lot from written material, and the difference between a language that is orthographically regular and one that isn't, is like night and day.
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
> it's considered less pretentious to use the English equivalent than to use the ten-dollar Hindi word. Why is that? Reverse snobism towards the upper or more educated classes? As an outsider who knows very little about Indian cultu
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
But spelling keeps changing. What's the origin behind "check", as in checkbook?
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Ask HN: Configuration Management for laptops?
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Have you thought about backing up storage providers (pcloud, Dropbox, google etc...)?
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
The problems with blogs and wikipedia is that they can be changed, or in the case of blogs disappear. For wikipedia, you should reference the specific version of the article, which will never change. For blogs, or wikipedia articles you fee

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