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by dorfsmay 8y ago
32 works both ways. You're a developer/sysadmin/SRE/other, you're stuck, going to miss a deadline, made a mistake, tell your lead and PM as soon as possible. Things do not get better when you wait. Every hour you de
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
I'm surprised not to see any mention of AsciiDoc, I know that it is what some publishers use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc
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This would work, but could only be implemented for longer than a political mandate if all politicians agreed it were a good thing. Today we have politicians that run their campaign promising to cut taxes on gas, and it works, because the av
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
> Cool stuff but not exactly new tech They explain that in the article, and the fact that it newer tech and lighter columns to get a net benefit. Having grown up in France, I knew about Cousteau's Alcyone (it was a big deal at the t
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Even more relevant, is the irony here: https://twitter.com/bagder/status/1032528721348100096 Not only does the Department of Homeland Security trust Daniel Stenberg enough to use the software he has written, but t
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
What about lighting? In Calgary it's dark from 18:00 to 09:00 in December, but only from 23:00 to 05:30 in July.
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Temporary and if it needs an answer, answer only makes sense if near immediate: use IM (slack etc...) Just an FYI that everybody needs to know or needs an answer regardless of when you can answer: use email Information that is valid until a
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" ordinary Americans also refused to defer to those possessing, as Tocqueville put it, superior talent and intelligence and these natural elites could not enjoy much share in political power as a result." https://en.wik
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Loans and mortgages were sold by the banks to other companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage-backed_security A lot of mortgages changed hands several times, the original bank who setup the mortgage would have
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
It's well beyond not being elegant: Exports are fine for when you want to move, but typically too late when the server you use and its data disappear. Do Mastodon evangelists advertise the fact that you need to do frequent export? I fo
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Isn't the concept of local servers making it easier to create a bunch of echo chambers? I haven't even tried Mastodon because my understanding of identify is tied to a server rather than an email or a gpg key... so outside of your
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As another atheist/naturalist, I always find interesting how members of one religion found the mythology of another religion "ridiculous" and worth making fun of, but want the mythology of their own religion to be taken serio
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Machine learning has been around with no success from an industrial point of view until very recently. Until fairly recently, nobody cared and few understood big O notation. Recent prog languages have added syntax to avoid issues such as &q
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Anybody played with the brand new XAR from Facebook? https://code.fb.com/data-infrastructure/xars-a-more-efficien...
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I paid for OS/2 and Next, but ended going to Linux because it had all the apps I needed and was getting patched a lot faster. Also, I have bought brand new laptops which come with a version of windows, so if money was the issue I'
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My question was more about which program language, which Lisp to choose in 2018?
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A better question is what value (to you, not to LinkedIn!) does the linked mobile apps has that the browser interface doesn't have?
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Which one though? I have looked at LISPs, but it's difficult to pick one to invest time in. Because I am so restricted on time I have to stick to languages which are used in the industry (so my fun has real-life ROI), which I think boi
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
> "Python fits your brain" For me, I find using python is like touching both data and code with my hands. As much as it's trendy to bash Object Oriented languages, the way python allows to lookup all variables and method o
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Refrigerators functions haven't changed much, but their prices seem to go up over time, yet their reliability and life expectancy goes down. Also parts are priced such that it's cheaper to buy a new one if you expect a second faul
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
When I listen to Noam Chomsky I often think he exaggerates, and then this! And like the article points to, this is not specific to Trump or Bush, but also Clinton and Obama. I would love to know what U.S. citizens who have put thought into
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"watched as they intentionally inserted lower-quality capacitors rather than standard ones on the motherboard, because this one is going to last this exact amount of time and not a month more." This is seriously concerning. I rece
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
But do you need that much? A lot of people drink out of habit, also a lot of drinks make you thirsty.
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by dorfsmay 8y ago
Same here, I'm much more productive with a track point and three buttons. I feel trapped buying Thinkpad (which have slowly become less and less robuste and well-designed) the same way some people in here say they feel trap buying Mac.
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> tolerating the slightly thicker build, which is inevitable for highly serviceable machines I'm in the same boat, and I actually think the lack of serviceability is a feature. On the x220 you can change the disk, the memory and the
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Think a better definition of Idris would be Haskell with theorem proving and not forcing lazy everything. It's compiled with C compiler or to JavaScript currently, no JVM implementation. You might be confused with Scala.
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> it is painfully obvious that OO/LO cuts corners at certain places. For example, the mathematics of Calc is intentionally bugged What about Gnumeric? My understanding is that the dev team (mainly Jody Goldberg really) have focused
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To add to the parent poster's advice of looking for somewhere else and not participte (which will take huge efforts and sacrifices), in the same lines of reasoning that we are what you eat, that we are the sum of our habits, we also ev
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I have no data, and I personally use Linux and track point equipped machines, but my observation is Mac fans paying for their computers with their own money are not buying the new macs. I suspect that the sales number are reflecting corpora
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This is a weird statement. Do you also find it's a shame airplanes are no longer the iconic tail dragger with huge propellers? Iconic british firefighter helmet use to be leather than metal. There are very good reason why they have bee

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