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by dpeck 6y ago
I've often had thoughts of opening up a little web shop that anonymously shipped copies of The Mythical Man-Month in bulk.
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by dpeck 6y ago
I know it sound silly, but I find that it goes really well with an audio book. It's a nice way to chill out at the end of the day if I don't have the energy to hack away on anything. Having something to do with my hands while list
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by dpeck 6y ago
stow is pretty great http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to...
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Forget the MBA. Here’s the fastest way to become a product manager(hackernoon.com)
2 points by dpeck 6y ago|0 comments
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Slashdot Moderation(slashdot.org)
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by dpeck 6y ago
Sometimes you just have to draw the owl.
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by dpeck 6y ago
All other things being equal (and of course they never are), it seems like organizing in a homogenous cultural environment would be much easier than otherwise.
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by dpeck 6y ago
depends on how you define "old". My personal observation-driven wild guess would be that the 40-65 year old demographic would be overrepresented in anything presented by Facebook. They are by far the most active there.
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by dpeck 6y ago
this would probably be a lot better as a link to the article vs an ask hn
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by dpeck 7y ago
My mistake, I was wrong. They allow use, but it has to have its own power supply https://www.delta.com/us/en/accessible-travel-services/assis...
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by dpeck 7y ago
At least on Delta flights they’re not allowed to be used, I’m not sure if the same policy exists on other airlines. Edit: I was wrong, see below
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by dpeck 7y ago
it's amazing how the media takes the bait on silly things like this every time. I would like to understand how the profession as a whole hasn't had a moment of realization about trolling and how they're being used. They'
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by dpeck 7y ago
Just letting them “be”, and guide their learning themselves. And taking more time to call them over to watch me do something like using socket wrench to tighten up some bolts in a dining room chair, or see me or my spouse making something i
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by dpeck 7y ago
I don't know, if its reasonably insulated a person and a laptop can get a space comfortable fairly quickly and a little space heater has no problem with something that small in all but the coldest weather.
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by dpeck 7y ago
it's basically a green house, it is going to get uncomfortably hot and humid during 5 or so months of the year in most of North America. The single room air conditioners by mitsubishi would be a great option for a space like this thoug
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by dpeck 7y ago
Feels like an easy pivot to quarantariums where you can keep family and friends safely contained for 2 weeks before allowing them into your home while being able to keep an eye on them.
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by dpeck 7y ago
the difference is a copy and paste from an older StackOverflow post.
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by dpeck 7y ago
Underrated game. It’s well made, and I’ll binge on it for a day or so 2-3x a year.
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The furlong–firkin–fortnight (FFF) system(en.wikipedia.org)
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by dpeck 7y ago
The App Store + screen size is the killer app for iPad.
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by dpeck 7y ago
That’s what everything is. And we shouldn’t short programmers for doing the same thing. Even cutting edge research or new developments in any field are built on lifetimes of other people’s work. It’s always been that way, and it’s one of th
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by dpeck 7y ago
100%, The Social Network soundtrack that was Reznor and Atticus Ross project is my go to for deep focus work.
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by dpeck 7y ago
Sibling comment here mostly covered it, toolchain is kind of all over the place and build times are way faster with swiftui on my 2015 MacBook. Also with Combine and associated bits there is a lot less boilerplate around state that doesn’t
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by dpeck 7y ago
No kidding. I really like swiftui, the declarative model is great and it’s so much less of a pain than React-native, but trying to decipher the error messages for it while I was learning swift was comically bad at times.
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by dpeck 7y ago
fwiw, our experience has been lackluster and frustrating. My child is in public elementary school, in the inclusive class (special ed and non special ed in same class). So there are 2 teachers and they split the subjects Language arts/
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by dpeck 7y ago
| "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper." Sadly this is the exact opposite of how I prefer to eat :/ Excluding the occasional Saturday mornings when I enjoy making a big breakfast of waffle
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by dpeck 7y ago
in my experience it is very popular to do in older demographics.
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by dpeck 7y ago
| This is why we shouldn't suspend building codes to quickly build hospitals "The hotel was a seven-story steel structure, built in 2013 and converted to a hotel in 2018, according to Xinhua" It doesn't appear to me that
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by dpeck 7y ago
Whether someone is a “digital native” or not has everything to do with whether they’re 1) interested in creating something, and 2) what they’re interested in creating. I may think they’re really missing out on everything that a computer&#x2
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by dpeck 7y ago
This should result in an immediate extra year of scholarship eligibility for any of the kids effected.

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