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by edw 6y ago
Or coffee shops.
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by edw 6y ago
My intuitive understanding of Quora, formed about five years ago, is that it’s a WikiHow with VC mojo.
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by edw 6y ago
Amen. Not to mention the non sequitur replies from randos trying to insert themselves, grasping for fifteen milliseconds of microcelebrity. I recently read HG Wells’s Island of Dr Moreau; the protagonist describes one of Moreau’s creatures,
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by edw 6y ago
I'd like to advocate for remote development environments. Most of my day is spent typing into a tmux session on a cloud-hosted box. (I picked up a Magic Keyboard for my 11" iPad Pro, and thanks to Blink it's a great glass ter
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by edw 6y ago
Me too! It was bundled with OS X server, which I was running on the G4 Cube that got relegated to utility box status when I went all-in on laptop life.
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by edw 6y ago
This article touches on something that I really enjoyed about (the early days) of Perl 5, and I think it may body well for the future of the language. You could write Perl 5 like it was just a better Perl 4. All of the craziness with module
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by edw 6y ago
My understanding is that Android existed not to pursue the goal of "winning," whatever that would have been, but to prevent Apple from running away with the show. Chrome was the same thing, though the competitor was Microsoft. Goo
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by edw 6y ago
There’s a lot of gross stuff that your ISPs (which includes your mobile phone provider) do to further monetize your relationship with them, and having a VPN can negate that. ISPs can observe your DNS lookups to their servers and assemble a
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by edw 6y ago
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these babies…
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A Braille Unicode Framebuffer Library for the Terminal in C89(github.com)
1 points by edw 6y ago|0 comments
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by edw 6y ago
In other screen-related news, I recently ditched my LG 24” 4K display and replaced it with Sidecar and one of my iPads. What a change in perspective! While with the large external display, my MacBook’s internal display felt like an irritati
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by edw 6y ago
If the problem is not that Google is (not) stealing Wikipedia’s clicks but instead is stealing the clicks —- and, more accurately, content — of other, for profit, sites then why go with that headline? Because it’s good clickbait. I’m pret
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by edw 6y ago
For many of the tools that have improved my productivity, it was not the tool that was the breakthrough but the realization of the tool’s value. For example, version control has existed since the beginning of time practically, and I begru
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by edw 6y ago
Occasionally I fall asleep and awake to a channel like this, usually one showing science television content with an extremely active stream of real-time commenters. This gestalt of this channel is nearly identical. Has anyone written up an
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by edw 6y ago
I can confirm that AppleSoft ][ BASIC stored its programs in memory in tokenized form. On another note, I went ahead and wrote a code emitter, because I couldn't wait for part three (though I noticed it's in the GitHub repo). Once
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by edw 6y ago
Passion can cut more than one way. It’s quite possible that the poster you replied to is, as you said, super passionate and is turned off by Take Two’s hardball tactics to the point that they don’t purchase the game when it’s released.
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by edw 6y ago
A former client of mine had a Linode box running the app another of his connsultants hosted on some random Ubuntu Linux box. It ran for ten years with the occasional (once every couple months) restart. The ancient Python 2.x version the app
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Ammon Bartram Apology Email for Triplebyte Profiles(gist.github.com)
4 points by edw 6y ago|0 comments
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by edw 6y ago
Perhaps. Something happened between those first-generation web sites where you were writing SQL by hand -- so you could just as easily be writing (injection-attack-prone) queries that made use of stored procedures etc -- and today. A big
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by edw 6y ago
MySQL's rise IMO cannot be considered without also looking at the rise of Ruby on Rails and other CRUD-optimized platforms and frameworks. Also ORMs. These things denigrated the idea of using an RDBMS as anything but a dumb table store
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by edw 7y ago
I disagree. The author's point is that if you have a network connection, you can view it as: * A medium with a series of photons or EM waves propagating in one or both directions. * An exchange of packets between two boxes. * … * A con
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by edw 7y ago
And yet he is, per the PDF, acquitted.
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by edw 7y ago
Joel Spolsky wrote about this in detail, OMG, fifteen years ago: > There’s no software priced between $1000 and $75,000. I’ll tell you why. The minute you charge more than $1000 you need to get serious corporate signoffs. You need a line
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by edw 7y ago
The boring low-risk unsexy thing that works is often underrated. I didn't choose CF — at the time I argued that it was a tool for scrubs, but the VPE said, "Hey, I know it, and I know it can do the job." We launched that CF-
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by edw 7y ago
Nor greater than zero. https://rew-online.com/paramount-sells-zero-bond-street-for-...
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by edw 7y ago
The process of building things is embedded in various contexts. As is the process of being paid to build things. And those contexts are themselves embedded in other contexts. There are first-, second-, third-, nth-order "smart"
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by edw 7y ago
It was all very start-uppy. What were you using to build your commercial web applications in 1996 if not CGI? Mod_perl did not even exist until 1995, and FastCGI didn't exist IIRC until after Netscape released their enterprise server.
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by edw 7y ago
OMG you cannot know how many times some SwiftUI thing has worked fine on my iPhone but not on the simulator … that was simulating my iPhone model running my iOS version.
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by edw 7y ago
What you’re describing is so hard to convey to people. In 1994 the we were building raised-floor data centers with halon for suppressors and marveling at our 2GB behemoth UNIX boxes. And writing our own web application framework using CGI.
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by edw 7y ago
Additionally, I don’t think such a rating system would work absent some sort of collaborative filtering system. One person’s ten is another person’s zero. That said, if you had a date with a ten, would you want to share that information?

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