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by fdw 5y ago
> You don't need more routines. You need the routine you'll do 50 or 100 times. Honest question from someone with just anecdotes and no data: Is it preferable to do the same routine regularly over different routines (equally of
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by fdw 5y ago
I missed an emoji picker for Linux. I couldn't find anything that was not integrated into Gnome/KDE or maintained. So I set out to write one myself, just a simple Python script with rofi. I uploaded it to Github, because maybe som
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by fdw 5y ago
I think an important part is that ascenders and descenders are in approximately the same position as before.
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by fdw 6y ago
Thanks, this is neat. I love to see where the people are that liked my software so much they starred it. Makes it a bit more real that they're actual people and that all the time I spent on it is worth it. So far, I've been using
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by fdw 6y ago
I agree that the Bitwarden cli is awful. You have to log in, and store the token it gives you manually so that it knows you're logged in. However, I found https://github.com/doy/rbw , and alternative OSS cli writt
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by fdw 6y ago
That depends a bit on whether the language you want to support is already supported by your platform (Alexa, say). If it is, it can be as easy as gettext. It can also be a bit harder because you want to take cultural behavior for conversati
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by fdw 6y ago
Thanks, that's a very kind offer :) Consider it just some basic help on your journey.
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by fdw 6y ago
Quick heads-up: There are some grammar problems on your landing page (e.g. "it can be send out to multiple email address like mail group." should be "it can be sent out to multiple email addresses like a mail group."), a
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by fdw 6y ago
I'm sorry, I'm not sure, I totally understand your argumentation. You seem to be against vague rules ("My experience is that vague rules are both a recipe for corruption [...]"), with which I agree. That's why I wan
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by fdw 6y ago
> And unreasonable people don't care about lines and rules. I agree with this statement. Having or not having a CoC will not change their behavior, nor should it change your response. But the response to your response can differ: If
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by fdw 6y ago
While I agree that a CoC should be no surprise to anyone with common sense, it still makes sense to me to have them: First, there are people without common sense. Sooner or later someone will not adhere to the unwritten rules and ask "
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by fdw 6y ago
> but from within the rendering application. I'm not sure if you imply that the emoji glyphs are not from a font, because they usually are. To display emojis well, you should have your normal font setup, plus one font for emojis (li
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by fdw 6y ago
> Javascript is a great language for building UIs I disagree. It is easy to build something presentable with HTML and browsers, and there have been many JS frameworks that lower the barrier. However, that is not because JS is a good lang
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by fdw 6y ago
Some plugins that saved me lots of typing with zsh: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/master/plugins/histo... looks through your history and only shows entries that started with the same chara
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by fdw 6y ago
The advantage of autojump - at least for me - is that it doesn't depend on the shell, as it is implemented in Python. This makes it possible to read and write the data elsewhere, too, independent of your shell. For example, I integrate
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by fdw 6y ago
Instead of z, I use https://github.com/wting/autojump , which is written in Python. This has the benefit that you can call it from outside the shell, too. Since I also love ranger as a file manager, I wrote my own integ
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by fdw 8y ago
Some time ago, I would have agreed with you about Adapters, Factories and so on. But now, I'm not so sure. My team inherited a code base that wasn't really legacy - maybe two years old - with a very simple business logic: Collect
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by fdw 8y ago
> The Color of Magic - Terry Pratchett (Kinda interesting, but rather odd) This is the first book on Pratchett's Discworld. It definitely has a different tone than his later works. If you've not totally annoyed by it, or if you
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by fdw 8y ago
Ah, thanks for clearing up my misunderstanding. That makes it even more interesting!
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by fdw 8y ago
Thanks, I was wondering if you can parse all comments for a link to Amazon or something (but even that probably wouldn't get the recommendations without links). At least for me, OneLink doesn't work. Apparently you need to be in t
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by fdw 8y ago
Thanks, that looks quite interesting. I have already found a book I might like. > I'm adding recommendations and products daily. Do you add the recommendations manually or do you use a crawler/API to copy the comment? How auto
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by fdw 8y ago
I don't think you'll care to read or think about this reply, but others might, and HN is for me also about open-minded discussion. I don't pay through my nose for healthcare. According to a quick Google search, it seems to be
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by fdw 8y ago
I have now tried several terminals, but most lack one feature: I use zsh's [autocompletion plugin], and I'd like to call the suggestion with Ctrl+Enter. On the other hand, sometimes I want to execute only what I typed in, with Ent
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by fdw 9y ago
> How do you feel about potential solutions I have mentioned in the post, e.g. exposing the candidate to a project during the on-site for 3 or 4 hours? It's certainly another interesting idea, but from the top of my head, I find sev
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by fdw 9y ago
I'm getting a bit frustrated with the talk about interviews, as we repeat the basic message every now and then, but nothing changes. I feel we all agree that the current status quo is not good, but so far there has not been any good al
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by fdw 9y ago
Yes, it is explicit. I took your comment to say "You have to allow access to your data if you're using OAuth, because that's how OAuth works", and wanted to argue against that. The OAuth protocol is so complicated becaus
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by fdw 9y ago
No, this is not how OAuth works - OAuth itself is just a protocol to receive authorization from another server [1]. In this case, a third party relies on Facebook to say "This user has logged into Facebook and their ID is foo". OA
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by fdw 9y ago
If I remember correctly, the original GoF book was inspired by patterns in architecture [1], so it's more about naming patterns they have often seen, and not about "if you use these patterns, your code will be better". It&#x2
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by fdw 9y ago
It isn't easy, but so far I've had luck with my co-workers. If they were more dogmatic, I think I would see Clean Code more critical too. But as it stands, I still recommend the book to new colleagues, and our culture takes care t
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by fdw 9y ago
While I agree that can devolve into a dogmatic belief system, I also think that that's partly a people problem. Many of the ideas in Clean Code make code more readable (for example small methods, each containing only one level of abstr

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