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by fergie 6y ago
"I wish I could say I agonized over all the options at the time and decided vim was the best pedagogical solution, but the reality of the situation was that vi was what I used in college because my father taught me vi" We dont tal
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by fergie 6y ago
_why actually deleted all of his stuff at one point- I don’t think any of his content is actually hosted by him these days.
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AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game for Fans After Mistaking Referees Bald Head for Ball(iflscience.com)
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by fergie 6y ago
I have to confess that I didnt know anything about WHATWG until I read this comment- I always assumed that HTML was defined by W3C.
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by fergie 6y ago
/r/HailCorporate
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by fergie 6y ago
Amen.
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by fergie 6y ago
Theres a guy on youtube who buys Amazon returns by the pallet and then sells it on. Its quite eye-opening. http://resalerabbit.com/
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by fergie 6y ago
I used to sell those. They were actually quite good for their time, especially when they first came out, but they were really expensive. Its weird that Google has been so half-hearted about «enterprise search» since they stopped selling GSA
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by fergie 6y ago
It was still quite watchable in the '90s, but at some point overtaking got really difficult, and then it got a bit boring. Its still a great way to spend a couple of hours on a lazy Saturday afternoon though. In the UK at least, TV cov
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by fergie 6y ago
I will die on this hill with you. I would also add that we should be striving to release uncompiled JavaScript, since it is more auditable, more debuggable, and is naturally distributed. Dev dependencies are often basically compilers (Babel
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by fergie 6y ago
"Performance · It just doesn’t feel any faster than the 2014 15" MBP it replaced." I have a new 13inch MacBook that does indeed feel quite fast. I suspect this is because I havent turned on harddisk encryption (despite being
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by fergie 6y ago
I have a couple of vaguely popular repos on github (~100,000 downloads a month) Generally speaking, (T-shirt farming aside), if you find a genuine typo, or small way to improve documentation, then that PR will be very much appreciated. READ
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by fergie 6y ago
The author forgot to mention one the biggest functional benefits of XML which is interpolation: the ability to drop XML components into the middle of text, thereby allowing for markup and nesting of elements in text. <tag> This te
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by fergie 6y ago
"you can charge [a MacBook Pro] using any of the 4 USB-C ports, but you really should only ever charge it from the right side." ...wait what?
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by fergie 6y ago
Its a bit meta, and this advice varies a lot depending on your circumstances and tax jurisdiction, but if you are serious about investing, and have the funds to do so, there are a few advantages to setting up as a limited liability company.
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by fergie 6y ago
Although there has been a concerted effort to spreaf FUD around "Digital Rights Management" and "Intellectual Property", these things are not, generally speaking, concepts that are found in criminal law. In most (all?) j
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by fergie 6y ago
"(Instagram, in case you don’t know it, is an app you can open up on your phone any time to look at ads)."
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by fergie 6y ago
All of the articles on gatesnotes are so well written- I wonder if Bill Gates writes these completely by himself or if he gets help?
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by fergie 6y ago
It is the fate of a truly great library is that its benefits are so undeniable that they will eventually be absorbed into the standard thus making the library itself obsolete.
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by fergie 6y ago
I read alot about them, but I have never come across one in the wild despite living in a fairly wealthy, gadget friendly environment. I agree that the whole idea of voluntarily installing something like this seems mind-blowingly nuts. Are r
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by fergie 6y ago
Wow- what an odd exchange. So eye opening to see senior academics from repected institutions carrying on like that.
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by fergie 6y ago
Why does a company that is worth more that 20 billion dollars rent property in the first place? If, as others have said, the total value of the lease was $440 million, surely its better to hire people to buy and run an office building?
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I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35(newyorker.com)
1383 points by fergie 6y ago|667 comments
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by fergie 6y ago
Quite liked this -> "I believe the world needs far more thoughtful, critical, evidence-based technologists—and far fewer VC-backed tech founders."
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by fergie 6y ago
It is ever possible to have real power as an (non-executive non-shareholding) employee of an organisation?
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by fergie 6y ago
Revenue: $27M; CEO pay: $2.3M Are these numbers accurate? The first seems very low and the last seems very high? Is it still like this?
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by fergie 6y ago
What a lot of people in this thread dont seem to understand is that the article is not making the case for Uber/Lyft drivers to be classified as employees (traditionally cab drivers have almost always been self-employed contractors), i
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by fergie 6y ago
If, as the author says, live collaboration is important, then its probably much better to rely on GNU screen or similar. It follows therefore that you should then be using an editor that can run inside of a terminal such as Vi or Emacs. Als
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by fergie 6y ago
Great news! I was genuinely baffled when they shut it down. Easily one of the best and most influential websites of its time. In terms of content it was on a par with HN, Slashdot and Reddit, with a slight bias towards design.
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by fergie 6y ago
They are also pretty popular in the British army because they are, in many ways, the best watch available. That said, they have a few limitations: * The backlight is pretty weak * The stopwatch tops out at 1 hour * It needs batteries, as op

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