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by fineline 9y ago
Ahh the good old days. I can't hear SOAP without thinking this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhllo1xQer8 in particular 1:45 to 2:00.
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by fineline 9y ago
Agreed, Typora has this nailed. Separate edit/preview panes seem clunky by comparison now.
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by fineline 9y ago
Promises (representing the result of a single asynchronous operation) and Observables (representing an ongoing stream of emitted values) aren't really equivalent. I know you can create an Observable from a Promise, which will emit a si
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by fineline 9y ago
>> Every release replaces more keywords with punctuation marks. I can't think of any other examples. Closures get used heavily in JS and arrow functions do make their use quicker and more concise, as well as fixing `this`. Compar
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by fineline 9y ago
Yeah but you're not sitting out on the break babbling on about work or doing selfie video calls to your partner. That's annoying enough on public transport, in the surf it would ... well it would make stand-up paddle boarders seem
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by fineline 9y ago
Lots of people talking about their preferred IDE/editor here. It's great that we can use what we choose, because the underlying standards - languages, runtimes, repositories - are so standardised. I sometimes swap to and fro on th
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by fineline 9y ago
Surfer here too, I've said it before about waterproof phones, anyone start making calls in the lineup deserves what's coming to them.
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by fineline 9y ago
That does seem like a better approach for helping people understand what their rights and obligations are. Whether that aligns with the interests of every system provider is another question.
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by fineline 9y ago
Well that is way better mileage than my car gets so at least I know I'm getting there in the most efficient way.
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by fineline 9y ago
I mostly work from my home, which is self-sufficient for water (rain tanks) and heating (firewood), produces its own electricity (solar), has its own septic, produces some of our fruit and veggies and all of our eggs, with virtually no food
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by fineline 9y ago
Yes that says quite a bit about how highly he was regarded, plus he did also assist in promoting the survey of the town, opening it up for development. Parkes was central in many aspects of development of the colony over his lifetime, inclu
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by fineline 9y ago
Interesting that despite this being an Australian speech reported on an Australian site, there is no mention of Nightingale's role in the development of nursing in Australia, at the request of the great Henry Parkes. Here's his gr
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by fineline 9y ago
I have a similar feeling about Vuex in the Vue world. Trying to recreate the Elm architecture without Elm ends up being a bit awkward. It's not just immutability and pure functions, as others have noted, it's even more down to a l
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by fineline 9y ago
They said on the forecast yesterday there was a 50% chance of rain today, and looking outside I can see they got it right. Uncanny.
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by fineline 9y ago
If you don't use FB why are you paranoid about this? I don't, and I'm not.
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by fineline 9y ago
So if one were to be in his or her late forties, say, when should one expect it to stop being enjoyable? A friend wanted to know ;)
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by fineline 9y ago
And opposable thumbs.
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by fineline 9y ago
I did a lot of Flash/Flex work - it was the bees knees of front-end dev in the days before JQuery, Firebug, Chrome etc. and was the most consistent across platforms, as the same plugin was used on each, as opposed to trying to make you
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by fineline 9y ago
I guess they're just showing off mapKeys, but couldn't that line be eliminated with: .groupBy {if (it % 2 == 0) "even" else "odd"}
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by fineline 9y ago
For the individual spouse there may be some disadvantage (at least in terms of risk) to being the homemaker. But for the aggregate of family households it's not so clear. A previous HN comment speculated that much of the economic gain
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by fineline 9y ago
At last - an invention that is truly revolutionary.
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by fineline 9y ago
I am older, have family and mortgage, time and financial pressures. But I still get excited about new developments in my trade as a primarily front-end dev, including package managers and frameworks. And the experience, capabilities and tra
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by fineline 9y ago
Wooden sticks? Crops? Bet they took a few iterations to get right too.
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by fineline 9y ago
Not even Pablo Honey / The Bends? I mean if you're talking OK Computer and beyond then I get you.
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by fineline 9y ago
You are reinforcing David's point about the creation of echo chambers and its magnifying effect on social divisions. You want to cut out seemingly superficial (but sometimes serendipitous) communication with people that you don't
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by fineline 9y ago
If you give it a try, you may find your brain more adaptable than you think. Mine seems able to parse the same code in my editor (with this font) and in web-based repository viewers (with some other monospaced font) without problem.
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by fineline 9y ago
With debt to GDP ratios at all time highs around the world we do seem to have reached (4). But money markets aren't free markets, being effectively controlled - and distorted - by central banks. They hold interest rates low to attempt
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by fineline 9y ago
As I understood, it boils down to: Quality is the cutting edge of experience, which is the totality of any "reality" we can know. Things like science, religion, etc. are static value patterns that we assemble to explain that exper
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by fineline 9y ago
I used this many years ago with friends (a touring band) on the side of a German autobahn on a ~10metre coach that was shearing its wheel studs, not so much as a shim but to hold the new studs in place until the nuts torqued up. We all enjo
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by fineline 9y ago
Agreed, Zen and the Art has real narrative value - including considerable suspense - whether you buy the philosophy or not. And frankly I do, despite understanding why some call it hippy pseudo-psychology. His second book Lila goes into it

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