flaviojuvenal

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by flaviojuvenal 8y ago
those and brain needle and green storm work for me too.
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by flaviojuvenal 9y ago
I guess that Turbolinks is used by Basecamp 2 and it sucks a lot. Search takes seconds to load for me, without any loading feedback.
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by flaviojuvenal 9y ago
Smuggled tobacco is at most 30% of Brazilian market. Was 16% before 2011. If we had 70% of legalized marijuana, we would be much better. Source: https://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/economia/2014/07/04&
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by flaviojuvenal 9y ago
For the 1% use cases, expect forks. For 19%, give them options. For 80%, give them good defaults.
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by flaviojuvenal 9y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. Will add that to the checklist. Feel free to contribute too: https://github.com/vintasoftware/python-api-checklist
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by flaviojuvenal 9y ago
Author here. Thanks for the feedback. I wrote this because I've seen too many APIs I couldn't use or had to discard later on because they forgot to expose a lower-level parameter. Yes, supporting additional parameters is a trade-o
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by flaviojuvenal 9y ago
Author here. Not worthless because you can add checklists to your PR template, PR review, QA process, etc. But I agree that automatically checking things is the next step. I've talked about how to achieve this with custom linters in a
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by flaviojuvenal 9y ago
Related, but shameless plug, my PyCon 2017 talk "How to make a good library API" is also about the "API as UI" concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mkFfce46zE There's also a Django-specific ver
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Einstein, Picasso – Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc(nytimes.com)
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Many Smart Contract Use Cases Are Impossible (2016)(coindesk.com)
134 points by flaviojuvenal 9y ago|36 comments
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Methods Are Affordances, Not Abilities(adamwathan.me)
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by flaviojuvenal 10y ago
But the UX of the current rating system sucks. Rating stars are very small and you have to hover them to know you can rate. Only if you watch a movie to the very end you will see a clearer rating functionality, but even then you have few se
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by flaviojuvenal 10y ago
IANAP, but see: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/04/28/the-univ...
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Chuck Feeney: The Billionaire Who Is Trying to Go Broke (2012)(forbes.com)
1 points by flaviojuvenal 10y ago|0 comments
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by flaviojuvenal 10y ago
hey, your portfolio link is 404'ing
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by flaviojuvenal 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Brazil, GMT-3) I'm a partner at Vinta, a web consultancy known for building great products. We work with startups and innovative companies delivering high-quality code. We can either be your technical team or hel
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by flaviojuvenal 10y ago
IANAPhysicist, but I think T-duality in String Theory [1] also makes distances "illusory". "If string theory is a correct theory of Nature, then this implies that on some deep level, the separation between large vs. small dis
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by flaviojuvenal 10y ago
Please back your claims with data.
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by flaviojuvenal 10y ago
> They don't go to the grocery store for social interaction Not true for my grandmother and many other elderly people. Maybe it's loneliness. But maybe it's a generation thing, not sure. We need to question if it's be
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by flaviojuvenal 10y ago
Related but slightly off-topic, there is a great sci-fi story by Ted Chiang (the same author who made the story behind Arrival film) about humans raising AIs in an artificial world. The premise is that if we want AIs to act like humans, we
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by flaviojuvenal 10y ago
I'm also not a physicist, but as far as I understood special relativity and also according to this [1] Quora answer, the speed of light is same in every frame of reference, so the universe compensates variations in speed by dilating ti
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by flaviojuvenal 10y ago
While I completely believe this story, makes no sense to talk about "African courts" in general. AFAIK Uganda and Nigeria are countries far from each other, with different forms of government and even different ethnic groups.
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by flaviojuvenal 10y ago
dark energy and dark matter AFAIK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DMPie_2013.svg
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by flaviojuvenal 10y ago
You can use Decimal built-in also: In [1]: from decimal import Decimal as D In [2]: D('9999999999999999.0') - D('9999999999999998.0') Out[2]: Decimal('1.0') From docs: Decimal “is based on a floating
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by flaviojuvenal 10y ago
It's been less than 6 months I first heard about Redux. Looking at its issues, it seems to be a little more than 1 year old. Now everyone is talking about MobX. Why not improving Redux in first place? If it's verbose, why not writ
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by flaviojuvenal 10y ago
Here is the reference. It's the text of one of judicial decisions that blocked Whatsapp in Brazil (translated to English): https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u... The relevant part i
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What makes a good software library?(thereformedprogrammer.net)
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by flaviojuvenal 10y ago
The best method is to automatize your methods.
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Design tools for early stage startup founders(black.design)
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by flaviojuvenal 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote only (based in Brazil) Hi, my name is Flávio and I'm a partner at Vinta Software Studio ( http://www.vinta.com.br ). We're seasoned Python developers with full-stack experience. We've built gre

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