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by frankling_ 8y ago
Isn't that a bit strict? It seems that "x is a young man's game" can be read either in an empirical ("historically, only young men do x") or normative ("only young men should do x") sense, the former
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by frankling_ 8y ago
If all three of these are research, what is engineering?
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by frankling_ 8y ago
I observe the same. Determinism is quite important to get things done quickly. Instead, typing "expl" gives me a lottery between Internet Explorer and whatever their file manager is called.
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by frankling_ 8y ago
I'd still prioritize the basic use case of comfortably typing words, which to my admittedly sensitive mind is not supported that well anymore by some common pieces of software. Between the apparent round-trip per keypress in Outlook We
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by frankling_ 9y ago
Nicely put. However, it does take some excellent judgement to avoid an extended crawl across the last few meters.
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by frankling_ 9y ago
Your statement is obviously false (counter example: analytic philosophy produces conjectures that are black-or-white-falsifiable on the exact same basis as mathematical conjectures). Since you are engaging in epistemology, you may appreciat
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by frankling_ 9y ago
"any of the sexes", if you don't mind.
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Show HN: Port scan audibilizer and visualizer(github.com)
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by frankling_ 10y ago
Isn't your first statement tautological? I'm also in the apparent minority to whom font antialiasing (subpixel or not) on low-ppi screens, e.g., 22" at 1920x1080, seems a bit blurry, even when leaning back. Certainly though,
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by frankling_ 10y ago
I'm relatively okay with booting up Windows 10 to play games, apart from the well-known upgrade practices, the inacceptable (if configurable) ad popups for Office 365, and my resulting lack of trust in Microsoft's future practices
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by frankling_ 11y ago
From the motivation to the way it seems to be executed, this is exactly what I've been looking (and have considered to develop) for a long time. If there were ever a Linux version of something like this, I'd buy it instantly. For
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by frankling_ 11y ago
One might argue that the things that could be taught as part of such a standardized methodology would either be extremely generic, or can and should be automated. "Design patterns" and "idioms" are definitely helpful and
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by frankling_ 11y ago
Who's "we"?