fuball63

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   Part of it is admittedly laziness and used to a certain convenience. There's no package manager for the language, and OS package managers rarely carry used-but-not-extremely-popular language bindings. But the code is out there, like
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   When I learned Ada, I used the wikibook [1] and bought an inexpensive used textbook from Amazon. I have a basic competency of the language, and really like the quality of the compiler toolset, the type system, the "DIY" OOP (as I
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   Perhaps professionally, being an "expert beginner" is bad, but in other pursuits being content with competency can make them more enjoyable. To build on the bowling example, it is ok to be an average bowler if you are having fun w
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   I'm all for the movement to teach math and science differently so students garner a greater appreciation for critical thinking, but when the author suggested learning literature, poetry, and history are wastes of time, I strongly disag
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   by fuball63 8y ago

   Can anyone post a good guide as to what analytics I should be collecting? I want to implement a system of my own like this, but would like a quick primer on the subject.
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   by fuball63 8y ago

   Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.
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   by fuball63 8y ago

   Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try.
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   Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.
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   by fuball63 8y ago

   I'm a musician and Linux user, so I have to lean on open source for recording and production. I use Kdenlive to do basic video creation; background music to a picture. It works really well for my purposes, in fact, I've had much
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    by fuball63 8y ago

    Unpopular opinion time, but MDN != W3schools. W3schools may have questionable content. It may have content that is not trendy or latest/greatest. The security concerns are important, but if we're really being honest with ourselv
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    by fuball63 8y ago

    I've been using TCL more and more lately. It's ability to use its own interpreter is super handy. I made a static site generator in it most recently.
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    by fuball63 8y ago

    I have the Blackberry Classic, from summer 2015. They did an integration of some sort with Amazon Fire apps, but they don't work super well. My next one will probably have the Android; I wonder where they are privacy wise.
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    by fuball63 8y ago

    I like the way the author talks about rewiring of the brain. A lot of articles like this focus on the social aspect of phone usage; anxiety and isolation. There are however more intagible but noticable affects. When I went on an internati
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    I took a part time job (brewer) and was able to negotiate my hours at my day job (sysadmin) to 75%. It works out to about 50 hours a week, but I don't commute for either. It was a really good decision for me, as I was very unhappy for
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    In order to break the habit of going to the same sites, and to ween myself off social media for content discovery, I started my own personal Yahoo. Yahoo originally started as a link directory. [1] So I built my own link directory that I br
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    by fuball63 8y ago

    I really like Verdana, Palatino Linotype as far as "default fonts" go. My website uses Cabin for content and Armata for the logo; these are on Google fonts. https://bigcgi.com
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    Chromebooks don't offer the freedom that a regular netbook does, though. Last time I looked, it seemed like a real pain to get your own OS or dev environment on. But I agree it's the same concept for what was the original intenti
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    I remember when Eee PC's came out and all the buzz about them. What do you mean by Microsoft and Intel killed them? I just assumed it was lack of market interest.
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    I recently found my old netbook while going through some stuff. The netbook trend was short lived, but I really like this machine (Acer Aspire One ZG5). Ethernet and card ports, plenty of USBs. And it has VGA, which for some reason I sti
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    by fuball63 8y ago

    I started using the "hipster pda" after reading about it on hn, I love it. Goes wherever I go and I can reorganize pages easily. Unlike digital notetaking you can also do doodles, flowcharts, and mockups. I have an index card box
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    I should have learned by now to always double check before assuming something isn't Turing complete!
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    by fuball63 8y ago

    The author is advocating for a departure from "everything is a flavor of javascript" to "it's ok to have front end designers only specialize in HTML/CSS". I think the argument could be made that, ironically, th
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    > "The biggest weakness of the entire genre is this: the protagonists don't tell us anything interesting about the human condition under science fictional circumstances." The author mentions Voyager by name and references
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    by fuball63 8y ago

    Baldur's Gate was really difficult as a kid. Without fully understanding how the stat system worked or the pause/play combat, my siblings and I really struggled with it. What we would do to overcome the difficulty was ramp our ch
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    Update: found this article on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
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    I'm not familiar with this concept but am intrigued. Does the snippet just pick a random assortment of links from other members of the webring?
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    by fuball63 8y ago

    Thats great, thanks! Im working on getting the blog up and running, and plan to cross post there, along with any news about the platform. Feel free to email me any suggestions... my address is on the bigcgi site.
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    by fuball63 8y ago

    That's why I made http://bigcgi.com . It's just CGI behind a reverse proxy that handles file sync between hosts. My blog runs on it.
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    by fuball63 8y ago

    There are definitely nerdy aspects to skaters, despite most skaters being non-argumentative and easy going about those aspects. A lot of skaters are very particular about their wheelbase, deck width, wheel size/durometer, tail/no
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    by fuball63 8y ago

    One of the reasons I prefer function as a service "FaaS" over "serverless" is because of how useful on demand ephemeral functions can be on premises. The term serverless implies that the main benefit is not having to dea