gknoy

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by gknoy 9y ago
Our projects' linting rules specify no semicolons, except when necessary; this means that we will _very rarely_ write something like this when we want to iterate over a small literal array: ;['foo', 'bar'].for
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by gknoy 9y ago
I disagree: some of his essays have a _very clear_ bias towards advocating that doing a startup is a Great Thing. > If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. ( http:/
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by gknoy 9y ago
Thank you for great starting points. I think my biggest hurdle was that I didn't feel like I had a good handle on how to discern the mainstream from the quacks. I appreciate your concise overview :) > I think the best way to star
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by gknoy 9y ago
> some Austrian economists Aren't there multiple schools of thought about economics? How do I know which one is the Right One to believe? Do they differ fundamentally on some levels? I feel like googling for some school's tea
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by gknoy 9y ago
Thank you for sharing this. The last time I started trying to use Hy, I felt like I was basically writing Python but wrapped in parens -- I felt like I was doing something wrong, but couldn't place what it was, so it's nice to se
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by gknoy 9y ago
This same principle also applies if you have one Serious Business e-mail (job applications, professional-related things), and another "Just For Random Crap" email address -- you may find yourself, one day, having signed up for a c
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by gknoy 9y ago
MPV also has the benefit of having a _really good_ command line API, which is in fact the main way I use it: mpv --no-border --autofit-larger=320x200 --loop=inf --volume=60 foo.mp4 It also has built-in support for youtube-dl so that
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by gknoy 9y ago
It's on the Twilio.com blog, so I think that it is pretty reasonable to assume that it's written by a Twilio employee. :-)
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by gknoy 9y ago
I apologize for asking what is probably a bitcoin-noob question, but can you explain (or elaborate on) why hash power has that effect? What does a "minority chain" mean? If you have two groups using different hashing algorithms,
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by gknoy 9y ago
A group I was in had a bunch of fun with Boss Monster. It worked well with three or four people, and might have with more.
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by gknoy 9y ago
I did not have a hunched back (that I'm aware of), so my comment may not help you, but I found that a standing desk was more comfortable, and forces me to have a better posture more often than sitting did. I still sometimes lean over
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by gknoy 9y ago
I'm a little afraid to do that - is it safe for work?
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by gknoy 9y ago
> Deprecated just means "do not use in new code" I originally learned that "deprecated" was meant to indicate that the language no longer promised to include that feature in a future version. So, it still works now,
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by gknoy 9y ago
I think that's the point, though. To compete (as a new entrant) with Uber+Lyft, wouldn't you need to build infrastructure, win mindshare with drivers + passengers, and all the other things that Lyft and Uber have been spending ye
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by gknoy 9y ago
Wow, that is awesome! Thanks for making that!
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by gknoy 9y ago
I realize this sounds silly, but maybe having a conch, or similar talisman of "I'm not done yet, please listen" might be handy. I find myself interrupting my children a lot more than I like (and while it often feels like it&#
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by gknoy 9y ago
You're also overlooking the fact that they did some relatively interesting things to notice when someone posts a PNG-of-something-that-could-be-a-JPEG, and can then use a lossy image instead of the larger PNG.
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by gknoy 9y ago
> [if you have a family] Food goes up a little bit, and your room is more crowded. Everything else is the same. The amount of money and extra time that we spent on just one baby was astounding - clothes, doctor visits, food. Many more t
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by gknoy 9y ago
Given that technology requires users, and users are bound by these "pesky" things called laws, I think that it is definitely a problem with the technology if the blockchain (or other system) can be so poisoned that all users of it
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by gknoy 9y ago
I also like to alias `gd-` for `git diff --cached`, for checking what I have staged so far in my index.
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by gknoy 9y ago
Swords.
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by gknoy 9y ago
I'm not sure if this exchange means that there is no good reason to do that, or if it means that the reason why one would want to do that is blindingly obvious to everyone except me. :)
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by gknoy 9y ago
You can make a bash script named `git-undo` , put it in your path (I use ~/bin): #! /bin/bash git reset HEAD~1 && git checkout .
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by gknoy 9y ago
I would imagine that color correction, or anything involving pixel masks, would require full resolution. Cutting scenes and stuff might not, but I wouldn't be very surprised if there were cases when not having the full resolution would
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by gknoy 9y ago
The speed of transmission of Quantum entanglement would, I believe, be limited by the speed of light between the two points in space, without having to traverse a path that follows the curve of the surface of the earth. So, communicating fr
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by gknoy 9y ago
I know someone who sews cute things; she'll post on Facebook about the progress, pictures of work-in-progress plushes, or purses, or coasters. She'll then go sell them on Etsy, and also post on FB for friends to buy. It's n
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by gknoy 9y ago
That's awesome, thank you!
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by gknoy 10y ago
This is a case where you think of an _idealized_ grandma, and her perfectly preserved dog, `Mr. Mycroft Applebottom III`, who has been sitting on her mantlepiece since you were in gradeschool. [0] The site doesn't have to know you&#x27
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by gknoy 10y ago
> I see this as a lack of confidence in their skills and abilities and achievements Given that imposter syndrome is well-documented in our industry, it's quite possible that I've done cool things, or impressive things, but not
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by gknoy 10y ago
... now I hear a talking llama too. Thanks. ;)

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