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by gknoy 11y ago
The argument made to me by a coworker (for why we should squish + rebase all PRs before merging) was that it makes it easier to use `git bisect` -- which is basically a binary search for Where a Bug was Added. In practice, I've never d
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by gknoy 11y ago
If we make it something available to _all_citizens_, I don't think the location where you live should matter -- just like paying taxes. If you're a citizen of the US, and get an unconditional monthly check deposited from the gov&#
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by gknoy 11y ago
How would there need to be a huge bureaucracy to administer it? The IRS already handles annual funds-transfer (and validation) for citizens. Moreover, replacing welfare (which has bureaucracy to check eligibility) with a flat "everyon
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by gknoy 11y ago
FYI for anyone tempted to google search for it: there are some pretty gross image-search results that I wish I could un-see, helpfully inserted by Google before most of the results. From wikipedia: > Trypophobia is a proposed phobia (pat
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by gknoy 11y ago
I would hear about this the day after I convince my wife to switch to Verizon... :D
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by gknoy 11y ago
> I'm calling the high level sortDisplayedItems, (or sort_displayed_items) and there's a low level function that ACTUALLY sorts them (as opposed to handling the other bits). You're absolutely right: naming things is hard.
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by gknoy 11y ago
I think the point was, that as soon as you are aware that typos of "=" and "==" are common, and hard to catch mechanically, the _habit_ of using the (constant == myvar) pattern can suddenly be seen as having more value a
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by gknoy 11y ago
Thank you for sharing the first one. Gut-wrenching, and yet ... I cannot stop reading (other than to post this).
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by gknoy 11y ago
The App Store's "Updates" tab shows which apps are getting updated, and can even show build notes.
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by gknoy 11y ago
Her TED talk on autism was freaking amazing. Go to about 2 minutes in, and she has a great explanation. http://www.ted.com/talks/temple_grandin_the_world_needs_all_... If you'd prefer not to watch it, let me try
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by gknoy 11y ago
My kids and I love LED candles. They look like 3-inch diameter cylindrical candles, complete with a wax exterior (which is, I admit, really frustrating at times), and have an LED inside that provides a flickering light. As a bonus, the ba
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by gknoy 11y ago
The key point of the 10th amendment of the US constitution [0] is that the people already _have_ the rights, and do not need to have them "granted" - rather, the rights of the national state are limited. The constitution grants p
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by gknoy 11y ago
If it's idiomatic Ruby (which some, like me, are not familiar with), I think it would not be a red flag if they could explain the details of what the syntactic sugar represents, and why its runtime is what it is.
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by gknoy 11y ago
How is "suicide" different from "assisted dying"? I don't understand how they are different, and why one is good and one is not.
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by gknoy 11y ago
The caller should be saying, "Hello, this is X, may I talk to Y?"
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by gknoy 11y ago
There's some information that I need to memorize (how to use git, how to write code). There are also and other things that are in the periphery of what I need to know, but can look up easily when necessary. These include things like m
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by gknoy 11y ago
The problem stems not from being locked in the building, but in not being paid (usually overtime) for that time where your actions are dictated by your employer. The employees likely wouldn't mind staying 3 hours after work while the m
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by gknoy 11y ago
In the era of distributed source control, it seems reasonable to me if "provide" meant, "link to a repo with our changes". I can see why that's not in the letter of the GPL (e.g., what if github ceases to exist ten
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by gknoy 11y ago
I like Steam's solution: Login on new machine (Email + password) They send me an email with a short code (~6 characters) I copy/paste those few characters They remember that machine for ${a-long-time}
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by gknoy 11y ago
Wow. Thank you guys for the suggestion. I really like that the first thing I see on the Mailgun landing page is sample code for calling the API, and the second thing I see is a pricing calculator.
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by gknoy 11y ago
Perhaps.... but I am skeptical. The original will always have a special place in my heart, but it feels like there's too much gratuitous nudity and violence that almost masks the deeper interesting sci-fi part. Bateau and the Major s
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by gknoy 11y ago
Arise (parts 1, 2, and 3) are on Netflix. I had to use Wikipedia to tell which order they were in, until I read the descriptions more closely. This is a prequel, of how the characters came together. Stand Alone Complex is on DVD. I like
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by gknoy 11y ago
If tax payers fund its construction, it's a bit ludicrous to suggest that they should be unable to reap any benefit from it, especially when the purpose of much research is for the public good.
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by gknoy 11y ago
This might not disable all notifications, but for every app on my Android phone that I've wanted to block notifications, I can open the app settings (deep in some menu, or process manager, found via googling as I do it rarely) and disa
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by gknoy 11y ago
My family and I have had more success with Facebook Messenger's video chat than with Skype: the people we want to talk to (grandparents, aunts, etc) are already on Facebook, and the only trouble is that you have to determine whether to
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by gknoy 11y ago
Specifically, The Diamond Age: http://smile.amazon.com/The-Diamond-Age-Illustrated-Spectra/...
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by gknoy 11y ago
Happy birthday! Best of all, since it's not my birthday you don't have to worry about reciprocation! :D
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by gknoy 11y ago
I thought his trick was to earn lots of money, and your future wife too, when you're young, and then go move to Colorado and have nearly no living expenses. ;)
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by gknoy 11y ago
I think it makes sense to have a difference in meaning between "I want to be e-mailed updates about this" (subscribe) versus "I think this is important/valuable/necessary" (star/vote).
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by gknoy 11y ago
I find it really interesting that the blade lengths are given in inches ((3 inches or less") rather than 7 or 8 cm.

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