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by hnzix 8y ago
Let me introduce you to The Magic Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two [0]. This is the amount of state your monkey brain can hold in working memory. This number is why nesting code is almost always heinous. Once the number of nested condition
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by hnzix 8y ago
Shockwave was the player for content packaged for web from Macromedia Director, a product focused on creating multimedia binaries, often distributed on CD. Shockwave had much more powerful video and 3D rendering capabilities than Flash, but
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by hnzix 8y ago
> I remember people building whole sites in Flash. Like some kind of Single Page App that takes forever to download, breaks the back button and has obfuscated source code? Lucky we're past that phase!
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by hnzix 8y ago
Yes, I do this all the time. Hold the bottle vertically with the mouth facing downwards. As the water is pouring out, flick your wrist in an upwards elliptical arc, keeping the mouth facing downwards. It only takes me one or two flicks to c
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by hnzix 8y ago
Shrink is not derogatory, it's colloquial. Eg "I'm going to see my shrink today". Like calling a general practitioner "doc", as opposed to quack. I use it because I can never remember the difference between psy
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by hnzix 8y ago
Disrupting the gut microbiome can be a desirable outcome. There is a link between the biome and mental health[0], with experiments even transplanting faeces to introduce "healthier" flora.[1] Shrinks are sometimes prescribing prob
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by hnzix 8y ago
>To a denizen of southern Gaul living in 200AD, you'd have a hard time arguing that it was anything but peaceful, and that Rome imposing her dominion on a bunch of barbarians was the best thing that ever happened. All right, but a
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by hnzix 8y ago
It's maybe a little like the aftershocks of one, or someone nibbling on your ear / nipple. It's an all-over skin tingle, felt especially on the arms and scalp, and a transcendental emotional feeling.
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by hnzix 8y ago
And Tippi Hedren bringing Vietnamese refugees into the nail salon business. 51% of nail technicians in the United States and 80% in California are of Vietnamese descent. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32544343
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I was hoping this would be a vim / emacs / qwerty / dvorak showdown.
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I'm sure there's something available on the darknet.
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by hnzix 8y ago
Tape is good for perfectly symmetrical timber edges like door and window frames (tape the wood, not the wall). For everything else it's way faster and neater to do by hand, but it takes a lot of practice to get right.
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Needs more autotune and wobble bass bro.
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>"There was then no one single way to build one: it was much like the automobile industry at the end of the century, inventors and keen-eyed engineers advancing their own ideas, often their own patents, consensus following only lat
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by hnzix 8y ago
yak shaving is time the dev spends futzing around with tooling configuration, it has nothing to do with the client. Sometimes yak shaving is necessary for a project (Java build config funtimes), in other cases not so much (fiddling with aut
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by hnzix 8y ago
I was rockin' a fancy zsh config on my devbox until I started doing more ops work and traipsing around foreign servers. My muscle memory became useless and back to bash it was.
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by hnzix 8y ago
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."
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Did you get busted?
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by hnzix 8y ago
Ironically, there's currently a post on HN frontpage about malevolent personality traits: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17685733 I would file this under 3. Moral Disengagement - A generalized cognitive orientat
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That's less of a problem if you stay off the default subs. The hivemind exists everywhere, downvotes just make it quantifiable. It's depressing to see wrongheaded and inaccurate posts voted to the top, but at the same time it&#x27
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by hnzix 8y ago
> nobody really had any idea what they were doing when building these UIs back then We evolved to flat design with minimal user cues and abstract icons lacking any text labels sitting inside a giant Javascript blob that breaks the brow
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by hnzix 8y ago
I don't see why you can't just control your drinking habits. Swearing alcohol off is like cutting off the nose to spite the face.
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I have this same complaint about message boards all moving into Facebook groups. Sure it's convenient but the same content ends up recycled endlessly. Sure phpbb is a little clunky but at least I can use it as a knowledgebase.
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"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
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by hnzix 8y ago
Shan gao, huangdi yuan The mountains are no longer high, nor the emperor far away. How long until your sesame credit is docked for walking into the wrong bookshop?
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"Skype" for business isn't even Skype code. It's Lync with a sticker slapped over the top.
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“A Monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what’s the big deal?”
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> Buy some land and build a collaborative space So, a ghost town?
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Apple are pushing privacy as a key differentiator and also to justify their premium price tag. Selling out on privacy would torpedo that USP. Trust is gained in drops and lost in buckets. Yes in a world of infinite possibilities anything ca
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>"digital design agency" ... during a moment of madness Yeah you dodged a bullet there. Digital design agencies are almost always sweatshops.

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