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by icc97 8y ago
It is an annoying click-baity title, but his point is that you could replace Python or Ruby with PHP. You then lose the popularity argument that comes with PHP but the rest of the article I think is still relevant.
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> I suspect that if you removed WordPress, Drupal, etc. from the calculation, you'd see PHP plummet to the bottom You can't just say "... if I ignore the ~30% of the internet that WordPress powers". But anyway, after
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> where slicing your own cheese is seen as inconvenient, messy and time-consuming > Personally I don't even like to buy pre-sliced cheese, never mind individually packaged slices. I have a perfectly reasonable cheese slicer, and
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> Surveillance is an ancient urgency among certain influential thinkers; it was a central prescription set down by Calvin in the Institutes, by Plato in the Republic, by Hobbes, by Comte, by Francis Bacon Made me think of Calvin and Hobb
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Waymo have driven 5 billion in simulation. I think simulation is going to be the major change that automous vehicles can bring. Assuming simulation is proven to be good enough for training cars, then having the ability to simulate crashes s
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REST can practically never die - it's just describes how most of the internet works: HTTP + links. Maybe people will stop using REST APIs, but REST will still be a thing as long as HTTP is. GraphQL seems like it can solve some pain poi
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I really hope they include clink in the native Windows console, it's such a great addition. type directory name... hit tab... get slash added automatically at the end... mind blown
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This is one of the major changes that happened since this team started working on the console. In Windows 10 it has line selection that flows correctly over line breaks.
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Please ignore the parent you replied to. The changes you've put into the console are so fundamentally important - and brilliant. Being able to snap a window and have the code flow properly and fill the window completely is great. In th
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> Folks are using "simple" and "easy" interchangeably here. That's probably inappropriate. Agreed, see Rich Hickey's "Simplicity Matters" presentation on the difference [0]. Simple-Complex vs Easy-
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That doesn't give you a nice scratch pad / clipboard though. Plus the browser bindings are never quite right. Although this implementation is a bit buggy, it's actual Vim. So where as it might not have things like multiple bu
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> Your example is a case of premature optimization. That is not what the author is concerned with. I think he is. Premature optimisation is putting the order: fast, simple, correct. So although the author doesn't explicitly state it
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Well if nothing else Vim is very nice for modifying text strings. So for example I might be writing some markdown for a Stack Overflow answer / GitHub issue, if I can quickly open a tab in my browser format all the text nicely - e.g. i
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I wish I'd known more about functional programming. The great bits of JavaScript are the functional bits.
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Yes, because it's a great book. Everything in the book is still relevant, closures, currying, object binding. If you use the syntax he suggests all your code will still work. Just because let and const mean you can avoid some problems
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I do wonder how the law works - does it work by the weight of the arguments in the text or by the simplest reading of it. So if the text literally says 'does not apply to hyperlinks' then any does infringement of other laws by hyp
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I believe it's because parents and grandparents never looked at statistics and so because in communities where there wasn't a story of children getting kidnapped or being killed on the road then they just never thought about the c
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My 5yo classroom has metal saws, files, hammers and nails. Plus lots of wooden blocks to hack at. I haven't seen her come home with anything constructive from it, but it's there to be played with all the time.
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> "tell turtle forward 50" I actually am reminded of this a lot when using SVG: [0] > Pick up the pen and move it to 50,50 > Put down the pen and draw a line to 100,100 [0]: https://css-tricks.com/svg-path
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> "Of course she can go shopping," Tun Burgos says. "She can buy some eggs or tomatoes for us. She knows the way and how to stay out of traffic." I wonder how much this has to do with the value of child life. What are
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> I often catch myself acting uninterested in my daughter's interests I read a book that talk about how to improve on this [0], when ever my 5yo daughter shows me some of her drawings I try to take notice of some detail and comment
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I spent a day or two recently figuring out how to get the vim-airline (aka powerline) icons to work properly, going through pretty much every single font/theme option on Windows (even in the DOS prompt) and Linux. I added a dummies gui
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Same thing as using a GPS rather than a map. If you get lost or something goes wrong it's the fault of the GPS rather than the person reading the map. The company you're working for fixes the working hours so there's no discu
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I don't know where in the world you work - but it sounds very much like you're in a bubble. In all the companies I've ever worked (for 18 years - banking, stats and engineering) there was less than 10 Macs ever used. The majo
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The ‘root-brain’ hypothesis of Charles and Francis Darwin (2009) [pdf](linv.org)
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After 8 years I've finally come to the end of struggling with working remotely. I'm going back to 2 hour daily commutes. The flexibility of remote work can be a real problem. It causes arguments because you don't have a 3rd p
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> If you are working on someone else's crappy idea, think about working on your own crappy idea. That's an excellent point. I definitely prefer working in small companies, then you're closer to people's crappy ideas.
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Show HN: Awesome GitHub Alternatives(github.com)
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> as long as the AI puts as much faith in the lines as it does. The need for lines is only a temporary crux. AI systems will continually improve until the white lines are guidelines only. There are lots of other factors in an image that
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by icc97 8y ago
It's not just related, it's pretty much verbatim taken from that article, images and all. The only bits added on are references to Tesla.

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