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by ioddly 8y ago
Which still lives on, after a fashion, in Chez Scheme: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2ee0/8029eebdbdaf80cd70d695...
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by ioddly 8y ago
I was thinking about this recently. I've somehow avoided CSS-in-JS up to this point. I generally find functional CSS frameworks to be the most readable in that I like to be able to look at the classes and know essentially what's g
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by ioddly 8y ago
Not sure what OP's background is, but if he's not in the tech industry and wrote a complex C++ game engine, plus a website with Flask+SQL on his own, I'd say he has a potential career as a software developer there.
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by ioddly 8y ago
I'm using pobox.com and pretty happy with it. I have the mailstore account which is $50/yr so about $4/mo.
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by ioddly 8y ago
> I would really like a job where I can hang around and think and learn interesting stuff about tech and science. If you achieve financial independence, can't you do that without a job?
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by ioddly 8y ago
I found the TypeScript type checker pretty hard to read through, though it may be my lack of, well, almost any knowledge about type theory. I didn't dig much into the other parts of the codebase however. What parts of it do you enjoy r
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by ioddly 8y ago
I'd say take the Google option, live like you took the startup offer and bank the rest of the money. Then you'll have runway to do whatever the you please for a while, and the Google name/network backing you up.
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by ioddly 8y ago
It's actually his personal diary, written often while he was on campaign. From that perspective I think it's impressive how insightful he managed to be in short bursts. But if you are looking for something more long-form, you migh
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by ioddly 8y ago
> I am bit scared/worried about maintaining a constant flow of work to pay bills. You should be! The key to paying bills is not to get a constant flow of work, which will take a while, it's to live off of a portion of your inco
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by ioddly 8y ago
Not sure how OP did it, but I use peek. Pretty handy for readmes, even for showing clients stuff without having to deploy.
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by ioddly 8y ago
> The touchbar is fairly useless, but I was able to bind escape to caps lock very easily, muscle memory though is still a problem I started using a 2017 Macbook Pro last week. First thing I did with the touch bar was set it to be all fun
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by ioddly 8y ago
I switched because I figured they'd turn the old one off eventually and I might as well get used to it. No issues on my end, and I'm not sure if it was there before but there's an option to make composing new emails take up m
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by ioddly 8y ago
> have something to do on evenings. Something for yourself, something not related to your job I'm curious what everyone does for this. I've attempted to find a few things but nothing has strongly clicked with me. Most of my int
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by ioddly 8y ago
I do as of a couple a weeks ago. Benefits as far as I can tell: mental compartmentalization (this is big; I wish I could write this in 24-pt red Impact font), makes writing off the laptop simple rather than having to estimate personal vs. b
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by ioddly 8y ago
https://www.reactiflux.com serves that purpose for me. It's React-focused, but lots of knowledgeable, helpful people in there including the great #jobs-advice channel.
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by ioddly 8y ago
The scrolls from Herculaneum definitely contain a lot of non extant works, the problem is figuring out how to read them https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/buried-ash-vesuvius-s...
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by ioddly 8y ago
Well, I currently freelance and take significant amounts of time off (although I generally work 40hrs/week when I am working). Freelancing of course comes with its own challenges and downsides, if I was offered a salaried gig that prov
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by ioddly 8y ago
I just started experimenting with Syncthing because Dropbox no longer meets my needs. So far I'm pretty happy and impressed, it's a decentralized piece of software that Just Works (TM). My plan for backups is to spin up a VPS some
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by ioddly 8y ago
I use an app that I wrote, meditations, in order to break down goals into daily habits: https://github.com/ioddly/meditations e.g. "I want to run a marathon" becomes a daily "Exercise" habit. It&#x2
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by ioddly 8y ago
I bought a refurbished Thinkpad X230 earlier this year and I'm very happy with it. What tipped me over the edge is the repairability and modifiability of the laptops. After an ASUS laptop broke and I was only able to fix it because som
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by ioddly 8y ago
If you're showing code, use way less code than you initially want to.
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by ioddly 8y ago
SEEKING WORK - Houston, TX / Remote / Travel OK I am a full-stack web developer writing front-ends with React, Redux & TypeScript and back-ends with Python, Django or Flask, and postgresql. I'm comfortable doing anything
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by ioddly 8y ago
And particularly, you can still access things like password reset on other accounts tied to that email.
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by ioddly 8y ago
I've never tried to read the Go documentation from the top down, but godoc is pretty excellent.
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by ioddly 8y ago
I use ledger, along with a couple scripts I've wired up (if I hit Win-Shift-B I get a desktop notification with my current balances). I actually appreciate the manual nature of it -- knowing I'll have to go to the ledger and enter
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by ioddly 8y ago
I think there's a fair bit to be said for API discoverability. I was working with the TypeScript compiler API earlier this year, which is an excellent piece of software but not particularly well documented, and I was able to discover a
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by ioddly 8y ago
Scheme's expression comments are really quite handy, but only possible to implement in languages where everything is an expression. For those not familiar, you can have the reader just discard an expression, so like (list 1 #;2 3) beco
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by ioddly 8y ago
Have you looked at Hasura's postgres offering at all? I haven't used either yet, but I spoke to one of the founders a while back and auth difficulties was one of the things we talked about. I believe they're open sourcing the
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by ioddly 8y ago
I think Rails used to include it as a default.
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by ioddly 8y ago
SEEKING WORK - Houston, TX / Remote / Travel OK I am a full-stack web developer writing front-ends with React, Redux & TypeScript and back-ends with Python, Django or Flask, and postgresql. I'm comfortable doing anything

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