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by ivanhoe 6y ago
Delphi had, by far, the best documentation that I've ever encountered. Every Win API method was documented, explained and illustrated with an example. Delphi 4 manual was so much easier to follow than Microsoft's own Win16/32
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And one day you learn about charging yearly support fees, and that makes your dreams of someone using your app for 20+ years much more pleasant...
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I don't think for self-validation it matters much if someone is a complete stranger or not, it's more about where in the perceived social hierarchy that person sits. Attention from someone who you feel is "higher" in the
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
Which modern tools you have in mind?
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
Indeed, any of say Ludwig Kirchner paintings could've been added to this collection, and no one would spot a difference without being previously acquainted with his work and fame.
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> Being the developer of Rails and ActiveRecord and fostering and milking that It's not entirely fair thing to say as DHH's rise to fame was really on both fronts in parallel, actually I remember that one of the selling points
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Great idea, thanks. One potential problem I see is that categories seem too broad, you cover a lot of area here. There's so much good content out there that very quickly just 2 levels won't be enough to categorize it into a browsa
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
One perhaps could argue to haven't seen it - not sure how that would hold in a court - but "magically disappearing" it sounds like a really bad idea to me. Mail server will either receive it or bounce it back, which is logged
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
Digitalization goes both ways, if we want to be able to communicate with officials and B2B online, avoiding all the paperwork while keeping it all legally binding, same legal powers have to apply to emails sent out by the government too.
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Wow, this brings memories, I remember reading this story when I was around 9-10 y/o. Is it from the Tales of the North?
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Seems like a great way to upgrade one's procrastination to the next level...
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
At some point it becomes a burden to do it yourself, so you'll be forced to outsource it to a person or company of trust, to follow all the news for you and filter out the important ones, ask around with their contacts, do the fact che
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
> But I hope you agree that this would be really nice. Black boxes with tons of magic are great if you need to do exactly that one thing that creators had in mind. When you need it to work a little bit different you're usually eithe
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
Fires are less likely to ignite in very cold weather as the environment is taking energy out of the reaction. Once it gets going cold doesn't matter much.
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What about Bitbucket?
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If you've never before seen this hack consider yourself privileged to been born in a better world, without IE6 :P .clearfix:after { visibility: hidden; display: block; font-size: 0; content: " "; clear: both;
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
Seriously, never had to deal with visibility:hidden before? To quote the Pythons: You lucky, lucky bastard....
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
> I get to choose my community This is a key, in a city you need to be proactive about it, or if not interested you can fully avoid any interaction and no one cares. In small places, you have to interact at least a little with people aro
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
> we don't all need to be a mechanic, a chemist, a doctor and an ITC pro. We don't need to, true, but we can... and it can be fun too... why choose less, turning into mindless content consumers?
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yeah, but again nothing stops you (or me, or anyone else reading this) to do it for free... except we will not, as we're busy earning money in other ways, so I don't think any of us can really claim a moral high ground here - and
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
> "I tried to make a living with a native desktop app - FOSS or proprietary - for Linux, but nobody seems to care and fewer would pay" And how is this different for AppStore? More and more abandonware, and more and more cheap&#
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Well, if he was a mouse you still would have those same questions in the air until you do the proper blood tests, right? Of course this is a naive, over-simplified interpretation of science findings, but it doesn't mean the science it&
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
It's not about just randomly breaking the cells, it's a normal process called autophagy where damaged cells are being recycled to be replaced by new ones. This happens all the time, but it seems that fasting can increase it signif
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
Because it's easy to google it, and I don't have that much free time... these links are on a first page of google results when you search it: Effects on stem-cells: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles&#x
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There's now a number of studies on effects of fasting on chemo therapy patients, and they all make the same claim of regeneration through autophagy for some types of leukocytes.
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> That's because such vendors (e.g. Panic, BareBones, Omni, and so on) won't do lowest common denominator apps, they keep up with the platform, they understand it, they hook in to new platform-only capabilities, etc.). What abo
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Isn't all human-to-human interaction in groups of more than a few people basically the same as described here? That's basically what the politics are all about, as soon as group grows to more than 3-4 closely tied people hierarchi
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Could the re-use of IP addresses be the problem here?
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Well, bans are just one part, the other is paying for recycled plastic and those program are very expensive to start, many countries can't afford it. I've seen firsthand a miracle of what paying people some small amounts for plast
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Social media is just another media, and media hacve always been manipulated, somewhere more, somewhere less. This might be a news to Americans, as US propaganda efforts used to be more directed outwards, but us who grew up in (failed) socia

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