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by jahsome 3y ago
I tend to romanticize CLI as a universal and think of GUIs as niche, so it struck me odd to see CLIs referred to that way. That's not a character judgement. I'm actually curious what you mean by niche. Would you mind elaborating?
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by jahsome 3y ago
I love it when people are simultaneously needlessly condescending and also wrong.
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by jahsome 3y ago
For precisely the reasons you listed, this entire article, but especially the headline, are safely labeled click bait. Everything about it is technically accurate but it's carefully designed to be misleading so passersby think "th
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by jahsome 3y ago
Thank you for this. I skimmed it while on a call, and this seems like a really good breakdown. I look forward to absorbing it with my full attention later.
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by jahsome 3y ago
The assertion is about submissions, not comments.
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by jahsome 3y ago
When it's somewhat irrelevant to focus on the hard things, which are more appealing, I find it's frustrating not being motivated to solve the more pressing, easier issues because they're not "fun"
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by jahsome 3y ago
Heh, my degree is in journalism. It's been a weird ride, but I wouldn't trade it for the shiniest CS education.
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by jahsome 3y ago
My issue is, I seem to only ever be interested in learning the things I struggle with...
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by jahsome 3y ago
Pattern recognition and analogy are my secret weapons, for sure. I'm really only a good engineer because I'm good at organizing and communicating my thoughts. It's the only reason I've made it so far in my career -- defi
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by jahsome 3y ago
On behalf of my fellow English majors, may I just say: What?? I love Hacker News because it exposes me to a great deal of things like this. I intend to do as deep a dive I can muster into the provided lecture notes. But boy howdy, are certa
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by jahsome 3y ago
This is a community of people whose career revolves around precise language. You knew because you're intelligent and were able to piece things together. Many in society are not so fortunate for one reason of another and so it's im
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by jahsome 3y ago
No, it's not. The current title omits the raised person altogether.
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by jahsome 3y ago
Thatsthepoint.jpg ... Try to be less condescending. It serves no purpose other than broadcasting ignorance. Have a good one.
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by jahsome 3y ago
Do you intend to give the air of smug self importance? It's tacky. I would expect someone so clearly intelligent to know a rhetorical question when they use it.
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by jahsome 3y ago
No, but the issue is assuming anyone wants to hear what you think about it. The pile of shit in the authors life are people who claim to be too busy. He's just saying he doesn't like it. So you're the same.
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by jahsome 3y ago
The only time I think I'll ever see a pi compared to a jet, hah!
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by jahsome 3y ago
Well, FWIW, I didn't click on the other link because I didn't recognize the name. I clicked on this one because it mentioned vim. I'm not saying the two shouldn't be merged, and agree a page of essentially the same news
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by jahsome 3y ago
I'd hardly call one or two virtue signalers a "train wreck" or "so bad" I didnt find much supporting what you claim. It's possible whatever your referring to was cleaned up. I only saw one apparently negative p
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by jahsome 3y ago
Probably the same thing that prompted this very comment.
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by jahsome 3y ago
Third-party integrations and the universality/reusability across multiple products and familiarity of HCL are big for me.
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by jahsome 3y ago
Dogmatic idealism is the enemy of progress.
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by jahsome 3y ago
It's rather funny you seem to make the case that you can't generalize an entire population based on the actions of individuals, then go on to... generalize entire populations based on the actions of individuals.
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by jahsome 3y ago
Totally agree! I am a bash fanboi with a fish fetish, but recently started in a windows shop. I've actually grown quite fond of the flexibility powershell offers, and how usable it is without requiring esoteric knowledge.
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by jahsome 3y ago
Powershell is rather famously case insensitive. It is idiomatic to capitalize liberally though.
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by jahsome 3y ago
Thank you for the great explanation! :)
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by jahsome 3y ago
When did I say it's a foreign concept? I said it's not common knowledge for five year olds, and in reply, someone stated it's "always" mentioned. I was simply demonstrating that it's not "always" ment
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by jahsome 3y ago
It's funny that it's "always" mentioned, yet it's not familiar to me. Also curious the Wikipedia article for CPU design doesn't mention it, since it's "always" referenced. Just because something
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by jahsome 3y ago
Sure, I can look it up (and I did) but this is a discussion section, so why not prompt a discussion by asking for a simple explanation? Appreciate the link! I'm not OP but that's exactly what I was looking for.
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by jahsome 3y ago
I'm not sure five year olds know what microcode is. I'm 35, been in tech nearly 20 years and don't recall having heard that specific term before today.
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by jahsome 3y ago
It doesn't have _literally_ nothing to do with it; there is a correlation, even if a weak one. The two are just independent. I'm not disagreeing with your point just nitpicking word choice; the best kind of annoying comment!

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