jcrben

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by jcrben 9y ago
It sounds like old-school 1940s-era science. Seems like you might be taking it too seriously.
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The criteria that Charlotte failed is cultural edginess. Meaning how much people are willing to accept a high housing cost and commute in exchange for being in a cool place. I agree that it should stay in the running. I'd like to see m
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by jcrben 9y ago
The APOe4 ( https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/APOE ) gene's connection to Alzheimer's is one of the most well-studied. Roughly, if I recall correctly, one allele doubles your risk and both multiplies it even fu
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Published early 2016. The author wrote this in a comment https://80000hours.org/2016/02/what-the-literature-says-abou... : > You're right. This data doesn't tell us much about the earnings of startup f
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nodenv is so much better than nvm https://github.com/nodenv/nodenv
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by jcrben 9y ago
If you use vagrant or docker, the idea is to match the deployment server, which is probably Linux. So you'll be installing (using the OS package manager - something like apt or nix) whichever version is installed for your server OS.
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People should install stuff like their db with docker or vagrant anyhow. It'd be annoying to keep your app's db version in sync with the homebrew package.
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> However, as hard drives became larger, users had to scan more and more applications to find the one they wanted. Not really. I only use a handful of desktop apps due to the rise of self-hosted and browser apps.
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by jcrben 9y ago
As far as I know, there are not "React" patents. Facebook has many patents, but I haven't seen anyone point to any patent which specifically involves React. The author of https://medium.com/@dwalsh.sdlr/r
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Too much or too little empathy?
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Employment practices insurance in California is typically triple the rest of the country due to favorable plaintiff laws and loss experience. Source: reviewed many regulatory actuarial filings, which are public record - mine were in Alaska
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory I think I first heard it while studying sociology in 2006; signals were also a common topic in my econ degree.
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Comparing with a super-fancy Apple display doesn't seem that fair. Even today "1080p" monitors are not uncommon - for example the popular Dell XPS 13 defaults to a 1080p monitor. Also worth noting that 2560x1600 (the resoluti
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Here's a modern 16:10 monitor: Dell UltraSharp 30 Monitor with PremierColor - UP3017 http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/accessories/apd/210-ajgt
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It's good that big companies do dumb stuff like this. Otherwise the world would be even more dominated by oligopolies. Hopefully they don't wise up.
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by jcrben 9y ago
I'm pretty happy with OneTab https://www.one-tab.com/
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Marketing your idea to the public is skill. As you might recall, Steve Jobs couldn't code. Also, picking an original idea is skill. If the idea is not original or unusually compelling, then marketing is even more important. There'
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by jcrben 9y ago
It's really not an innovative idea. Trade secrets? We can all see a bunch of the code, and while I found it to be edifying in some respects, it's nothing special. Features provided to users cannot be trade secret unless you'r
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The graph labeled What Women Think, by Age and Religion shows that younger women are more inclined to view meeting alone as inappropriate, by a wide margin. Surprising.
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That article doesn't say much. Which link in it has the meat?
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I feel the same way. I'd rather use Typescript as a basic backend language but the nodejs community is less mature, especially if you, want an advanced SQL ORM. There's a pull request for mypy protocols which moves further toward
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by jcrben 9y ago
Could you link to any of those bug reports?
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Figure out what you really want to learn and accomplish. I've found that as I understand the fundamentals better and have a comfortable workflow, checking out cool new stuff doesn't seem so necessary. I keep a lot of personal info
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I'm not 0xAX, but care to make a pull request to get the ball rolling?
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> Usually a refresh fixes it for me so I never gave it too much thought. As someone who hacks on a SaaS with a sprawling feature set which ships often, I understand where you're coming from. But I would recommend giving things like
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by jcrben 9y ago
https://github.com/lunixbochs/ActualVim gives you neovim inside Sublime Text, altho I haven't tried it. I couldn't stand IdeaVim, the one for the Jetbrains IntelliJ platform - felt very buggy. Such as when yo
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by jcrben 9y ago
Have you seen typeorm? https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm
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Don't see the reason for negativity around "privilege". The point of the essay seems to be to explain how taking a year to live and work in the "real world" changes the perspective of a young adult, particularly wit
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The author said he worked through the gap year as his parents provided no support.
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If you release something before it is ready, that'll make a poor impression and the people who try it may never return.

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