jdlshore

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by jdlshore 3y ago
DuskOS is specifically for the interregnum period before full collapse, when microchips are still readily accessible, but can no longer be produced. (I think the author’s predictions about the collapse of civilization are overblown, but sti
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by jdlshore 3y ago
America may be behind on physical consumer goods, but we dominate in virtual goods—software, music, and movies/TV.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
Flags are special because they’re made by combining special letter codepoints. A new flag doesn’t change the standard so much as change the way devices display those ligature-like codepoints. (My favorite fun Unicode fact: naively reversing
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by jdlshore 3y ago
That’s facile and dishonest. It has no relationship to what the article actually says.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
https://www.jamesshore.com/s/new Online since 2005. Lots of essays, presentations, and live coding videos. See the “best” link to get the full picture.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
Refactoring is easier with short-lived (minutes to a few hours) branches, because refactoring causes branches to diverge over time. Significant refactoring, done correctly, is a series of small refactorings, and they can be integrated every
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by jdlshore 3y ago
I think you’re confusing trademark and copyright. Trademark is about confusing the public. Copyright is about derivative works. It seems pretty clear to me that this is a derivative work, due to its direct copying of Factorio sprites.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
"Visual inspiration" is generous. The models are a direct 1:1 copy of the in-game sprites, which sounds like a "derivative work" to me. IANAL.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
Asking for proof of vaccination was common here in Portland, toward the NR of the epidemic, when restaurants and venues were opening back up.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
There’s a lot more to programming than algorithms; so much so, in fact, that I’d say that the sort of algorithm optimization you’re talking about is one of the least important skills to study.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
There are a lot of these poor API design decisions in early JavaScript, which we're stuck with due to the need for backwards compatibility. ("Don't break the web.") Modern JavaScript APIs tend to be pretty good. Fortunat
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by jdlshore 3y ago
The article does not say you should have one customer. It says you should choose a niche, target businesses, and aim for big dollars/small customer base rather than small dollars/big customer base.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
That’s not what the article says. You’re being dismissive. I run a one-person business and its advice is spot on.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
Money laundering isn’t what you think it is. The whole point of money laundering is to keep the money , not give it away.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
Default behavior of the green button click is full-screen, but option-click maximizes. The behavior of double-clicking the title bar is controlled by the "Dock & Menu Bar" settings pane. It can be configured to minimize the wi
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by jdlshore 3y ago
Product management isn’t (or shouldn’t be) a people management position. It’s a cross between inbound marketing, product design, and high-level prioritization/planning. Done well, it’s essential to creating products people love. Unfort
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by jdlshore 3y ago
But at the same time, heat reduces photosynthesis efficiency, and even if it didn't, photosynthesis alone doesn't lead to healthy plants. You can't take one element in isolation.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
In what way? The fundamental argument is that war is less profitable than economic competition, which is exactly how the Cold War progressed, and why the US won . Edit: My mistake, I thought you were talking about Deveraux’s theory, but
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by jdlshore 3y ago
patio11 has been calling out crypto fraud for a long time. You’re not noticing anything; you’re extrapolating incorrectly.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
It makes more sense if you think of it in terms of identifying risk. Rather than, "a marine who doesn't make their bed with precision is incapable of precision," think of it as "a marine who doesn't make their bed w
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by jdlshore 3y ago
> Who is going to find those experts? How do you prevent empire-building and fiefdoms affecting which experts are hired? How will the new people be aligned? You can hire an “Organizational Dynamics” consultant. Their job is to help creat
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by jdlshore 3y ago
World of Goo is a very old game. At this point, extra revenue from it is pure gravy.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
Oh, I know. Best thing people can do in that situation is to move on. Life’s too short to spend 1/3 your waking hours in an environment you hate. I think the thing a lot of people in this thread are missing is that intrinsic motivation
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by jdlshore 3y ago
You're so eager to take offense, you're imagining I'm someone different than who I am, and that I'm saying something different than what I'm saying. I'm a programmer who advises software leaders on how to creat
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by jdlshore 3y ago
I know you’re just trying to be insulting, but it’s truly gratifying to do work that you feel is meaningful and engaging. So, yes. I am.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
In other words, you're extrinsically motivated. Possibly an excess of rewards and punishments in the past has burned you out and destroyed your intrinsic motivation, as extrinsic motivators are known to do. Your final paragraph makes i
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by jdlshore 3y ago
“Agile” is not an acronym, FYI. (And SOLID is a collection of five object-oriented design principles. Not sure why you put them together like that.)
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by jdlshore 3y ago
Please don’t engage in whataboutism. It’s inflammatory and lowers the quality of discourse.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
As I understand it, Florida’s ground is porous and it’s not possible to keep water from going under any barriers you create.
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by jdlshore 3y ago
2.5 families per what? Acre? Farm? Pond? I'm gonna need a cite on this one.

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