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by jholman 7y ago
I bailed from using Evo when their password reset form was indistinguishable from a phishing attack. I guess it's time to give it another try. I wonder how easy it'd be to reverse their API and make a mobile app less terrible tha
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by jholman 7y ago
Why would anyone listen to ads on youtube? Do they not know how to use software? Regarding quality, most music is listened to in traffic, or on the bus, or while working, or as background in a store, or while exercising, or.... I think i
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by jholman 7y ago
Agreement in the form of an anecdatum: More than one baby-boomer woman I know has said that every time she has a male boss, things are okay, and every time she has a female boss, the whole office gradually goes insane. I'm in particul
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> As far as I can see, there is precisely one scenario where GraphQL makes sense - and that's where you are trying to build a lot of separate frontend clients which will consume the same large, complicated data model. And unless bot
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by jholman 7y ago
Every month some new batch of students use CRA for their final project. Every other month month I deal with some idiotic mess CRA has made that a 3-line patch to a config file would fix, but I can't fix that without ejecting, which al
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by jholman 7y ago
The repeated functionality that belongs in a boilerplate is literally all that CRA does. That's what makes a boilerplate a boilerplate.
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by jholman 7y ago
Historically, it's correct-but-too-vague to say computers were for "solving math problems". Historic computer problems should be divided into two types: business problems and scientific/engineering problems. Business p
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by jholman 7y ago
Ugh. I continue to be skeptical that there's any substantial performance improvement. The published research is obviously ambivalent-at-best. And my anecdotal life experience also make the Dvorak typists look pretty mediocre (includi
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https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/betterbowknot.htm for life
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Pedantry note: corroborate claims is exactly what this article did not do. Maybe you had a thinko or left out a word, I certainly that from time to time, but alternately maybe you want to look up what the fancy word means. HTH (Maybe you
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I do think it's a book of quality, which admittedly is a relatively rare category. But yes, I think it's hugely overrated, especially when characterized as the "one true best way" or something, to learn programming. (
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I thought it was a comment that deserved an upvote. But I always always downvote complaints about downvotes, such as your edit.
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by jholman 7y ago
Wow, nice. 15 years after giving up on learning TeX, I just wrote my first successful (La)TeX formula, in only 2 minutes and 47 seconds! Sweet!
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I have, they do. I occasionally write rude things into it like "stop asking me, you idiots". Not very professional, I suppose. Of either of us.
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See my sibling comment: with respect to stereo vision, its greatest strength is nearby fast-moving things, great for stuff like dodging or catching or punching. If you wanna launch spears or arrows, depth perception is incredibly important,
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by jholman 7y ago
Take one class on perception, read one textbook, you'll immediately find that stereo perception isn't very important. Your brain uses a host of depth queues, and stereo vision is just one of them. Some of them translate trivi
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by jholman 7y ago
If you consider the various meaning of "smoke test" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_testing , I suspect you'll agree that the mechanical meaning is almost certainly older than the electrical or th
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by jholman 7y ago
Frankly, if you don't have a bespoke Pagani Zonda with your initials in the model name, we're collectively unsure that your lifestyle has enough style or enough life. Thinking it over, I might not even invite you to my birthday p
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by jholman 7y ago
I'm a little confused by one part of what you wrote. You say that your config files must be readable by vi, and that in turn adds a no-highlighting-required constraint and a no-schema-required constraint, and that in turn adds a no-JS
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by jholman 7y ago
I feel like you've made in "inverse error" here repeatedly. If a language L1 is Turing complete then you have some potential liabilities: there's no general normalization plan, you cannot in general ensure security guara
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> Hanlon’s razor only applies to individual persons, never to corporations or groups. Why? Do you think that the only reason for applying Hanlon's razor is some sort of moral principle (that only applies to individuals)? I think t
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by jholman 7y ago
That's certainly what "nation" meant a hundred years ago, and what it means in context of nationalist ideology. I think that in modern English, "nation" and "nation state" mostly mean "sovereign count
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by jholman 7y ago
Who's a known whistleblower?
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What they heck, why are people in these comments calling him a whistleblower? He wasn't working for VW when he helped discover VW's fraud. He was working for a non-profit!
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by jholman 7y ago
Agreeing with you: When I worked in food service long ago, the managers claimed the goal (of a Subway chain) was 30% gross margin. But that's gross margin, and doesn't account for overhead, and thus is not profit margin.
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by jholman 8y ago
You can always modify the speed of an HTML5 player, like Vimeo's. Unfortunately, they don't expose the controls. Fortunately, you can modify it in JS by setting the playbackRate property. Here're my two bookmarklets, that w
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by jholman 8y ago
A hapax legomenon is a hapax legomenon with reference to a particular corpus. In this context, a "corpus" is a set of words, or more generally a set of works under consideration. Any corpus of one word is, by construction, compos
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I thought those were both mainstream opinions.
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Minor question: what does the word "penultimate" mean in your comment?
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> I wouldn't expect a building architect to do a great job pouring a foundation, framing a wall, or running plumbing. But I would expect them to be able to do it, at least to a basic level. waaaaat? That is completely utterly 100%

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