jholman

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by jholman 3y ago
It's true that the server is where Java has been most successful, by a large margin. But it was never Java's "original premise", which is what the comment you are replying to was about. According to their (very heavy-ha
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by jholman 3y ago
There is an end, yes, and it happens a little bit after consuming all of the universe. You'll know that you've reached it when you are offered the option to delete all of your progress and restart. As with many of the better-desi
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by jholman 3y ago
Canadian here, from the warm part, where we only see snow a few days a year. We're still all taking our shoes off, except degenerate college students and recent American immigrants.
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by jholman 3y ago
This is totally wrong. Google has over and over and over again collected as much information as possible about users, and then guarded it zealously against others (while profiting by exploiting it). This is unequivocally different from co
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by jholman 3y ago
In their defence, it was a better popup than most. More legible, with less malicious defaults.
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by jholman 3y ago
Honestly it seems like the best practice is always just "read Money Stuff". I'm not a serious follower of financial news, but various things do come across my radar, and since I've subbed to the email version of Money St
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by jholman 3y ago
Ahaha, you think 50 is massive? I have over 20 browser windows open, and several of those windows have literally hundreds of tabs. At various times when I've done an actual census (usually before my every-few-years purge) I've
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by jholman 3y ago
Well, stop disbelieving, I know in-the-flesh at least one person who does this more or less constantly. She doesn't like how her aged macbook behaves when it screenlocks, and she refuses to adjust the auto-screen-lock settings, and ref
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by jholman 3y ago
Okay, I had utterly forgotten "hovars without flapping", thank you. Or damn you, I'm not sure which. And just to be clear, we definitely need more turrents, commando.
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by jholman 3y ago
It's also dumb because "Web 3.0" isn't web at all. I guess in a way that makes it like New York, which isn't a replacement for York.
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by jholman 3y ago
Whoa, whoa, that sounds like you're beating yourself up, and please don't. Maybe I screwed up the tone of my prior comment (if so, sorry!) A downloadable PDF would be more useful, sure, but already with what's up there, rela
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by jholman 3y ago
That makes sense to me.
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by jholman 3y ago
Again, who are you to determine what he chooses to write about? Your entire framing of what is going on is simply off-base, so the point you attempt to make about Devereaux's competence is beside the point. He is choosing to write a
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by jholman 3y ago
The scope of the article is in the first sentence .
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by jholman 3y ago
Your website is covered in "contact me", but I see no contact information, and your HN profile is similarly anonymous. Sorry, I couldn't figure it out. I don't know what skills you lack, but if they're web developm
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by jholman 3y ago
Okay, first of all, no, that's not the fundamental principle of science. That's the fundamental principle of science according to Karl Popper. Karl Popper is probably the single most influential philosopher of science, but his p
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by jholman 3y ago
Exactly. To elaborate on my agreement with you.... There's a fundamental tension between "news" and "incremental". Which means that in many many important areas of human enterprise (and progress), the "news&qu
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by jholman 3y ago
Oh, neat. TIL, TYVM!
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by jholman 3y ago
Is anyone scholarly using "melee" that way? Or is it just ignorant amateurs? I've only encountered the latter (but I, and all my friends, find it hard to avoid saying "melee" to mean "hand-to-hand", beca
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by jholman 3y ago
No, industrial scale RDBMSes like PostgreSQL, that you can license for free. Obviously?
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by jholman 4y ago
Everyone likes to bag on JS without being willing to learn.
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by jholman 4y ago
Yikes, you (singular) just got rather uncivil. Such a shame, as you (plural) were doing so well.
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by jholman 4y ago
> I mean - a good job will ramp you up. I wonder if I will ever work at a good job. That would be pleasant.
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by jholman 4y ago
One of my college profs, back in the day, alleged that all the news worth knowing about would eventually show up in, IIRC, the New York Times Book Review. Not necessarily in a timely fashion, but that's kind of the point: slow news.
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by jholman 4y ago
> React Router v6 seems to have no non-hook based APIs that aren't marked private!? They screwed the pooch on useNavigation; it causes unnecessary re-renders. Surprise surprise, but if they can't get it right... Whoa, you lost
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by jholman 4y ago
I'm having trouble grasping what this has to do with bootcamps. Isn't that the totality of the value of your original comment, implying that you had some trick for identifying bootcamp graduates?
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by jholman 4y ago
I didn't flag it, and I'm curious too.
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by jholman 4y ago
Supposing that every "result" represented a person who knows what you're talking about, that's still less than 0.1% of the English-speaking world. That would suggest that it's a bubble. (on the one hand, of course
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by jholman 4y ago
What does this have to do with the study of insects?
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by jholman 4y ago
I've been unexpectedly laid off, and I've had at least one job that genuinely engaged me, and I think that laying off employees, or firing employees, or otherwise terminating employees, is not evidence that a company has failed, o

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