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by jimws 7y ago
Forking is not as trivial as you make it sound. You need to setup CI/CD with the new fork, then persuade the community to get on board the new fork. The bigger problem is to get the infrastructure and money to host a live CDN that serv
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by jimws 7y ago
Thanks for all the work, Guido. Your work made my career!
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by jimws 7y ago
You did not answer the question of SIZE_MAX being the limit. So here it is once again: > Doesn't it imply that it must be finite, because you can use sizeof() to find its size, which yields something of type size_t, which has maximu
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by jimws 7y ago
I am confused if you this is an honest opinion or if you are saying with a touch of sarcasm. If it is the latter, a winking smiley or "</sarcasm>" or "/s" would have been nice to avoid triggering Poe&#x27
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Ask HN: Which IRC networks/channels do you still visit?
1 points by jimws 7y ago|1 comments
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by jimws 7y ago
Been to Thailand. Muay Thai is a really good physical and spiritual experience one can have in Thailand. I really recommend it to anyone visiting Thailand with the time and money to invest in this skill.
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by jimws 7y ago
Fossil - https://www.fossil-scm.org/ Code, commit logs, tickets, and project management are all part of the same repo with Fossil.
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by jimws 7y ago
Absolutely yes. As a developer I can: git log | grep <error message> git show <commit id> I don't have to go looking for an issue tracker and figuring out how to search it effectively.
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by jimws 7y ago
> Well-written code is a work of art. Always has been, always will be. The same thing was thought of assembler programming a few decades ago. Now it is rather a lost art. I fear that a day would come when machine learning algorithms can
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Ask HN: Which book are you reading today?
3 points by jimws 7y ago|1 comments
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by jimws 7y ago
You should prefix your post title with "Ask HN: ". This way we would know that a question is being asked and it will get the attention of those who want to answer.
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Scientist asked 'was Einstein wrong?' after object broke laws of physics(express.co.uk)
2 points by jimws 7y ago|0 comments
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by jimws 7y ago
Yes. Those were not good days. In those days, every tech savvy person somehow automatically got the privilege to be rude to the less knowledgeable people. If a user came for help without doing sufficient homework, a project author or commun
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by jimws 7y ago
You mentioned: > She made it clear in a comment quoted by The Register that she refused to use the singular they in any circumstance, even when it was known that it was someone's preferred pronoun. But this is more subtle than that.
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by jimws 7y ago
While I agree that this is strictly worse than current document and eBook formats meant for computers, this inarguably not much worse than physical books. We couldn't have copied quotes or table of contents in a physical book.