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jjakque
6y ago
I'm still using uTorrent 1.8.4 inside WinXP VM. It's what I use for past 10 or so years because it works and still works.
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jjakque
6y ago
I felt your comment off topic. But I do somewhat agree with sentiment of having immutable news archive as the present Internet is more 'what we can see' oppose to 'what we can know'.
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7y ago
I actually remember this show. This was prior to reality TV shows and arguably before movie 'The Truman Show'. I did not had the honor to see this on TV, but I was been told and then checked out some Japanese websites (more like b
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jjakque
7y ago
My forecast for near future geopolitics is grim as collateral damages will happen in most countries, first world or not, west or not. I am also pessimistic about open initiatives (open source, open data, open standards etc) as benefiters wi
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7y ago
Planet money has a podcast episode on WeWork and Masayoshi: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/767379358/episode-943-unicorn...
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jjakque
7y ago
Anyone else felt disconcerting about the reoccurring theme of platform attracts communicated generated content, only to shift interest/motive once critical mass is achieved?
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7y ago
I'm curious, in practical term (not throttle emulator via browser's developer tool), does single page app 'works' in location of low speed internet? By 'works', I mean not just content been served, but overall
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7y ago
> Japanese If you want to learn Japanese casually, especially through pop culture like watching anime, I think you can start by proficient Katakana. Been an English speaker, you have a lot of advantage getting good at it in short time. B
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7y ago
As simple as it sound, I feel there's need to stress on how important it is for users to find what they seeks without going through maze of hyperlinks and visual fluffs. * If I'm seeking for contact number and/or address, I&#
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7y ago
Slack allows 2-tier conversation (and IIRC, you cannot share code snippet in 2nd tier). Reddit and HackerNews allows n-tier conversation where you can branch a thread to heart's content.
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jjakque
7y ago
I consider Google Wave closer to reddit for real time chat.
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jjakque
7y ago
Personally, it become very disappointing when multiplayer games become less and less interesting for players who seeks for challenges and problem solving. I like to think today's gamers are mainly going for bragging rights, and studios
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7y ago
> type guard Thanks for the link, I am currently doing something similar without knowing TS implicit behavior. With 1st given example in the link, I forced on a style to such: ``` function doSomething(x: number | string) { if (typeof x
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jjakque
7y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. It's simply a matter of time of phasing into preferable setup, consider the current setup is 'not yet broken'.
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7y ago
I've done 2 commercial Typescript + React projects so far (along with few side projects using what I knew that time + what I want to try). My experience been: - Discourage 'any' but not been afraid of using it when must. I th
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7y ago
I think you may have got better at managing both your tasks and time :) Very possible that been a father cornered you to think more pragmatically in daily life, and that translates to how you do things at work.
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jjakque
7y ago
Do you mean like parental instinct? When you are in 'father mode', you physically and mentally geared up and ready to take up the role.
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7y ago
> ...but the current presidential administration is enacting tariffs on many other countries... I'm quite curious to know possible rationals behind that? To layman like myself, it make absolute no sense, but on some level it got to
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7y ago
> This is the same argument cake shops make against taking order from gay people. I've always avoid getting involved in (semi-)political discussions but I'm very curious here: It is fundamentally OK for customers to boycott ven
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7y ago
Ditto, getting `Error 1016` from CloudFlare. Have to resort with using web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190714180208/http://docs.hylan...
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jjakque
7y ago
short video explanation on said china map topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Di-UVC-_4
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7y ago
I'm having trouble understanding implications to answers of these 2 questions when deciding legitimacy of Libra. To elaborate my confusion: * Why does choice of a programming language plays a part of deciding such product (a currency p
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7y ago
Real Engineering made a video on this exact topic, explaining the essence in less than 2 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXGRPMD-GQ He went through bit more details said topic in another video "Why Are The Dr
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jjakque
7y ago
And is it just me, or hopping on OpenOffice Calc or Google Sheet felt like a different device altogether: They all look like bikes, but accelerate differently, change gears differently etc?
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7y ago
Is it tho? or is the OS just too relaxed on security? Think old Windows that people always ridicule, the publicity was rare on calling out bad practice/intentions, it has always been the fault of the OS.
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jjakque
7y ago
Thanks for your reply. Just checked out vpnscam.com for the first time, and its content scream in tinfoil hats giving me negative first impression. It's really a dilemma to me: small providers haven't proven themselves to be trust
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7y ago
Serious question: What's the context of the provided diagram? Is it to imply that the named companies are closely associated with each other? ie/ Tesonet, NordVPN, HolaVPN, ProtonMail/ProtonVPN (and other named company I miss
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7y ago
There's also a similar story at cliff 'The Gap' in Sydney. The person known as 'Angel of the Gap' who lived near by often patrol around the area and talk people out of potential suicide [1]. [1] https://e
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7y ago
Reminds me of NPM been blocked in China so CNPM appears to mirror nodejs packages. CNPM is now better known as https://npm.taobao.org/ What's there to prevent private organizations censorships?
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7y ago
It was rebranded to PixelSense ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PixelSense ), giving its name to the Surface we know of today.
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