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by jkmcf 3y ago
I’m surprised I haven’t seen a chat interface on top of the Discourse, or other, forum. Discord introduced subject-based chats, but they seem secondary to the fire hose of the topic channels and not used much where I participate.
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> In the video she says she was hired August 25th, or 4.5 months ago. She was on a 3mo training stint and only started truly "working" in December. Unsure if she was expected to make sales during training or not.
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I don’t get the impression that standardrb is that popular. It’s also hyper strict, which is ok for a new project, but won’t play nicely with any legacy app. Though I’m surprised DHH didn’t write his own RuboCop from scratch.
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by jkmcf 3y ago
Note, this is not the stack used by https://aha.io
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I’ve met a few. They didn’t work out long term, but I don’t know if it was the polyamory at fault… Theoretically, it sounds great, but in practice it seems very hard unless your bond is better than most couples’.
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by jkmcf 3y ago
I was just thinking Zack's MMA training was to help keep rebellious support staff in line.
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Very cool! I love how you've implemented models, particularly generating the entity from the database. I did something similar with PHP 20 years ago, but abandoned it when Rails came around.
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Why “\(var)” instead of one of the other, more prevalent string interpolation escapes? Is it a Haskell/Elm thing I’m unfamiliar with?
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TBF, NYC has regular homeless public defecation based on my last 2 visits there.
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The prevalence of ad blockers indicates a problem with the product and product pricing. I'd gladly pay YouTube for premium, but my family does not watch enough YouTube to justify US$23/mo. IMO, the content and software industry h
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...ESPN+ has entered the chat... How about a 30s ad before a 10s video?
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by jkmcf 3y ago
In the spirit of private property[1], no tax on primary residence (i.e., must actually live there most[2] of the time). No one should lose their only residence because they cannot afford to pay the tax. 1. which I only sorta agree with depe
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by jkmcf 3y ago
Tell that to my company which bought a dev the 8GB 14" MBP. I couldn't figure out why his Rails parallel tests were running 7x slower than mine until he revealed this tidbit.
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Relevant book released last week: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-little-book-of-al... I just began reading it with my 10yo daughter. The beginning discusses how Fermi raised the important question "whe
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by jkmcf 3y ago
I'm not sure why 1. Companies say they won't raise rates, or that rates will go down 2. People believe them Every year, employees expect raises -- at least a cost of living adjustment, and every year senior management
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Teddy remains, IMO, one of the best ~~Americans~~ humans. He started off as one person, learned, and grew into a better person.
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You are paying for the rules, not the enforcement. They don’t have 5e budget to enforce, similar to the EPA.
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And price it accordingly to its value.
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Feedly, though I wish Reeder wasn’t so stagnant or resistant to features.
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by jkmcf 3y ago
But, think of the astronomers! These LEO satellite internet companies need to pay a tax to fund more space telescopes!
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Maybe the CS/Math department did. Sadly, I never heard of us creating this cool game. I remember in 1989 or 1990 wanting to play NetTrek, but the only machines capable of playing it were in a locked room that you needed to know about i
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I'd have acted on my (relatively low-effort) ideas that turned out to be profitable when others actually did follow through. I do wish things had conspired so that I was a little later in the evolution of web development rather than th
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New AI translates 5k-year-old cuneiform tablets instantly(bigthink.com)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFR030IfE2o I can't find the video I wanted to. It was a breakdown of some big guy who didn't know how to fight go up against someone much smaller but knew some boxing. The little g
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by jkmcf 3y ago
243M iOS app. For what's essentially a list of text. Meta should have enough resources to hire a couple iOS and Android devs to make a native experience. The hard parts are all on the backend.
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by jkmcf 3y ago
Your post makes me want to get off my ass and find my GGparents birth certificates so I can prove I'm "Irish" for citizenship and emigration from the US. Where is home/your mother in Ireland, if you don't mind my as
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by jkmcf 3y ago
IIRC, this is part of the 32bit to 64bit switch. It needs to be recompiled. I have an iPhone 4 I keep around to play one essential word game that helps me fall asleep.
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I live on the Front Range in Colorado where we have the Santa Fe trail, almost entirely without tree cover. The sun is brutal here at 6500+ feet, and I would use this every day if it were available since there aren't many bike paths wi
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My teacher (TA) was nice in retrospect! I got -35 for being incomplete and -35 for not working! The non-PEBKAC problem was that I was using Turbo Pascal 2.0 (1.0?) that couldn't identify I'd screwed up a method's parameter de
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The biggest problem with any language, be it Ruby, Java, or C is founder code written by language ignorant coders who don't learn the language and relevant idioms. The good thing is there's value delivered quickly essential to gro

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