jlarocco

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by jlarocco 7y ago
Yeah, sounds like this is basically by design. It's interesting that new immigrants aren't opening new restaurants to make up for the closures, but even that's not too surprising given the current state of things.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> To implement the same level of functionality and prettiness in a native app toolkit like Qt is at least a month of work. That's really only true for web developers trying to make native apps, and only because they're used to
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by jlarocco 7y ago
It feels like your being obtuse on purpose. Surely you understand the difference between a part that naturally wears out over time due to friction and wear and tear, versus a part that's delibrately installed incorrectly to cause a mal
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by jlarocco 7y ago
If he's purposely making mistakes to get work in the future then I don't think 6-months in jail is that bad. It's just plain fraud isn't it? Not to mention an expensive inconvenience for all of his customers who have t
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> That would hurt society more than help because once the algorithms are public, the code's inner workings can then be gamed and abused. But the algorithms are already being "gamed and abused" - that's why Google keep
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Honestly it sounds like your problem is Windows. I'm writing this on an AMD Phenom II, running Debian and StumpWM, that's over 10 years old. I've upgraded the hard drive to an SSD, and the memory from 8 Gb to 16 Gb (4 Gb DIM
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> Oh, please. It's standard industry practice for companies to claim ownership of everything a software engineer comes up with, even "on their own time". Bullshit. I've never had to do that in 17 years as a software
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by jlarocco 7y ago
That's not true, though. When running in the REPL (the most common way to interface with Lisp) the compile time and runtime Lisps are the same. For example, here's a copy/paste from a REPL session that defines a macro that de
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by jlarocco 7y ago
It's an interesting puzzle, but is there any significance to it? Are there an infinite number of sequences like this, but with different numbers or different operations? Is there any value proving things about them? Seems like a shot
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Not only that, but most of Microsoft's discontinued products were replaced by arguably better alternative products. Windows 95 -> 98 -> XP -> ... Microsoft Works -> Office COBOL -> ... -> Visual Studio Unlike Google,
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by jlarocco 7y ago
That's simply not true. Anecdotally, I've worked in Colorado my entire career (17 years now, over half a dozen jobs) and have never signed an agreement like that, and have never been asked to sign one. I go out of my way to bring
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by jlarocco 7y ago
After years of using Common Lisp, my opinion on "meta-programming" is that it's wonderful when used sparingly and in just the right way, but a bad idea 99% of the time. If it's not completely obvious what (not how) a ma
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I'm honestly not surprised. Judging solely by the UI, I actually kinda like Atlassian's tools, but they're a huge pain in the ass to get working with privacy extensions installed (uMatrix, uBlock, etc.). They make cross-site
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I've also grown to love s-expressions, but even Common Lisp deviates from pure s-expressions in places ( #( ... ) array syntax, for example), and the mechanism is customizable via reader macros. Some examples: https://gist.g
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> The Location Services icon really does flash when anything uses Location Services, apparently. That's not necessarily true, though. It's just as likely the developer who implemented the feature forgot to set the "flashIc
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Maybe it's a way to signal that a project might last longer than 5 years before being killed off on a whim...
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I've always wished Emacs would have been written in Common Lisp. It would already support this, and it's all around just a better language (IMO). There's Climacs, but it's so far behind...
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Do you have a reference about DDG using Bing? It's not mentioned on their site, or their wikipedia entry, or anywhere else I could find, and the results were different when I tried a few searches in them both just now. Are they "U
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> I keep saying to people who ask what I'm doing next (currently taking a break) that my problem is I love coding but hate doing it as a job and this article has every reason why. I used to feel this way, but then I realized it&#x27
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I think the advice is correct, but the examples are not. When the transformation switches to the other side of the comparison it has to be inverted.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I'm skeptical people are maliciously rating products 1/5 because they have an agenda against USB-C. More likely, they dislike it because it's inconvenient and difficult to use with their devices. Hell, APPLES OWN DEVICES do
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I honestly suspect Apple's completely lost without Steve Jobs and instead of innovating and building quality products they're pivoting into a fashion symbol and trying to push their margins as high as they can and eke out as much
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Is that really useless, though? If I'm about to drop $3-6k on a laptop, I want to know beforehand that it's going to be a PITA connecting things to it. The fact that lots of people think it's difficult, and that Apple respond
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> You will find very quickly how reluctant people are to pay for anything despite a few cultural-phenomenon-level exceptions like Netflix. That's absolutely not true, though. People buy stuff all the time. Clothing, shoes, sportin
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> monetizing internet services for the general public without advertising and tracking is a mostly-unsolved problem I feel like that's not a real problem. Or, maybe only a problem for services that care more about having a ton of u
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I'm in a similar position, but don't avoid banks altogether. No debt, except a credit card balance which is paid off each month, and I only use that for the extra protection over a debit card. For a short time after college I was
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Wow, I had no idea John le Carré was still alive. I loved the movie version of "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold," and the novel's been waiting for me on my Kindle for a while now. I may have to bump that to the top of my
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Interesting - as much as I like sourcehut, my only complaint is that it's noticeably slower than GitHub for me. It's not terrible, by any means, but I've noticed it a few times when I push to both. My guess is that I'm
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I live near a library and print there when I need to. They're a little cheaper than FedEx and usually less busy. I suppose for large volume or something more complicated I'd still go to FedEx, though.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
But the taxi driver will be paid to drive back home, even if he can't pickup a fair. It's cheaper for the customer, but Uber drivers get screwed in the long term.

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