jlarocco

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by jlarocco 7y ago
I'm holding out for next year's "iPhone 12 Pro Max Fusion Extreme". Besides the goofy name, these are pretty underwhelming.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Don't stress out over side projects. If you don't feel like working on them, don't. The cliche that good software devs have to sit at desks coding 20 hours a day is silly and unhealthy. Use your free time to do stuff you e
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Comments like this aren't helpful. Literally nobody is claiming the results are solid evidence for anything other than that one small study had an interesting and unexpected result. And the results aren't "nearly meaningless&
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by jlarocco 7y ago
In that case, cell phones would be banned long before marijuana.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
And why stop there? Let's outlaw everything people enjoy doing. It's for their own good.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> ... and the children that come from it are the greatest gift you can be given. LOL! You can keep 'em. I'm happy it works for you, but it's not for everybody.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
The idea is that ejection should only happen when there's no possibility of recovering. If it's still possible to attempt a landing then the pilot shouldn't eject. I suspect that's why so many of the ejections in the ar
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> I don't. if the fine is $50 and it costs $5 to park, I will pay unless I suspect enforcement is so lax that I have a >90% chance of getting away with it. That amounts to the same thing. You obey the regulations (pay for parkin
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Fully agree. User activated tooltips are fantastic for learning to use an application, and desktop apps without them are half assed, IMO. At the same time, I find the forced, “guided” tooltips to be invasive and annoying.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Any thoughts on why it went so badly compared to Colorado? I think your first and third points are the key to it. CO has lower taxes, and as far as I know, when rec dispensaries were legallized it didn't change much for the med busine
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by jlarocco 7y ago
A PDF version of "The Art of Prolog" is available from MIT: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-prolog-second-edition
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Sorry, but that's backwards. Netscape was selling their browser before Microsoft got smacked down by the DOJ. In fact, Microsoft's bundling of IE with Windows was some of the strongest evidence showing that they were abusing the
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by jlarocco 7y ago
It's worse than that - they only received 15 cars. The order was cancelled before the other 85 arrived.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Wow... it's good to be a CFO. $40k to relocate and a salary 62% higher than the CEO's.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Unless you're hiring, marrying, and raising the dumbest people around, they're probably smart enough to not perform those activities in front of a video camera in any case. Security cameras don't usually have indicator lights
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> I'm still kind of amazed how difficult it is to create a Lisp program that isn't hundreds of MB in size. That's not true IME. No doubt SBCL binaries are large, but they start around 70 Mb and grow from there. The growt
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by jlarocco 7y ago
For context, I'm a C++ and Python developer in my day job. I've been writing code for about 20 years and create a lot of small projects based on my interests (simple games, 2d/3d graphics, automation, web services, algorithm
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> This is visible when comparing PyQt and C++: yes, PyQt is easier to get into, has nicer syntax, but C++ offers more power. That may be true for Python, but the Common Lisp bindings for Qt4 were equally as "powerful" as the C+
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by jlarocco 7y ago
It's good to see language compatibility mentioned, and I hope they follow through with it. There were really fantastic Common Lisp bindings for Qt4, but they relied on a tool called "Smoke", which stopped working with Qt5. M
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Yeah, we have a few of these in downtown Boulder, too. Most are permanent, but I think they put up temporaries during popular summer events.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
As a consumer I think it's a big problem. Having identical ports that work differently is even more confusing than having a half dozen different ports. I can look at a micro-USB cable and a mini-USB cable and tell in 2 seconds which
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by jlarocco 7y ago
On the other hand, maybe the problem with our industry is that we try to solve every problem with computers and software when simpler and more secure physical solutions can do a better job in some cases.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I don't agree. There's nothing inherently wrong with writing imperative code, and being imperative doesn't imply the code isn't broken up into components or that it's necessarily difficult to maintain.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
It's great that you don't mind throwing out all of your peripherals every time Apple decides to remove a port. I personally have better things to spend money on, so I generally don't get rid of my devices until they stop work
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I agree with you that it's usable, but on my machine (an i5 iMac/16 gb/Debian) it's slightly slower than Chromium. Not enough that I won't use it, but noticeablely slower. I also agree with the upstream comments ab
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by jlarocco 7y ago
And my point is that Electron isn't fooling anybody, so you're better off just launching on Web, because that's what you're really doing anyway.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
But packaging and distributing take a non-zero amount of time. And none of those "benefits" have any advantage over running the web app in its own window. It's a hack to use cheap web developers to check off the "standal
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I honestly don't know why people waste time building Electron apps. It's the worst possible combination. All of the downsides of web apps (poor performance, memory use, poor integration, etc.) and native apps (security problems,
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by jlarocco 7y ago
No, this single thing won't magically fix healthcare in the US, but it's a baby step in the right direction. If we have to completely solve the problem and overhaul the system in one giant step then we'll never get anywhere.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I played with mine for a few weeks and got bored with it. It's on my desk here somewhere, possibly still running. I setup a headless Linux distro and tested out the ARM port of SBCL. Not surprising, really, but I was able to setup Em

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