john2x

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by john2x 9y ago
Meanwhile, in the Philippines, we embraced this 'Free Basics' concept (or almost like it). All mobile data providers here provide free access to Facebook. <rant> I personally blame this as a big part of why our country&#x2
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by john2x 9y ago
Could they use the different voices to generate unique, natural-sounding voices for text-to-speech?
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by john2x 10y ago
From the ground up :)
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by john2x 10y ago
One that comes to mind (for Purescript) are the error messages.
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by john2x 10y ago
Looks like something straight out of H.P. Lovecraft's works. Even the description on the Wikipedia page is pretty Lovecraftian.
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by john2x 10y ago
Yes, offlineimap crashes every few hours. Not a big deal for me (I don't get a lot of emails), but it is annoying. I'll give mbsync a shot.
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by john2x 10y ago
I've switched to using Emacs (with mu4e + offlineimap). Composing pretty emails using Orgmode is great. It's even possible to render code snippets with code highlighting taken from your current theme. Attachments handling is prett
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by john2x 10y ago
Wow, you aren't kidding. After reading your comment I tried to recall Wind-Up Bird, and got the same sensation.
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by john2x 10y ago
<rant> I blame Github, in particular its "stars" feature. It makes putting out code a popularity contest. "Why should I make someone else's project more popular? I'd rather spend my free time making myself pop
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by john2x 10y ago
I was surprised by this also. There's a new option for the thinner font. Under Profiles > Text, set "Use thin strokes for anti-aliased text" to Never.
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by john2x 10y ago
I occasionally use it when I have spotty internet connection, since it allows me to type commands or edit files with no latency. I still rely on tmux/screen for cases when I need to re-connect to a dropped connection.
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by john2x 10y ago
Hmm, how about one user downvotes, provides the appropriate reason, then others can "join or agree" with that user's downvote by upvoting his/her comment. Maybe this could somehow count as multiple downvotes with the sam
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by john2x 10y ago
I think putting "real" value to karma would be a bad idea. People already karma whore even if it has no real value (although it has perceived value). I imagine it would be worse if it has some actual (limited) value.
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by john2x 10y ago
What if downvotes were a limited resource (maybe time limited)? It could help if downvoters had to think twice about pushing that button, in case something else deserved their downvote more. EDIT: or a downvote requires a comment of why the
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by john2x 10y ago
Personally my muscle memory adapted to this discrepancy, just as it did when starting with Vim (I started with Vim about 10 years ago and moved to Emacs+Evil about 3 years ago). Now I'm somewhat the opposite, I expect everything else t
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by john2x 11y ago
I'm spoiled by ORM's, but I have no problem using SQL to query the database. What I have trouble with though is creating tables using raw SQL and managing schema migrations. Even when using an ORM it seems kind of messy. I'
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by john2x 11y ago
My main concern that's stopping me from using Python 3 for all new projects is the risk of being in the middle of the project, and finding yourself needing a library only to find out that it only works on Python 2. Couple that with 2.7
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by john2x 11y ago
I wish Github would add a "Discussions" tab for repos, so projects don't need to create a separate Google Group (which require a Google account!) for questions-that-are-not-quite-issues.
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by john2x 11y ago
One gripe I have with Instapaper is how it formats code blocks. It doesn't look right at all (at least on the iPad version).
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by john2x 11y ago
Off topic, but anyone know what font and theme (it looks like the default theme but I'm not sure) are used in the project's screenshots?
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by john2x 11y ago
Yeah, the Ruby-like syntax of Elixir made me stop looking into it more. I remember reading an article (or was that a chapter in a book), which basically said something like "ok, these parentheses are optional, but only for this case. F
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by john2x 11y ago
Man, that ThoughtWorks/big consulting companies stuff sounds horrible. Is there any truth to it? Is this a norm with these types of companies? Or are they outliers/extreme cases?
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by john2x 11y ago
Heh, once I started using ledger[1] to track my personal expenses, I get super annoying (and cranky) when someone borrows money from me. [1]: http://ledger-cli.org
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by john2x 11y ago
> stage multiple files with a region or similar This feature has been available for some time, I believe. In magit-status, just select with region the files and then `s` to stage the highlighted files.
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by john2x 12y ago
Why is it only happening on Macbook Pro's? Is it only happening to matte screens? (afair there's no matte screen option anymore?)
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by john2x 12y ago
From the README > Although parts of the language may be very close to Clojure (they are both lisps after all), language parity is not a design goal. We will take the features from Clojure or other languages that are suitable to our needs
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by john2x 12y ago
Link to F#-to-JS compiler?
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by john2x 12y ago
Yeah. It doesn't even come with cake!
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by john2x 12y ago
The worst thing about video ads is the bandwidth wasted on them. Especially in a country with not-so-good internet, those seconds wasted on video ads are precious.
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by john2x 12y ago
Would iOS/Android be considered enterprise today?

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