johnmaguire

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by johnmaguire 5y ago
I have experienced this as well. Similarly: - Learning controls in a new-to-me video game can be tough (e.g. Rocket League, Quake Live, games with lots of mechanics.) Playing daily can slowly improve the ability. However, taking a few days
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by johnmaguire 5y ago
Are you not paying more to live near the office?
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by johnmaguire 5y ago
It's always interesting to see what SO posts I participated in - either as an asker or answerer - that became popular over time.
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Facebook dark mode on mobile missing for some users(tomsguide.com)
1 points by johnmaguire 5y ago|0 comments
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by johnmaguire 5y ago
> I mean, yeah, I can toggle the light switch to get it to turn on, but then it gets screwed up and I need to go into the app to reset it when the internet comes back on. That doesn't sound right. All the Zigbee/Z-Wave switches
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by johnmaguire 5y ago
Not to mention if the package name itself changes...
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by johnmaguire 5y ago
It's called OTR. Some clients support it, but in my experience they are not all compatible. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging
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by johnmaguire 5y ago
OFTC is another IRC network - irc.oftc.net
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by johnmaguire 5y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by johnmaguire 5y ago
Would love to read more about this.
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by johnmaguire 5y ago
Clickable: http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/GoNotes.html
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by johnmaguire 5y ago
In my experience, whether you use an abstract class or an interface class as your reference depends very much on the problem you are trying to solve - specifically, is there common code shared across all implementations?
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by johnmaguire 5y ago
You could word it that way, but it's not actually correct. Check the man pages to see why. (Or read the other commenter's note which gives a brief explanation.) > I don't think a newbie could even grok the difference betwe
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by johnmaguire 5y ago
`git reset --hard` resets your worktree to the HEAD state. `git checkout -- <file>` checks out the HEAD version of a given file.
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by johnmaguire 5y ago
I think racketeering might be closer? From Wikipedia: > Originally and often still specifically, racketeering refers to an organized criminal act in which the perpetrators fraudulently offer a service that will not be put into effect, of
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by johnmaguire 5y ago
FWIW, one is a teacher and the other is a student. I'm a little confused though - this post says it's from 10 hours ago, the other says it's from 8 hours ago. Why was the other one chosen? edit - Thanks for all you do for HN.
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Homeshick – Git dotfiles synchronizer written in bash(github.com)
2 points by johnmaguire 5y ago|0 comments
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by johnmaguire 6y ago
What exactly is ffmpeg's one thing? Or curl's for that matter?
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by johnmaguire 6y ago
Nothing the parent said was uncivil. (I say this having largely agreed with your original comment.)
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by johnmaguire 6y ago
Whoops, sorry about the typo.
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by johnmaguire 6y ago
Shibboleh, a popular but overly-complex SAML implementation (Single Sign-On), used by most universities, was created this way.
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by johnmaguire 6y ago
You could also download it with Ninite. Nothing downloaded with Ninite will install the sponsored versions of software.
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by johnmaguire 6y ago
I've always wondered about this too - I feel like I am wasting their time. > And what if they make an offer? I guess you choose whether to accept it or not. An offer does not oblige you to accept.
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“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful (2002)(meyerweb.com)
2 points by johnmaguire 6y ago|0 comments
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by johnmaguire 6y ago
Not worldwide
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by johnmaguire 6y ago
I don't think the parent is talking about Python 2 -> 3. I think they are pointing out that for many developers, moving to Python 3 happened very late. That means they ran 2.7 since 2010 (roughly 10 years now.) Now that they are on
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by johnmaguire 6y ago
I want to just say I appreciate your level-headed response to the anonymous poster. Separately... "In fact, I've seen a lot more intense IC to CEO debate in Canonical than anywhere else I've worked." As an outsider, this
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by johnmaguire 11y ago
What? Look at the price of Nexus devices for example. Those things are well powered enough to do anything your flagship can.
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by johnmaguire 11y ago
A $350 or less smartphone provides more value than three or four $100 textbooks any day.