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by jrobn 9y ago
> “You run into the exactly same resource and distribution problems as the government has, and you are going to start instituting the same sort of structures sooner or later.” This is spot on. I think we would have to radically change ou
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I think you're right. I think we should start with something more sensible, like gun laws that make it harder to acquire firearms that make it easy to kill several people in several seconds.
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I find your assumption that my comment was anti-gun in anyway quite telling. I own guns myself. I do have a problem with people using them to kill people. America has a gun violence problem[1]. [1] https://www.vox.com/policy
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by jrobn 9y ago
As a US citizen hearing about another mass shooting, I'm honestly not shocked. There will be more next month as well until eventually they will become the "price" of our great "freedom". Sickening. Edit: Not sur
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I honestly think reward cards are a rent-seeking mechanism against merchants. Merchants (or CC processors a la stripe) pay the higher transaction fee just because a customer swiped their “Platinum Bonus Cash Back Rewards Ultimate Black++” c
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Yuck. I would follow the advise in this blog post [1]. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/08/semantic-css-with-i...
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Don’t answer these questions. Each of what you listed is an identity you are trying to stick to yourself like some kind of bumper sticker. You become limited when you identify. This is hard shit. It’s not easy to shed these things when you
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by jrobn 9y ago
I think it’s mostly people who are writing in Elixir are, at this point, already on the fringes of using “new shiny language” and would be more likely to us “new shiny front-end framework” in new projects. I really like Elixir, a lot. I’ve
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Too little to late. I hate to get political, but this is more of a political issue than a technical one. The earth is already on track for another massive extinction due to climate change caused by warming global temperatures and human cons
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by jrobn 9y ago
Off-topic... But this reminded me of English’s: Lead, led Read, read? (Why not red?)
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by jrobn 9y ago
Sometimes I think e-mail should have just stayed plain text. No HTML renderers or other fancy stuff. Just type what you want to say and to whom and send. You know what does fancy marketing "e-mails" really well without all the hor
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Google, facebook, and big data will kill any chance of a standardized linked data format or protocol. Google's main product isn't search, it's you. Facebook doesn't care about messaging or social apps, they care about mi
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Do both and and then make an educated decision on which languages fits best for the project goals. They are different tools. But to be honest, I'm an Elixir fan :-)
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Do you eat meat? Because if you do, the meat and dairy industry has a much bigger impact ecologically than a car does, at least in the USA. Raising beef or dairy cows requires orders of magnitude more water, land, corn feed (or even grass f
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by jrobn 9y ago
rapidiously fabricate standards compliant experiences This sounds like a goal bullet on any bank password requirements “feature”.
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I really like intercooler. I’d rather sprinkle UI goodness instead of jumping neck deep into jS frontend quicksand.
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by jrobn 9y ago
I never understood the hatred for lisp’s use of parens. They effectively fade into the background in a relatively short period of time. Lack of syntax is a feature.
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by jrobn 9y ago
Oh, the memories! Delta Force 2 over multiplayer, with, I think, 30 players or more, on 56K was surprisingly fun! Advanced voxel engines are quite impressive.
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I optmzd ths sntce to sve 8 byts. I’m impressed with brotli is within 4 bytes with the original as with the highly optimized one.
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The Dark Side of User Interaction Tracking(wired.com)
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I would suggest that something be PostgreSQL. With JSONB and and all the other goodies in version 10 they are too numerous to list there is no reason not to use it for 90% of apps. It WILL scale until you need something more specialized. Po
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by jrobn 9y ago
Code like parent comment is why I use Intercooler.js [1]. [1] http://intercoolerjs.org
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Apple and the like are just being “smart businessmen” as our current tax evading president once said. I never really minded paying taxes. Sure, I was upset sometimes when I learned how some of it is spent. After Trump said that, I made it m
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by jrobn 9y ago
I think today the web is trying to be two things. 1) classic text documents with links to other text documents. 2) a cross-platform runtime for desktop class apps. Over time 2) has been increasigly shoe-horned into limitations of 1) and its
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WebAssembly has a lot of potential. It would be nice to write web apps in a language other than JavaScript that can compile down to WebAssembly and run in the browser. Will there be a day where we can make desktop class apps that can run in
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by jrobn 10y ago
Your indirectly talking about the year. "January" is for the current year and "last January" would be last year. I would interpret "this past" as most recent thing from the current. So "this past January&q
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You could say elixir (via erlang) has this kind of debugging flow. Although not automatic, you can have your program run inside a repl and inspect anything you like. There is also an "observer" program that shows you the running s
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I also agree with this premise. I favor the gradual typing philosophy more and more. For me at least, productivity wise, being able to write something, play around with it, make changes, etc without worrying to much about satisfying type re
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I see this all the time on emerging startup apps and websites. Very annoying. It beeps and pops up and covers the bottom right side of the screen and sometimes covers up content. Worst still, it pops up 10 seconds after I arrived at their s
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by jrobn 10y ago
I've looked at their website. Is Gitlab basically a self hosted Github and Heroku style (app containers) like product?

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