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by jtms 6y ago
Imagine a world where all programmers do is write the tests and the generalized learning algos write all the implementations.
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by jtms 6y ago
Cavities are caused primarily by too much sugar combined with inadequate home care. There is also a genetic component - some people are going to get more cavities than others no matter what they do. Cleanings and checkups don’t really preve
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by jtms 6y ago
I strongly agree, but would go one step further and just remap caps lock to escape for the entire OS. Caps lock is a relatively useless function that takes up extremely prime real estate.
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by jtms 6y ago
I absolutely love Redis! I really wish more software worked as well and was as easy to use - thank you for creating this absolute gem!
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by jtms 6y ago
I turned off political Facebook adverts by simply uninstalling the app and never using it
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by jtms 6y ago
Bold of them to assume they will still exist in 2030
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by jtms 6y ago
PostgreSQL still the best sql though :-)
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by jtms 6y ago
Splendor, Jaipur, and Seven Wonders: Duel are all fantastic 2 player games that get a ton of play at my house
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by jtms 6y ago
Isn't bitcoin, by its very nature, "marked"? Perhaps you should change your conspiracy to use Monero or other privacy focused coins as the medium of bribery. :-)
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by jtms 6y ago
Same - trying to free enough extended ram to run various games in DOS on a hand me down 286 was my first experience in troubleshooting and configuring an OS
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by jtms 6y ago
for me, it is the most interesting thing on the front page right now.
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by jtms 6y ago
1 million you say? I dunno... Jamie, pull that up!
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by jtms 6y ago
I’ll add to that and say that if you use Emacs instead of Vim you should probably feel deep existential despair about making such a blatantly incorrect choice
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by jtms 6y ago
Not the OP, but figured I’d weigh in... I found it to be extremely productive when I used it for about 6 months. Only downside is that it’s not open source and some of its features are not free.
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by jtms 6y ago
Just use the cli - it’s faster and more productive
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by jtms 6y ago
Acted in extremely unethical ways? Definitely. Broken any actual laws that are prosecutable? Unlikely.
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by jtms 6y ago
From the Urbit homepage: "Urbit ID is a decentralized digital identity system. Your Urbit ID is a username, network address, and crypto wallet." So yes it absolutely involves a blockchain.
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by jtms 6y ago
I ran into it in my printing of Cryptonomicon at the end of the book... indeed extremely excellent!
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by jtms 6y ago
I have zero motivation to spend any time at all finding this out myself, but let me guess, this somehow involves a blockchain.
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by jtms 6y ago
Yeah agreed... wtf is he even talking about? "terrible way to work" is an absurd thing to say - I use a command line for easily 90% of my work and would argue its a FAR SUPERIOR way to get things done efficiently. This sentence al
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by jtms 7y ago
Just because the APIs remain largely backwards compatible does not mean that they didn't change. Just the fact that querySelector and querySelectorAll was introduced and started actually being usable across all the major browsers is a
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by jtms 7y ago
yeah seriously... in 2010 i am pretty sure we were still rounding corners via background images in css
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by jtms 7y ago
Browser APIs have changed quite a bit in the last 10 years. Yes, the same approaches are still supported, but there have been many additions and modifications to core APIs. Ten years ago you would have never dreamed of trying to build compl
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by jtms 7y ago
*right (unless wordplay was intentional)
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by jtms 7y ago
I think the essay about undersea cables is actually by Stephenson, not Gibson (unless he happened to write one too)
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by jtms 7y ago
This is one of my favorite books of all time out of all books, not just tech. No other book has had a more profound impact on how I look at and relate to those (previously) mysterious chunks of metal and plastic that we all spend so much ti
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by jtms 7y ago
LICEcap is great software - we use it extensively on my team to share little highlight reels of a given feature in pull requests
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by jtms 7y ago
And it even works on people who fully understand it and think they are above it
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by jtms 7y ago
Nice hot take on the headline... maybe actually read the article and add something a bit more substantial to the discussion?
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by jtms 7y ago
Just because you and your specific likes and dislikes don’t agree with WFH everyday as a viable approach doesn’t make it “a joke”. I’m perfectly fine and productive with it.

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