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justaaron
7y ago
I'm familiar with the usage stats on wordpress, lol. I can't say that this is a good thing, but if it suits your needs, have at it. I see no reason to start any greenfield project in 2019 in PHP unless you literally only know or e
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7y ago
I simply meant that Crystal lang features ultra high performance, and yet shares much of Rubys syntactical elegance. Much is built into the standard library and I have to ask what your experience with Crystal has been like so far? I find pr
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7y ago
despite it's pre 1.0 status it's arguably more production ready than php ever was/will-be etc.
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7y ago
https://crystal-lang.org
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7y ago
What is astounding to me, both in O'Neills plan and Bezos offerings (and Silicon Valley Solutions in general, LOL) is the level of social and historical ignorance on display, as if we don't currently contend for control of resourc
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7y ago
Even given lunar materials etc, if we are incapable of altering our current industrial trajectory from the top down (lack of political will), what on earth makes one think we could direct any space activities from the top down? It's cu
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7y ago
vastly underestimating the resources required to lift each kilogram into orbit, let alone the development cycle to get there. and shall we start all this now here on earth just adding to the plight I outlined just before? again, no sense of
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7y ago
"tolerated" nothing like we've thrown at it in exponentially increasing form every year since 1900... and by all accounts it's not "tolerating" it very well at the moment. Fisheries? Sea water contamination? Ai
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7y ago
1) We have been around less than 1 million years. Our industrial revolution began less than 300 years ago. We constitute 0.01% of earths biomass, yet have destroyed 83% of wild mammalian life https://www.pnas.org/content&#x
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7y ago
How about they make a thinkpad laptop up to the quality standards of the old thinkpads? I have several lenovos, all of which exhibit "case flex" syndrome in which random typing occurs, and jacks come loose etc, as in cheap netbook
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7y ago
news flash: the entire tax filing and tax payment industry, to say nothing of tax code itself, uses dark patterns to this effect.
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7y ago
that is a seriously skewed candy budget... do you have any teeth left?
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7y ago
yay!
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7y ago
i love you
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7y ago
... although i have to wonder about the sanity of companies willing to pay for viewing their own messages past 10k on a threaded messaging app, one level above to-dos-mvp and 2 above hello world... the css is nice, i guess....
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7y ago
the name gives you a clue...
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7y ago
"captain obvious called"
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8y ago
good
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8y ago
of COURSE the Beeb isn't taking comments upon this article. I built a "super-adobe" or "earthbag" house, here in Portugal. It was utterly destroyed by the bush fires of 2017, and I do not recommend this technique fo
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8y ago
no, it's called a "search result"
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8y ago
Unless one literally does not care about computers AT ALL, and is content with front-end development, having no hobbies involving any OTHER kind of development etc, one will end up being a bit of a "full stack developer". I, frank
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8y ago
Here's some additional unsolicited advice: Work on your own skills instead of dishing out advice on how to approach systems you appear to only superficially understand :)
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8y ago
totally! that's a useful sized pickup.
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8y ago
it must have been a "we'll show you!" moment after Tramp ripped on Ford for being uncool after the "tariffs bite" fiasco circa 6 months ago... speaking on compensating for small xyz's
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8y ago
except that developing for ARM SBC's natively is normal these days. Even the lowly Raspberry Pi encourages you to plug-in an HDMI monitor, a USB mouse and keyboard, and boot into Raspbian, where things like Wiring-Pi further extend you
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8y ago
...except that ARM laptops and desktops are the next wave, as ARM dominates mobile devices and tablets already, it's sneaking up on Linus from behind. Additionally, Linux is the server platform, abstracting the ISA to a large degree, p
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8y ago
This is objectively untrue. The wealthiest corporations and people overwhelmingly pay the LEAST share of taxes. Your shifting of the playing field smells like an excuse. 1) Whereas the federal budget has not been reduced. 2) Whereas the lar
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8y ago
1) Acquisitions of actually innovative tech corps and their products, which may be incorporated into Amazons products or simply killed. Microsoft is quite good at this. 2) Monopoly means no competition = bad for pricing, quality of service,
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8y ago
Clearly, this is not the result of creative accounting, but merely displays just how SKEWED the playing field is in favor of large parasitic corporations, that kill innovation for each small company they acquire or quash. I don't see A
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8y ago
So, essentially small businesses and lower/middle income folks will pick up the slack on the missing revenue, and in general in terms of the tax-base tilt: In essence you are excusing a heavy tilt for the large global corporations tha
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