jwdunne

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by jwdunne 11y ago
I always pronounced the G softly as in 'magic' so it took a while for the criticism to register. Gonna be honest, I like magit with a hard G, maggots 'n all.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
This comment and the parent comment was really interesting. It's made me think about my current path and somethings I have done/learned that has incrementally pushed me towards functional programming over a long window of time. I
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Hrm. I write a lot of HTML/CSS. I have 0 experience maintaining TeX code. I find the TeX code easier to read and prefer the end result. I'd learn TeX to translate if I ever needed to maintain the equivalent HTML. I don't actu
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by jwdunne 11y ago
It's not. Private schools I've heard of and experienced have strong academic selection criteria on top of being incredibly expensive. My son had funding for a time for nursery and was moved into the prep school. It was like seeing
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by jwdunne 11y ago
In the UK, I've seen richer parents simply send their children who didn't not meet private school's admissions and performance requirements to state school (the one I attended!) whilst their siblings passed the requirements a
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by jwdunne 11y ago
What's sadder is that we have protests by highly capable people, i.e junior doctors, who have dedicated 7 years of schooling and are prepared to dedicate 10 years minimum to the NHS because they are being served an insane deal by Hunt
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Ask HN: What does Alan Kay mean with his definition of OOP?
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Only just getting to grips with it the past year and even then I'm not doing anything in the way of advanced. I have, however, found knowing only a subset of its features has dramatically improved my efficiency at the terminal. Awk and
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by jwdunne 11y ago
To be specific, there's a range. Medium chain triglycerides are the best and can aid with weightless. Coconut oil and, low and behold, butter has good amounts of this. You can also buy it in pure form from amazon. Transfats: you might
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by jwdunne 11y ago
That is incredibly interesting. Thank you. Since my adopted son's father has an ASD, me and my partner are concerned about a few major patterns of development as we've watch our son grow up. I think, as a precaution, we will be go
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Pardon me for being unclear. You misunderstand my intent. I don't mean that the world SHOULD be driven by emotions. I'd hate to think what the world would look like if it was. I meant that it is a big part in what drives people I.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Entirely in relation to my own experiences, which naturally hold more weight than the Bible. I'm not trying to say that my personal view should be everybody's view or the canonical view. I'm just giving an example of how my v
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I'm sorry but I think there is a clear misunderstanding here. I never said that the world should be driven by emotions, just that emotions, in some way or form, drive a lot of people. I'm not sure why you are explaining why people
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by jwdunne 11y ago
If every one truly believed that what affects others is actually affecting themselves, I couldn't describe the all of benefits. One is a massive reduction of wars, violence and suffering. It is a process though. I get angry, upset and
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by jwdunne 11y ago
That firstly it's fantastic that you have such a great relationship. I felt this way before the experience too. Love is a wonderful thing. I'm not saying that my love got my partner is because of taking drugs. It just allowed us t
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I think that is quite a negative response to a benign comment. Your response sums up why I don't share it often - I simply do not wish to preach. I also think you have assumed a bit too much about me and how I treat other people. I sai
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by jwdunne 11y ago
This is something I do amongst very close friends and family. It's still difficult without making their eyes gloss over but I do think that this insight could bring major positive changes to them and even the world as a whole.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
That is exactly why I don't share it. It's next to impossible to understand without the experience and deep thought and resserch, before and after. Although I'm in no way religious, I do have an interest in studying them as a
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I remember when I first took it. I got a profound feeling of "oh, I get it now" about the universe - that ultimately we are all connect, as one. Afterwards, I couldn't work out what it was. For many years, 5 or so to be exact
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by jwdunne 11y ago
To make a point, I thought about 'recur' and I haven't written a single line of Clojure in my life. In comparsion, CL's looping constructs were not mentioned, which crop up often enough.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Oh god, haha. I've been tempted to do this before. I ended up just writing a parser in PHP. The idea was to compile the code to phar and then bootstrap the compiler in Liphp (I chose Liphp because of the mashup AND to tease my mrs abou
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by jwdunne 11y ago
This is a good succinct summary. I'll remember this, thank you :)
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I remember a meme going around that compared the two's achievements. Quite popular amongst programmers on Facebook. My response was something along the lines of everybody can understand Steve Job's achievements because he was a pu
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Perhaps because they do. People with ADD pursue their interests obsessively. If one of those interests is programming, you'll find you way here. I did before I even uncovered ADD.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
The context of the interview is important. From what I understand, he was asked how we can increase the number of female tech founders. I took his reply to mean that thhere isn't much we can do about increasing the numbers of female fo
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I respect your suggestion as therapy is an extremely important part of tackling any issue of mind. I do feel, however, treatment should be physician led, especially since there could be a physical issue that both the OP and a therapist may
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I notice this with social games especially. The whole levelling, achievement and overblown rewards system is designed to give a dopamine kick regularly, up until you need to pay to proceed. It's almost like a drug. In fact, that's
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Exactly this. My poison in my teenage years was a small MMO with it's own development platform. Developing content for it became part of the game. I learned the basics of pixel art, good level design, story development and, of course,
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by jwdunne 11y ago
This has come at a good time. I've been using git, composer and Laravel's artisan thinking that this sort of thing would improve my productivity massively. File name completions are great but option/sub-command completions co
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Maybe not but when you're an obsessive you also realise there are many, many more like you. Some of them are even more obsessive.

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