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by ken 6y ago
Probably, yes. I turn 40 this month, and was recently told by someone who just met me that I look 25. What exactly am I supposed to do differently now?
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by ken 6y ago
We don’t know it’s zero. What fraction of humans who have ever lived have died of old age? We could have age-proof people living among us today who happen to die in car accidents or any number of other causes.
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by ken 6y ago
You don’t have to buy one vehicle to do everything, and that’s difficult if your tasks are so different. Buy a commuter, and rent a van for road trips. Otherwise, you’re taking a road trip sized vehicle to work every day, or a commute size
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by ken 6y ago
> the power and elegance offered by the tech giants (Swift, C#/.NET etc.) continues to lap open source equivalents Ignoring for the moment that both of those are open-source, I've used both of them for several years on major
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by ken 6y ago
> Additionally, there might be time pressures, political pressures, engineering constraints, access problems, and more. All of those (except possibly "engineering constraints") are merely excuses for why it ended up being garba
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by ken 6y ago
I don't know if there's context which might change my interpretation, but from the sound of it, I disagree. This is only true in a closed system. With many things (especially software), we encounter the same types of problems ag
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by ken 6y ago
Is this still feasible advice in the current economic climate? Everyone I know is either firing or shutting down. I have no problem saying "pay me more", but that's hard to follow up when there are no other jobs to be had.
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by ken 6y ago
Sure, you can swap the relative importance of those factors if you like. My point is that an expert's concept of "quality" is not indicative of market success -- in programming languages, or any other. The 25 best-selling a
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by ken 6y ago
Ruby is definitely big in Seattle -- I would say bigger than Python or PHP, but that could just be my circles. In the language popularity lists I've seen, it's typically in the #11-15 slot, which is not too shabby. The "LAMP
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by ken 6y ago
GitHub's UI never changes? Up until a couple years ago [1], the main tabs were in a collapsable sidebar on the right [2]. They just keep cramming more junk on the top, pushing the actual source code further below the fold, and making
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by ken 6y ago
Mu. America doesn't have the cultural uniformity that other countries do. (In my experience, though, more than once/week seems excessive. Do you not have other family/friends to catch up with, too? Do you spend an hour on
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by ken 6y ago
> "If functional programming is that good, why is nobody using it?" In the past 25 years, I think we've seen quite clearly that programming language popularity depends on many different factors, and "quality of he und
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by ken 6y ago
This is a pretty good overview of the issues, but I note one significant omission. > Take a program to save lives in a large, well-known population with a risk that’s well-understood but small, and then ask, OK, what’s that worth? You ca
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by ken 6y ago
It's great, but it's certainly not indistinguishable. The water and clouds are a dead giveaway. Also, except for the yellow/black silhouettes, the graphics have lower contrast than the photographs, which makes me wonder if i
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by ken 6y ago
This doesn't work. When we have only 3 major choices, and each one is exceptionally complex, it can't work. It's literally impossible to "send a clear signal" about dozens of different issues using (slightly les
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by ken 6y ago
No, it's the opposite. > "In 1988, Donald Norman appropriated the term affordances in the context of human–machine interaction to refer to just those action possibilities that are readily perceivable by an actor." Putting
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by ken 6y ago
Teaching passengers to wear masks when sick, wash their hands, etc., is the "let's roll" of COVID-19. A vaccine will be the reinforced cockpit doors of COVID-19. For most people, in 3 years, we'll be right back to wher
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by ken 6y ago
IANAL (or economist), but I'd say price gouging is when hoarders raise prices to profit from artificial shortages that they created. As a people, we did not run low on hand sanitizer. As a free market, we ran low on hand sanitizer bec
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by ken 6y ago
It sounds like you're describing standard typing posture. Is your wrist position different than that somehow?
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by ken 6y ago
I can't speak to Intel or CPU manufacturing, but in almost any job, the most dangerous part of a worker's day is their commute.
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by ken 6y ago
This is one of the things I love about macOS -- when it works. I really wish they worked better. Yank works 90% the same, which is close enough to be useful but different enough to be annoying, daily. Repeat count is disabled by default.
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by ken 6y ago
I've used Dvorak for the past few decades. As suggested by one of the other comments, it took about 2 weeks to learn well enough to get back to my normal speed (>80wpm). It makes a massive difference in comfort. 5 minutes typing a
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by ken 6y ago
> Yeah, the story is about firing whistleblowers, not about a random Canadian Distinguished Engineer’s reaction to it. So news organizations should follow the primary sources, not me. Yes and no. I appreciate where he's coming from
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by ken 6y ago
Fair point, but I disagree about even that size being reasonable -- or simple. There's a million things you can implement as a font. I have yet to see anything I think is a good idea to implement as a font except the defined glyph s
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by ken 6y ago
Unions aren't an alternative to corporations. They're a balance for it. This sounds like "Instead of creating a 'Legislature', let's just disperse the power of the 'Executive'." Yeah, how do yo
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by ken 6y ago
Ironically, if you make the window smaller, the images get bigger.
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by ken 6y ago
I'll grant that -- but it's also a to-do list, which is pretty much the simplest possible application. It's a common "hello world" for GUI toolkits, and it's the first use case in the org-mode tutorial. Is the
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by ken 6y ago
I hear suggestions like this occasionally, and I don't get it. Apparently sentences like "Did you like the movie?", which sound to me like perfectly neutral questions, actually have a slant. Which way is this question leadin
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by ken 6y ago
If they really had guts, they'd ask programmers to declare their background (years of experience, with that language, with static/dynamic typed languages, ...) and environment (private office / open floorplan / remote, m
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by ken 6y ago
Any environment I have that does custom fonts and glyph substitution also has CSS (or similar functionality) which can be used to make them thinner, if desired. 5.2 MB (compressed) is a big package just for some narrower boxes.

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