lectrick

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by lectrick 11y ago
I'm a fairly highly-paid web dev and I don't have a curated personal website. Shocking, I know. I'd just rather spend time on other things, like paying work
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by lectrick 11y ago
For what it's worth, I've used the service twice and it worked out great. People tend to complain more than praise (there must be some psychological concept to explain this...), so that's my two cents.
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by lectrick 11y ago
Is there an actual double-blind study that proves that digital still cannot beat analog in certain realms? Because I'm having a hard time believing that this "analogue renaissance" isn't just pure marketing hokum.
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by lectrick 11y ago
Yes to all of the above :)
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by lectrick 11y ago
Just want to chime in reiterating everyone's thoughts already here that this language is fun, interesting, and worth your time investment to investigate. The biggest hurdles I had coming from OO Ruby were 1) how to handle state, since
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by lectrick 11y ago
It's a shorthand. Once you get tired of the long form, the shorthand will be appealing :P
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by lectrick 11y ago
Wouldn't it be "fun (a |> b) = b a"? (call b on result of argument a)?
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by lectrick 11y ago
The simple solution seems to be to add the absolute value of the code subtractions to the value of the code additions. This would weight code refactors with the weight they deserve...
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by lectrick 11y ago
It may not be, but are there any widespread ones?
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by lectrick 11y ago
And Martin Fowler has one of the best posts I've ever read on why privacy is important for a democracy: http://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html
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by lectrick 11y ago
Can we get around provider monopoly fees with some sort of new wireless option? perhaps a new cell provider that isn't actually a cell provider, it's just a wireless data pipe provider that calls itself a cell provider to fit with
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by lectrick 11y ago
This sounds tautological...
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by lectrick 11y ago
Yeah, yeah. Read this, I responded: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10783873
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by lectrick 11y ago
You don't understand comments like this because you probably don't speak from years (20+) of programming experience in OO languages, like I do, and because it is hard to show people certain better ways of doing things that unfortu
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by lectrick 11y ago
As a fairly serious sufferer of sleep apnea, this will definitely be a good read
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by lectrick 11y ago
I haven't bought physical media of any sort in years, but I also live in an area where I have FIOS and I can afford large hard drives/SSD's. Those are really the limiting factors, I think.
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by lectrick 11y ago
http://www.gog.com/
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by lectrick 11y ago
My only rational objection to this is that I don't think we've figured out how to predict actual losses to piracy. In other words, it is extremely naive (and quite unfair to infringers) to assume that EVERY pirated copy of somethi
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by lectrick 11y ago
The US is a fucked up place because they want to make sure a babysitter doesn't shake their baby to death or a housecleaner doesn't break or pocket something without admitting it? Hyperbole much?
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by lectrick 11y ago
While a fair salary is ideal for all parties, optimizing for job satisfaction would be a wiser decision than optimizing for salary amount. Scoring a high salary may merely mean the new hire will be one of the first to be cut from the crew s
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by lectrick 11y ago
See: why I will vehemently avoid all future Drupal projects (1 was enough)
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by lectrick 11y ago
> recruiters Dude, that right there is the problem. They make a commission off your starting salary, so OF COURSE their primary concern is your past and future financials. This is why I hate recruiters.
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by lectrick 11y ago
Doesn't bzip2 have a concurrent mode that those others don't?
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by lectrick 11y ago
Does anyone (perhaps a music theorist) know what rules determine what notes sound well following each other/together? I find an interesting parallel between 1/2/4/8 repeating beats/parts in songs, and binary...
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by lectrick 11y ago
I wouldn't call a language that encourages writing spaghetti code and creating dependency hell to be "easy to work with", much less one which doesn't even pass its own test suite , which implies that even if you do ever
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by lectrick 11y ago
Why wasn't Erlang/Elixir even considered? It checks off all their initial set of requirements
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by lectrick 11y ago
Yes, Java is a mature language. But any perusal of rosettacode.org is fairly indicative that other languages, while less mature, have adopted some good ideas. For example, here's Quicksort in both Java and Elixir: public static &
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by lectrick 11y ago
I would agree. I said it in direct response to someone pointing out his IQ of 150. I was making a point... Or would you say that it's OK to talk about someone ELSE'S IQ? I also suspect that people would rather not know your phallu
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by lectrick 11y ago
Wow. I sincerely hope they're working on that! Seems like a silly distinction to make
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by lectrick 11y ago
http://money.howstuffworks.com/second-career-ideas/10-reason... http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2013/03/08/the-pr... I think this is the actual study? http:/&#

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