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by lgunsch 6y ago
Lisp has been around for decades. Wikipedia says 1958, which predates C by many years. It is indeed functional and favors recursion over loops.
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by lgunsch 6y ago
I find I can't watch shows with season+ long arcs at all. It always ends up one way: rage-quiting at 3am on a work night never to watch another episode. All due to the fact that usually the episode boundaries are placed in the most sus
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by lgunsch 6y ago
One of the very best features of ST:TNG is it's lack of major season-long arcs. I find shows with deep season long plot to be much too stressful to watch. Unfortunately, this is common with nearly all Netflix shows. Many shows are like
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by lgunsch 6y ago
I find it has two advantages. One, being quite a sophisticated auto-complete system. I haven't seen anything nearly as polished. The other advantage is it's easy to learn and configure. You can read the short manual and you'l
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by lgunsch 6y ago
In my years as a dev I haven't found many true dependencies on Bash/Zsh. For Ruby, rbenv and other solutions worked. For Python, there was virtualfish to make virtualenvs work properly. Although now pyenv works out of the box with
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by lgunsch 6y ago
Using your devices how you want is reasonable I believe. It's reasonable if someone wants to turn their IoT hub or device into something else. However, an important issue is protecting access to cloud resources. Making sure a stolen hu
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by lgunsch 6y ago
A smart doorbell, light bulb, nanny cam, etc require methods to connect and identify with cloud resources. Obviously you wouldn't want to have to type in a password or use a secure card to turn your lights on.
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by lgunsch 6y ago
Prelude is what really got me into Emacs. It was a just barely decent experience using Emacs, but once I got prelude it really opened up Emacs up for me. It sets you up a lot better for success.
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by lgunsch 6y ago
I see this problem a lot. TDD is a hard skill to learn. It took me 2 years of continuous practice to really get it, and by year 3 I was only just starting to get decent at it. People who try and do TDD for less than 6 months haven't ev
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by lgunsch 6y ago
Determining which is which is definitely a skill developed from experience. For example, being able to see that if every time you use library part Y, you have to add algorithm X around it, algorithm X should be a part of the library not the
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by lgunsch 6y ago
Me too. I used to frequent Reddit occasionally on mobile web. I didn't, and still don't want the app for similar reasons, but also so I wouldn't get addicted. These days I just don't visit it at all because the friction
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by lgunsch 6y ago
A previous boss of mine used a vertical mouse for years, and he swore by it.
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by lgunsch 6y ago
I love using ten key-less. Moving the mouse closer makes a big difference. I've used Cherry MX blue switches for years now, in a few different keyboards I've had.
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by lgunsch 6y ago
Greetings to a fellow Colemak user. I've used Colemak for about 7~8 years now. It's really interesting to see home row keys polished to a shine, while others aren't. I do always change one thing, and recommend it for others t
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by lgunsch 6y ago
Definitely agree. I've used a clipboard manager for years now, and I can't imagine going back. I always miss it when I'm not on my machine.
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by lgunsch 6y ago
In places with colder climates, icy roads/sidewalks can easily cause traction loss. Where I am, Edmonton, Alberta, -20°C is common for months of the year. This is combined with icy roads, and deep snow in the side streets.
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by lgunsch 6y ago
I can't imagine doing my 20KM commute over bike in -20°C (very common here in Edmonton,Alberta). It's sub-zero temperatures for easily 5 months of the year, with large amounts of snow. Even to the nearest train station would be qu
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by lgunsch 7y ago
~3.5 hours. One 2 hour weekly department meeting. 10 ~ 15 minute standup each day, and finally a 45 minute sprint review & sprint planning meeting.
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by lgunsch 7y ago
The features that really set it apart are the sophisticated refactoring tools that are context and language aware. It goes so far beyond snippets and auto-complete. Being able to dive into any source by clicking, and also full awareness of
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by lgunsch 7y ago
For me, one of the pieces that really helped me understand architecture, was doing ops for years. Deploying systems, designing deployment solutions, and understanding how services fit into their environment helped me understand the solution
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by lgunsch 7y ago
The tactile feedback part of the switch is definitely an area we have tagged for improvement.
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by lgunsch 7y ago
Batteries last 10 - 15 years with regular usage (30 on/offs a day). They use just a regular button cell battery.
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by lgunsch 7y ago
I work with Levven Controls, and what they offer to home builders is smart home controls on every switch and light in the entire home during construction, but for less cost than traditional wiring. There are no wires going to switch boxes,
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by lgunsch 7y ago
I used LastPass specifically because 1Password does not work on Linux. At least up till a year ago, which was the last time I checked, the 1Password extension doesn't run on Linux.
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by lgunsch 7y ago
This is true of Android work profiles too. The MDM solutions I've seen use Android work profiles underneath, so your never in risk of your work accessing personal photos or data. The work profile and all work apps are in the septate co
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by lgunsch 7y ago
I once code-reviewed a serious bug-fix, in Python, causing leaking threads to crash a server. The bug turned out to be a bare try-except hiding a function call with a missing argument; 2 args passed instead of 3. Not exactly a syntax error,
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by lgunsch 7y ago
I find two of the solutions, the `try` and `catch` to be pretty explicit as well, but a lot easier to read, less gratuitous context. The `expect` I find confusing, and hard to follow. I think it would be confusing enough to cause a lot of b
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by lgunsch 7y ago
That sounds extreme, but does indeed play into the stereotype of a Texas rancher. I'm in Canada, and if you shoot someone on your land who's not threatening you with a weapon - chances are you will go to jail because it's not
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by lgunsch 8y ago
I find it usually makes lines really long, especially if you avoid usage of \ like a lot of style guides recommend. The longer lines usually end up more difficult to read than a simple regular if statement.
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by lgunsch 8y ago
> Canada has a drain problem of doctors leaving the country to go work in the US for exactly this reason. This used to be true in the 1990s, but it is not true anymore. https://cmajnews.com/2017/06/15/fewer

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