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by llimllib 10y ago
You spend a measurable amount of time goofing off by watching trains go across your terminal? disclaimer: that's awesome :)
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by llimllib 10y ago
I forgot about that :(
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by llimllib 10y ago
#200! Some of my very first publicly useful code was a script to download and backup my diaries, so I have that extremely embarrassing reminder of my college years.
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by llimllib 11y ago
I have to think it's a direct response to neovim, and that competition between them is likely to be very good
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by llimllib 11y ago
Related: https://trixel.io/
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by llimllib 11y ago
I admit that I get a bit blurry-eyed reading those, but I hope that they do in fact prove practical and gain implementation usable to everyday programmers.
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by llimllib 11y ago
Is a slack alternative that can never support search truly a slack alternative?
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by llimllib 11y ago
I mean, it kind of does now yeah? It means a short, soundless video that loops.
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by llimllib 11y ago
It does work great! We've gotten this far without them. But it makes me nervous. I'd like to have a few smoke tests to guard against things like: * accidental deletion of pages * accidental removal of header/footer/impor
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by llimllib 11y ago
hmmm, one thing we could really use is some tests. Maybe you could write some simple capybara/rspec or equivalent integration tests for the site, just to make sure that its parts are functioning correctly?
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by llimllib 11y ago
That would solve the immediate problem, but make it easy to DoS the system with $1 bids
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by llimllib 11y ago
pedantry, but probably relevant to the decision: self is not a keyword at all, it's a conventional choice. (I'd probably elect to highlight it, just saying that it's not a reserved word in any way.)
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by llimllib 11y ago
I hadn't looked at that in forever! Glad somebody found it useful :) The layout is awful, so I just now limited the page width and centered the body, which should make it a bit more readable.
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by llimllib 11y ago
Some time in the last 6 months you added Portland Maine, but you didn't have coverage for me while I was searching for houses. I think "spotty" is fair, though I root for your company and hope the coverage becomes universal.
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by llimllib 11y ago
Which is also why they have very spotty coverage; if they're not a licensed broker in your area, they have zero listings.
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by llimllib 11y ago
I used to write software to do this; this comment from the previous time this article was posted is spot on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2478096 The company I worked for did this, if not before anybody else did, th
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by llimllib 11y ago
> Do you doubt your skills? Not in my field, but perhaps the CtH position doesn't actually want quite what I am good at, and we didn't figure that out beforehand. > Why are you interviewing if you're employed at a good
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by llimllib 11y ago
Also if I were employed at a good company but was possibly interested in leaving, I would never leave it for a contract-to-perm position.
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by llimllib 11y ago
1. I prefer weight lifting to running, but 2. I think you're pretty off base. The gains for running are just as correlated to your training, and (IMO, obviously, it's unquantifiable) a 10% speed improvement feels exactly as good a
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by llimllib 11y ago
See also: quickcheck[1], hypothesis[2], ScalaCheck[3], etc [1]: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/QuickCheck/manual.html [2]: https://hypothesis.readthedocs.org [3]: http://www.scalacheck.org
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by llimllib 11y ago
> STRIP supports mobile-desktop synchronization over local wifi or remote cloud (Dropbox & Gdrive). Right, but the threat model here is exactly the same! Except you're trusting Dropbox and Google instead of LastPass.
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by llimllib 12y ago
Of course we have no idea if they used steganography or not, right? He bases the article on the idea that they have no tracking info except the watermark, but I don't see any evidence that they don't know more.
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by llimllib 12y ago
I'm working with a company in this space, so here's my responses: 1. It's very rewarding to feel like you're doing civic duty. I think we have a real shot at reforming the way government percieves what's possible in
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by llimllib 12y ago
I've always been certain that the name comes from the common children's game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_flag right? The wiki article has a short discussion of how that morphed into video game
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by llimllib 12y ago
My experience was the same as yours, with both ipython widgets and ipython presentation mode. At least at the time (a year ago), I asked and there was no solid docs for either. (edit: I still love ipython. just wish the docs were better. I
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by llimllib 12y ago
The overweight players are overweight for the same reason that (American) football linemen are: it's useful for their skill. One of the reasons that Prince Fielder can hit as many home runs as he does is that he has a lot of mass; it&#
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by llimllib 12y ago
> While working to assess the extent of the infection at Belgacom, the team of investigators realized that the damage was far more extensive than they first thought. The [ed: NSA] malware had not only compromised Belgacom’s email servers
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by llimllib 12y ago
I've been only on the interviewee side, and it was the best process I went through.
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by llimllib 12y ago
According to wiki, autos are more than an order of magnitude more dangerous per mile: Air Car Miles driven 40 450 Risk (millionths) 0.60 6
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by llimllib 12y ago
Why are you using that fork of gifsicle? I went to that repo to read the homepage but it was the unchanged gifsicle README.

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