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by lookdangerous 6y ago
The all-but defacto use of javascript transpilers especially invokes the image of 'Rube Goldberg' machines.
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by lookdangerous 6y ago
'Desire to offload more processing to end user machines to save compute' strikes me as a real possibility
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by lookdangerous 6y ago
I suppose they do that so you know what using a Mac is like when you develop for it. Macs are, in my experience, different than other machines.
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by lookdangerous 6y ago
Fencepost error– great visual, thanks
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by lookdangerous 6y ago
I have heard people complain that building a house is N times more difficult today than 20 years ago, and as someone who wishes to build a house in the future, these complaints worry me. Perhaps there is no need for worry over second hand m
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by lookdangerous 6y ago
How can government give folks a purpose? I always assumed that in our strange age purpose is up to the individual, but now I am curious how a nation-state could foster `a purpose-driven life`.
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by lookdangerous 6y ago
It's encouraging to hear about good use of all the free time we have, so thank you.
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by lookdangerous 6y ago
The negative extremes are, well, extreme. I am not a parent myself, yet, but I think you'd be surprised how great the incentive truly is. If we had a tidy causal analysis of what drives people the world over, I suspect parental instinc
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by lookdangerous 6y ago
My understanding is the cost of construction has risen dramatically in recent decades, in proportion to an explosion of construction regulation.
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by lookdangerous 6y ago
I wonder what you think about the necessity of the health insurance industry? Seeing as how apparently it began as a sort of subscription service to keep hospitals afloat when beds were empty... It is a lot to wrap my mind around, but I hav
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by lookdangerous 7y ago
I assume you meant ‘learning curve’ but learning curse is hilarious here in the context of PowerPoint.
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by lookdangerous 7y ago
It is just a matter of time. Right now, we’re in the thick of things and as pointed out by others, the problem domain is very complex. As we move forward, though, our solutions will become simpler and our container tools will work more eleg
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by lookdangerous 7y ago
Today is my off day. On my off days, when I catch myself feeling guilty for not getting stuff done, I remind myself it’s my off day, and my job is to rest. This, I think, makes the other days a little easier.
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by lookdangerous 7y ago
And all of these 'upsides' will occur regardless in a few years. Why hasten economic benefit at the cost of human life? Economic benefit is only of benefit to human being so it's not an arguable equation.
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by lookdangerous 7y ago
You could always go the 'dummies' route
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by lookdangerous 7y ago
Ditto. The design in the article is a stellar look!
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by lookdangerous 7y ago
I don’t see the effect this piece aimed to solve as a bad thing. It’s effectively the Pareto principle and it is found in so many places.
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by lookdangerous 7y ago
Mr. Dot as in the php stir concatenation operator?
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by lookdangerous 7y ago
I went to a magic leap developer event and tried the headset first hand. It was truly magical. It made me giggle. Now, at the current price point it’s too high for me to buy as a toy and I haven’t really been struck with any killer app idea
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by lookdangerous 7y ago
I read it in the list, at first, as bitcoin, and had to do a double take.
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by lookdangerous 7y ago
The title of this post is misleading. Perhaps better would be Sites are using Audio Stack fingerprinting to track users.