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by lwb 7y ago
Anyone else think the async/await example looks terrible? Why do the keywords have to be on their own line?
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by lwb 7y ago
Lots of people use Vim in a desktop environment. At Facebook I would guess that something like 20% of software engineers use it on a daily basis. It’s still an incredibly powerful editor with lots of practical application and it’s constantl
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by lwb 7y ago
I'm guessing this is some kind of consulting company?
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by lwb 7y ago
I am probably misunderstanding something here, but what's the point of buying a company without owning the whole thing? What are they actually "buying" here? I assume Temkin/CAH owns some significant portion of Clickhole
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by lwb 7y ago
Interesting, I have only heard someone refer to "transfer protocols" as a synonym for "transport protocol". Regardless I think the point stands -- HTTP does much more than transfer, and has an opinionated model on how to
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by lwb 7y ago
> transfer protocol Not to be "that guy" but HTTP is an application protocol, not a transfer protocol -- this kind of thing definitely wouldn't be appropriate for TCP but it sort of makes sense for the original vision of t
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by lwb 7y ago
The guy behind this language is Leaf, who also runs the indie gaming site http://itch.io . His twitter account is https://twitter.com/moonscript . Really cool guy and he often adds stuff to Itch after people reque
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by lwb 7y ago
Oh hell yeah. I ran Rockbox on my Sansa Fuze from the ages of 14-18 because my parents restricted my computer time. There were tons of games on that thing. I spent hundreds of hours playing Doom and Gameboy/Gameboy Color games on road
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by lwb 7y ago
> Ethos ... could use its power to sell the browsing data of users of .orgs Is this possible? Can all top-level domain name owners view all browsing data on their domain?
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by lwb 7y ago
Yes, thanks for the correction!
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by lwb 7y ago
Questions I wondered about that weren't answered until the end of the paper: Q: Do engineers actually implement AWS systems in TLA+? A: No, TLA+ is called "exhaustively testable pseudo-code" internally, and is only used for d
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by lwb 7y ago
EconTalk with Russell Roberts has been huge for me. He is a free-markets, small-government, classical-liberal kind of guy and always brings on interesting guests to talk about a variety of things, including views that he disagrees with. Oft
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by lwb 7y ago
Continuing development is continuing development ... support is answering questions on forums, responding to issues on github, community management, that sort of thing.
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by lwb 7y ago
I'm not asking for support. Godot could definitely go the for-profit route and charge for cloud builds and other features like Unity does. I just want to make sure that if I invest in learning the tool as well as I know Unity that it&#
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by lwb 7y ago
If they have a TI-83 or TI-84 graphic calculator, you can't beat Axe Parser! https://axe.eeems.ca/Documentation.pdf It's as simple as the BASIC language that comes with the calculator, but it compiles to assembly
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by lwb 7y ago
Great post. Is there a 3-year, 5-year, even 10-year roadmap for Godot? It's a tool I'm very interested in using but the industrial backing and stability of Unity/Unreal is hard to beat. Some kind of assurance that the creator
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by lwb 7y ago
> please don't tell me that [jQuery] can be replaced by querySelectorAll. I didn't, and it can't -- my comment was merely to suggest that jQuery is now a shell of its old self, thanks largely to the improvement of browser
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by lwb 7y ago
Thought this was a clever trick: const $ = _ => document.querySelector(_) Pretty well sums up the state of jQuery in 2019 (almost 2020!)
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by lwb 7y ago
Your comment is all past tense -- are you still working on this business?
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by lwb 7y ago
I am pleasantly surprised to see Amir Rajan on that list. From this reddit post I thought that after his game went viral he couldn't capture any long-term success and went back to working a regular job: https://www.reddit.co
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by lwb 7y ago
> Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia told BuzzFeed News that the revelation of a Facebook employee being bribed to reactivate scammy ads was further evidence of the unaccountability of platforms and the corruption endemic to digital advertisin
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by lwb 7y ago
One possible value for $NEEDS_A_NAME is Infrastructure Engineer ... not to say that infra isn't always productized, because it sometimes is, but the instincts required just aren't the same when your customer is the team that works
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by lwb 7y ago
Interesting. Seems like it would be a big performance gain for e.g. Facebook to convert all their networking/server code to silicon. Obviously has drawbacks like decreased speed of deployment and whatnot but it sounds like something th
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by lwb 7y ago
> Open source tools can now compile C++ into silicon (with caveats). Woah, really? This seems ... impossible, right?
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by lwb 7y ago
Interesting. Unrelated question, is it easier to start a side business since you work for a remote company? (Had to do some stalking to find this out.) I imagine you might have more time to do these kind of things because you presumably don
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by lwb 7y ago
Am I reading your website wrong, or is your hosted solution cheaper than the on-prem license (360/yr vs 500)? I would think it would be much more expensive to run it for them, right?
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by lwb 7y ago
> I decided to write a script that would repeatedly flash the LED on the Pi in morse code corresponding to its current IP address I wish my day job was this exciting!
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by lwb 7y ago
That's not it, I can access my personal site that uses Let's Encrypt.
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by lwb 7y ago
Not sure how others are viewing this page -- I get NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID and a big warning page.
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by lwb 7y ago
I am shocked that this is news. A business person is critical of a politician. Who cares? Would this be news if, say, the head of Apple News was critical of Donald Trump?

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