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by maw 7y ago
It doesn't take much to put together an argument that keeping people from going stir-crazy in their homes is critical.
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by maw 7y ago
If you're aiming for "like X, but for people who are actually interested in the market X supposedly serves" then maybe this isn't true.
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by maw 7y ago
I never sem a phore that I didn't like. ¿
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by maw 7y ago
Hey, at least you're not being told how you do think.
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by maw 7y ago
Requests made it to a stable, usable state. Sadly, pipenv never did.
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by maw 7y ago
It's true that Borges read books in their original languages, but he also did translations himself and even stated that a translation could improve upon the original--although I doubt that he'd say that his own translations were s
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by maw 7y ago
Thanks. I was having a "this sounds like something out of ... out of what?" feeling about this. It's out of Snow Crash, of course!
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by maw 7y ago
> You could have made a fortune betting against my computer prognostications in the 90s. See, this is something you have in common with the people who get paid to commentate on this stuff as though they knew anything about anything. If i
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by maw 7y ago
But you can also find much that is good in Mexican restaur... oh, wait, you said offal, not awful.
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by maw 7y ago
And the Australians who did the study? Are they just like Americans but even monolingualier? I think you actually have the kernel of a good heuristic there, but I'd, uh, refine it a bit.
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by maw 7y ago
The closest I can think of is a trapper, worn by a goalie in hockey. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapper_(ice_hockey)
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by maw 7y ago
Mostly true. At the end of a word it's pronounced as though it were followed by an 'e' or an 'i'. I used to work with a guy named Gerardo Ochoa. His username was gochoa, but when addressing him in person we'd
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by maw 7y ago
Also 'x' is a little weird. Depending on the dialect and the word, it's pronounced roughly like English 'x', 's', 'sh', and a guttural 'h'.
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by maw 7y ago
I hope not. But in some countries many small to medium businesses use WhatsApp extensively for communication with their customers. For many people it's as bad, arguably worse, than their main ISP going down.
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by maw 7y ago
[...] exclusivity is antithetical to the spirit of the place, of the community, and of the idea that Joyce wrote for everybody, especially the ordinary person. Let us say that that is not how I would have phrased that sentence.
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by maw 7y ago
I'm at least 10% humbler than you are.
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by maw 7y ago
They should have used "Laravel: The Framework Thomas Kinkade Would Have Created."
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by maw 7y ago
When the language I'm using permits it -- that is, when I'm not using Python -- I deliberately misindent them. They're very visible in diffs then. And even if accidentally committed they're still easy to spot and elimin
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by maw 7y ago
In the city where I live, there are one-way lanes on either side of many largeish streets. Even so, every day you can expect to see people riding the wrong way in them. It's dangerous, and unnecessarily so. I won't go so far as to
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by maw 8y ago
Interesting point. My suggestion: use a programming language (any one you like) to explain why people who live in places where English isn't widely spoken would be better off learning English and/or a programming language.
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by maw 8y ago
I independently came up with the same pun just last week! I'm disappointed to learn that I wasn't the first after all.
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by maw 8y ago
I agree with you. But what is the correct word for architectural features that detract from functionality? They're often called "design" whether we like it or not. Whatever they ought to be called instead, it looks to me like
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by maw 8y ago
Hah, yes. I noticed your username just after I submitted my comment. (Although, of course, left and liberal are by no means synonyms.)
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by maw 8y ago
I'm still waiting to find someone who uses the word neoliberal as a slur and who hasn't benefited enormously from it. It could be a while.
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by maw 8y ago
I don't see the need for PHP, because composer is one of the few things I like about it. And I don't know enough about Ruby to have an opinion there. But something for Python that actually works? Yes, please!
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by maw 8y ago
Wow, yes. Thanks for the link.
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by maw 8y ago
A stronger dollar in theory should make the prices decrease. But for whom? If you're outside the US, and I'll remind you that most of the world, including China, is, then goods effectively priced in US dollars will be more expen
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by maw 8y ago
As it happens, I agree with your tl;dr, but that isn't at all what Sheehan says.
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by maw 8y ago
Where, what was it called?
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by maw 8y ago
Nobody shouldn't not undisable the non-undepressing news inhibition disengagement mechanism neither.

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