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by mbo 8y ago
Yeah, look, frankly, I am pretty popular among my friends. I'll acknowledge that. But I don't like social media because I'm getting a tonne of engagement with everything I post, or because I pull 300 likes on my newest profil
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by mbo 8y ago
If your views skew right perhaps checking out a liberal podcast like Pod Save America, or a leftist podcast Chapo Trap House or Citations Needed. If they skew left, Crowder, Shapiro, Jones or Limbaugh ought to do it. Like, these won't
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by mbo 8y ago
Yep. Do teenagers have unhealthy relationships with social media? Of course. They're teenagers. A lot of their relationships ARE unhealthy at that age anyway, and if disconnecting completely is the best way to rectify those issues, mor
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by mbo 8y ago
Every time something like this gets posted, everyone on HN comes out of the woodwork and explains how they barely use social media. Snapchat makes it really easy for me to share what I'm doing, my location, and to quickly meet up with
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by mbo 8y ago
That `core` `README` is really good! It's convinced me to look more into PureScript. Thank-you!
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by mbo 8y ago
Unlike, say, Facebook, I hate the ads that Reddit presents to me. They're often poorly targeted, or flat-out obnoxious.
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by mbo 8y ago
Here's some sort specifications for LiquidHaskell (refinement types) https://github.com/ucsd-progsys/liquidhaskell/blob/master/te... I have a bit of trouble reading it, but the specs are very terse.
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by mbo 8y ago
I think you're getting confused between embeddable languages (Guile, Lua and kin), and languages for embedded development (you mentioned C).
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by mbo 8y ago
I'd say I was reasonably well practised and this still makes no sense.
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by mbo 9y ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when... I mean, it looks like an artificial phenomenon.
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by mbo 9y ago
What makes MechE, CS and physics more "technical" than other STEM sub-fields?
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by mbo 9y ago
If underscores and operator overloading are the biggest criticisms you have of Scala, then we're doing pretty well. For what it's worth, I think Scala has quite a large grammar that means it takes a while to learn, but once that&#
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by mbo 9y ago
Autocorrect on a machine with a physical keyboard is incredibly surprising behaviour, particularly autocorrect that provides next to no visual feedback. Users shouldn't have to be this vigilant to prevent text from getting rewritten.
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by mbo 9y ago
What's your main issue with them? Aren't they just a superior version of the "reply-in-notification" feature of iOS?