mcdonje

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by mcdonje 4y ago
Preference has nothing to do with legibility.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Apparently we're not the target audience. When I got to "I write a lot.", my first thought was "That's a shame." Not my proudest moment. After stepping back for a minute and assuming the author is reasonable, I
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Sounds like you want more declarative languages, like SQL. The magic to get those to work well is a lot easier to implement and optimize if the problem space is restricted. So, DSLs.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Also, a lot of states don't allow municipalities to file for bankruptcy.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
TL:DR: Your safest bet starting a new business is providing an incremental improvement to an existing good or service. >The idea is to copy something that’s clearly working with some small but sufficiently significant changes. >Instea
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by mcdonje 4y ago
The subreddit overlap, oh my.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
My guess is they were planning on announcing these things sometime in the next couple of months, but then Bun showed up on HN, so they moved up the blog post.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Custom formulas have also been around for decades, it just required VBA.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
toastmasters.org
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Join toastmasters. It's an international club created for the purpose of helping members become better at public speaking. There is some theory and coaching, but a lot of it is just giving regular small and large opportunities to speak
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Seems like a lot of commenters like it, so there's probably an audience. I don't think it'll be a hit with the main crossword community because the crossword constructors put a lot of humor and cleverness in the clues, which
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Nice. I see a bunch of data points for people who aren't me, and none for myself. So my plan is to do nothing and interpret my number's low score as a high score.
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Is Open Source a diversion from what users want?(discourse.ardour.org)
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Pretty sure you have it backwards. GCC isn't going to be a front end for rust; rust is going to be a front end for GCC. As I understand it, the point of both GCC and LLVM are to handle those implementation specific behaviors so program
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Really digging the retro vibe of the code, man.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
The nice thing about this is they can use the sort of sand that's not useful for concrete.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
>If you are going to take one thing away from this article, I hope it is that the only benchmarks that are valuable are those that run on your own platform, with your own stack, with your own data, and with your own software. And even th
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by mcdonje 4y ago
>Whenever you write an if statement, Nyan Cat cries. If I ever offended Nyan Cat, then I'm very sorry.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
The alfalfa is also used for cows grown in CA for CA residents. That's also a bad thing. Cow farms should be significantly limited in arid climates. There are ecologically better alternatives.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
I ran into this problem exporting images from Dark Table. The solution I ended up going with was simply exporting as png instead of jpg.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
If you have a good solution to rent-seeking, a great many marketplaces would benefit.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
That was charming. Great demonstration of scientific communication. Great visualization.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Thanks. "To compile a desktop application, you must build it on the targeted platform: build a Windows application on Windows, a macOS application on macOS, and a Linux application on Linux." So, I essentially do need to own a m
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Do you need to own a mac to develop flutter desktop apps? If so, that'll limit adoption.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
It's a nice little tutorial for getting a couple of basic pieces in place using these technologies. It saves a little legwork for someone who wants to do something that makes better use of the value prop.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Git undoubtedly has disrupted the SCM space and become the major player for some very good reasons. But this bit of history casts the famous Linus quote in a bit of a different light; "Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder.&
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Libraries are generally larger because they are usually written for more use-cases. If your program is only referencing a small portion of a library, then rolling your own doesn't mean rewriting the library. Your code will be more mini
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by mcdonje 4y ago
I was not expecting this to turn into a lesson on simulated annealing. Very pleasant surprise. Well thought out and presented.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
The medium puzzle is just like the torus puzzle in the Exponential Idle app. Solving help: https://exponential-idle.fandom.com/wiki/Minigames#Torus_Puz...
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by mcdonje 4y ago
If you're just interested in discovery and not contributing back, osmand.net has a wikipedia layer.

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