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by mchahn 11y ago
I finally managed to wean myself from windows a year ago and switch to linux exclusively. I do have trouble speaking badly about windows though. For many years it provided a tool that I couldn't replicate in Macs and Linux no matter
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> But they survived 100+ years and trying to find way to stay in business. They haven't had to try too hard to find they way. They sold to big business 100 years ago and they still do today. The fact that computers became prominen
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There may be a zillion references to this news item on HN but I read every one and get more and more excited each one I read.
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Can you explain the meaning of "yeah"? Do you mean it's bullshit? Or do you mean he was right? In this case he was definitely right, although he thought they were too weak to ever be detected. 100 years can make a lot of
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by mchahn 11y ago
> so big in fact that these colliding events only happen once every 10000 years. If you read the article you would see that they expect to see events daily within a few years. It will become similar to optical observations with telescop
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by mchahn 11y ago
I watch a lot of UK television, even though I'm not an ex-pat or anything. I just find it better than US television. So I get a lot of insight into the UK culture. One thing I see is that the the citizens of the UK are actually very
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It seems to me that it is just a matter of time-scale. If patent lifetimes were made shorter to match internet-time it would make a lot of sense. Five or ten years advantage is worth a lot in internet time.
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by mchahn 11y ago
If issues are your only problem then you don't need to leave github. You can turn issues off on your repo and use a different tracker.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I use only qwerty. I've never considered another. Studies say dvorak is no faster and I've never considered it for pain. > What you're doing might work for you, As I said, it's just one data point.
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> which could lead to RSI As a single data-point I find RSI isn't a problem for my typing style. I'm in my sixties and I've fought RSI on and off many times. To the contrary my typing style has changed to be more comfort
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I learned how to touch-type in high school so I could type easily at college. After programming for years I've migrated to a custom scheme that seems a lot easier to type than touch. I have suspected I was no slower but I haven'
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I didn't know silicon valley had an online used car business whose lunch can be eaten.
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> The first group to get a working qbit based computer will be able to break all current encryption. All you have to do is increase the key-size faster than quantum can break it. Also there are many new algorithms being studied that qua
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by mchahn 11y ago
deathbycaptcha.com is ... > A hybrid system composed of the most advanced OCR system on the market, along with a 24/7 team of CAPTCHA solvers. An average response time of 11 seconds,... My understanding is that this is mostly humans
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Web frameworks are no longer supported, in Javascript we have seen Backbone, Knockout, Angular, Ember and React in rapid succession, with older frameworks massively losing momentum and community. Uh, all of these are supported quite we
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My wife and I have been happily married for 40 years and we attribute our success to negotiations. We recognize that we don't always want the same things and we make deals. I know this sounds cold but it reduces our tension to near z
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Was I the only one to check the date at the top?
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Funny stuff. I LOL'd (for real) when I read "Why don't they just host GitHub wherever the status site is hosted?"
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It seems to me that lambda is made possible by the large infrastructure and wide variety of services that AWS provides. I don't see how you could recreate that in a small-company environment.
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This looks nice but I don't know how I'd remember a zillion methods. It is starting to look like java with method names like removeBeforeOwnPropertyChangeListener.
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> Flow requires that you add type annotations for functions that are exported from a module (defined in one file and used in another). Darn. I had hoped to try this out but a high percentage of my vars go between modules. I try to writ
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And there are people with a bit of mental illness, like myself, who have to code all the time. I do exercise on a treadmill, but I have a keyboard/monitor on the treadmill so I can keep working.
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Marilyn Vos Savant got a question on her column I'll never forget. The answer was awesome .. Q: My friend got a perfect hand in bridge. What are the odds of this happening? A: Your friend is a liar.
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I converted legacy code to JS using emscripten because the company had severe constraints on the output of the code. In other words they didn't know why their code did what it did. (grin)
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> The result would be no communications, no transportation, no fuel, no food, and no water for a decade or more. I'd like to see a reference on that. Infrastructure repair could be ramped up in a few years. It would be like the ac
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You are simply asking to go back to the web in the 90's. Time travel is not the answer. Improvements in the present time are needed to fix present problems.
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My first programming was on punched-card sorters and tabulators that used plug-in boards like the phone operators used. Get off my lawn.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I'll never forget having to hear the npr announcer pronounce all nine syllables of dou-ble-you, dou-ble-you, dou-ble-you, before every sponsor's domain. I winced each time. I also remember telling my friends over and over that
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> don't eat too much of anything, I've always said, "moderation in all things, including moderation".
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> I haven't tried Elm or Cycle in production but think our code would be much easier to work with if it were This is yet one more article that makes me want to try Elm. It has been mentioned more and more often here, but I don&#x27

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