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by mekoka 3y ago
The ego is a master trickster.
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by mekoka 3y ago
I think it's worth remembering that Gautama did not create Buddhism. He passed on and people that came after, continued teaching in his stead. So to say that Buddhism was very accepting of preexisting Indian beliefs doesn't say an
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by mekoka 3y ago
I think you're taking things without knowing the details of his context. You speak to business in the language business understands. Sometimes business is not interested in your logical explanations. They're seen as excuses. Busin
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by mekoka 3y ago
He's a gambler and gambler be gambling. At the beginning of that interview with Tyler Cowen, he's asked what makes him better. He doesn't sound like he knows, but he doesn't want to acknowledge luck. Instead he speaks li
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by mekoka 3y ago
What a strange advice. So much to disagree with, but I'll just stick with algorithms specifically. Only once I went through ds & algo, after a relatively long career, that I understood what Linus Torvalds meant by "bad program
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by mekoka 3y ago
Right. To which category belongs the user that is curious enough to open "Page Info", but destabilized when they see a status code there?
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by mekoka 3y ago
> I hope you're not in charge of hiring QA. Why the personal attack? The logic is sound. Isn't QA typically part of the same organization?
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by mekoka 3y ago
> I don't agree with this article. But you address none of the article's points. You're basically disagreeing with the title. And I'd say that your answer seems to conflate DNS is hard and DNS is hard to learn . &g
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by mekoka 3y ago
The conditioned response that you're talking about is typical in a culture where we're taught to trust in science. I'm not saying that anyone should believe in astrology (I don't), but having spent the last few years loo
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by mekoka 3y ago
I understood it as him (Mitnick) asking his own phone number back. "Did I give you my card earlier? Is it the new card? I don't recall. Which number does it have?" If you've already identified a security system that has
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by mekoka 3y ago
def read_portfolio(filename): record = lambda r: { 'name': r[0], 'shares': int(r[1]), 'price': float(r[2]), } with open(filename) as f:
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by mekoka 3y ago
The site was updated just to replace flash and add TLS. Amazing!
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The point is that men now had to have a "purse" to carry the wallet that carried the ID.
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> Threads hits 5M signups in the first four hours. Fragrance of Google+.
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Unfortunately, this sentiment can rarely be expressed before someone has come full-circle. An apprentice cannot have that insight. A journeyman is too busy DRYing things up and peppering their code with patterns. It's only once you&#x2
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I've had rare cases of needing nested data structures in the environment. My solution was to specify them as JSON strings and load the value in code. It works. USER='{ "name": "joe", &quot
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by mekoka 3y ago
But it's so fun watching people spend time and money chasing their shadow. And considering that materialism is still the academic consensus on consciousness by a wide margin, it might be quite the spectacle for still many years to come
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by mekoka 3y ago
It could be that what you're calling the "network effect" is what keeps people tethered to Facebook or Whatsapp, but I doubt it. Speaking only for myself, I certainly don't keep my Facebook account open for events. I als
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by mekoka 3y ago
Reddit's main value is (was?) collective convenience and familiarity. Like Whatsapp. Like Facebook. Those social networks where you wish that everybody you're connected with would just quit to join something else, together, all
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by mekoka 3y ago
But but but... your posts are about you ! They're just presented as though it's a problem with the tools. I'm simply holding up a mirror, using a similar language, and suggesting that perhaps you are not the target of the
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by mekoka 3y ago
Sometimes the world can be improved. Most times it's just fine and any suggested external change should probably start from within. There are those who like letters, words, and the sound of keyboard keys. Then there are others who like
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by mekoka 3y ago
> And also mightily pissed off for not being a senior title. Not as pissed off as when you'll find out during salary negotiation that you're not an Advanced System Engineer after all, but an Advanced System Engineer.
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by mekoka 3y ago
> no magic would be needed, a lot of indirection and complexity would be avoided Is this an informed criticism based on your experience having worked with htmx, or is it just an off the cuff opinion? Personally, I don't think the g
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by mekoka 3y ago
Any programmers here who've used PHP to build command line tools in PHP? What is the experience like compared to, let's say Python or node.js? How good are the facilities? What are the limitations?
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Can you see dislikes with YouTube Premium?
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We apparently still need http to detect wifi portals.
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I think it's helpful to not stray too far away from the standard terminology. I found that "third party" was an excellent indicator that the consumer is probably not me, especially since I've already qualified as a us
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by mekoka 4y ago
Satya Nadella took the helm at Microsoft in 2014, right after Ballmer and basically brought the company back from the brink of irrelevancy. Even if we can't point to Pichai as the person responsible for Google's dysfunction, he ha
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by mekoka 4y ago
You're isolating a sentence by GP and proceed to attack it on the pretext that it was not specific. But maybe you just misunderstood it, as you seem to be arguing against your own interpretation of it. The specificity was implied, sinc
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by mekoka 4y ago
So true. Sometimes, you read some source and you think "surely, there was a simpler way to implement whatever this is". Then you notice that the class name ends with "Visitor". Mystery solved. Now go make yourself a coff

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