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Minneapolis City Council approves $15 minimum wage(startribune.com)
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by menssen 9y ago
What I didn't say in my original comment is that I don't actually do this for exactly the reason you describe, and that I think spaces-only is the most robust solution. That said, all you would need is editors to enforce "any
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by menssen 9y ago
There's actually a solid argument for "tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment", which solves both for preference and vertically aligning stuff: [tab]void someNiceMethod( [tab][space*20]int arg1 [tab]) But it ba
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by menssen 9y ago
Alum here. Minnesota != Michigan. Boo. Anecdotally, UMN has one of the best agriculture research programs in the world, and it's entirely based around figuring out how to grow really anything when first frost is early September (Minnes
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by menssen 10y ago
I've been wondering: does this mean that a valid response to this situation would be "I will leave the plane if given my legally entitled $1350"? As in, among other reasons, is United in the wrong here because the maximum the
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by menssen 10y ago
Nope. This is a polemic against people who don't know Haskell. Previous iterations were the same except Clojure/Lisp. Aphyr/Kyle is a genius, and one of my favorite people on the internet. But this series is the WRONG way to
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by menssen 10y ago
Nobody drives in New York because the traffic is so bad.
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by menssen 10y ago
1. I have found, when you know what the next word is, that there is a typing-speed line that if you are above, just typing the thing is faster than using IDE autocomplete. It also disrupts your flow less. I am convinced, although only bas
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by menssen 10y ago
Apparently it is also preposterous for young-ish adult working-age women to be good programmers. (Mackenzie Davis, the "Halt and Catch Fire" photo, is in her late 20s, and Alice Wetterling, the "Silicon Valley" photo, ea
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by menssen 10y ago
I never thought of it this way, but visual mode essentially does switch vim from verb-object to object-verb. So in this case... vtfd is one more keystroke, but you see what you're deleting before you delete it, so if you need to the ne
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by menssen 10y ago
"'Teaching highly motivated students to code is actually not that hard.' — Dan Sofer" This broadly matches my experience. The hiring and interviewing of bootcamp graduates I've done has made me thing it's reall
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by menssen 10y ago
Gary Bernhardt's new Destroy All Software series on computation [1] is basically designed for this. Not all that in-depth, but it's a great starting point. [1]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/
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by menssen 10y ago
Maybe this is off topic (but in the spirit of the question), but: High (graduate) level formal logic in a philosophy department. Understanding (that there is) a relationship between computability theory and just basic thought is one of th
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by menssen 10y ago
(For the record, yes this is how it worked.)
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by menssen 10y ago
An extremely large company I was involved in building a system for had a requirement that you be able to read your password over the phone to a call center agent, resulting in requirements like case insensitivity and character limits. Terri
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by menssen 10y ago
Downvote me: Infinite Jest is Snow Crash for adults. (But seriously: similar vision of a corporate-controlled near-future; and IJ is great, read it.)
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by menssen 10y ago
Something always bugs me about this criticism: #1 arguably makes sense. Unless "null" were a "type" (which it isn't), the other possible options for this ("undefined", or "string", "number&q
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by menssen 10y ago
Maybe this should be an "Ask HN" post, but. This post appears to have disappeared from the front page (and the several following pages), despite its far higher upvote/recency combination than most other front page stories. Is
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by menssen 10y ago
Yep, this is a real thing, and is actually an extremely good idea. Google "advanced framing". (Used to work for a tech startup providing services to green construction companies.)
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by menssen 10y ago
There are two sides to this. That story from a few months back about the guy who wrote homebrew getting denied a job at Google because he flubbed some particular algorithm on a whiteboard is pretty messed up. On the other hand, I agree with
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by menssen 10y ago
Out of curiosity, your later-in-life college experience: what kind of school was it at? (Meaning: large state university, liberal arts college, Yale, for-profit, etc.) As a college dropout who was a terrible student, I've been wanting
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by menssen 11y ago
Okay but the argument is pretty strong that since it was completely written based on divine revelation 2000+ years after the events it describes, the historical claims are difficult to corroborate. Is there scholarship on the legitimacy of
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by menssen 11y ago
Upvoting this. It's at least as well reasoned as the original article. BUT it doesn't matter because it wasn't actually written down (and/or "revealed") until the 1800s, right? Is there a good academic treatmen
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by menssen 11y ago
This is not only obviously true, I think it is also a completely reasonable calculus. They just proved that if the entire Redis cluster goes down they can get it back in 2.5 hours. It's almost certainly a caching layer, so there is no
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by menssen 11y ago
Although this is not universally accepted. This old DFW essay on the topic is good reading. http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-0...
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by menssen 11y ago
I have come to actually like the two permanent branches approach. I know that for any repository that follows this model that: * "master" is the current stable release * "develop" is the current "mostly stable"
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by menssen 11y ago
Does the fact that this article is at the top of the front page say something about our discomfort that the extreme boundaries of our community are still the top 25% of this country's economy? (Upvoted to express how much I care.+) + s
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by menssen 11y ago
Here's a specific scenario: I work at an organization with a lot of developers who first learned to use git through SourceTree. As far as they are concerned, "what SourceTree can do" is the entirety of how git works. While th
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by menssen 11y ago
Just a thought: I sort of agree with the fact that "pay to use git in a more advanced way" is a bit of a slap in the face to new users. For me, what I absolutely love about this is the quick view of changes in a commit. My usual w
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by menssen 11y ago
I often use this as an interview question for CSS people: "How would you vertically center a box inside another box." I like it because there's like four correct answers, each with drawbacks. The general answers, from worst t

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