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by mercer 6y ago
> You're not really wrong on many of your points, but you look at everything from a power user/developer mindset and that's too narrow of an approach, sorry. I sometimes wonder if how people talked about 'this whole w
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by mercer 6y ago
It's also reasonable to point out that this is perhaps a trap lots of people growing old fall into, and also perhaps not the most healthy thing to do. It might be better to adapt rather than pine, if that's possible. I could pine
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by mercer 6y ago
Every one of those titles showed up on torrent sites via the in-browser search feature, and a total of two clicks (magnet link, confirmation in torrent app) would've had the movie viewable on my laptop within, at most, a few minutes of
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by mercer 6y ago
You're in the US though, right (based on your username)? Over here in The Netherlands, for one, I imagine a ton of workers aren't back in the office because our government is actively encouraging people to work from home. From wha
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by mercer 6y ago
As others have commented, this doesn't seem like it's React's fault. But it does illustrate how React isn't a magical solution to the front-end woes and how complicated the whole thing still is to do right. I'd stil
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by mercer 6y ago
If you're at all into 'platformers', I highly recommend Celeste, Hollow Knight, and Ori and the Blind Forest. These are some of the best in the genre and pretty cheap to boot.
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by mercer 6y ago
Yeah, the game can be a bit uneven at times, but it's definitely on my list of 'must-play' games.
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by mercer 6y ago
> Let's be honest here: videogames aren't nearly as elaborate as many of them were just one or two decades ago, when many developers were having fun making them and putting in tons of effort without as many market constrictions
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by mercer 6y ago
Yeah, I know. I couldn't resist. I'll try to contain myself henceforth.
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by mercer 6y ago
The only explanation that 'felt' acceptable to me is to imagine that you're really playing two games instead of one. In the first game, you're right 1/3rd of the time. Then you get to play a new game where you'
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by mercer 6y ago
These services benefit from offering the viewer what they want. I'm very cynical about any attempts to curb this. I suspect these services will go for stuff that they know , through A/B testing and whatnot, won't affect thei
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by mercer 6y ago
I dunno. I'd say it's rather obvious that it's not a magical solution to everything. For one, Elixir is too slow for computation-heavy stuff. I just gave an example of how happy path programming works in a use case that is pr
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by mercer 6y ago
I don't get the impression Trump is lacking in 'distress and impaired functioning, especially in social relationships'. He seems rather thin-skinned, unhappy, and as far as I can tell he doesn't seem to have any real fri
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by mercer 6y ago
My 'A-ha' moment with Elixir was exactly your example. Both me and a friend were building an app that ingests cryptocurrency data and stores it in a database for later analysis. The important part was that we wanted data at regula
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by mercer 6y ago
While I don't disagree, if I were to have the same conversation I would probably be spending more time thinking about the appropriate response than trying to remember and simulate an experience even remotely similar. So I'd be mor
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by mercer 6y ago
Much as I'm assuming the person you're responding to was joking, I've encountered a number of comments/commenters where I felt the same way I felt about GPT output. The best way I can describe the feeling is that it remi
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by mercer 6y ago
I'll add that learning how to roll your own auth with the book and /then/ using the auth generator is a great learning experience.
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by mercer 6y ago
story time?
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by mercer 6y ago
See, for me that supports OP's point. The reason I developed a distaste for this kind of analysis is precisely because it became clear to me that the connection with the author was tenuous. I don't feel this kind of stuff is usele
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by mercer 6y ago
He also made ZZT! As far as 'getting into programming' goes, Sweeney is probably second only to Anders Heljsberg. Where the latter got me into 'proper' programming, until well into my late teens I was more interested in
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by mercer 6y ago
It's fascinating how good Mike Judge is at 'nailing' a variety of experiences. Office Space is pitch-perfect, but then he went and created Silicon Valley and King of the Hill too. I can't personally confirm that King of
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by mercer 6y ago
Right now it loads for me.
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by mercer 6y ago
I don't know and am curious too, so I'll probably look into it at some point. But I strongly suspect that this is one of those 'spirit of the law' situations. So I suspect that a company that doesn't want, well, lia
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by mercer 6y ago
I use cVim and turning it off for a domain is a matter of clicking on the extension icon and then 'disable for this domain'. The reason I switched to cVim was that I preferred its approach to the 'type keys to click link on p
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by mercer 6y ago
Divide and conquer is very effective when the unit of measurement is the individual. I'd say this is core to what separates the 'left' in the US from the 'liberals' or 'liberal left'. For better and worse.
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by mercer 6y ago
> I believe what this really comes down to is that society is not willing to pay the higher prices for drivers to be treated as employees. Same situation as not willing to paying higher prices at hair salons so hair stylists are full emp
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by mercer 6y ago
This is fascinating, although I still feel there's too much disagreement for me to have a clear picture of how this works in California. I'll give a Dutch perspective (which perhaps applies to some degree to other parts of Europe)
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by mercer 6y ago
I dunno, there's something to it. I almost /never/ commit code to my repo without reading it, so not only would I read the first version that enters my repo, but I'd read every subsequent file changes before committing.
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by mercer 6y ago
now I'm wondering if syntax highlighting shouldn't somehow make an assignment inside an if statement (and the variants) a bright red, or something like that.
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by mercer 6y ago
Maybe. I use an Android phone and still prefer my Airpods over everything else I've tried. I really don't think it's just branding that made them the hit that they are. Apple Watch has just not been useful enough for my lifes

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