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The Last Line Effect (2014)(viva64.com)
2 points by mercer 6y ago|0 comments
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by mercer 6y ago
That's a good point.
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by mercer 6y ago
I was not being entirely serious, but my point was that even when we discuss tech we're often seriously split, and often over silly reasons. And very often the resulting discussion doesn't really fare much better in finding agreem
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by mercer 6y ago
I'm actually more of an Emacs with Vim keybindings person :P
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by mercer 6y ago
> Exactly this, because tech discussion doesn’t usually split audience 50/50 and audience is usually more scientific. I'll have you know that vim is best, tabs are better than spaces, Vue is better than React, Microsoft - on ba
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DuckDuckGo's privacy abuses – current, historic, and by proxy(dev.lemmy.ml)
20 points by mercer 6y ago|16 comments
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by mercer 6y ago
Sure, but 'using' Spacemacs is still perfectly possible without learning Lisp and Emacs internals. I use magit, orgmode, tramp, and I'm in Emacs for significant chunks of the day. I'd say that doesn't only mean that
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by mercer 6y ago
To what degree is this true for App store apps too though? What with the Facebook (sign-in) SDK and all? Honest question.
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by mercer 6y ago
Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder! I've heard amazing things about it but couldn't play it on my older mac (and considered waiting for the Switch version). Now that I have a new macbook though, I might pick it up.
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by mercer 6y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head and that this is one of the primary psychological reasons many programmers don't pursue politics. I studied psychology and communications and so much of my studies and to an extent my aspiration wer
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by mercer 6y ago
> Using Spacemacs or Doom doesn't liberate you from learning Lisp and Emacs internals. Yes it does, for me anyways, for the most part. While I definitely plan to dive deeper, I'm using plenty of Emacs stuff via Spacemacs, and I
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by mercer 6y ago
and jokes involving Venn diagrams.
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by mercer 6y ago
Set the desktop background as this site for some winception!
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by mercer 6y ago
Some games have amazing stories though, and in some cases it feels like the experience wouldn't be possible as just a book. Planescape: Torment is probably the best example I can think of, but there's many others.
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by mercer 6y ago
I suppose TLoU2 stands out because of it's rather 'serious' story, its unusually graphic violence (and attempts to humanize the NPC's more), and of course the blockbuster nature of it. Furthermore, I've always found
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by mercer 6y ago
The new iOS will have that feature though, IIRC.
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by mercer 6y ago
Or Drupal, if that's still a thing...
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by mercer 6y ago
> Gearheads are just a slightly different flavor of hacker; once you find some you'll be able to talk to them fairly quickly and they're likely to enjoy sharing their passion. Yeah, what sparked my desire to dig a bit deeper wa
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by mercer 6y ago
Jesus. I imagine getting the 'big questions' right is so vague as to remove any culpability from both YC and those it funds. I mean, if I had a friend who openly claimed to be 'naughty' in this way, I'd start being
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by mercer 6y ago
I don't know if it's a summer thing, but same here. That said, I've clicked on every Apple-related link and made a point of mostly skimming through each of them. There was usually something valuable (by my standard), but yeah
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Ask HN: I love programming, but I want to learn *everything* about my van. Tips?
2 points by mercer 6y ago|3 comments
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by mercer 6y ago
In practice 'good iteration velocity' is often dependent on using a language/stack that you and/or your team is comfortable with and proficient in. When one can choose between multiple equally-mastered stacks, then choos
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by mercer 6y ago
> The main selling point of these libraries is the clear separation of concerns. I've rarely heard this as a selling point, and it doesn't seem like a very good one to me. Even when frontend code is clearly isolated from the ba
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by mercer 6y ago
This is a tangent, but I immediately was reminded of 'speed-runners' in gaming. I know some people who either do this or are fans, and what fascinated me about the whole thing is that a big part of it is finding the 'unintent
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by mercer 6y ago
I think that would be entirely too implausible, but maybe you're right.
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by mercer 6y ago
I've had editors or git merges mess with whitespace. I've never had editors remove braces or begin..end blocks, and merges have rarely caused issues with begin..end blocks or braces. apples and oranges , in this case.
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by mercer 6y ago
> The only time I’ve had issues with blocks and whitespace is when some monster mixed in tabs. Thankfully every decent editor can make whitespace characters visible, and a quick find/replace fixed the heinous action. Sure, but in th
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by mercer 6y ago
It's easy to argue in favor of something if you can use hypotheticals that are unlikely to every come to pass. I agree with you that significant whitespace in Python is much less of an issue than many make it out to be, but arguing tha
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by mercer 6y ago
It's been exactly the same story for someone I know. They had a mild-but-less-mild-than-usual flu in March that was 'strange' in all the ways covid-19 is said to be. They had 'issues' like yours well into April and
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by mercer 6y ago
No, no. the hills are there to keep the Dutch /in/ so they don't claim more of it.

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