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by mercer 6y ago
It's evidence, but it's not evident. Those are not the same thing.
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by mercer 6y ago
I'm from a 'prime' first-world country, The Netherlands, but I grew up in a developing nation where not having power or running water for hours was a daily thing, and not having either for days would happen with some regulari
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by mercer 6y ago
link?
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by mercer 6y ago
Bernie had the main-stream media + the entire DNC apparatus against him. That's a ton of power and influence. I'm not saying he would've 'won'; it's quite possible he positioned himself as too much 'non-es
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by mercer 6y ago
I'm fascinated by your account. It's 21 days old yet has a karma of 1. And the majority of your comments are greyed out. I wouldn't ask if this was just a personal HN account, because at this point nothing surprises me anymor
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by mercer 6y ago
I'd definitely encourage you to look into Phoenix. For many things, Rails might still be the better option. The ecosystem is larger, for one, and it's perhaps a bit easier to 'grok' because it's OO. And I suppose an
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by mercer 6y ago
It made me giggle, which I assume was the point.
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by mercer 6y ago
I mind the cringy, boring and melodramatic stuff, but I find that the stuff that does work in his games incredible enough to slog through it. Planescape: Torment is on a very short list of games where some of the story or setting just ran
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by mercer 6y ago
1) sometimes comments get downvoted for no apparent reason, in which they usually get upvoted again later. 2) many HN users downvote comments that talk about being downvoted, as it is against the rules (and can come across as needy/whi
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by mercer 7y ago
Your analogy would perhaps make sense if there's a documented causal link between a pizzeria's shitty website and the quality of their pizza. Did I miss some ground-breaking research on the matter?
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by mercer 7y ago
Good points, but I do think the aside that is invading a country on the other side of the world and murdering a ton of people, all in service of a globe-spanning game of ideological chess, is worth emphasizing a little extra!
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by mercer 7y ago
Perhaps a side-note, but my most of my experience is the private sector. While the government jobs I've experienced were mostly 'the same' in all the bad ways, at least the pressure seemed a bit lower. I just wanted to point
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by mercer 7y ago
> ...upsetting that position may not end well for those that really only do four hours of actual work during an 8 hour day. One of the great shocks in my life was finding out the sheer number of employees to which this applies. The most
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by mercer 7y ago
I live in one of those sane metric-system countries, but I don't have a clue how to describe my MacBook's screen size in anything but inches...
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by mercer 7y ago
While I think things could be a lot better, I like how college loans work over here in The Netherlands. Regardless of whether they're a 'golden ticket' or not (times are changing?), the student loan is something one doesn&#x2
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by mercer 7y ago
As an economist, I just want to add that money printer go brrr.
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by mercer 7y ago
I've been doing less and less JS stuff, but I actually miss TS at times. I think it won't end up like CoffeeScript, and it's absolutely worth using if you need to write javascript!
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by mercer 7y ago
My impression is that for a lot of developers on HN, a kind of front-end fatigue has grown stronger and stronger. And as a result, there's a preference for various solutions that reduce the amount of 'dynamic javascript' work
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by mercer 7y ago
While I do agree, I find that marking a message as 'edited' (like Telegram does) makes it less of a problem for me. Bonus points if I can click to see the original message!
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by mercer 7y ago
that's an awesome trick. Thanks!
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by mercer 7y ago
Ha, cool trick! Reminds me of the Trello trick where if you press the 'copy' keyboard shortcut while hovering over a card, it will copy a link to that specific card.
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by mercer 7y ago
I think it scratches an itch similar to Harvest Moon and, to a degree, Stardew Valley. The crucial difference for me between AC and SV is that the former all but forces you to take a relaxed approach. SV felt more like a typical game where
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by mercer 7y ago
* I think the right when you look at the screen. * I hope so! I use bluetooth mouse and keyboard, and have had similar issue on my MBP 2019 (the latest one). The issues only seem to crop up when I'm at my desk, with the power plugged i
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by mercer 7y ago
I've heard a number of times that static typing would be near impossible for Erlang because of how message-passing works, but just the other day I read a quote where one of the creators (I think it was Joe Armstrong, but not completely
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by mercer 7y ago
I'd say I sometimes miss Rails' ecosystem, but the many advantages of Phoenix and especially LiveView are worth that small downside. To someone who uses Rails/Django with React, I'd describe LiveView as something that of
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by mercer 7y ago
I'd say live chat and many concurrent users (+ many small messages being sent around) is exactly the kind of thing that Phoenix (and LiveView, and Elixir) is basically made for.
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by mercer 7y ago
As a smoker I'd be fully in favor of that. Anything that lets existing smokers do their thing, but makes it significantly more difficult for non-smokers to start, is a good thing.
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by mercer 7y ago
> Many just don't want to quit, don't try, and accept the trade offs of enjoying their vice vs its harms. Unless you've invented a mind-reading device I'm pretty sure you're talking out of your ass. Most people,
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by mercer 7y ago
If we don't kill them but take all but a million or so of their money, I'd be all for it.
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by mercer 7y ago
To rest for what? To be more productive at work? I'd argue your point isn't 'quite the contrary' but only emphasizes OP's point: you describe the time outside of work as 'after hours', and argue that &#x27

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