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by mftb 4y ago
It's definitely exclusionary. You could argue that it's exclusionary for legitimate reasons, but it's exclusionary.
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by mftb 4y ago
Parent comment doesn't seem to only be talking about prices. He's talking about Safari being the only browser on iOS. Other vendors are only allowed to reskin it.
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by mftb 4y ago
I also think your comment is pretty insightful. Most scientists seem stuck here: > We can’t make confident predictions about the outcomes of experiments, but instead have to rely only on fuzzy probabilities. There are fundamental limits
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by mftb 4y ago
I see (on the architecture page) Slashbase uses SQLite to store it's own app data, but it doesn't support SQLite as the target database? Is there some particular reason?
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by mftb 4y ago
The Kindle app tracks how fast you're reading. If nothing else it uses it to improve it's estimate of how long until you finish reading the chapter, which it tells you.
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by mftb 4y ago
I'm glad it resonated, as your comment did with me. I think your comment here about responsibility and meaning is really insightful. You might enjoy some Camus or Gogol.
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by mftb 4y ago
I'm old so people ask me for advice from time to time. Most often the first thing I hear myself saying is, "Try to give yourself a break". Usually what people have related to me when asking, is so needlessly hard on themselve
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by mftb 4y ago
Camus thought it was the noblest of pursuits to try and create meaning in an absurd universe. Jung, thought meaning was the one thing a person couldn't abide living without. With those thoughts I think you're in pretty good compan
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by mftb 4y ago
Taking possession of my life. At some point in my early 20s I realized that I had, "taken the keys.". I was now making myself, and my life, who and what I was going to be, for good or ill. It's always tempting to relate the i
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by mftb 4y ago
Ah cool, ty. Now I kinda wish I'd been aware of these projects sooner.
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by mftb 4y ago
Looks like they are avoiding Tk altogether? Anybody know if that's the plan going forward?
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by mftb 4y ago
The context is engineering. In the article it's referred to as a "technical sensation" in it's time.
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by mftb 4y ago
I've wanted to do this for years, but just can't stand the security hassle. One solution I've often thought about, is renting a small office in the neighborhood and setting up there, obviously that adds a lot of expense.
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by mftb 4y ago
I'm happy the Go team takes breaking changes seriously. They should go ahead and fix this. The current semantics are lame.
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by mftb 4y ago
+1 for this combo, they really make some common tasks surefire and pleasant.
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by mftb 4y ago
As others have said I use relative line numbers to prevent counting vertically. Within a line, I use "f" constantly. Using your last example, say I needed to get to the word "characters" and change it, I would, "fc&
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by mftb 4y ago
> Seems like hackers of today have really let down the public. I disagree. It seems like if anything, it's the public of today that has let down the hackers. In all honesty though, it's probably more just, "people gonna pe
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by mftb 4y ago
I believe they're referring to environments like Deno just using say, the fetch api from the browser, as their standard http client interface. Same code just works wherever, engineer that knows how to do it one place, knows how to do i
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by mftb 4y ago
Ah very good, I did not want to misrepresent your idea, but eventually I felt I had come to understand and generally agree with it.
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by mftb 4y ago
If I'm understanding you, I think this could have been stated more succinctly as, "for those who tend towards feelings of guilt, aspiring to martyrdom is self-indulgent. They would be better served aspiring to behave honorably&quo
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by mftb 4y ago
I forgot about analog, I was thinking of Spacewar in '62.
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by mftb 4y ago
This is a good article, one of the best in this vein that I've seen. The author clearly had some features that he really needs from X and has been tracking their progress under Wayland. If you find yourself in a similar circumstance, I
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by mftb 4y ago
You're correct, that's likely a mistake. They should have said sixty.
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by mftb 4y ago
I have no idea, but I also doubt that's the most effective metric for determining people buying/being sold, US culture. I think you'd have to sample a wide range of metrics to gauge how well US culture has been sold around th
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by mftb 4y ago
It absolutely backfires. No one is as successful at selling US culture as the US, except all those countries that censor exported/imported US culture.
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by mftb 4y ago
> Haven't classes -- as things which house methods and fields together -- gone out of fashion? There's your issue right there, "fashion". If we put aside fashion for a moment, we'll notice that all of the most he
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by mftb 4y ago
MS was so afraid of the web that IE achieved (by fair means or foul) 95% usage share between 1995 and 2003[0]. Be sure to check out the webs growth over that period. While the companies I listed may not be "cool" what they did, wh
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by mftb 4y ago
...and MS and Google and Apple. A protocol is harder to get off the ground and it's arguably much harder/not possible at any arbitrary point in history, but when it does work, it's much more powerful than what any single comp
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by mftb 4y ago
Yea, me too. Sounds like we've chewed some of the same, "programming dirt".
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by mftb 4y ago
I am interested, ty.

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