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by mhink 5y ago
Really?! I'm actually kinda surprised, I would have guessed it's a much more recent abbreviation than that. I think I only started seeing it around 2010 or so.
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by mhink 5y ago
Well, for what it's worth, "Battle Cry of Freedom" is only the sixth volume in the Oxford History of the United States. The following volume, "The Republic for Which It Stands" by Richard White, covers the 30-year p
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by mhink 5y ago
> I've grown fairly fond of JS implicitly named object parameters, and I always liked Smalltalk's named(-ish) parameters, and this seems like an interesting compromise. I'm not actually sure how Ruby works in this case? I
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by mhink 5y ago
Not really. The fact of the matter is, most of these projects came along for justifiable reasons, and represent some improvements over the existing tech: speed, ease of configuration, better dev experience, better use of platform features,
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by mhink 5y ago
I mean, everyone's gotta start somewhere. I'll give the author props for coming up with an idea for an experiment, documenting it, and sharing their results. Not a whole lot of people do that out in the open, and it's great t
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by mhink 5y ago
Honestly, I think the problem is just that SQL isn't a particularly great language. This is an example of where the syntax and semantics are coupled so tightly that it's just gonna be confusing no matter what you do. My vote would
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by mhink 5y ago
I'm not a fan of Facebook/Meta, but I'm also not sure about this take. Rewind the clock 30-40 years, and I feel like it'd be easy to say something like "This is a bad sign for IBM. They are betting on everyone sitti
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by mhink 5y ago
I mean, you can come up with a silly example like `sum`, but here's a more real-world example (takes the width and height of a container, and calculates a scaling factor and translation which make an element fit inside the container at
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by mhink 5y ago
I don't have a problem with the idea of a formatter (gofmt is freaking amazing), but Prettier itself makes extremely asinine and frustrating formatting decisions. > It may not always be beautiful, but at least it's consistent
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by mhink 5y ago
Since 2016... yes, more or less. Webpack became the de-facto standard for bundling for a few years there, but everybody hated configuring it, so it dramatically increased the "out-of-the-box" configuration. That said, the ES modul
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by mhink 5y ago
It's not difficult to understand, you just can't be bothered to care. In the 7 years or so that destructuring assignment has been available, I've never once seen the 'empty destructuring' in your first example. (And
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by mhink 5y ago
> A social network is a natural monopoly due to the network effect. It wouldn't make any sense to split it up. This isn’t entirely accurate. Federated social networking is entirely feasible, and arguably the only reason it isn’t mor
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by mhink 5y ago
I've always thought a nifty way to deal with this would be to use a FUSE filesystem. So you'd have a directory structure like: /workspace /ast /module-1.ast /fuse-src /mod
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by mhink 5y ago
> One issue is that some things, like vulnerability to supply chain disruptions, are intrinsically harder to track because they are based on rare occurrences. Thus, they will tend to get sacrificed in favor of measures which are more fre
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by mhink 5y ago
You have to have >500 karma, iirc.
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by mhink 6y ago
This is a classic garden-path sentence [1] if I ever saw one. It happens sometimes in "headlinese" when editors or authors try to squeeze as many characters out of a headline as possible. "[A] note[,] in which [The] Hitchhike
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by mhink 6y ago
IMO, copy-and-pasting bash commands is an organizational smell to begin with, but I don't think this particular use case is a reason not to use one shell over another. If you do have a snippet of bash to run, it's easy enough to t
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by mhink 6y ago
I am far from an HVAC expert, but I think these lines from the article help clarify the issue: > The temperature dial doesn’t work, the building controls whether its heating or cooling time. > The fluid temperature is out of our con
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by mhink 6y ago
Interesting. Seems sorta like the English shorthand "if a less-than b, do this" (as opposed to "if a IS less than b, do this"). "Equal" is almost a different story since it works as a verb as well as an adjecti
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by mhink 6y ago
> I’m not convinced that all semantics of “and” can be derived from set operations. Totally agree. I think part of the issue is that "natural-language and" behaves differently when you apply it to different parts of speech, and
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by mhink 6y ago
Maybe not a side business, but it's not as ridiculous as it sounds! A friend of mine was an in-house photographer and graphic designer (I think he had some sort of managerial role, too) for the local hospital network until he got laid
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by mhink 6y ago
In addition to what the rest of the comments are saying: if you're talking about front-end Javascript, take the time to really learn the devtools in your browser of choice (personally I'd recommend Chrome or Chromium, but I&#x27
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by mhink 6y ago
I remember reading something somewhere that points out that Library Science is exactly about the skills to solve this problem: organizing, managing, and indexing large amounts of otherwise-unstructured data. It strikes me that all the vario
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by mhink 6y ago
Love the list, but I definitely think Programming Sucks [1] should be on any list of programming essays. :) 1: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
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by mhink 6y ago
I'm just thinking out loud here, but it seems to me that you could just make sure you're importing all your dependencies from trusted package repos, right? And since the URL for a package is right there in the `import` statement,
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by mhink 6y ago
Honestly, for me the split keys are just muscle memory at this point, same as 'hjkl' in Vim. Same with my prefix- I used backticks for the longest time, and now I use Ctrl-Space, but I generally don't think about it anymore
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by mhink 7y ago
Disagree. I think it's important to think carefully about how "the way things were in the past" influence how we perceive "the way things are now". Tracing how opinions evolve over time is a good way to help underst
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by mhink 7y ago
Over the years, we’ve found that even power users who know they’ll eventually go into SQL mode prefer to start in the visual mode, as the grouping, date formatting, and joins are all done automatically. This is huge, right here. I
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by mhink 7y ago
IIRC, she was calling Hiro from a public Metaverse terminal. Later in the book, it was a huge for him when he had a big enough line of credit to afford the equivalent of a cell phone along with his motorcycle.
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by mhink 7y ago
This is super interesting! I'm giving it a shot.

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