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by mighty_bander 7y ago
If only there were some middle ground between "not having autocomplete" and "ruthlessly data mining the everliving fuck out of everything I do in order to sell me shit." Oh well, nothing we can do, I guess, except shut u
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I always thought that sentiment to be too broadly applied. A good craftsman should be able to make use of the tools he is given, but nonetheless not shirk his duty to improve upon them. Not to say I have any real complaints about Python.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I only read the abstract because, well, I don't find the subject all that interesting, but isn't the paper stating the opposite? It states that interesting theories deny the assumptions of their audience.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I'm not a sublime user, so I can't say why, but a couple of JS devs in my office switched from sublime to VS Code. I'm a little surprised by this to be honest, and I haven't interrogated them too thoroughly about why, s
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I managed to achieve this once, fresh from the world of Windows - missed breaking out of a loop while exploring Python(?) on Ubuntu 10 or so. Had to power cycle my damn machine.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Once upon a time, .net code would just build. You had a nice list of project dependencies and references, and you could throw it all into a nice MSI installer that anyone off the street could use without being told how. It would plop debu
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
It's such a shame! JS could be a concise little language with a lot of power (in terms of being able to ignore types until they matter), but instead you end up transpiling unusable garbage with 10MB string manipulation libraries that
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Having started with the MS stack way back in the old days of their Hegemony, I always felt like make was doing something that I shouldn't have to think about. I'm curious about VSCode - why that, and not Visual Studio or another f
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
To say nothing of reggae, dubstep, etc. etc.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Oof, HN does not like jokes.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
There is some well-informed speculation about latency up-thread, but I've tinkered with OpenCV from time to time. Specifically, I used ROS and OpenCV to do face detection on a netbook in about 2012. That worked out pretty well - it w
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Yes. But mostly B in my experience. I went from being the spry youngster (mid-30s) at one company to being the old veteran at a startup, so this is a subject that is often on my mind. I have definitely seen things like the young people say
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I'm prepared to believe that unconscious bias or systemic discrimination is preferentially benefiting liberal students. What alarms me about this idea, and the related one of group privilege, is not that they are necessarily wrong (th
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
It helps to have a job you hate. Then, assuming you're doing something that might eventually allow you to quit your job, allow yourself to dwell on how bad it is at work whenever you're about to give up.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Amen to that. It's easy to trade away free time and benefits when you're 25. Once that means not seeing your kids as much, money doesn't seem so important. As my ex's dad used to say: "Not a lot of people lie on
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I didn't have a problem, fwiw.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Churn equals progress. Burn the infidel.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I'll turn that question around. Wouldn't it be nice, not to mention cost-effective, to be able to do an office job on a Raspberry Pi? Fifty to seventy bucks a head, all in, and you have a machine that was plenty fast enough 15 y
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I don't know if it's improved, or if it's just my newly-acquired fast computer, but PyCharm (JetBrains with a Python sock puppet on its hand) has been pretty great, at least for the smallish projects that I've been worki
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I agree with you, but man oh man I have not had a good time with react native. We made a tiny little mobile application in it, and due to various libraries exploding with every minor release, I wound up spending hours upgrading and patchin
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
The difference is that Visual Studio 2010 was buggy as hell and is still a better option than... Honestly, every editor I've seen used on JS. It mostly stayed out of the way. It didn't hang when I moved the mouse, for God's
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Sure, sure, you have exhaustively-researched articles by professional investigative journalists, but where's the proof ?
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I don't get why you're downvoted. You're telling the truth about human rights abuses. Who the hell finds this objectionable? I guess the "head underwater" thing is a little extreme but there are people getting the
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
You've highlighted a common union-busting tactic with the New York teachers example. The employer won't fund sufficient resources for arbitration, and so innocent and guilty alike languish for ages, and somehow this is the union&
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I thought that was interesting as well. It seems like a fair comparison, and permanent death for a mass-market game in 1996 would have been a big non-starter. Coincidentally, I played Diablo II with a self-imposed permanent death rule seve
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I think that's a wonderful idea. Are you in Europe? In Canada, we have some sectoral organization but I wouldn't expect it to complete.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Anyone who says unions are no longer necessary should go and work in an Amazon warehouse for a year. Until the workforce organizes, this is going to keep happening.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Funny story - I read an article linked from the one in the original post, and then replied about that, having forgotten where I started. You might find it interesting. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21031
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
To put this crisis in perspective: opioid-related deaths are having a noticeable effect on life expectancy in North America. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/substance-us... https://
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Archaea are interesting and often overlooked because they aren't numerous relative to bacteria. The domain Archaea always struck me as more of a "junk drawer" than a genuine grouping.

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