moonlet

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by moonlet 8y ago
I loved seeing something I’ve never used but have been curious about explained by being built up idea by idea! This is awesome, I want more.
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by moonlet 8y ago
Used to hate Ruby, then I picked it up for a side project. I wouldn’t exactly write a compiler in it, but it’s great for small scripting tasks that don’t need to be fast. I’m still not entirely sure why people do so much with it, but it’s m
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by moonlet 8y ago
My 15 year old self wanted to open for Korn and ski in the winter X Games. To date I have no regrets that either of these haven’t happened yet.
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by moonlet 8y ago
I ended up successfully replacing Facebook with a combination of group text and group LINE message to talk to friends and family,whether they live near me or no. I don’t miss it.
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by moonlet 8y ago
Maybe I’m strange by HM standards, but unless it’s sometjing I’m just learning for fun, it must be used by 2-3 major companies or projects before I’ll consider it worth seriously picking up. It must solve a problem I have that I can’t solve
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by moonlet 8y ago
I only use a ridesharing app when I can’t get a bus or train. If it’s going to take more than 20 minutes for that bus or train to arrive and I need to travel more than a mile, ridesharing is generally how I get there. It fills a niche where
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by moonlet 8y ago
I know I’m one data point, but I’ve taught classes as an adjunct before and my (tech co) employer was fine with it... it’s totally workable if you can say get Friday mornings off.
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by moonlet 8y ago
The spelling and grammar of some of the “hey x year old!” copy is not that great.
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by moonlet 8y ago
This seems to have built on top of a lot of accepted ideas that were floating around in the academic peer to peer space in the early 2000s. Glad to see some of them getting traction in the wild aside from, you know, old school music piratin
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by moonlet 8y ago
Hey! I’d actually say that’s a... reflection on your friend. I thought for a couple hours about whether to reply to this comment, and I ultimately decided that writing maintainable or readable code in any language is the engineer’s primary