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by nawitus 11y ago
I use this at work, but I still miss a proper Linux terminal.
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by nawitus 11y ago
Related article: "A jobs miracle is happening in Britain, thanks to tax cuts. Why don't the Tories say so?" http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9475222/the-coalitions-j...
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by nawitus 11y ago
I'm comparing the whole experience, so hardware + software. The hardware of the MacBook may be a bit ahead of my old laptop, but that doesn't have a major effect on my user experience.
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by nawitus 11y ago
I bought a 13" MacBook Retina Pro last December as my first Apple laptop after several years of Arch Linux. My expectation was that it would "simply work", whereas Arch often required manual configuration. My experience hasn&
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by nawitus 12y ago
But business/domain knowledge is at least as useful for the software engineers as it is for the manager, so I don't quite see how that explains the pay gap.
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by nawitus 12y ago
There's a few problems with this: * It only works in Linux, not Windows or Mac OS X. * You need additional work to have it work in more distributions * Linux package file formats are not distribution neutral, there's no "pack
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by nawitus 12y ago
You can compile .ts to ES6 .js and then use babel to compile it to ES5 .js.
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by nawitus 12y ago
Check the roadmap: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Roadmap It's true that there's not too many ES6 features implemented yet, but the 1.5 release will bring a lot of new ES6 features, an
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by nawitus 12y ago
"Looks like Falcon landed fine, but excess lateral velocity caused it to tip over post landing" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/588082574183903232
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by nawitus 12y ago
This is what I find most surprising about C++. Apparently including a single library as a dependency takes large amounts of effort. The end result seems to be that developers avoid using dependencies and resort to rewriting large amounts of
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by nawitus 12y ago
Apparently there's no dip in general bitcoin interest: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/31lmo7/buttercoin_...
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by nawitus 12y ago
There definitely should be a resource to find the most valuable online courses among the bad ones.
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by nawitus 12y ago
I prefer a more modular approach to UI components. After using Bootstrap for a while I find myself often choosing a standalone component over the one provided by Bootstrap, since I can choose the component that best fits to the rquirements.
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by nawitus 12y ago
How does it protect from man-in-the-middle attacks? The man in the middle can simply replace the hash. If there's an additional communication channel to provide the hash you could simply provide the whole command with it.
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by nawitus 12y ago
According to Wikipedia it's really cheap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Economics
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by nawitus 12y ago
I find it odd that it's too expensive. It's cheaper than the price of water in e.g. Finland and many European countries, yet I've never heard anyone complain about the price water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by nawitus 12y ago
The price in Finland for cold water is about $4.50 (4.18€) per cubic meter, even though water is supposed to be abundant here. And the average water consumption is 165 liters, which is about 44 gallons. Source: http://www.vercon.
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by nawitus 12y ago
Can't trust anything on April 1.
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by nawitus 12y ago
Plenty of languages are commonly used for writing backends. JavaScript may be more popular for backends than Python for new projects these days. The point is that JavaScript, CSS and HTML are native web technologies, Python is just one lang
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by nawitus 12y ago
>For example, you could say slavers were trying to reallocate labor from where it was less productive (African subsistence farming) to where it was more productive (building the American economy). I think that's a different discours
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by nawitus 12y ago
So you're saying that it's easy to hire talented web developers for low salaries, and the market is wrong?
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by nawitus 12y ago
>I have no idea how web-developers think they can get away with adding so much overhead to something as simple as rendering a page. Probably because it's thought to maximize profit. Typically developers are expensive, but web site v
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by nawitus 12y ago
Google executes JavaScript for indexing these days.
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by nawitus 12y ago
The relevant metric is price of desalinated water, not the number of plants.
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by nawitus 12y ago
One solution to producing water is desalination. You can effectively get unlimited amount of water, but you pay for it in energy. A quick Google search finds that there's a desalination plant under construction in Carlsbad, California.
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by nawitus 12y ago
The submission title should include 'Lessons for Team and Process Design', as it's a part of a series.
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by nawitus 12y ago
You can use TypeScript with the ES6 output mode and then transpile that to ES5. In fact, that's what I do.
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by nawitus 12y ago
I wonder if "SoundScript" will support optional properties. TypeScript also considers accessing missing properties a compile-time error, and I haven't noticed many problems with that as you can define some properties as optio
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by nawitus 12y ago
Note that just because something is possible with PostgreSQL doesn't mean it's as easy to do with PostgreSQL than with an alternative database. The question could be rephrased as "why use PostgreSQL when you can do it in x?&q
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by nawitus 12y ago
You can know a field or fields of the data while leaving the possibility of extra fields that you don't need to know. In practice if you're making a web application and dealing with JSON, it's typically very easy to work with

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