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by paledot 6y ago
Good book, though. Highly recommended.
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by paledot 6y ago
The answer is I don't. I make heavy use of /, but for navigating within a line I make do with *#^$w. It's kind of cool how you can get two Vim power users (not a group I count myself among, mind) in a room together and find t
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by paledot 6y ago
First time I've heard about it, but I'm glad it exists. Although I feel like designers who are aware of it, probably know better than to cram as much animation into their sites as possible.
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by paledot 6y ago
The only map that I would say is an absolute improvement over the default is map ; : Using : is a waste of a keystroke (ie. shift) in an editor that I chose specifically to reduce chorded key combos.
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by paledot 6y ago
Both websites are filled with obnoxious scroll animations. <BLINK> for the 21st century.
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by paledot 6y ago
"Exactly the same, except for the thing that makes them fundamentally different. Nothing we can do about that."
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by paledot 6y ago
The fallacy of "they don't build them like they used to" applies equally to bridges from 1850, cars from 1970, and printers from 2000: the poorly built bridges fell down, the cars with inferior parts rusted, and the printers
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by paledot 6y ago
You are fortunate to consider unnecessary walking an "inconvenience" rather than an impediment. My partner, while recovering from a spinal cord injury, would regularly come home from work raging about a closed sidewalk that had re
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by paledot 6y ago
That viewpoint is adorably naïve. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View pretty clearly falls into three categories: government projects, genuinely innovative ideas from the private sector that failed, and the people who ripped off th
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by paledot 6y ago
In fact, I currently have a webcam dedicated to my whiteboard, and I switch inputs in Zoom when necessary. It works decently, but of course no one else can drive. Not sure that's specifically the problem I'm trying to solve - atte
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Ask HN: Smart Boards for Whiteboarding?
3 points by paledot 6y ago|4 comments
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by paledot 6y ago
Oh dear, I just had a flashback to the "handwriting" on the Palm Pilot.
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by paledot 6y ago
The "better" examples using inline code made my head spin.
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by paledot 6y ago
The article says "handwriting", but there's nothing to support cursive vs. printing as a contributing factor. Otherwise, I believe it. There's a reason we have a practice called "whiteboarding" in tech, and one
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by paledot 6y ago
As someone who would probably understand an explanation in real words, my eyes glazed over and I stopped parsing after about the third mention of fish. But I'm not the target audience. In popular science articles, I much prefer paragra
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by paledot 6y ago
I appreciate his attitude towards the support people he's working with. Too many customers see it as their right/responsibility to make support people's lives miserable because of someone else's screwup or because their
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by paledot 6y ago
Not sure I get the outrage to this one. Do you anticipate typing private info, backspacing, then replacing it with some bland query about switching internet plans? The only time I might have minded true real-time chat was in grade school ta
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by paledot 6y ago
Given the presence of Rust, I was hoping for actually calculating the tides based on the rotation of the Earth, orbit of the Moon, etc. But reading the article and comments, I realize how much more complicated that process would be than &qu
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by paledot 6y ago
Buttplug.io is officially my new favourite domain name.
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by paledot 6y ago
No, it and other oil companies offload the costs of cleaning up their messes on the government (ie. the taxpayers) instead. Definitely better.
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by paledot 6y ago
I mean, yes, but this looks more like a table of contents. I imagine there are a couple of pages later in the zine devoted to [ vs. [[, since that's at the heart of bash programming.
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by paledot 6y ago
I've been struggling with something similar. Where I've landed (for now at least) is to ask, "What does this game give me? Will I be happier/better when I'm done? Is there nothing I'd like to do instead?"
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by paledot 6y ago
I'm not convinced "an easier way" is what the author was going for.
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by paledot 6y ago
Oh yeah. I don't feel bad about `.clone()`, it tends to be when I make short-lived Strings when a str might suffice. Then I remember that I write PHP code at my day job.
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by paledot 6y ago
The different strategies are interesting, but I don't understand the bit flags. Why would you want your ID to include a record of how it was generated? Some use cases go out of their way to obfuscate that information, and one selling p
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by paledot 6y ago
I stand corrected; thank you. As others have more accurately pointed out, though, that still ignores number or value of transactions, which is a more reasonable metric to determine impact.
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by paledot 6y ago
Bingo. This is why I hate XML. Nothing wrong with the syntax - I hate that I have to massage arrays, dicts, etc. in cryptic ways to generate the XML output, then massage them right back at the other end. And PHP's SimpleXML module, at
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by paledot 6y ago
"The other 97%" sounds like 9to5google's misreading of a deliberately misleading statement in the press release. Less than 3% of all apps use their own billing - but most apps don't use in-app billing at all. I suspect G
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by paledot 6y ago
The reason for this is because Docker still doesn't have a lockfile like every (other?) dependency manager ever. Pinning a hash dooms you to use that hash forever, because there's no easy way to update under controlled circumstanc
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by paledot 6y ago
Well, example.com resolves, . test doesn't. Depending on your use case, one or the other may be desirable, but if you're setting up a dev environment, .test is your answer.

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