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by paozac 5y ago
Useful recap. I went through something similar a few weeks ago and the webpack/tailwindcss JIT/postcss setup has been a pain in the ass: dependency hell, outdated documentation, unintelligible error messages. I'm glad to see
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by paozac 5y ago
I knew it as the Hollywood Principle: "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You"
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by paozac 5y ago
With most languages the spelling gives you enough information to figure out how to pronounce a word you've never heard before. Not with english. My last wrong guess: the writer Malcolm Lowry (/lauri/ instead of /louri&#x
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by paozac 5y ago
If you learn the international phonetic alphabet there is no need for these primers.
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by paozac 5y ago
MySQL's lack of DDL transactions is a serious shortcoming.
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Biden administration targets crypto transfers in tax crackdown plan(ft.com)
7 points by paozac 5y ago|1 comments
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by paozac 5y ago
Or Lua
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by paozac 5y ago
Programming languages are tools, what matters is if they do their job. And the current popularity of javascript means it works for most people. But boy, how ugly and inconsistent it is. I wish I could like it.
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by paozac 5y ago
Yeah! Even more tracking!
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EU citizens arriving in UK locked up and expelled(theguardian.com)
4 points by paozac 5y ago|0 comments
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by paozac 5y ago
I find Bootstrap still very useful for a backend UI, where ad-hoc styling is not so important, but it seems to have been taken over by tailwind, the new cool kid. Time will tell.
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by paozac 5y ago
And an annual fee of $180 that kicks in a year after purchase. Facebook's hunger for personal data is more and more disturbing.
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by paozac 5y ago
Zawinski's law 2.0: every chat application attempts to expand until it can process payments.
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Built-in FTP implementation to be removed in Firefox 90(blog.mozilla.org)
6 points by paozac 6y ago|1 comments
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by paozac 6y ago
Do you have a source for these numbers?
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by paozac 6y ago
The descendant said in a letter to a newspaper that he didn’t ask for any trial revision and that this is just a legal-historic divertissement.
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by paozac 6y ago
Instagram doesn't seem to. I deleted my account a few years ago, but they still notify me with the updated terms of use. I assume my account is still there, regardless of GDPR.
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by paozac 6y ago
We knew this would happen. How long until a mandatory FB account?
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by paozac 6y ago
Indeed, if you're a foreigner the conditions are far worse: higher interest rate, higher downpayment e lower loan amount.
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by paozac 6y ago
True. I like Python, but the ecosystem can be very confusing for a quick dive. It's easy to get lost between pyenv, virtualenv, pipenv, pip, pip3, easy_install and friends.
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by paozac 6y ago
On a Mac the "Sublime Text of email" is probably MailMate, which is well worth its $50 price. I thought Hey's $99/year was expensive, but $30/month is ridiculous.
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by paozac 6y ago
That's very silly. The times are ready for a new job title: software product namer, to make sure a name won't offend anyone or violate trademarks and store guidelines.
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by paozac 6y ago
How common is being ghosted by a recruiter? Is it an american thing? It never happened to me here in Europe.
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by paozac 6y ago
I've been using Pocket Earth for a long time and love the way to measure the distance between two points, but the interface is atrocious.
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by paozac 6y ago
And ironically this article is published on medium.com, which expects you to sign in with an account to read the story.
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1% of people cause half of global aviation emissions(theguardian.com)
172 points by paozac 6y ago|126 comments
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by paozac 6y ago
I think it depends on the audience. As a programmer I'd be happy with zero_to_one, while a semitechnical audience might like better normalized_ratio.
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by paozac 6y ago
Could this be an initial step towards elixir-like chaining? "foobar" => upcase() => x
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by paozac 6y ago
There is an interesting video about this on practical engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKFaC5RYbEM
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by paozac 6y ago
The second cheapest is often where the seller makes the most profit. There is a pricing strategy around this idea - people will rarely buy the cheapest or the most expensive item of the list. Their function is to shift up all prices and set

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