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by pault 7y ago
Honestly, this is what Khan Academy is. Start at high school algebra and work your way up the skill tree. There is no shortcut though, so you won't find a single book that will teach you undergraduate level maths in a week.
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by pault 7y ago
The concept of "identity theft" (i.e. the hacker stole your identity vs. the hacker used false credentials to steal from the bank) is probably the single greatest feat of social engineering of our times.
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by pault 7y ago
I think you mean `const`. `let` can be reassigned.
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by pault 7y ago
Does shallow copying have the same issues? For example, `let foo = { x: 1, ...bar }` just makes a new object with references to bar's members.
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by pault 7y ago
In my opinion this is a terrible idea, since it's very easy (I do it all the time) to accidentally write `if (foo = bar)` instead of `if (foo == bar)`. If that were valid syntax it would be a huge footgun. I'd be onboard with it i
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by pault 7y ago
I assume GP meant es5; es4 was an attempt to add static typing to JS and was never shipped. ActionScript 3 was the only implementation AFAIK.
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by pault 7y ago
While that's true, dealing with compatibility issues and making sure all of your services are using http2 is arguably more work than just using babel.
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by pault 7y ago
> It's popular to be sure but handwritten javascript is not that rare nowadays, is it? Long time front end developer here. In the last couple of years I can't recall seeing even a single project without a build pipeline (not th
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by pault 7y ago
Yeah, I was going to file a bug for that; it's vscode at 16px with the monokai pro theme, Windows 10.
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by pault 7y ago
Perhaps the solution to climate change is dropping a rock the size of a stadium on Canada every few years.
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by pault 7y ago
On galactic scales that's more like glancing off the ring of the bulls eye.
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by pault 7y ago
The deskthority wiki is by far the greatest collection of keyboard lore in the world: https://deskthority.net/wiki/Main_Page
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by pault 7y ago
I think you are making the classic nerd mistake of assuming the average person has done as much self educating as you have.
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by pault 7y ago
Oh yeah, for sure. If you can prove that all of your income was earned by a shell company in Ireland, you should definitely do that. :)
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by pault 7y ago
I started my career as a graphic designer, and I studied typography from an early age (my parents are both retired graphic designers and worked in the pre-digital era when designers really had to know their stuff). With the exception of a
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by pault 7y ago
I was expecting to laugh at how ugly it is, but it actually looks really nice! I bought the essentials pack to replace operator mono, which I've become bored with. Good job! Edit: It looks really great with a theme that supports italic
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by pault 7y ago
Maybe the rich old baddies are using Bitcoin to evade taxes.
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by pault 7y ago
You are taxed as if you sold the BTC and immediately bought your boat with the proceeds of the BTC sale.
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by pault 7y ago
This is why you shouldn't accept payment in any currency other than the one you pay your taxes with. It's effectively investing 100% of your income in a single asset.
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by pault 7y ago
Isn't the whole point of the story that they weren't allowed to sell when they exercised their options?
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by pault 7y ago
If the dollars depreciated then you wouldn't owe taxes on them and it wouldn't be a good metaphor.
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by pault 7y ago
Enough with the whataboutism. Everybody knows about the dirty business the US gets up to. It doesn't excuse Chinese authoritarianism and human rights abuses.
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by pault 7y ago
Are you lumping TedX into that assessment? Those are independently organized and are mostly terrible.
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by pault 7y ago
I think about this a lot. It seems that there must be some benefit to society from having certain members contribute but not reproduce. Obviously, from a purely darwinistic point of view, you would think that biological organisms that don&#
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by pault 7y ago
I'm single and 40 and I have no interest in dating because I would 100x rather be in my workshop building keyboards than out meeting people.
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by pault 7y ago
To me, "legacy" just means undocumented code that isn't well understood by anyone currently working in the code base. By that definition, pretty much anything written by your average contractor is legacy code.
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by pault 7y ago
Is that adjusted for inflation?
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by pault 7y ago
Right, I was trying to figure out what bitwise operation the control key performed specifically, but my google-fu was failing. Is it key ^ 0b10?
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by pault 7y ago
Yes! That has driven me away from YouTube and Netflix recently. I know there is an ocean of content out there but when I sign in all I see is the same dozen shitty recommendations that I have no interest in! I watched one comedy special a y
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by pault 7y ago
I can think of a use case. Writing a GPU accelerated text editor with syntax highlighting that can interface with a back end like neovim. Maybe not super useful but I could see myself doing this since my only expertise is with web technolog

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