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by pfooti 7y ago
I used fish for a while, but the fact that it is a clear break from bash / sh syntax for things like chaining and redirecting made my reflexes all wrong. I'd type `dothis && dothat` and fish would just say, "umm, I th
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by pfooti 7y ago
https://twitter.com/pfooti/status/527301101523963904?s=19 From 2014 though.
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by pfooti 7y ago
This is very good advice, especially number 2. Teaching programming, especially to a trainee, is a great opportunity for project-based learning approaches. Give your person problems and tasks that are difficult enough that they have to lear
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by pfooti 7y ago
incentivize this by passing 20% of the ticket price back to the property owner
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by pfooti 8y ago
Babies cannot be vaccinated for a while and therefore benefit from herd immunity. Furthermore, that herd immunity benefits you if your immunization wears off before your scheduled booster shots. And everyone remembers to get their mmr boost
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by pfooti 8y ago
Replaceable batteries are kind of a lost cause these days. You could buy some model-specific batteries and deal with rotating them around and charging them up and carrying them and rebooting your phone when you want to swap, or you could in
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by pfooti 8y ago
Yeah weakmap and weakset basically do the opposite of what I want. The keys are weakly held rather than the values, which does no good for an ORM cache. One cannot even iterate over the keyset in a weakmap (so you can't do a lousy o(n)
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by pfooti 8y ago
I'd like to see a real, useful implementation of weak references, for use in value caches, or a way to manually take over garbage collection for some objects. Basically if I want to keep a cache of expensive objects that will grow mono
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by pfooti 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader%E2%80%93Meinhof_effect
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by pfooti 8y ago
Heh, I took that class in 1999. I was a grad student in a different program, and CS 188 was the start of me sort of sneaking in to the ucb engineering / cs program. I took a lot of coursework (there was so much fun learning to do) and
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by pfooti 8y ago
you can still use mbasic.facebook.com to read your fb messages if you need it.
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by pfooti 8y ago
excitingly, when I read the Bird terms of service (while they were still allowed in SF), they stipulated that you could not ride their scooters down hills. The scooter struggled to go up a (not particularly steep) hill, and I was breaking t
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by pfooti 8y ago
While I don't disagree with a lot of your argument, according to some preliminary research it seems like there's about as many millennials as boomers. Like 77 million boomers, 65 million gen x, 75 million gen y.
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by pfooti 8y ago
It hasn't, though. There's at least two different organizations that work to concretely operationalize what "open source" means. People may be confused about the term, but that doesn't mean we should stop trying to
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by pfooti 8y ago
This is one of the things that stood out to me at the launch of this phone: using a site that clearly copies the Kickstarter design language, but on a non-kickstarter page, has always felt shady. The assumed guarantees Kickstarter makes are
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by pfooti 8y ago
> You're not offering MongoDB as a service though. I think that part is pretty explicit. I agree that I feel like I'm not offering it as a service, but according to your quote, "Making the functionality of the Program or
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by pfooti 8y ago
Let's assume I'm running a commercially-available web application. I'm not reselling mongo as a service, but I'm using mongo in my stack. My web application arguably "... primarily derives from the value of the Prog
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by pfooti 8y ago
bake means to turn on the bottom heat element, broil turns on only the top element, and toast turns on both elements.
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by pfooti 8y ago
Headline seems demonstrably untrue [0]. Better framing should be, "contentID incorrectly identifies YouTube sample as being part of a totally legally copyrighted recording of a Bach work". (Bracketing for now the rightness or copy
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by pfooti 8y ago
Reusable straws are different because they are very difficult to clean and they are rigid, meaning many disabled people cannot use them at all (someone with distrophy or distonia may end up biting down on a straw, so you don't want to
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by pfooti 8y ago
I have a kindle. I love it. As a san francisco resident, library support for e-readers means I have a queue of books I've flagged as want-to-read that pop up frequently. Two clicks later - they're on my kindle for free (well - my
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by pfooti 8y ago
Interesting. A quick look at the code indicates you're just doing a notify on the whole row. Have you tested with large rows? The postgres notify function fails with a payload larger than 8000 bytes, and that limit cannot be changed at
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by pfooti 8y ago
Generally speaking (from a math education perspective), people are bad at denominators. If you really want to compare ratios, and have established in the writing decimals in the numerator to afford that (TFA used 19.5:9 to describe an iphon
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by pfooti 8y ago
In that case, why not say 13.5:9 instead of 3:2? Or 14.4:9 instead of 16:10? People confuse me.
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by pfooti 8y ago
Why do people say 16:10 when they could say 8:5? (Or worse, 19.5:9 over 39:18?) this one of those human things? Do you just really like numbers close to 9?
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by pfooti 9y ago
I've used a lot of quill in the past couple of years. It has some tricky bits, but seems similar in a lot of ways to ProseMirror - separate internal representation of data that gets rendered into HTML, delta-based state changes, etc. A
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by pfooti 9y ago
There's a difference between correct ontologies and the ones humans use, however. We may succeed at mapping all domains effectively, but in order to get people to use those maps, you would have to convince people that a pop tart is a k
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by pfooti 9y ago
I use lanekeeping on the freeway, usually with adaptive cruise control as well (subaru). I focus more on the Big Picture of all the cars around me, can see further and have a better sense of who is doing what. That's anecdotal, of cour
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by pfooti 9y ago
Yeah, I have a recent Subaru with those features. It beeps when I'm backing out of the garage and there's someone driving or biking up the road before they even come into my sight lines. It can help keep me in a lane, either by be
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by pfooti 9y ago
Hot take: if the Waltons (and their ilk) had not built the walmarts of the world, to maximize profits by externalizing costs (food stamps for employees who are not paid a living wage) and then dodging the taxes that pay for that externaliza

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