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by pianoben 3y ago
I understand GP as describing disillusioned people making a knowing, democratic , choice to elect someone who they believe will smash the system.
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by pianoben 3y ago
What do I need to use these? ... - a valid Meta account Well, I'm out then. Glasses look cool but I couldn't be happier with my choice to ditch Facebook, et al.
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by pianoben 3y ago
I had to look at that headline three times before it stopped reading "Painting with Meth". Seemed a very non-HN topic!
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by pianoben 3y ago
Softbank still controls what, 90% of the stock? It would seem mathematically impossible for anyone to execute a hostile takeover.
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by pianoben 3y ago
I learned a ton about Java and pragmatic algorithm development from reading Dagger ( https://github.com/square/dagger ) and porting it to C#. It's small enough that you can grok it in a reasonable amount of time, b
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by pianoben 3y ago
Seriously! People forget that bosses responded to unionization with actual violent assault , including sending literal bombers against striking miners ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain ). Childr
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by pianoben 3y ago
Or, education should be free, full stop, and it should be okay to change things to make that true for as many people as possible.
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by pianoben 3y ago
Oh, what I'd give for a good old toolbar again. I've still never adjusted properly to the Ribbon and its comparative waste of space. Give me density, dammit!
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by pianoben 3y ago
My impression is that he'd prefer fewer offices, more conveniently-located for him. I'd be surprised if he actually paid up.
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by pianoben 3y ago
The article mentions that they are building a compatibility layer around YARP that tools can use to transform its new tree format into the legacy Ripper format. They don't call out Rubocop specifically but I can't think of anothe
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by pianoben 3y ago
> You understand it, I understand it That may be, but... > it's just a purely aesthetic choice. SI metric prefixes[0] are case-sensitive; "mb" is not the same as "Mb". Not that computing has ever been rigoro
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by pianoben 3y ago
Most people have Expectations about the way things work - code in a text editor, write tests, run them. Check code into Github. Go to a website to find documentation. Pharo defies all of those conventions (well, maybe not Github, but even
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by pianoben 3y ago
I encourage you to give GPT, Copilot, etc a spin. You'll quickly be reassured about developer job security!
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by pianoben 3y ago
The secret is, we've always been plumbers . It's not a terrible comparison in some ways - plumbers are highly-skilled, scarce, and command high prices for their services. Nobody mistakes them for Capital, especially not plumbers
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by pianoben 3y ago
Man this company is killing it. Nice work, Framework team!
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by pianoben 3y ago
Those are two separate products that were developed independently. Both use Electron and are text-editors, but that's where the similarity ends.
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by pianoben 3y ago
Or they're zealous dogfooders, and had ChatGPT™ fill out the application itself :)
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by pianoben 4y ago
IDK, I consider Windows 7 a solid improvement over XP. XP, by the time Service Pack 3 came around, was good but showing its age. As far as I'm concerned, they could have stopped at 7 with no real loss to the business.
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by pianoben 4y ago
> I feel that there is power at Microsoft forcing Windows including terrible adware as now, just for profit Her name is Amy Hood ;) In seriousness, Finance in no way dictates product decisions directly. Instead, they tell product owners
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by pianoben 4y ago
Western music notation originated in religious vocal scores, at a time when church music was largely homophonic (just one melody). As melody is linear through time, using the horizontal axis to denote time makes a lot of sense - just like
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by pianoben 4y ago
As an idiom "casually used her connections" can mean "without due consideration" or "without compunction". It implies that "using her connections" was an easy and simple choice for her, as opposed to
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by pianoben 4y ago
I haven't gone there since I was a child; I'm 40 and live in another state now. I understand that they have a web site - maybe they have that info there!
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by pianoben 4y ago
I grew up attending an explicitly irreligious "church" which provided stimulation, moral instruction, community - all the things about church that really matter to one's life, but minus dogma. Maybe you could find something
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by pianoben 4y ago
Yep, you're absolutely correct. Services are where the money comes from these days, and Satya et al show with their actions that they consider the Windows value prop to be as a sales driver for those services. It's simplicity its
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by pianoben 4y ago
For what it's worth, a ton of people inside of MSFT are opposed to these changes. The few responsible for them are answering to overwhelming pressure from the Finance side. Every time something like this ships out, guaranteed just a
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by pianoben 4y ago
Wow, the before-and-after pictures of some Asian cities (Shenzhen, Singapore, Hong Kong) are arresting. Hong Kong in 1967 looks so idyllic and clean! The pollution in the "now" photo is heartbreaking.
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by pianoben 4y ago
Having done in-depth work both with JNI and with cgo, I don't agree that Go is without "funny business". Indeed, cgo leaves a lot to be desired IMO, especially if you with to distribute a library for other projects to cons
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by pianoben 4y ago
Yeah, it's a high bar to clear, but they didn't have to include that in the proposition. If they hadn't, then legislature would be entirely unable to modify it . Think about that before getting all fired up about 7/8
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by pianoben 4y ago
Cache the file contents, perhaps? Isolate actual file I/O to dedicated threads and vend reads and writes from it? Buffer writes in-memory, only flushing at some interval or when the buffer fills up? Use a DB server and not raw files
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by pianoben 4y ago
My go-to Android interview question for years was simply, "Tell me your pain". A developer with any experience would be overflowing with angst about the platform and it was a really good way to gauge their ability.

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