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by pianoben 5y ago
I'm with you. Despite the verbosity of the NS/Cocoa/etc APIs, Objective-C is a small, flexible, and unambiguous language. It performs very well at runtime, and is amazingly quick to compile. With version 2.0 and ARC, it bec
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by pianoben 5y ago
> You likely won’t hear of this event via the mainstream media. I very much doubt they’ll even inform you if the volcano actually blew its top. And that’s because the MSM’s aim is not to keep you informed, or to give you a heads-up reg
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by pianoben 5y ago
It sounds like the three defendants are also cooperating with ongoing investigations; that would certainly play a role in the terms of the deal, if so.
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by pianoben 5y ago
Speaking as a C++ person - you're right that this doesn't _do_ much, but nevertheless this is still a significant effort. This kind of groundwork is _work_, and opens lots of doors for future improvements. That said, there are de
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by pianoben 5y ago
You'd better believe it! I made a calendar reminder just for the occasion.
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by pianoben 5y ago
I haven't looked forward so much to a piece of hardware since the iPhone came out! Everything about it is just _cool_. Playdate promises to let me - play a season of games, which is a nice way to get out of my usual genre rut - _writ
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by pianoben 5y ago
This link works for me: https://elmtown.simplecast.com/episodes/it-just-goes-on-and-...
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by pianoben 5y ago
They have, as far as I can tell. Last month I tried to set up a new 1PW installation and exhaustively searched through the app menus - no sign of standalone vault support anywhere. It's possible that it was hidden because I had previo
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by pianoben 5y ago
My most favorite shell alias is `gap`: alias gap="git add -p" Probably SourceTree makes this workflow better (git add -p is a forward-only workflow, so you can't glance up and down a file, for example), but it's
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by pianoben 5y ago
I just want to say that this website is beautiful . It's visually pleasing and spare. The HTML is purely semantic, and the CSS is no more than necessary. To me, this is an ideal web page. Hats off to the author!
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by pianoben 5y ago
FAANG is so constituted because at the time, all of those stocks were massively outperforming expectations, and the market in general. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/faang-stocks.asp
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by pianoben 5y ago
Basically, yeah. There's no expectation of permanence like there is with social media. Recording/transcribing and publishing would be a gross violation of trust. Someone could point a directional microphone at you in the park, t
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by pianoben 5y ago
Anecdotally, most of my interactions with friends has moved offline. I wonder whether that's a broader trend, and whether it will be sustainable? Like, in the same way I learned not to post personal stuff on Livejournal (then MySpace
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by pianoben 5y ago
Once upon a time I was a Windows Phone developer, and I can confirm that it was monstrously difficult to write stable software for that platform. Many documented APIs just didn't adhere to their contracts, and you'd only learn by
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by pianoben 5y ago
I put up an "Under Construction" page for an insurance claims processing site at my first internship while I worked on changes to something or other. In production. That didn't stay up for very long :)
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by pianoben 5y ago
You know what would go a long way towards increasing the effectiveness of schools? ...funding them, equitably. Simple as that. Public school funding is derived from local property taxes, so rich areas have good schools and poor areas are
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by pianoben 5y ago
"Vouchers" are effectively tuition money for a school of a parent's choice, funded by the government. They would in theory allow parents to choose the "right" kind of schooling for their child, rather than having t
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by pianoben 5y ago
Personally I got over that long ago; the style itself just irks me to see. I left Facebook to get away from attention-economy junk and am sad to see it show up here.
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by pianoben 5y ago
This headline is like a bad r/nosleep title. Someday, somehow, I hope we move past this dumb clickbait style.
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by pianoben 5y ago
Sure, it shows that you can apply yourself to a task and finish it. That's also what a college degree shows, but at least there you learn something useful. Come to think of it, that's what any stint over a year or two at a compa
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by pianoben 5y ago
That may be so, but part of my gripe with leetcode is that people tend to grind for many months to "get in shape" for job interviews. That's just not reasonable to expect of anyone, let alone those with families or other res
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by pianoben 5y ago
Personally I suck at leetcode questions, but nevertheless have snuck in to some of these so-called "top-tier" companies. And let me tell you! These questions have fuck-all to do with the actual work the happens there. Sure, yo
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by pianoben 5y ago
Someone else covered diving deep and fast and WoR scrolls. The other major notion is to learn and remember what monsters can do. What they're weak to, what they can do to you. Part of the thrill (and the agony, honestly) is when
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by pianoben 5y ago
Dwarf Priest: http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=22553
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by pianoben 5y ago
I played this all through class during sophmore year, then dropped it. Picked it up again last year on my bus commute and FINALLY beat Morgoth. Twenty years it took! I don't think I've ever been so satisfied to finish a game as
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by pianoben 5y ago
I feel like there's been a dramatic shift in sentiment since I started reading HN in 2010/2011 or so. Having lived and worked through the last startup boom, it's easy to see why. Startups as a force in our economy and our cu
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by pianoben 5y ago
> Sometimes I get the feeling WinDev requires Notepad as their IDE When I was involved with Win32 Office, this (or the moral equivalent with VS Code) was often the case. Proper Visual Studio support was kludgy and difficult to maintain,
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by pianoben 6y ago
"Technical Account Manager". An official point of contact for a customer with a vendor, often responsible for some amount of tech support as well as customer-relation management.
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by pianoben 6y ago
It's regrettable, but F# has never seen anything like the kind of support C# and VB.NET have. It was and remains something of a "hobby" product, albeit one that sees lots of use in some specialized industries. Although F#-th
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by pianoben 6y ago
Microsoft has been saying this since before FTA, but nobody seems to have told corporate IT. When I was there (2015-2019), we had to change our passwords every six months.

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