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by pluc 4y ago
I remember the short url craze - bitly alternatives were everywhere (even @ the G[1]!) and creating one was basically the Hello World of programming for a time. Real shame how it went from convenience tool (and largely coupled with microblo
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by pluc 4y ago
It was called a guestbook before that
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by pluc 4y ago
As everyone says, time. With time, programming languages become like speech since they use the same area of the brain [1] [1] https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-language-brain-scans-...
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by pluc 4y ago
That code is so bad. Who does this?! return ($this->head === 0 && $this->tail === $this->size - 1) || $this->head === $this->tail + 1; Or this? $return = $this->next?->resetPrevious(); Or thi
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by pluc 4y ago
You're failing to account for all the "buy one we plant a tree // for every N$ spent we'll plant a tree" promotions finally coming to fruition
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by pluc 4y ago
Drinking and driving is banned.
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by pluc 4y ago
People know this they just have more common sense than a wet rock
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by pluc 4y ago
Each of your kidneys are on a train, one going 88 mph heading from east to west and another going 103 mph heading west to east
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by pluc 4y ago
You could say the same about virtually all marketing. A product should let its product speak. Marketing is the art of shoving a sub-par product down users throats despite better alternatives existing.
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by pluc 4y ago
Crypto techs don't understand crypto tech - story at 11
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by pluc 4y ago
People are assholes and you can't expect them to do what you see as the right thing. Welcome to the Internet!
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by pluc 4y ago
You do if you want to autocomplete your email address in fields I guess, but I agree it isn't a very good reason for an extension. It's one of those convenience extension that, would it be made by any other company, I'd be ve
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by pluc 4y ago
Feels like it tries to solve the same problems as Mozilla Relay [1] (they call it Firefox Relay, but the addresses are @mozmail.com soooo) except Mozilla lets you attribute specific aliases for things. 1 https://relay.firefox.com
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by pluc 4y ago
> Email Protection requires the DuckDuckGo extension in this browser. well, that's cool I guess
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by pluc 4y ago
Print as PDF + yt-dlp
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by pluc 4y ago
wait wait wait... are you saying that having an executable at ~/bin/git-co-commit will automatically create `git co-commit`? Wouldn't it merely create a 'git-co-commit' command you can access as that user as long as
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by pluc 4y ago
"An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management" by Will Larson also draws from the author's experience at Stripe (among others, and is published by Stripe itself [1]). I guess you can choose to see it as "there ar
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by pluc 4y ago
all that does for me is remind me of the PageRank-induced farming for backlinks, doesn't make it look more credible (which is what this particular author tries to do).
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by pluc 4y ago
"I don't like WFH so you shouldn't either" If you have no discipline and no motivation, remote work is not for you. You have to make efforts to have social interactions, get out of the house, draw a line in the sand betw
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by pluc 4y ago
Chrome doesn't do this though, its translation requests are just sent to Google Translate for processing (which obviously includes the data you want to translate). This is offline and thus more private. It might be a little challenging
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by pluc 4y ago
I thought it was Bergamot? https://browser.mt/
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by pluc 4y ago
We have a province called Nova Scotia up here. In its French translation, the latin gets lost and it's just literally New Scotland.
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by pluc 4y ago
Fake it until you make it. If anyone catches you, tell them you're building a career model.
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by pluc 4y ago
That was a big worry back then when you could nuke/portscan people with only their IPs. It's not so much nowadays and chances are when you see your hostname unobfuscated, you're the only one that does so (/whois other pe
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by pluc 4y ago
I always get a kick out of seeing the HN Who's Hiring thread and searching for "PHP". Results in actual job requirements are rare, but most URLs people link all end with .php. It's such a funny double-standard.
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by pluc 4y ago
Isn't that common sense? Public transit takes you everywhere and where you need to go. Driving just takes you where you need to go.
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by pluc 4y ago
When it's not that... my dealer tried to upsell some tag protection system... but that's just an excuse for a geolocation harvest racket [1]. You just can't trust anyone today not to abuse their convenience service. [1] http
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by pluc 4y ago
You're wrong on all counts.
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by pluc 4y ago
I went down that rabbit hole too prior to seeing your comment and I was pretty surprised that the french meaning seems to have evolved exactly the same way the english one did https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperluette#%
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by pluc 4y ago
I went down this road in the last few months because spending 800$ on a fucking phone drives me insane. There is not a good dumb phone. I bought a few and they all had network connectivity or clarity issues. We're being slowly forced i

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