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by ralmidani 3y ago
After overdraft fees, probably the most egregious abuse of fees I’ve seen is being forced to pay an “online course fee” on top of university tuition. It made sense when online education was in its infancy, but these days it’s much, much che
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I know, I just thought it was a decent pun.
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by ralmidani 3y ago
A sibling addresses the nuance expressed in “for new languages”. But even if the original author’s opinion was that gradual typing is always bad, why does that mean we should dismiss the Elixir team’s efforts? I have opinions about Elixir,
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Move fast and break things that move fast… I don’t really like or trust most (if not all) of the established automakers, but there is something to be said for having several decades (over a century in some cases) of experience building pote
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I’m not able to make a page look nice (or even decent) without a CSS framework. But I think I’m at least OK at understanding how to make the interactions and workflows follow the “Principle of Least Astonishment”. In other words, I’m not sc
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Maybe I’ve already drunk the koolaid, but if I end up building a new app from scratch, I would really like to experiment with something similar to what the author describes: Django for most (if not all) of the server-side code, Django templ
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by ralmidani 3y ago
You’re free to adopt whichever perspective you prefer. But Free Software is always Open Source. That’s an objective fact.
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Free Software and Open Source are essentially the same thing, just looked at from different angles. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.... “In practice, open source stands for criteria a little
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by ralmidani 3y ago
It’s awkward to ask people to assign everything to you in a way that makes you the only entity that can sell AGPL exceptions. If contributors are paid for their contributions that would be awesome, but it’s not clear that they are.
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I’m never inclined to believe them; there’s enough historical record to construe any Microsoft action as malicious, until proven otherwise.
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Doesn’t Microsoft only make Windows 11 “free” if you’ve already paid for a Windows license previously? That means they benefit when you buy a whole new machine. Furthermore, Microsoft makes money from ads, so a more intrusive UI along with
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Severe but temporary punishment is more humane and more effective than life in prison. I believe this idea applies to tech as well as criminal justice. We should actually welcome Microsoft’s increasingly anti-freedom, anti-consumer, anti-en
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Ironically, these days PHP has its act together - look at Laravel - better than most of the JS ecosystem does. I don’t mind JS as a core language. Web Browser APIs are pretty awesome (with a few notable exceptions like IndexedDB). But the N
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Is this a reference to a literary work I’m not aware of?
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I checked for cod.ing and they said it was available. I got my hopes up and went to Godaddy. It costs over $38,000. I guess in some ways that’s good because the purchaser would more likely be someone who wants to launch a legit business or
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I read GP as saying they intentionally make the UX dysfunction for actually features (e.g. privacy settings, finding the “most recent” feed - I didn’t even bother to look for that one recently), and only optimize for eyeballs on the main fe
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Be careful what you wish for. Repealing copyright without also making DRM and EULAs illegal would probably do more harm than good.
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Location: “Columbus, OH” Remote: :true Willing to relocate: if days_in_office <= 3 Technologies: I am strongest in Elixir, Ecto, Phoenix, and LiveView, and have some exposure to Absinthe. I also have experience in Python, Django, and Dja
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Beware of Dragons: A Distributed Systems Adventure(kevinavignon.com)
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I hear about it, but I have no first-hand experience with how terrible Windows installation has become. I do have the privilege of being a developer who doesn’t need anything Windows-specific. Another irony is that most folks who are making
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by ralmidani 3y ago
You’re right, except you had to install it for her. Viability and practicality mean people who aren't devs or power users can install the OS and update/upgrade by themselves.
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by ralmidani 3y ago
For me the target is “GNU/Linux is viable and practical for the average user”, not “GNU/Linux has 30% market share”. I haven’t tried System 76 so I don’t know much about GNU/Linux outside the Framework line, but upgradeable g
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by ralmidani 3y ago
The peripherals don’t “malfunction” in the strict sense, they’re just not good. To their credit, the mic and cam do have hard kill switches. Also, the built-in fingerprint reader works great on Ubuntu and Fedora (Fedora even has it integrat
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I don’t have experience with GNU/Linux going back that far, but even since 2014 (when I got started with Ubuntu), I’ve seen things get much, much better. These days my personal and professional daily drivers are, respectively, a 2021 a
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I’ve built toy apps with Ruby/Rails and larger apps with Python/Django. Honestly, I like Django more for its less magical approach, ORM with automatically generated migrations for common cases, and great ecosystem (check out Djang
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Thanks! Fixed.
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I agree with the drug analogies. I bought Diablo in 1996, I stayed up about 40 hours playing it. To the point that I started to literally hallucinate and click on things that weren’t actually there. I downloaded the relatively new iOS Diabl
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I don’t want to trivialize the amount of work that goes into airbags, electrical infrastructure, or plumbing. However, the human body is much more complicated. Would you trust the life of a loved one who, God forbid, has cancer or needs sur
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by ralmidani 3y ago
I looked for a credible source for this claim. Hospitals say they’re losing money on residencies but there doesn’t appear to be an easy way to verify this. What if the federal government is falling for/complicit in a big lie (wouldn’t
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by ralmidani 3y ago
Medical school is education, and in the US it’s astronomically expensive (some people graduate with half a million dollars of debt). Residency is more like on-the-job training (a hospital still makes money when a resident sees and treats yo

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