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by reidjs 5y ago
> They're definitely abstractions, but they are used to reveal and illuminate a program's structure, not to hide it in a black box. In my mind, abstractions are used to reveal the program's interface and intent more than i
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by reidjs 5y ago
This is a whiney rant that boils down to “what’s wrong with kids nowadays? Things were so much better back in my day.”
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I wonder if there is some hidden value to fashion trends. There are obvious reasons to wear clothes like you mentioned, to stay warm, protect from elements, carry your wallet, etc. but it also helps you identify in group/out group. You
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bless is also a unix tool https://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/8/BLESS/
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I'm a little bit confused by the wording "This happens transparently to the user," I assume they mean that the user is unaware of this workaround? Or do they mean it's obvious how it works (transparent) to the user?
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Oh maybe it does work then. I assumed it didn’t follow links because they didn’t show it in the video.
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Unfortunately that won't allow you to click links in your offline version. you can do this properly with wget: (sorry I don't know how to do code formatting in hackernews) wget --mirror \ --convert-links \
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Tactic 0, smile and say hi to yourself in the mirror 100x to build up the confidence to do it to someone else
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Without a doubt
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I think the question is would you rather have a shared floor bathroom with no kitchen or live on the street. If the room is free, sure I'll take the room, but if the room has a price and I have no income, I might take the street and sa
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I sort of misread the post, I meant to respond to why markdown/plaintext instead of Apple Notes or Google Keep. I found it more difficult to automate the task using Apple Notes' sqlite DB than markdown/plaintext files sync&#x
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In addition to what the other posters mentioned, markdown/plaintext is easier to work with for automation tasks. For example I schedule tweets through markdown files https://github.com/reidjs/markdown-tweet-schedul
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Neither of those apps do markdown, which I NEED, so I pay for a markdown note app
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In my experience people with a lot of material worth tend to be the least generous. Of course there are exceptions on both sides.
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I agree with most of what you wrote, but disagree with the part about programming not being a craft, or that algorithms are not useful to understand. There is definitely a great deal of skill involved and certain parts of it can be mastered
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Nope
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As someone who leans frontend, I find firebase and serverless (somebody else’s server) solutions really powerful for prototyping an idea or building a proof of concept. You can get something in front of your users tomorrow. I would second
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Garbage in/Garbage out if you load it with material from r/jokes. From what I can tell, there’s not a great corpus of funny text (e.g., Carlin, Murphy, Pryor etc). And to capture their nuance you’d probably need more than just tr
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what’s a speech coach?
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One thing you used to be able to do on Instagram is mute everyone you follow and only view people’s profiles when you feel like it. Unfortunately they changed the frontend so now it will endless scroll posts from people you don’t know, whic
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One way to interpret welfare is the government paying off people who have no capacity to be productive from interfering with people who are productive. If the needy did not get “free money” they would have to resort to crime, which negative
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An interesting idea for a sci fi novel.
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When I hear about something being much more expensive in the states, I assume it has to do with our litigious nature and everyone is afraid of taking on liability. But this is outside my expertise ;)
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Sure I’ll send you an email today
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Not super tech focused at the moment, but I'm trying to start a surf community in the bay area. Main reason is that sometimes it can be tough to find a ride share to the beach and also to share surf conditions at diff. places (cameras
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They might mean that it's on both parties to make the 1:1 effective.
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"I have nothing to hide"
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That part of GQL drives me nuts. How the heck do people do error handling on the frontend with API requests through GQL? Instead of `try catch`, do you do `if (response.error) {}`?
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Maybe second brain is a misnomer. I rarely check old notes. Main value to me is lower friction to start writing and I spend more time reflecting. Keeping a daily log (ironically) improves my memory of what's happening lately. For me it
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Maybe, but that will take many decades

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