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by rococode 8y ago
For anyone else who's curious what their standards are, the guidelines seem to be here: http://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#selection_factors I guess they could say it falls under "Already representable&q
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by rococode 8y ago
Right, I think the main issue that memorization solves is that it can look bad if you stumble or pause for too long while you're trying to explain something. While it's not necessary to memorize stuff you write down word-for-word,
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by rococode 8y ago
I have all the Windows security features off usually (defender, firewall) b/c it's a huge pain when they interfere with something I'm working on. When I think something's already wrong, I use Malwarebytes (free version)
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by rococode 8y ago
Not sure this is the right solution, but the problem that has necessitated this seems to be a valid one. As we move towards electric vehicles, gas tax revenue will decrease and things that are currently funded by that money, like road maint
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by rococode 8y ago
YC actually funded a company that does art investments! Arthena, YC W17. Not sure about tax stuff but it's definitely becoming popular as way to make safe investments, given that paintings by well-established (dead) artists don't
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by rococode 8y ago
Oh gosh, he even links an issue where one of the guys who sold the painting (Hugo Caselles-Dupre, hence the username Caselles) literally asks for help setting up. So Hugo asks for help with setup because he can't get it to work, and Ro
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by rococode 8y ago
I'm no git master and after searching around a bit I wasn't able to find a clear answer to this so I'm hoping someone can enlighten me: Say I accidentally push some private info and overwrite the commit with a force push. The
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by rococode 8y ago
I like how the times are unevenly spaced too haha. I'm imagining a bunch of devs sitting at home in their pajamas (Sunday night) talking on Slack as they try to fix the site and every time there's a lull one person's like &qu
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by rococode 8y ago
They've been having some problems with data storage for the past two hours (which probably includes saving new issues). You can check the current status of the site here: https://status.github.com/messages
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Facebook reportedly shopping for a cybersecurity company(cnet.com)
4 points by rococode 8y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 8y ago
> This idea that it's "virtually no way to avoid tainted money" is pretty cynical and self serving, IMO. Perhaps the real intention behind that idea is more like: "you can avoid tainted money but that money may go str
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Halloweenmath [LaTeX package] [pdf](mirror.hmc.edu)
3 points by rococode 8y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 8y ago
I was at a talk last week given by a startup founder and he said something similar that went along these lines: The bigger the company, the smaller your role's coverage. You get well-compensated and aren't worked too hard, but yo
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by rococode 8y ago
That's pretty much exactly what I had in mind! Thanks for sharing :)
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by rococode 8y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/top/ Warning: Pretty creepy stuff and definitely NSFW. Very conspiratorial but it's one of the more evidence-backed conspiracies out there (in that you can do a search o
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by rococode 8y ago
It's really quite unnerving that Google (and Apple) has the potential to destroy any of the numerous mobile-first companies out there with effectively the flick of a switch. An entire company could be shut down, and many jobs ended, ju
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by rococode 8y ago
Here's a somewhat search-related idea I've thought would be useful (almost wanted to build it myself): searching for political news with different viewpoints. For example, if I search "Trump ate a banana", then I get art
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by rococode 8y ago
The reason for using the API is not to "hide" the algorithm, but to prevent mistakes. If you make a mistake in implementing or using an encryption algorithm, it may be easily broken. Encryption algorithms are relatively complex to
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by rococode 8y ago
It's possible that the writer saw your post and was inspired to make his own. It could just be a coincidence. Either way, I think the content between your article and his is different enough that it makes no difference. It's a sim
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by rococode 8y ago
Article on this: https://www.businessinsider.com/who-paid-99-cents-website-th... You have to pay another 99 cents if you want an update after you've seen it once haha
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by rococode 8y ago
I think the issue of affirmative action really comes down to whether people think this is OK or not. The real question is, "is it more right to give privileges to the underprivileged than it is wrong to take away privileges from the pr
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by rococode 8y ago
We just had a giant "get well" card out last week for people to sign for him at UW's CS department (he's donated enough to us that we're named after him, the Paul G. Allen School of CSE). Almost surreal to see that
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by rococode 8y ago
I dropped Linux for Windows with WSL a while ago and I've had no regrets. Just about everything that I use day-to-day works great, and even things that require a graphical display work fine with Xming [1]. For the rare occasions that W
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by rococode 8y ago
It really depends on your budget for context. If you're running a solo side-project where your database costs are $5-15 a month, paying more than double that just for basic support is a big pain. The cost of support for a single servic
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by rococode 8y ago
Rumors are that they've asked game devs to prepare for name changes, so it should be possible in the nearish future! https://kotaku.com/game-developers-say-theyre-preparing-for-...
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by rococode 8y ago
Reddit's /r/entrepreneur has a great selection of posts on this: https://old.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/search?q=shopify&restr... Generally speaking it seems that Shopify is the most popular plat
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by rococode 8y ago
It feels like there are two separate questions here, I'll try to address both: 1. How to remember how code you wrote a long time ago works As you mention, documentation is key. It honestly doesn't have to be super proper docs wher
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by rococode 8y ago
Looks like this has been in experimental mode since around May (as "Gmail Smart Compose"). I only noticed it a couple of days ago so I guess they've decided it's ready to roll out to production! It's surprisingly qu
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The Matrix Cookbook [pdf](math.uwaterloo.ca)
5 points by rococode 8y ago|0 comments
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Facebook faces potential $1.63B fine in Europe over recent data breach(wsj.com)
3 points by rococode 8y ago|0 comments

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