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The tech CEO who spent $250,000 trying to live for ever(theguardian.com)
7 points by rounce 8y ago|1 comments
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by rounce 8y ago
Totally unrelated to the article's content but is Refactor now part of common english?
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by rounce 8y ago
I read it and thought you were referring to something related to some proptype based code completion. The use of 'hinting' threw me off completely, especially when you're talking about checking & validating .
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by rounce 8y ago
Perhaps it reflects employee turnover rather than the company size.
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by rounce 8y ago
You should do, it was a joke.
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by rounce 8y ago
Or even some JS bundle sizes.
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by rounce 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if a large part of Vim's current popularity stems from EDITOR=vim by default on many distros, despite often having emacs and always including nano. Even over a decade ago when I was in my early teens this s
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by rounce 8y ago
Only problem with that is when the other uses the rights you have afforded them to either infringe or incite infringement upon your freedoms.
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by rounce 8y ago
An explanation here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#Output_padding
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by rounce 8y ago
By making it roughly 1/3 larger?
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by rounce 8y ago
Just took .284s to re-compile a Rust (stdweb) app targeting WASM. And well over 2 seconds for Webpack to deal with (just) bundling 6 JS files and the .wasm file.
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by rounce 8y ago
> I’m pretty sensitive to UX but this has never been a problem for me. > I find it extremely fascinating that some people actually have to look for a scroll bar or clipped content (spoon fed) in order to scroll down. This demonstrates
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by rounce 8y ago
Same would likely happen if fed exclusively on cow's milk. Baby formula is fortified with fats, carbs, vitamins and minerals for a reason.
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by rounce 8y ago
Hi Jeff!
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by rounce 8y ago
> Would it be feasible to have homes use that material (properly shielded) (Technically,) Yes. > without being a threat to national security and safety? No
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by rounce 8y ago
Words also inform context (bi-directional), symbols derive their meaning entirely from context.
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by rounce 8y ago
The smallest unit being a ha'penny bit.
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by rounce 8y ago
Thanks for this list and I'm full agreement. Chrome developer tools will do all of these except > * Record execution history and state so you can debug after the fact for hard non reproducible bugs. ^ Which would frankly be awesome.
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by rounce 8y ago
But your 'outsider' is actually a temporal insider, and has nothing of the perspective that is lent by time.
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by rounce 8y ago
What are the criteria that define whether a debugger is 'proper' or not?
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by rounce 8y ago
It means that the price cannot be meaningfully quantified en masse, the price is set at the moment of purchase. Art is a good example of this as it generally has no immediate utility, and even it cultural significance is created less by the
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by rounce 8y ago
As a teen I managed to 'rescue' 1000's of £/$'s worth of graphics cards from eBay listed as spares/repair with this method. I recall this working about half the time; then again at least 3/10 cards from eB
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by rounce 8y ago
> " Atari’s Arcade Pong PCB contained 66 IC’s. Gates and flip flops of every kind, a pair of 555 timer IC’s and a few transistors. It was simply hard wired TTL logic and predates microprocessor and software controlled video games. &
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by rounce 8y ago
> WASM is a compilation target. Like the VM in the Flash runtime that runs ActionScript bytecode. Part of the GP's point still stands regarding MagicBlob™s. That said, it does differ (massively) in that it doesn't cast the spel
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by rounce 8y ago
Cool tool. Would be great if it was also able to load and manage sections of existing Webpack configs.
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by rounce 8y ago
Sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apples_and_oranges
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by rounce 8y ago
Your comparison is broken. You may as well compare apples to oranges, with the difference being potatoes.
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by rounce 8y ago
The difference being that Make is actually usable. For the silent down-voters: Tell me why the above statement is not true.
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by rounce 8y ago
We've all see this meme, it just perpetuates falsehoods about brutalism. However, it pretty much nails (maybe not intentionally) the increasingly common misguided discussion of it.
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by rounce 8y ago
Regardless, it's a postrationalisation (or retranslation, perhaps?) by British architects to force some sort of etymological ancestry into the name of the 'movement' they decided to champion.

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