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by rpeden 6y ago
Sometimes fun is the only meaning you need! I think this is definitely in keeping with the hacker spirit and belongs on the front page for that reason alone.
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by rpeden 6y ago
Not all homes are houses! I've known few people in Toronto who live in single-room apartments with floor plans similar to this: https://thecrossways.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Floorpla...
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by rpeden 6y ago
Alibaba hadn't gone public yet when these slides were made, though, so had Softbank actually gotten any return on that investment yet?
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by rpeden 6y ago
For the importing from URLs issue you mentioned, it would be good to ask Golang developers they’ve encountered the kind of technical debt you’re concerned about. I’ve done some Go development, but not enough to really call myself a Go devel
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by rpeden 6y ago
This might seem like a dumb question, but is it possible that "not even charging that much" leads to "can't seem to get taken seriously"? The reason I ask is that over the years, I've been on both the buying an
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by rpeden 6y ago
Email over ARPANET and the internet predates the web by a couple of decades. The way we use email hasn't really changed that much since the 70s.
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by rpeden 6y ago
Or by just using Flash. I never did it myself. I know there are plenty of reasons to dislike flash. And I know plenty of people absolutely hated sites created solely using Flash. But I have to admit I enjoyed the creativity I saw on many
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by rpeden 6y ago
At least some of the Halo games used Orleans as part of the multiplayer backend: https://github.com/dotnet/orleans Orleans can run on .NET Core now, but I don't believe .NET Core existed when those backends were f
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by rpeden 6y ago
As an example: https://youtu.be/CUQ2nmKNH3Y?t=79 Plenty of Galaxies, Excelsiors, and Mirandas (or maybe variants like Soyuz) flying around.
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by rpeden 6y ago
> In fact, no coronavirus to date has had a vaccine developed for it. A small nitpick that doesn't take away from your overall point, just mentioning it because it's interesting: we've developed two widely-used coronavirus
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by rpeden 6y ago
With Udemy, keep in mind that most people will have purchased the course for about $10, and not whatever shows up as the list price. That doesn't mean the course creators aren't still doing well. Just that there's almost alwa
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by rpeden 6y ago
Wouldn't WordPress with a couple of plugins solve the content with a paywall problem in about 15 minutes? I'm not asking that flippantly. And I know there are plenty of reasons not to use WP, so I apologize if this is a dumb quest
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by rpeden 6y ago
I think you have several points working in your favor. A big one is that you can do more than just code. You've planned and delivered projects that solve business problems. Even if you don't consider yourself a project manager, th
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by rpeden 7y ago
Diesels like this trend to produce relatively low horsepower, but lots of torque. As a comparison, here's a modern 11L diesel: https://www.macktrucks.com/powertrain-and-suspensions/engine... You'll notice tha
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by rpeden 7y ago
Migrating old emails over to a new client might be non-trivial. My grandfather has many years of emails and attachments stored in Incredimail - some of whom have passed away, so he'd really like to keep these emails. I've backed u
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by rpeden 7y ago
You might like Elm if you're looking to do a fun web project and you enjoy MLish syntax.
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by rpeden 7y ago
Are you thinking of the Phoebus Cartel? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel I suppose it's accurate to call it a conspiracy since they literally conspired to divvy up markets and set predetermined bulb
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by rpeden 7y ago
Since the common cold is caused by coronaviruses a decent chunk of the time, I'm not sure it's even inaccurate for someone with a non-severe case of covid-19 to conclude that they have a cold. Maybe that's the tricky part tha
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by rpeden 7y ago
The F# version doesn't really implement Amb either. It's similar to the PureBasic and Rust versions in that it can only work on sequences by checking that the last item in sequence #1 is the same as the first thing in sequence #2.
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by rpeden 7y ago
The first two C# solutions come closer to actually implementing Amb, though. The Purebasic solution depends on the operands being strings, and the F# solution depends on them being sequences. And the way that the 'Ambassert' works
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by rpeden 7y ago
Your solution is more concise and I like the way it reads, but I'm not sure it actually fulfills the problem definition: As the page explains: The goal of this task isn't to simply process the four lists of words with explicit, d
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by rpeden 7y ago
It is, and it's even mentioned and linked to in the article.
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by rpeden 7y ago
Plenty of companies develop desktop software for internal use. They built it, update it, and use it heavily but never sell it. I'm not sure how many of these fall into Qt's startup/small business category, though. It seems li
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by rpeden 7y ago
The latest version of Visual COBOL[1] supports .NET Core. And I believe you can extend C# classes in COBOL. So you might just be able to write an entire ASP.NET Core application in COBOL. Whether you'd want to is another question rntir
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by rpeden 7y ago
Sorry for the slow reply. Most of what I've done has been for clients that want to document how to accomplish something specific with a company's library or API. Usually this ends up being 1200-1500 words including detailed instru
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by rpeden 7y ago
I actually did some paid technical writing on the side in 2019 on top of my full time job as a developer. It helped a lot that the company I work for started a technical content agency as a new division of the company and was okay with me d
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by rpeden 7y ago
"Sand won't save you this time" is another great read from the series: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sa...
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by rpeden 7y ago
It might just be that the people in their target market are willing to pay that price. The price doesn't need to be tied very directly to production costs.
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by rpeden 7y ago
I think C# (and VB) had it before Rust. My memory of the timeline might be a bit off, though. I know C# and VB got the chaining operator in 2015.
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by rpeden 7y ago
We already sort of do. Qt officially supports wasm and renders to a canvas element: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_WebAssembly And if you wanted to build your own wasm + canvas GUI toolkit, CanvasKit might be a good place to sta

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