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Of course, the Perl 5/6 soap opera was not the reason for jumping the ship. 10 years ago RIA platforms were the rage (Silverlight, Flex). By this time I was working in operations but willing to switch career to software development. Fi
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I'm one that moved to Python and don't want to look back. It is not that Python is easier read (I would say it is less noisy) but it is almost impossible to write your own "DSL" like you can do with Perl or Ruby. YMMV bu
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In Brazil they are forbidden by regulation to take money directly for prescribing stuff but pharmaceutical companies are allowed to sponsor their trip for a medical conference in Hawai and other subtle bribery. How they know who deserves th
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Although many regimen in South America labeled themselves as Socialists in the last decade, they were more Populist soft-dictatorships. They worked by swelling up the state with a massive patronage system and punishing any opposition (like
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Headless browsers are used to create robots in order to automate the gaming of web-based value systems - thus diluting the value for legitimate participants. Examples: * create fake profiles in order to boost someone's "followers&
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From wikipedia: > Some communications equipment manufacturers designed unnecessarily large buffers into some of their network products. In such equipment, bufferbloat occurs when a network link becomes congested, causing packets to becom
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Set up any system with money rewards and people will game it.
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Canabis Sativa is from hotter climates but Canabis Indica is from colder places. The best strands are hybrids that try to select the best properties from each natural variety.
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Not too hard to understand for someone familiar with Brazilian Portuguese where this would be "Ele toda hora busca sarna pra se coçar". Literally meaning "He constantly seeks mange to scratch himself" - a popular saying
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Portuguese is rooted in Latin so it uses the Latin alphabet, the parent was concerned about other alphabets. Off course there are the accented characters but those are just transliterated to ASCII. Even when the language accepts unicode ide
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Like almost all problems in life you have only 4 options: #1 Change you (accept what you are unable to change) #2 Change the other (convince them to follow your vision) #3 Fly (divorce, quit) #4 Stay and suffer (include drinking, doing drug
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A couple weeks ago a startup pitched blockchain solutions for government problems (I work at a government agency in Brazil). The presentation sounded like Scientology, lots of circular arguments and bold claims without much substance. I ask
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If I'm not mistaken this is found only in the book by the apostole who was a tax collector for Caesar. :-)
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In young males like you this condition is quite rare unless you are an astronaut, isn't it? (edit: assuming you are male, sorry if mistaken)
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In the office most programmers and designers use dark themes, but in fact they are more straining than light themes because your eyes do more work adjusting for seeing little bright things in the dark than for seeing little dark things in t
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My typical use case doesn't need native apps - a PWA is good enough for me. I will not comment on speculation about the compile-to-native feature because personally it is irrelevant. I can say that as you I prefer Vue over React and so
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Ideas are always priced in hindsight - you can't say it is a billion dollar idea until a business is built around it. For all practical purposes there are no billion dollar ideas, just billion dollar business.
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I don't see a conflict between loops, list comprehensions and other shortcuts - use the syntax sugar where it makes the code simpler/easier to read, otherwise stick to plain loops. My own rules for "list/dict comprehens
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It is debatable if it is unethical given the license but it is definitely a disservice for the community.
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I did not know this one but always rated the builtin terminal app very low. ITerm2 seems to be a better mac citizen.
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Personally the most annoying thing is the little UI inconsistencies like clipboard handling. In a mac it is always Command-C/Command-V - in X sometimes it is Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V, Ctrl+Ins/Shit+Ins, mouse-select/mouse-middle-cl
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Python is very hackable. Some time ago I answered a couple questions about how to implement a "pipe" operator in Python at stackoverflow: * “Piping” output from one function to another using Python infix syntax[1] * How can I crea
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By your own argument, animations != accessibility. Animations MAY be a matter of accessibility for some people and an accessibility problem for others - real accessibility would be making it optional instead of the default.
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I guess you must be from some country were there are no safe bike lanes and everybody is supposed to drive a car. Most of my commute is a 10 mile bike lane along a river. No pedestrians, no cars, no crossings, eyesight of a mile back and fo
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I have the privilege of working at a beautiful University campus and being able to get there by bicycle. In the 45 minutes it takes for me to complete the 7 miles of the bicycle lane along the Pinheiros river I like to hear audiobooks and p
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I could not make it work on a mac. It almost works but looks like there is no mac package for xeus-cling at the conda repos. Tried also to clone the github repo and compile locally but got tired of fixing dependencies and stuff after a few
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Netflix email campaign for the Punisher show
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From the famous poster hanging on Facebook's office: "Done is better than perfect".
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This is sarcasm, right? (dozen apps already listening the mic in our pockets).
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I'm trying to read all novels that won the Nebula Awards[1]. There is also the Hugo Awards[2]. [1] https://nebulas.sfwa.org/ [2] http://www.thehugoawards.org/

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