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by sli 8y ago
In a smaller town, "voting with your wallet" is just choosing between Wal-Mart and Amazon. Wal-Mart for many is just a bad, but for different reasons (well, not that different). Either way, you're only getting a choice betw
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by sli 8y ago
Kind of amazing seeing this story right next to the Google Duplex story.
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by sli 8y ago
If you break our build, your pipeline fails and your code is not merged. Simple as that. The master branch doesn't break, because we don't merge broken code into it.
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by sli 8y ago
It seems like it's limited to one update every second. Perhaps it's a limitation of Idyll[1], which was used to make this. Although I'd guess these parts are done in D3. [1]: https://github.com/idyll-lang&#x2F
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by sli 8y ago
Intellisense is already extremely unreliable and prone to breaking for seemingly no reason. I'm not confident that this far more complex version is going to be better.
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by sli 8y ago
There was a short time when Google made Hangouts Chrome-only, but faking the User-Agent would make it load. Turned out, yep, Hangouts worked totally fine in Firefox. They just refused to let me load it and that's it. I don't think
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by sli 8y ago
I remember using older custom ROMs on my Android devices that would differentiate between HSPA+ and 4G in the status bar. That was a really nice feature, but my current ROM on my current phone doesn't do it.
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by sli 8y ago
> ... and foobar2000 on my computer. > I of course could have done this myself, but it was a pain in the ass, and the 5 minutes it took for iTunes to finish its job and close it was almost worth it. I hate to sound contrarian, but the
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by sli 8y ago
> ... so I think it's hard to argue that Apple has somehow screwed up as a business. I don't think anyone was stating this. Merely that their ventures into spaces that typically would be privacy-hostile didn't work out for
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by sli 8y ago
A little Python preprocessor that lets you annotate your lazy modules sounds like a fun little toy project, actually. Not something I'd use for real, but it would be fun to build.
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by sli 8y ago
My biggest issue is similar. My friends and I can hang out together easily, but we don't really just hang out anymore, they always want to go to bars and I'm not really into that.
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by sli 9y ago
> It is very informative to make a an online dating profile of the opposite gender. I'm a man, but when I made an account on tinder with a female friend's pictures I was blown away by just how radically different the experience
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by sli 9y ago
That may be less useful than you think, since the FP versions of many OO design patterns are just functions. The FP design patterns can end up being quite different than the similar OO versions, if you can even call them design patterns. So
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by sli 9y ago
A lot of people are not getting the diversity angle, so I want to call attention to a comment in this thread explaining it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16935683
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by sli 9y ago
> Matrix is intended to be simple enough that you don’t even need an SDK unless you really want one. Huh. So Haskell + Servant might be really nice for writing a client, then, yeah?
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by sli 9y ago
I thought it was determined (well, alleged, with data) that Trump uses an Android device[1]. Has that changed? [1]: http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/
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by sli 9y ago
My biggest issue with Waze is that (in my mind, admittedly) it very blatantly promotes using your phone while driving. Case in point: because the location where a mark goes is based purely on GPS, I can't pass a speed trap and manually
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by sli 9y ago
I see the Windows Subsystem for Linux as the Embrace step, making this the Extend step.
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by sli 9y ago
> Take a look at the issues labeled as [big-bug], ... I'm amazed at the disparity between the number of issues marked [big-bug] (23) and the number of those that are in the big-bug-backlog milestone (4).
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by sli 9y ago
I know this is a joke but just for safety's sake, I want to mention that this would be a bad idea in a modern toaster. The grates close, covering them in melted cheese, and now you have either a ruined toaster or a fire hazard on your
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by sli 9y ago
It's definitely inspired some folks. I recently went to a local event and there was a stand there selling "cheese toast" at $8 a pop. To be clear, it was not a sandwich, they weren't using nice bread (just storebought Te
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by sli 9y ago
> As I've said numerous times before, saying one language is faster than another is pointless. Never thought about it this way but you're right. I could very well write an interpreter for C that's slow as molasses and I&#x
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by sli 9y ago
I still have the issue where MMS seems to just sometimes not work for days or even weeks on end, then suddenly start working again. No OS updates and no APN settings changes in the meantime. Normally it's not an issue, since I don&#x27
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by sli 9y ago
Yeah, same. Hell, as a kid, I'd use GVoice really often just to send texts when I had wifi but no cell signal, or had a device without cell service (like a tablet). Saved me a couple times when I was younger and, say, ran out of toilet
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by sli 9y ago
> I realize that the default attitude of many in tech is that most people don’t know or care about this, but I think they’re wrong. I agree, and I think the actual problem is that a majority of people don't know why they should care
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by sli 9y ago
The metaphor there is trying to gouge/scam someone by pretending like the shininess of a penny is tied to its value. I can't read the article because of the paywall, but I'm a
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by sli 9y ago
Was /r/politics given a vote-hiding feature that other subreddits didn't have? Votes and downvote buttons are typically hidden with custom CSS that users can disable, which would completely invalidate these results. Votes can
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by sli 9y ago
That's already likely illegal. At least riding them on the sidewalk usually is, sometimes parking is allowed (or just ignored).
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by sli 9y ago
I tend to fill this with Telegram voice messages, or would sometimes just go over to a coworker's house and work with them for a while just for the fun of it. But that's not something you can do unless you have remote people who a
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by sli 9y ago
I agree. His marketing almost writes itself. My parents have been shortening my name to "Code" pretty much since I was born. My friends and coworkers tend get a kick out of it when they realize my name can be shortened that way.

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