stephen82

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by stephen82 6y ago
I won't talk about the headless part, but I will talk about WordPress based on my own experience. It really depends how you use it, WordPress that is. If your website needs to expand at areas where a vanilla version of WP would not suf
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by stephen82 6y ago
OK, seriously now...first Canon, now Adobe? Am I missing something here, what's going on?!
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by stephen82 6y ago
> "Under the Illinois law, Facebook could be forced to pay $1,000 to $5,000 per violation, meaning the full damages could reach $500 billion if Facebook is found responsible."
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Ask HN: A kind request please about the use of acronyms?
5 points by stephen82 6y ago|3 comments
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by stephen82 6y ago
If I had to stick with technology, I would have forced myself to master either of one of the following programming languages, that is C++ or Java. After all these years, here I am trying to master my craft (in web development), because this
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by stephen82 6y ago
Can we have a blog with your programming / life adventures? Also, it would be wise to name it "genedangelo in byteland" haha! ^_^
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by stephen82 6y ago
Did you mean whether browsers use it or not? If that is the case, if not all, the majority of them already use it for ages now; else, please clarify what you mean.
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by stephen82 6y ago
Yes, those were the days...every once in a while, I visit https://kolibrios.org/en/screen to get nostalgic. Indeed standards have slipped or better say have been sacrificed at the altar of "quantity over quality&q
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by stephen82 6y ago
On my GNU / Debian testing 64-bit, with 10 tabs opened it consumed 31 MiB of RAM and my CPU pushed itself to reach 0.75% at its busiest processing during typing. To me this is simply mind-blowing.
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by stephen82 7y ago
D language lets you define your template(s) in the following format: auto add(T)(T lhs, T rhs) { return lhs + rhs; } and to instantiate it you do the following: add!int(5, 10); add!float(5.0f, 10.0f); &#x2
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by stephen82 7y ago
...so you know better Greek than me, which is my native language; fascinating!
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by stephen82 7y ago
> Dinosaur literally means terrible lizard, but they aren't lizards nor necessarily terrible. Em...no. it means "mighty" in the sense of "power beyond limits".
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by stephen82 7y ago
He did not retire; he is still quite active and improving LuaJIT [1]. [1] https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/tree/v2.1
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by stephen82 7y ago
Exactly! https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/03/16/0137200/windows-su...
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by stephen82 7y ago
Those who are curious about why use Fossil SCM is this: You can carry it with you in the form of a .fossil file which is a portable database (SQLite). I should start using Fossil more; seems like things are getting out of hand in an implici
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by stephen82 7y ago
The best thing that could have happened to you is to get interviewed in C (!!!) when then position is supposedly for C++, and eventually you learned from people that worked for that company, that they just wanted a WordPress webmaster LOL!
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by stephen82 7y ago
For some reason, it reminded me of Kirix Strata [1]...well, it feels like it in a way. https://www.kirix.com/
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by stephen82 7y ago
Seems like the reason is so it can maintain data integrity, like an explicit "in order" mechanism.
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by stephen82 7y ago
They are working on it; please check for 'begin-concurrent' and 'wal2' branch names here https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/brlist
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by stephen82 7y ago
My advise is rather simple: start consulting startup candidates based on your extensive experience. You are basically helping them avoid the hurdles you came across through your 11+ years of professional experience and you are pretty much g
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by stephen82 7y ago
My 2020 vision has nothing to do with technology, but more on a personal goal: to become a better version of my current self. I have lots of things I want to improve and those things will eventually influence the way I think about problem s
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by stephen82 7y ago
Bingo! :)
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by stephen82 7y ago
I see what you did there...well played even if it were unintentionally ^_^ haha!
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by stephen82 7y ago
I thought I added it; good catch +1
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by stephen82 7y ago
...and cPanel craigslist (https://www.craigslist.org/about/thanks) imdb (https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/what-software-are-you-using-to-run-imdb/GH2
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by stephen82 7y ago
Last time I check they required lots of things that have to do with web scraping and data mining. So, I doubt they do one thing only :/
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Ask HN: Hired to do one thing and one thing only around tech?
1 points by stephen82 7y ago|2 comments
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by stephen82 7y ago
Companies, businesses, and people in general tend to use the right tool for the right job. In author's case, it was rather simple I would say: they have acquired an extensive experience in D language and saw its potential by switching
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by stephen82 7y ago
Those who claim PHP is dead should bookmark this link[1] and pay a visit every week or so for the sake of ranting...and decide how "dead" this language is! Also not a single language becomes dead, at least in programming; it just
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by stephen82 7y ago
Slide 23 hides code in Firefox whereas in Chromium works as expected. Also footer notes or links are extremely tiny that cannot be read. Other than that, an amazing presentation. Kudos +1

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