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by stnmtn 5y ago
> This will be easy to remember. Lots of 3's." I looked at him for a moment puzzling his response. He says, "2745, lots of 3s." I cannot for the life of me figure out what he means by this
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by stnmtn 5y ago
I actually was just running into this problem this week, but on Kindle/eReaders. The solution I found was getting a out-of-state library card to a big city library ($50 a year) and borrowing books. The library also has all the manga th
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by stnmtn 5y ago
What are some examples of great-looking QT applications?
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CircleCI has had multiple outages for us this past week, causing a lot of frustration.
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Where you able to collaborate in real time, easily share mock ups that are editable with people who care, etc? Yes, of course you could do all these these things in the 80s, but the added features today are far beyond what was possible then
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by stnmtn 5y ago
Your case here feels wrong. The goal is shipping something that provides value and can have features added to it at a pace customers expect, fixing bugs quickly, etc. Having a separate UI layer and needing domain knowledge for every single
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I mean, the other example of not all art can be accessible to everyone is film and people who are blind.
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It's even better because, Rogan and Dr Seuss are still there and nothing really bad happened to them at all. This person you're replying to is acting like they're a crusader of truth against evil when all it is is people have
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by stnmtn 5y ago
Do you think the NYT should let bitch be a word in wordle?
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by stnmtn 5y ago
Why is it a bad thing that they removed potential words that might be politically incorrect?
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by stnmtn 5y ago
I'm not only talking about the hangover (But you've inspired me to look into MAC), I'm talking about the things you do when too drunk at a bar. Acting like a fool and being embarrassed about it, spending a lot of money on dr
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by stnmtn 5y ago
This misses one type of fun, Type 4 Fun: When something is fun in the moment, but in retrospect was not fun at all and was awful. The most obvious example is drinking too much on a night out, or binge eating.
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by stnmtn 5y ago
Reading stuff like this makes me think about how much more... "Fun" game programming is than the stuff I do in web dev. These problems (yes, self-constrained) look like so much fun to solve, in a way that "I did xyz thing in
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Ask HN: How do you do research?
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by stnmtn 5y ago
> we started enhancing our DnD sessions with very cool AR glasses that we got as backer of a very nice kickstart! Sounds really cool, what product is it?
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by stnmtn 5y ago
Humans study CS for 5 years, reading code from online to be able to solve these problems.
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> Where was Fauci during the development of the vaccine? This is such a weird question because the answer is obvious, he was working in a leading role as the head of a government agency who has to be involved with/aware of what is g
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by stnmtn 5y ago
Yes, it might not exist for you and your age group, but saying that it "doesn't exist at all" is just wrong. It does matter, and it is a factor for certain age groups. You can disagree with it, but that doesn't make it n
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by stnmtn 5y ago
Are you suggesting that a massive company should run their own IRC server, complete with bots that handle OAuth and access control, history saving, document downloading?
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by stnmtn 5y ago
You must understand that the hard part is not this, it's setting up SSH keys and authenticating for someone who a) Hasn't set up an SSH key before b) Hasn't used github before It's more of a hassle now than it was 5 year
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by stnmtn 5y ago
What is the difference of a company using an NFT for tracking ownership accross multiple applications, instead of just maintaining it in their database? The NFT will still have to reference something internal to the company, and the minting
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by stnmtn 5y ago
Thank you for telling this story, I find it enlightening.
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by stnmtn 5y ago
Why do you think that just because you don't have much experience with a topic, that you can't find ways to ask questions to learn more and enjoy that conversation?
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by stnmtn 5y ago
Dont' watch modern media. Dive into old films that stand the test of time. Anything by Godard, Kurosawa, Fellini, etc. I have awful attention spans, but I find that if I challenge myself by watching stuff out my comfort zone, I'm
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by stnmtn 5y ago
Do you think that this is true of every programmer, or that there are people who do experience increase in productivity from pairing?
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by stnmtn 5y ago
In a math classroom, you are right. But when we're in a context of talking about the disease on an internet forum, you are being needlessly pedantic and extremely nitpick-y if you expect people to describe the ways infections grows as
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by stnmtn 5y ago
> Sure, there's a limit, but if we're looking at function that is exponential until it reaches an inflection point where there's simply less hosts to infect than possible... What do you think I meant by this? Do you think
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While technically correct, you and I both know what they meant by exponential. Sure, there's a limit, but if we're looking at function that is exponential until it reaches an inflection point where there's simply less hosts t
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by stnmtn 5y ago
I had a very similar experience walking out of a movie theater after watching a particularly good movie this year. I walked around the main street in my town and it saw it from completely new eyes, and was able to appreciate everything abou
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by stnmtn 5y ago
As someone who doesn't like working with hardware, I wish there was exactly this but for software. A curated list of fun, do-able, interesting projects with wide-ranging use cases.

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