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by strbean 6y ago
I'd think the ergonomics argument is just wrong wrt. repetitive stress. Isn't more variation in movement pretty much always better in that regard?
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by strbean 6y ago
I was going to say, that theory sounds an awful lot like Stephenson's stuff about neurolinguistic programming.
483.
by strbean 6y ago
Uh oh, is this guy questioning PG worship on HN? Get him!
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by strbean 6y ago
I think one of the biggest problems with Python is this notion of "good for small scripts / throwaway stuff". It is far too often that a program is given this treatment, and then needs to grow or be reused and maintained late
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by strbean 6y ago
I think the point is that running no stdlib in C is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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by strbean 6y ago
Hey now, you mean they get to charge the company for "advertising", and then "lose" the complaint.
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by strbean 6y ago
Astroturfing just means faking grass roots / community movement. Makes less sense here than in politics, but it would be possible if the marketing department was writing these blog posts on behalf of engineers.
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by strbean 6y ago
Everyone seems to have forgotten that Sun licensed Java under an open license that would have allowed Google to use these interfaces without issue, if they had met certain criteria for supporting the full Java platform. Google essential tho
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by strbean 6y ago
Ah, HIPAA. Having looked at the marketplace for HIPAA compliant solutions for educational therapy patient record keeping (patient CRM, whatever the industry term is), I'd feel so much safer having my data in the hands of Airtable than
490.
by strbean 6y ago
Couldn't you achieve exactly what was needed here with Airtable? Or, easier yet, Google Sheets and a Google Form?
491.
by strbean 6y ago
I would strongly recommend taking a look at Poetry as an alternative to Pipenv. Pipenv is honestly a nightmare.
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by strbean 6y ago
So 100% of iPhones older than the X are too broken to refurbish? That does not check out.
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by strbean 6y ago
Apple is only selling refurbs of the iPhone X. Sure, 3 years is a long time in tech, but there are undoubtedly vast quantities of older models that are still in working condition.
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by strbean 6y ago
Exactly. See Russia for an example of all these awful consequences of state power, without the social safety net. Sure, a tyrannical government could take away your benefits for having the wrong views. They could also just take away your pr
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by strbean 6y ago
If we started with this approach from the beginning, we wouldn't even have social media or sites like Wikipedia. Enshrining it in law just means only the existing players can play the game.
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by strbean 6y ago
I was just thinking in terms of the morality / virtuosity discussion there. In practical terms, there are of course massive problems with enforcement and the flight of wealth, for both estate taxes and wealth taxes.
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by strbean 6y ago
That is presuming that MSFT ever issues more stock. They haven't appreciably done so in the past 15 years, and the same trend applies for most of the DOW. If MSFT never issues more stock, what then? Furthermore, helping to determine th
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by strbean 6y ago
Making asynchronous requests to fetch data. In this context specifically, the common case of fetching data asynchronously and then rendering it to the DOM. My impression is that Jamstack is meant to include apps that render client side, but
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by strbean 6y ago
My first reaction to parent was "what toolkit would be great to target WASM with", second was "let's scan the replies..." Qt in browser gets me excited :)
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by strbean 6y ago
> JAMStack is about pre-rendering HTML from dynamic content into static files. Where do the "Javascript and APIs" come into play, if not via AJAX?
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by strbean 6y ago
I'm curious what portion of new investment goes into IPOs, additional issues, VC, etc., compared to the portion that just changes hands between fellow 'savers'. If I buy $1mil of MSFT, I didn't contribute a cent to their
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by strbean 6y ago
> but there is the age old goal of leaving the next generation better off than yours Hopefully we can strike a balance between leaving only your direct descendants better off and leaving everyone in the next generation better off. >
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by strbean 6y ago
Everyone loves to saber rattle about FAANG and antitrust, while we all sit back and let Charter and Comcast make contracts to not compete with eachother[0], we rapidly head towards having one major national bank[1] and somehow the big 4 alw
504.
by strbean 6y ago
Update: Since I made this comment, I have gotten a "don't use if/else" article on my Medium digest... every single day.
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by strbean 6y ago
I'm saying in a competitive market, the incentive would be to support as many platforms as you reasonably can. Without being outright paid by platform creators not to do that , most developers choose to do that. Paying third parties n
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by strbean 6y ago
Posting to name-drop SimpleBeanFactoryAwareAspectInstanceFactory
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by strbean 6y ago
Gotta have that good reviewing process: https://fnd.io/#/us/ios-universal-app/1528248331-fall-guys-k... Obviously Jpseph Rader is a subsidiary of Mediatonic, not some random guy flagrantly stealing Mediatonic
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by strbean 6y ago
Consoles are a pretty terrible counter-example. An entire industry driven by "exclusive titles" is incredibly anti-consumer.
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by strbean 6y ago
> Yeah, I (perhaps because of masochism) click on links to Quora answers I see in my email digest Hey, it's better than clicking through the Medium digest and getting your 10th consecutive "you can use a switch statement instea
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by strbean 6y ago
It's kind of hard to come up with new futurological themes and anxieties when the foundational works were so prescient :) What would be the new ones? Universal surveillance? Pretty sure that was covered. Ubiquitous AI becoming malevole

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