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by suprfnk 9y ago
You could check out Wikipedia's "Current events" page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
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by suprfnk 9y ago
In Firefox you can disable all notifications (and thus all popups asking for notifications to be allowed) in about:config, setting `dom.webnotifications.enabled` to false. I don't miss it at all.
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by suprfnk 9y ago
Interesting, I actually changed the font on the webpage because I found it too thin.
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by suprfnk 9y ago
If this causes people to write more concise stories, I'm all for it! On a page like the linked one, you can still read it like an article, and it doesn't have too much superfluous content.
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by suprfnk 9y ago
On that note: Anyone know of any good F# learning resources (preferably books/text) for an experienced C# developer who has only done a little bit of functional programming (Haskell, Clojure) here and there?
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by suprfnk 9y ago
> On most keyboards the ESC key is the longest reach with my shortest finger so it winds up requiring a wrist motion. Try to learn using "Ctrl + [" instead of ESC. It helps. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_
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by suprfnk 9y ago
Well, Flutter has been at beta 1 for just over a week now. https://medium.com/flutter-io/announcing-flutter-beta-1-buil... I can imagine they haven't had the time to flesh out docs yet.
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by suprfnk 9y ago
SSH into a box with tmux and vim? Or is that too minimal?
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by suprfnk 9y ago
> Clear history [..] on exit Why the history? That's not readable by anyone except you, right? > Clear [..] cookies on exit So do you have to keep logging in to websites daily? Isn't that very annoying?
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by suprfnk 9y ago
Turn off all notifications. Delete all non-tool apps; you know, the apps that want you to spend time in them. Keep only the tool apps. You won't spend 30 minutes scrolling through your navigation app, or your music app, or through the
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by suprfnk 9y ago
Don't be harsh. They are 19 years old. You can only learn so much in a short amount of time. And there is a lot to learn in software development.
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by suprfnk 9y ago
> But why should in 2018 be so hard for one to be able to simply pay once for hardware or software, that puts the user first? Is it impossible for such a company to succeed at scale? Apple seems to follow that plan. For your "email&
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by suprfnk 9y ago
> Isn't it by chance the same as nitpicking someone's comment? But they aren't calling their comment "creative destruction".
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by suprfnk 9y ago
https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
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by suprfnk 9y ago
I think that line is aimed towards people new to all this stuff, hearing "functional reactive programming" being thrown around. The author does seem to know the 'roots', if you can call it that: "Reactive programmin
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by suprfnk 9y ago
His response seems like hyperbole to me.
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by suprfnk 9y ago
> it takes time to learn all of the shirtcuts in any GUI application I'd say in most cases it takes more time to learn a console application. GUI's these days are, mostly, pretty intuitive. CLI applications are not intuitive at
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by suprfnk 9y ago
> expected to have 4/8c which will be fantastic What do you mean by "4/8c"?
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by suprfnk 9y ago
> It's crazy to stare at a backlit screen all day. Why?
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by suprfnk 9y ago
> A young child (0 to ~3 years) does not understand electronics. On the other hand, my 2 year old niece can easily take an iPad, unlock it, swipe through the pages and folders, find YouTube, and watch videos. And in an ever-increasing el
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by suprfnk 9y ago
Though I find Project Euler to be pretty heavy on the math problem solving, and not much on the day-to-day programming problem solving.
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by suprfnk 9y ago
Same here. Give me one good big monitor with multiple software desktops. (Windows 10 finally implemented them too, though half-heartedly) No distractions from another screen, just focus on one single task. Also, no turning my head all the t
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by suprfnk 9y ago
If you don't try it, consider swapping control and caps lock too. Most people use control way more, but caps lock has the superior position on the keyboard. That is, the home row, where your pinky is naturally while resting your index
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by suprfnk 9y ago
Yeah. I'm not about to delete the app I use to generate background noise when the people in my office are being too loud. Or the app in which I track my weightlifting progress. Or the app I use to digitize and archive all important let
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by suprfnk 9y ago
Whoa, that's a lot! Just curious, how many hours of podcasts is that? Do you have that information available? And with that experience, what are your favorite podcasts?
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by suprfnk 9y ago
The maximum scaling option in macOS for 15" retina MacBook Pro's (all 15" retina models since 2012) is 1920x1200. So it's probably used quite a lot. https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ Sel
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by suprfnk 9y ago
Because my non-programmer friend can use a website, but not write a program.
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by suprfnk 9y ago
My Thinkpad X220 gives 3 beeps when it's at 5% battery. Probably OS independent, though I've only run Linux on this thing. Enough time for me to grab the charger or put it in hibernate. Does yours not have that option in the BIOS?
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by suprfnk 9y ago
I really dislike the 'better' and 'evenbetter' ones. The contrast is pretty low which makes it more annoying to read. It's also way too wide still. https://bestmotherfucking.website/ is actually bet
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by suprfnk 9y ago
I don't refuse to use tabs or windows, but a lot of the times I'd rather split them out into separate non-vim windows. I guess it all depends on your workflow though. I mainly use vim in a tiling wm environment on Linux, not throu

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