thesephist

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   by thesephist 7y ago

   Thanks for that encouragement /s I think it's great to encourage students like Samarth and I by sharing and talking about what we're building. You can offer specific and helpful feedback which I would really appreciate. But I
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   by thesephist 8y ago

   I think a less cynical way to phrase your (correct) idea is that people love the promise of profit as an incentive to create innovation. It's not a fully self consistent system. But the end goal isn't profit imo, it's innovat
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   by thesephist 8y ago

   Android's governance is entirely under Google/Alphabet for all practical purposes today, even as the OS is open source. Reasons for this are numeorus (licensing, Play Services, etc.) Chromium is in a similar boat. Parent is propos
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   by thesephist 8y ago

   I believe the modus operandi for most personal cloud storage providers here is to make the entire dataset read- and delete-only until the user gets enough storage space (by upgrading or deleting files) to be able to write/upload again.
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   by thesephist 8y ago

   Like the article briefly mentions at the end, I'm really a fan of Webpack's approach to configuration -- exporting the configuration from an executable script. It gets around most of the problems outlined here (numbers, comments,
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   A number-color synesthetic's table of colors from 0-99(docs.google.com)

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   by thesephist 8y ago

   I'm surprised this is the first time I've seen the "touchbar as a way to get the A-series chips into macbooks" take. It's the most sensible explanation.
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   by thesephist 8y ago

   The battery increase for the high end i7/i9 models is to offset the increased power draw -- it supposedly won't give you much in terms of battery life in actual usage.
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   by thesephist 8y ago

   Count me in, for one. My main machine is still the 2013 MBP (2015 MBP at work). But every laptop / portable / desktop I've bought since then has been a Windows machine, because they offer either 1) similar value at a cheaper
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    by thesephist 8y ago

    Having built some SPA's, I'd argue that at least those two things that you mentioned are the fault of whoever built bad SPA's, rather than issues with SPA's as a whole. It's possible to build an SPA that works well
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    by thesephist 8y ago

    Another solution for data integrity I've been tempted to try instead of switching filesystems is to go RAID 1 / 10 on a couple SSD's. A bit finicky to set up (and not viable on Macbooks, obviously) but it's practically z
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    by thesephist 8y ago

    I think the correct representation of this is Rust to LLVM IR (which is there), then LLVM to WebAssembly (which should be there but isn't). Actually, WebAssembly as a compile target is just generally not there on the graph, which is we
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    by thesephist 8y ago

    Personally, having no clue on the background of what/who "Bitsavers" is/was, just the words "Software Archive" or "Communications archive" help little. Software of _what_? Communications for _whom_? T
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    by thesephist 8y ago

    The Github issues list is the real gold mine: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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    by thesephist 9y ago

    >random IOT devices are radioactive elements. Scheme-compliant _and_ metaphorically apt. Love it.
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    by thesephist 9y ago

    I’ve been running through names of Greek and Roma deities for my machines, which work super well. They can even be themed (all mobile / wireless clients are named after dieties of death).
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    by thesephist 9y ago

    (gross oversimplification of music theory follows:) You've probably heard of complementary colors and the color wheel in the context of art. The idea there is (afaik) that some colors are thought to go "better" together and t
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    by thesephist 9y ago

    Encouraging users to "try it" is dangerous here. Recreating the bug enables root user across the system, and most users won't know how to disable it. TechCrunch, if you're reading this... please discourage people from re
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    by thesephist 9y ago

    One thing I'd add: be eager to find opportunities that aren't just money-makers but that help you move up, meet people who are better than you at what you do, and can help you grow.
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    by thesephist 9y ago

    >Also, adding to the fact that I am entirely self taught I sometimes wonder maybe I am missing out on a lot of theoretical stuff they teach in a CS degree. Short answer is very probably not. Theory helps, and it can help a lot depending
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    by thesephist 9y ago

    Seconded, and can confirm. I came to my current software company at 17 and I've been treated fairly to my skill level since (18 today). There are people out there who will see beyond the age, if you look for them. I also fully agree wi
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    by thesephist 9y ago

    I would say an important point of note is that a lot of people who would consider themselves power users still use Intel chips from the early 2010's. Coming from someone who's using a Sandy Bridge i7.
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    by thesephist 9y ago

    I wrote something like this when I was in high school because I got tired of powerpoint being hard to work with across platforms (Linux...). I ended up using it for a couple class presentations, which I enjoyed because it forces you to focu