tomphoolery

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by tomphoolery 5y ago
I got about 20% of the way through and clicked off after the author went down a whole analogy rabbit hole.
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by tomphoolery 5y ago
I don't work there and don't know anybody who works there, but I do know that they have been using proprietary dialects of PHP for some time. React's JSX was influenced by XHP, and XHP was released in 2010 but apparently was
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by tomphoolery 5y ago
The choice of DVCS tooling is ancillary to the success of GitHub. People learned Git so they could use GitHub, not the other way around. At least, this is the way I remember it. If someone comes along and builds the best forge software ever
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by tomphoolery 5y ago
but only 8 years of "lol this government website is bootstrap isn't it"
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by tomphoolery 5y ago
Paul Graham has basically admitted to age discrimination in the past, and YC is just not the panacea that its founders perpetrated. More companies in YC are worthless and fail, and the whole thing just smells of ladder-climbing. You're
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by tomphoolery 5y ago
To me it's about as strong as the correlation between schizophrenia and _any_ use of psychedelics. THC's effects have more in common with a psychedelic than they do an analgesic or stimulant. It's not a body drug, even if it
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by tomphoolery 5y ago
If you're Russian? I would. No point in trusting any authority to be doing the right thing over there.
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by tomphoolery 5y ago
my first reaction was "is this language descended from brainfuck??"
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by tomphoolery 5y ago
Agreed, but I don't think there's a lot of motivation to do so. At that point, BitTorrent is just DCC in a new fur coat. As stated earlier, BT is most appropriately used in a setting where you want to download a single file from m
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by tomphoolery 5y ago
Would this make Linux the first *NIX-based OS that is written in a language other than C? At least, with high usage...
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by tomphoolery 5y ago
I think the moment that Git really clicked for me was realizing the following 3 tenets: 1. Commits are a SHA that points to a given state of the codebase _and_ its parent. The latter part is very important for the next 2 tenets... 2. Branch
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by tomphoolery 5y ago
I always thought it had to do with chaining flags. For example, if multi-character single-dash flags were supported, and you wanted to write a `-lah` option for `ls, you wouldn't be able to or else you'd introduce ambiguity. And n
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
fzf could in theory be used for this
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
...so does zsh with vim mode turned on :P
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
Environment variables, when used correctly, tend to work just about everywhere. That's why they're in use. It's the same reason why programs still install to `/usr/bin`, even though we're all very much aware th
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
This article is so pompous. Calling people "amateurs" when they get paid to do something is hilarious at best and damaging to new developers at worst. It reeks of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, by listing a set of good
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
this is the "IHOB" of cars
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
i mean, this site is called "hacker" news so...
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
Cloud Run is probably the closest thing to a managed k8s service. It's using https://knative.dev/ under the hood, and while you don't get such features as secrets management, for personal stuff it's not like
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
This is true, and the reason for why they are no longer a thing is the same reason why companies don't sponsor theme park rides anymore. They simply don't need to. With the ability to reach more people more quickly with less money
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
everybody knows the real hot goss is in the NBC10 comments section
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
Love it. Screw the comments section on ANYTHING. - A commenter
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
Trying to DDoS someone because you got banned for saying racist things is the virtual predecessor to the Jan 6th insurrection.
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
honestly because i don't think "UFO surveillance equipment" is part of the budget for airliners :P
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
When does the actual news start? Clicking around this podcast is annoying.
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
This is basically a longer version of Haml.
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
It turns out that decentralization closes the door on top-down censorship, but at the same time, invites spam and abuse of the system for personal gain. It's very easy to do this in a decentralized model, and every single decentralized
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by tomphoolery 6y ago
I think the biggest failure of Bitcoin is that it was marketed as a "currency" and ended up becoming a commodity. Bitcoin isn't something you use to spend wealth, it's used to hold wealth. Unlike a stock, however, whose
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what about https://www.animaapp.com/ ?
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Is there a better product out there that can communicate what the development team is doing to non-technical people? I like Jira when I don't have to use it. For example, setting up GitHub automation so that changes from Git will cause

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