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by toto444 5y ago
The points the author mentions are fair but something feels amiss. I have used R heavily and still use it from time to time and I never use most of the functions mentioned in the post. For instance I have never used switch(). R is for data
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by toto444 5y ago
If you apply the other principles described in the blog post, you will probably save more than 15% of your time so if you spend 15% of your time learning everyone is still better off in the end. If you do not offer the possibility to learn
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by toto444 5y ago
There is a category of non disabled people who benefit from wheelchair accesses : parents of newborns who have to push a buggy wherever they go. I find it interesting that this positive side effect is rarely mentioned in the discussions abo
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by toto444 5y ago
If you read the blog post shared by hprotagonist (which is very good), make sure to read the comments which give a more nunanced view of the questino.
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by toto444 5y ago
That's the same on reddit and HN. You can use downvote to mean "I disagree with this opinion but it is a valuable one" or "this comment is rubbish".
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by toto444 5y ago
Are you qualified to make this statement (genuinely asking) ? I tend to drink a lot and have read several times that drinking too much can be bad and change your electrolise balance or something like this.
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by toto444 5y ago
Why not? 'Apple' is a trademark right?
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by toto444 5y ago
That would mean you can just buy 'hotelsincornwall.com' and no one will be allowed to bid for 'hotels in corwnwall'. You are now facing a different problem.
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by toto444 5y ago
> I've seen many ETL scripts written where a simple SQL statement would have been better. SQL queries tend to work after a few queries have been verified to be correct, ETL jobs in languages like java can dump mysterious stack trace
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by toto444 5y ago
There is one problem that I have not seen mentioned. Statistics might be much more useful but except for the first chapter (discrete probability) they are much harder. As someone who wanted to work in data I have tried hard to understand pr
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by toto444 5y ago
Anki, the very popular Spaced Repetition System is developped and maintained by one person if I'm correct.
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by toto444 5y ago
Does that mean that a less competent developper could write a more intuitive alternative in a few months ?
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by toto444 5y ago
It's funny, I could have written this post almost word for word for my website. @OP : I often search for CSS illustrations on Codepen and I have never found yours. I usually search for 'pure css' or 'css only' keywo
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by toto444 5y ago
Paradoxically the fact that everyone is talking about WW3 makes me think it is very likely not going to happen. When it comes to predicting the future, the 'media news cycle' clearly overfits the latest data points. (Please don&#x
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by toto444 5y ago
I am a huge fan of comprehensible input as well. I am working on a website that can (in theory) teach Japanese by relying entirely on comprehensible input. I start by defining simple words using Emojis and I build the vocabulary from there
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by toto444 5y ago
What is it you call natural method ? Have you heard of 'Le Francais par le methode Nature' ? https://archive.org/details/jensen-arthur-le-francais-par-la... It is a book that teaches French in French from the
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by toto444 5y ago
A directory structure : Invoices > 2021 > Plumber is easy to browse and makes it easy for a machine to retrieve it as well.
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Lazy Work, Good Work (2016)(collaborativefund.com)
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by toto444 5y ago
Your comment smells like resentment made into a social theory. > Anyone who's not "secure for life" and has to keep the salaries coming in will have to deal with bad people, bad decisions, bad culture, etc. and become unha
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by toto444 5y ago
I have been learning Japanese to play this game in its original language and am planning to learn the piano to be able to play its soundtrack. I know I am not the only one doing this. I can't think of any video game / movie that h
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by toto444 5y ago
There are a lot of dynamic forums out there. Enough for a company (Discourse) to have powering them as their business model. I tend to navigate very niche spaces and I stumble upon forums on a regular basis.
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by toto444 5y ago
The reason we write software is to save us time :-). The way I do it is : - download (free) video game tiles - upload them to https://www.pixelartcss.com/ to turn them into CSS - use this tool (kindly made by thecodingfox a
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by toto444 5y ago
> the page is entirely self-contained (except the favicon) I have made a self contained page as well a few days ago. This is oddly satisfying. I use pixel art to make the illustrations (it's all CSS though). If you want to take a lo
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by toto444 5y ago
> Because advertising is manufactured demand. Some companies spend a lot on advertising but their product does not sell. How does your model explains this ?
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by toto444 5y ago
When I hear arguments like this I always think about what it would be if we were to replace 'user data' with 'financial data'. "It would be so easy if companies could just pay their taxes in one country. Think of ho
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Pixel Art to CSS(pixelartcss.com)
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by toto444 5y ago
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not but there is literally something called github pages that does exactly what you describe.
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by toto444 5y ago
Also the top link right now is pointing to a forum : https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2022-01-25-issue-with-tl...
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by toto444 5y ago
I like your 'Who am I page'. I have started an 'old internet' like website about 3 years ago and I love working on it. It is my space of creativity and freedom. If you want to check it out it is in my bio. I think the re
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by toto444 5y ago
How many of you mourning the old internet frequent neocities or have their own personal website ? I don't think the the answer is 'a lot'. Everyone on HN complains about everything being turned into a business but everyone al

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