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by vonwoodson 3y ago
I am not “self taught” in the sense that I taught myself to code when I was young, and got a CS degree, and continue to learn new technology on my own , but I feel that the feeling you have is not related to being self taught or not. When
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by vonwoodson 3y ago
What is simplicity? Each micro-service in and of itself is simple, but the network of message passing is complex. Ok. So, a monolith is simple, until it’s been maintained for a decade or more and has been patched and re-patched by generat
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by vonwoodson 3y ago
I'd extend this "X developers are mostly self-taught" onto all of computer development. They say, "Every developer Of a Certain Age's first programming language was BASIC" and my experience of (eventually) get
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by vonwoodson 3y ago
If you're dealing with someone who has a mental illness then "the rules" are different. Folks throw words like "Narcissism" around when they don't really mean it. Communicating with someone with a mental illn
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by vonwoodson 3y ago
Can I get a factory that’ll make factory factory factory containers to run on The Cloud?
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by vonwoodson 3y ago
Don't forget that we block ads for privacy, too.
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by vonwoodson 3y ago
I can answer this honestly: We want to believe that the iPad is the answer to so many of computer's problems, that the iPhone is So Amazing to be able to do so much of what we need a computer to do that a Bigger iPhone would be the
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by vonwoodson 3y ago
I love it. I especially love that it doesn't tell you what's wrong until too late!
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by vonwoodson 3y ago
This is the second article (although the first was just a Tweet..) today about changing your mind. Here on the internet, I'm not surprised see how much hatred there is of people who change their minds/opinions. It's easy to
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by vonwoodson 3y ago
I'd like to plug [tig]( https://github.com/jonas/tig ) for those who don't use emacs. I see lazygit recommended here too, but I've been using tig for years now and love it's simplicity.
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by vonwoodson 3y ago
I agree that the "Obama war on whistleblowers" is shallow, and that is a more accurate statement of what I was trying to convey. A "red-meat" "feels good to hate" story than any actual news.
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by vonwoodson 3y ago
Well, we all get different results. Here's my top three: Obama's Crackdown on Whistleblowers | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/obamas-crackdown-w... Obama's War on Whistleblow
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by vonwoodson 3y ago
Binging “obama whistleblower crackdown” returns some pretty conservative leaning and conspiracy looking websites.
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by vonwoodson 3y ago
This is amazingly appropriate. Also, I LOL’d.
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Look, I don’t want to give too much away: but if you’re using literally any of my software and can enter xyzzy… nothing happens
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Look, I don’t want to give too much away: but if you’re using my software and can enter xyzzy… nothing happens
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Folks talk about media bias: Twitter popularity is a media bias. It’s the most lazy journalism to be able to write a “news” article about what Kim, or Don, or Elon’s PR team tweeted. But, as far as “social” this media is: Twitter is a o
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
The Wall Street Journal is just News Corp. We should not spread fake news here.
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Having a majority-elected government step in to restrict the property rights of individuals is literally the most democratic thing possible. That is the purpose of the US democracy: to "promote the general Welfare". You're
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
So’s law school. If you’re getting legal advice from HN… don’t.
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
I’m commenting because I can’t upvote twice. Other commenters are apologists working hard to defend their capital-religious beliefs. And, I’m here to support the statement that “the free market has always been a fable”.
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Many people talking about buying Macs or iPads on this thread. Ok, I get it. But, GNU/Linux is a very good option for everyone. GNU/Linux is not at all as difficult as it used to be. If you want to be able to support you folks wit
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
You’d better rethink what you’re willing to say on the internet before you raise a single hand to type ever again. You can go “just discussing labor laws” somewhere else.
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
The hackability of the Casio watch has earned the F-91W the title of “the sign of al-Qaida” because they are used to make IEDs [ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-fil... ] So, you kn
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Yo’ Mama so fat that…
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Relevant SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2569
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Right? The idea that an x86 emulator, written in C99, would require node to build is a smell if I’ve ever smelled one. If a dev can’t be bothered to use standard tooling, can he be bothered to write safe and performant C? Is this kind of “c
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
I’d never question Russian intelligence Or military capabilities. Nothing they say can be taken at face value, nothing they do can either. These guys are chess masters, after all. I don’t want to make it sound, and any way that I like thes
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Dual cursors is a really good idea. Like, really good.
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Cut and paste. I use tmux to do cut and paste, but should I ever need something out of the terminal/browser into the other, or don’t feel like C-b] ‘ing something, the mouse is great.

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