vulcan01

28 ms·

301.
by vulcan01 6y ago
It's not that literal. A developer not passing their resume through a spellchecker to catch typos shows that they are careless . Yes, every decent compiler and all linters are going to catch typos. What happens when that developer has
302.
by vulcan01 6y ago
Note that you can also use pandoc[0] to convert a markdown-like file to a reveal.js or PowerPoint presentation, among other formats. [0]: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#slide-shows
303.
by vulcan01 6y ago
> What makes you think we don't? :) I assumed you did, I've just never been responsible for responding to customers so I was curious about what power users say. I wonder if a solution is to let them add their feature to your so
304.
by vulcan01 6y ago
> because we've elected not to invest resources further into a specific feature (low demand, market is turning away from this feature, the investment is simply too great at this point to justify the cost) Just curious, what happens
305.
by vulcan01 6y ago
> The social harm can potentially happen if parent is preventing contact with peers and their culture too much. Yep. But, the best thing my parents ever did for me was not allowing me to use a phone until I was 16. I still had a laptop I
306.
by vulcan01 6y ago
Holy crap, this is actually true. I thought it was a joke. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/12/revealed-...
307.
by vulcan01 6y ago
> Kids are introduced to media of their generation by their friends Look, this is somewhat true. But as a kid, I assure you that parents who treat their children like best friends (like my dad does) are very capable of influencing their
308.
by vulcan01 6y ago
Generally, precedent means first "well-known" time, or first time by a respected person/institution/company. I don't know enough about this field to know if this is the first time Google has published a negative res
309.
by vulcan01 6y ago
Note that the GP said > It doesn't come with ... plugin management Also, for Vim, `:<tab>` gives you all available commands in the current buffer and `:h command` gives you the vim help page for that command (which is usually
310.
by vulcan01 6y ago
> rich district school computers (in the '70s) Gates went to Lakeside, often considered the top private school in Washington state.
311.
by vulcan01 6y ago
Elon lives in an ideal world where everyone uses self driving, which includes auto-parking. (The auto-parking doesn't work that well; my friends' parents have repeatedly had to stop their Tesla from hitting adjacent cars, in a Co
312.
by vulcan01 6y ago
As a high school guy, I have to wonder if > Engaging in physical activity was found to be more important for boys’ mental and emotional health is because (personal anecdata warning!) guys tend to prefer friends who are physically fit. Th
313.
by vulcan01 6y ago
I don't think people my age (high school) fully understand > nothing gets deleted Mean people say and do equivalent things on social media as in person. Although, I must say, this lockdown is probably a blessing to those who are con
314.
by vulcan01 6y ago
I'm curious, where is this quote from?
315.
by vulcan01 6y ago
Yes, thank you, it should be $5k. Edited.
316.
by vulcan01 6y ago
This is because Germany wanted Gutenberg to restrict access to most of their collection, which is not in the public domain in Germany. Gutenberg instead decided to block Germany rather than comply with copyright law.
317.
by vulcan01 6y ago
When I worked at MS Azure, we had to pay for Azure servers! (I believe our team had a $5k/month Azure bill.) It's part of internal budgeting, so that people within MS don't splurge on expensive things (because it does cost MS
318.
by vulcan01 6y ago
It's a natural human tendency to get distracted, especially when we are not engaged with a task (as with autopilot). Driving manually physically engages your body in the task, making it harder to get distracted. On the other hand inter
319.
by vulcan01 6y ago
But those same indies get more people playing their game with a subscription like game pass. This is all just speculation, though. We need an indie dev to tell us how game pass has affected their company—positively or negatively.
320.
by vulcan01 6y ago
Hypothetical: If I want to print a neo-Nazi newspaper: - Printing services can refuse to print my newspaper. - Shipping companies can refuse to deliver my newspaper. - Heck, my landlord could boot me out of my home for being a neo-Nazi. Is
321.
by vulcan01 6y ago
Forgive me for my ignorance, but I don't really understand this joke... Is it something to do with the first 2 not knowing the preference of the others? EDIT: never mind, this was also posted later in the thread and there's an exp
322.
by vulcan01 6y ago
The key to building a HN-type website is really the moderation. I seriously doubt that HN would be this successful without the hard work from dang et al. If you get that down, I think that many people would be interested in a biology-focuse
323.
by vulcan01 6y ago
The European Commission is investigating Google over some of their business practices. One example is https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/28/google-faces-eu-antitrust-pr...
324.
by vulcan01 6y ago
Oh, I see :) thank you!
325.
by vulcan01 6y ago
> TWIST podcast by Jason Calacanis Hmm... the only podcasts I seem to find online by Calacanis are All-In and Angel. Which one do you recommend (or both)?
326.
by vulcan01 6y ago
Also Vim's markdown conceal as seen here: https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown#syntax-concealing The vim-pandoc-syntax plugin also has syntax concealing enabled by default, IIRC.
327.
by vulcan01 6y ago
Reader mode can also help with these kinds of poorly-chosen text colours.
328.
by vulcan01 6y ago
jQuery is legacy now? I still use it... Is it just not new enough?
329.
by vulcan01 6y ago
KaTeX is a pretty popular way to display math on a website. It's written in js. Sure, you can read the raw LaTeX, but images of math are not only strange, but also unreadable. Does the author discount this kind of use as well? https:&
330.
by vulcan01 6y ago
Discussing whether the current vaccines are suitable for all population segments is a valid conversation. Should these > very frail patients with very serious disease have gotten the vaccine?

More ›