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by vvillena 8y ago
To be fair, there's been a sharp decline since Maduro took power. Maybe the current government is simply too corrupt and incompetent. And let's not forget that any other plausible government in Venezuela wouldn't be any bette
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by vvillena 8y ago
Wouldn't that be TOML?
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by vvillena 8y ago
I understand your opinion, and surely you have way more experience than me on this matter. Still, it seems that there should be a better way. Why aren't keyboards able to communicate a default layout? I've been reading about the c
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by vvillena 8y ago
I assume you don't work or live in a multilingual environment, do you? That's the kind of shortcut that brings huge problems to people all around the world. Of course it means more engineering effort. That's why we're he
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by vvillena 8y ago
Station wagons have better aerodynamics than sedans. They are worse on weight distribution (more hanging mass, higher center of gravity) and chassis rigidity (which means they can't be as sporty). It's a shame no one makes an elec
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by vvillena 8y ago
The vim commands are mostly great, they are a fantastic set of hyper-productive defaults we all should learn. One of the reasons is that almost every other editor has the ability to use vim commands. Evil, the Emacs vim plugin, implements t
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by vvillena 8y ago
But, according to what you say, if those murderers had the money, they would have murdered just the same. Maybe the problem is that bails don't distinguish between truly dangerous individuals and the rest of the people.
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by vvillena 8y ago
The English bias in phone keyboards and autocorrect systems is awful. There are lots of issues with verbal forms and diacritics. And if you dare to write in more than one language at a time, all bets are off. I think this is one of the plac
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by vvillena 8y ago
As a Scala dev, one issue I see with the language is that it doesn't keep you in check. Easy things are easy and there are lots of syntax sugar and little conveniences here and there that make the language great, but the advanced featu
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by vvillena 8y ago
The new Leaf follows the current Nissan aesthetics. It's not like the old Leaf, which was different from the rest of their lineup.
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by vvillena 8y ago
It's the old tradeoff: dev speed vs performance. I just prefer to go with the tech stack that I feel makes me more agile, more capable of changing direction if need be. Both points of view are valid, of course.
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by vvillena 8y ago
That's because they are not minor releases. Play seems to follow the Scala style version numbering (epoch.major.minor). In any case, I'm with you in that some of the changes between major versions they did were painful, especially
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by vvillena 8y ago
Having used both Play (with Scala) and Rails to create some APIs in a professional environment, there's no competition. Play is extremely robust and quite featured, but Rails development speed is much much faster. Rails is extremely op
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by vvillena 9y ago
Funding campaings from public money is widespread in Europe. Sometimes the opposite argument is made: public funding ensures a level field, in which no one has a disproportionate advantage. Of course, this has the effect of displacing the b
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by vvillena 9y ago
There are lots of great side quests in The Witcher 3. The wolfman one, the one with the ghost and the oven, the one that takes part in a tower in an island in a lake, the one where you finish tracking down some witches... Not to mention, pa
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by vvillena 9y ago
Bikes still work on the rain, you only need to dress up a bit. Extreme heat is way more problematic. As you said, it's more of a cultural problem, that can be solved. If we accept that motorbikers need lots of specialized equipment to
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by vvillena 9y ago
No other language forces you to think about ownership and lifetimes the way Rust does. I find the syntax really nice, in the sense that I always know what it is saying. The hard part is not understanding the words, but grasping the meaning.
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by vvillena 9y ago
It dispels all the magic around programming, by helping you build a knowledge of computer programming agnostic to any programming language. Dan Grossman is a superb teacher and the way he ties concepts together is awesome. I'll be fore
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by vvillena 9y ago
As a counterpoint, I installed Arch Linux on a Lenovo gaming laptop and I'm delighted with the result. Arch being Arch, I had to configure lots of things manually, but there are no bugs to speak of. Maybe you mean weird behavior instea
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by vvillena 9y ago
On OSX you can create a new folder with Command+Option+N. As for the side-by-side trees, I don't understand what you mean, I usually have 2 Finder windows open, then drag and drop as needed. When I transitioned from Windows to Mac, 13
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by vvillena 9y ago
The moment that happens, that language would start diverging again. You have to unify culture in order to unify language, and that doesn't sound as good anymore. Settling on a "common" or "business" language, though
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by vvillena 9y ago
Last I saw, hyperlinks didn't "provide a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content". Are there any practical applica
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by vvillena 9y ago
Are you implying that solving the issues affecting that 1% means jailing or terrorizing them, thus making such solutions undesirable for everyone else?
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by vvillena 9y ago
No, that's not how they work. Emergency personnel can get the driver out extremely quickly if need be, but if there's no immediate risk they will work slowly to avoid further injury.
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by vvillena 9y ago
The current cars last for one whole year. The battery has some extra capacity to avoid discharge damage during racing. Having the whole car last the whole year is not very common in racing, so they are good in this.
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by vvillena 9y ago
Prescriptions for everything work better. People end up trivializing medicaments when they are freely available. Talking to a doctor helps control certain conditions that are easily masked with self-medication. Of course, it's hard to
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by vvillena 9y ago
Tabs are amazing for visual thinking. I use them as a shortlist of my mental workspace. As for Emacs, "open files" mean nothing for me as an end user. The editor could hide that feature away and I would still work in the same way.
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by vvillena 9y ago
I'm curious. Do you end up with so many tabs open because you don't bother to close them when you're finished with them? Or is there another reason? I also use a really big amount of open tabs in my web browsers (I group them
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by vvillena 9y ago
The standard 6 confirmations to ensure a BTC transaction is included in the chain are roughly equivalent to 10 confirmations in the Ethereum chain. Since Ethereum block times are much lower, assurance is much faster. 1 hour vs 3 minutes.
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by vvillena 9y ago
The main problem of Scala is that it brings in the whole JVM. That's awesome for certain kinds of apps, but not so great for other things like small tools. I have high hopes on scala-native, though!

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