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by weeksie 10y ago
Absinthe works great for me: http://absinthe-graphql.org/
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by weeksie 10y ago
I've been using GraphQL with Apollo and Absinthe/Phoenix for a civic data gerrymandering project. Fantastic combo and everything plays well together. Certainly looking forward to using this stack on something big and bad in the ne
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by weeksie 10y ago
I don't think I've ever heard an impassioned argument against the Oxford Comma. I mean, I have no problem with it, but there seems to be a belief that this is a less filling/tastes great holy war, but really, omitting the ser
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by weeksie 10y ago
100% true. I almost always reply to recruiters with my rate and ask if they can afford it "since most companies that pay recruiting fees cannot pay full rates." Tumbleweeds every time.
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by weeksie 10y ago
The best of all worlds on this is owning an induction range so that you can use traditional kettles but your water heats even faster than a single-purpose electric kettle.
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by weeksie 10y ago
Nice, but a) it seems a bit odd to let a GQ reporter do a profile on you if you're making a killing in an illegal business and b) there are a million delivery services in NY and "high end" really doesn't mean much in tha
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by weeksie 10y ago
Sorry mate, I don't think you have a good enough grasp on econ to have this discussion.
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by weeksie 10y ago
It's an economics term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
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by weeksie 10y ago
Because AirBNB use in NY amounts to economic rent-seeking. That is fundamentally different than disallowing a class of people to participate in the economy.
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by weeksie 10y ago
It's not about people being uncomfortable with others in the building (a valid complaint, however). It's about cities like NYC that have less than one percent vacancy rates, where a couple of AirBNB related effects put upward pres
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by weeksie 10y ago
One less intermediary for the interaction. That's my understanding of the thought on the subject. The pimp has less economic and coercive power if a girl can make her own appointments. If a girl feels she needs protection it's a l
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by weeksie 10y ago
Mobile phones are part of the equation! I don't think this is an either/or scenario. Sites like Craigslist and Backpages make it a lot easier for those who do sex work to do it without a pimp. Legal brothels and want-ad based sex
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by weeksie 10y ago
Oh good. We should crack down on sites like this because you know what was good for sex trafficking victims? Street pimps. Sigh.
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by weeksie 10y ago
So this is a good place to list really nice codebases. sqlite is a fantastic piece of source code, totally worth reading.
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by weeksie 10y ago
Americans are taught about the atrocities visited on native Americans. I went to high school in the early nineties and we were taught all about it. Get some better info. Or, you know, actually verify the stuff you're conjecturing about
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by weeksie 10y ago
I've been effectively banned from Canada. I was arrested (never charged) many years ago when I was 19. It was on suspicion of "intending to injure a vehicle" Don't ask, it was in Utah. Anyway, the court has no records of
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by weeksie 10y ago
I've been traveling for the past year. Mostly through South America, the Subcontinent, and East Asia. I'm also sitting on a novel draft that I put together over that time. Writing on the road is tough, but there's no magic to
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by weeksie 10y ago
Ha! Then more power to you :) My point with this was from a workaday aspect. I both understand and respect getting nerdy about the tooling. And congrats, the first novel is the hardest.
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by weeksie 10y ago
Spoken like someone who has never encountered `auctex-mode`
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by weeksie 10y ago
Well I was and I wasn't. I certainly don't begrudge a person for getting really involved with their tools. Depends on what your goals are. If it's productivity and a nice finished product then the tools he was using are like
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by weeksie 10y ago
Writing a novel in LaTeX is not the best approach if you're looking to write a lot of text and don't have to worry about notation. But Neil Stephenson famously wrote Cryptonomicon in Emacs and LaTeX, so hey, it works for some peop
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by weeksie 10y ago
You can do it that way, but using something that's made for the job makes life a lot easier. Between Scrivener for writing and Vellum for compiling to ebook formats there's no reason to spend your time futzing around. If you wan
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by weeksie 10y ago
Ha! Yeah, I was at a train station in Jaipur and talking with a security guard who pointed at the metre high piles of garbage between the tracks and said, "They only have one rubbish bin here, so people throw their trash wherever.&quot
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by weeksie 10y ago
The pollution there is a nightmare. I spent maybe four days in Delhi and had a cough that followed me for almost a week afterward. Even by Indian standards the place is filthy.
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by weeksie 10y ago
Write every day is great advice. It works because you have to be sitting in the chair if you want to have any output. You don't build an app by waiting for the inspiration to strike, you instead show up the office five days per week, s
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by weeksie 10y ago
Ah g-d. Ficciones, 100 Years. Sigh. What a sad thing to miss out on those. (at the very least)
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by weeksie 10y ago
Hey, I'm a second career writer too! That's a fantastic piece. My background is in software and I still freelance to pay the bills. I have been writing on and off since I was old enough to hold a pen. Little fits and starts here a
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by weeksie 10y ago
Spoken like somebody who's never read Journey to The End of The Night. In my opinion (and many others') it's one of the best novels ever written. Tastes may vary but to dismiss foreign literature outright betrays a lack of ex
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by weeksie 10y ago
I was in both of those places (Saigon and all over India) over the last few month. That's the first thing I thought of when I read the headline.
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by weeksie 10y ago
Try spending a bit of time traveling. I've been on the road for almost a year. My phone number changes every month or two (or more depending on if I'm buying new tourist SIMs everywhere I go).

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