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by willbw 5y ago
I like Typora but I am a vim tragic so I have found a 50/50 vertical split with vim in one window and a chrome window using https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim to be my current favourite for editing. I
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by willbw 5y ago
Maybe they can do it if they 10x their revenue.
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by willbw 5y ago
For Linux to conquer the desktop you'd need for it to beat out Windows or Mac for market share. For it to do that you'd need it to be have competitive usability for everyday people, and this is still far off. When I use my linux b
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by willbw 5y ago
I have only briefly dabbled in Rust so I might be mistaken here - it seems hard to replace the major languages when there is so much tooling (ides, profiling tools) and such a developed ecosystem with the incumbent languages. C#, Java and N
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by willbw 5y ago
Would be interested to see your sources for the occurrence of harassment, beating and arrest.
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by willbw 5y ago
LMGTFY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZUNRmwoijw (at a guess)
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by willbw 5y ago
I suppose it all depends on the abstractions you make and how well those abstractions hold in the real world. Humans of course make abstractions but many of these are done subconsciously. Simulating brick laying might be able to be done in
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by willbw 5y ago
I think it is different from people saying we couldn't automate chess or go. The difference is between a purely data domain, chess or go, where it can both be translated 1-1 into a computer simulation of the game AND the inputs are d
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by willbw 5y ago
Out of curiosity, how well do you think fighting climate change through reducing consumption and waste is going? Well enough to discount alternatives?
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by willbw 5y ago
I would push back against "the results are the same". They are objectively not the same. Of course physical and mental exhaustion are both bad, but I think people would prefer to work in an office than a factory and trying to equa
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by willbw 5y ago
I feel you are making a very big and incorrect generalization about all workers based on a study of World War 1 factory workers.
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by willbw 6y ago
I learned at 27 and it was difficult, even without children. Working all day and then spending 5 hours after work debugging and writing code is very taxing. I have sympathy for this viewpoint but it doesn't seem any different to learni
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by willbw 6y ago
You want to 'develop' on a mobile device? Interested to hear how you would envision this being a pleasant experience. It's also a trade off between installing what software you want and security - the App store means you don&
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by willbw 6y ago
It's not obvious to me your point here after reading the Wiki article on the book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead_(Gates_book)#Co...
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by willbw 6y ago
If you cook for 4+ people they are super useful. It's not just the time saving, you also can just eat your meal and relax for the rest of the evening, compared to having to wash stuff up - even for a small time.
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by willbw 6y ago
Life can't just 'force' you into #3. It's still a choice you are making. If it is between you not being able to make a meeting on time or a cyclist getting killed because you fell asleep then I hope we can agree the nega
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by willbw 6y ago
Curious to see if people think that ideological imbalance is something we should seek to counter, much like there are attempts to counter gender imbalance presently. What about age imbalance in companies for instance? It seems that things w
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by willbw 6y ago
Personally I never have used the features of Ultimate and just use the Community Edition and CE is free.
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by willbw 6y ago
I'm torn between it probably being a good thing to have some more competition if Facebook's market dominance were lessened, but also wondering how it can be replaced. If they were to pull out of Europe (which I can't see happ
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by willbw 6y ago
out of curiosity what language do you write primarily?
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by willbw 6y ago
I find this post along with the comments in "A Picture of Java in 2020" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24551390 to be incongruous with my experience as a professional developer. My first couple of years writ
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by willbw 6y ago
I think you would be in the extreme minority of web users there.
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by willbw 6y ago
What are you working on that you never need to pull out a debugger?
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by willbw 6y ago
Of course it is up to you what you do with your money but, they have a $17.5B endowment so there may be more needy causes if you were so inclined.
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by willbw 6y ago
Yes but it's still a significant risk, would you not say? The coronavirus outbreak itself could be described as an outlier event, should we discount it?
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by willbw 6y ago
Netflix aren’t paying for all the energy costs. You are, and your isp is, etc
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by willbw 6y ago
Anyone else getting this issue? ⟩ git diff error: Found argument 'Extended' which wasn't expected, or isn't valid in this context USAGE: delta --dark --minus-color <minus_color> --plus-color <plus
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by willbw 7y ago
Wow, very deep.
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by willbw 7y ago
WHO says "very few" people will get a running nose, but that is not equivalent to saying you do not have the virus if you have a running nose. I'd be careful saying blanket statements like this
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by willbw 7y ago
I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt that this is a joke.

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