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721.
by wraptile 5y ago
Decentralized projects will always be less efficient than centralized ones why are we suddenly so surprised? The value of decentralized system far outweighs the cost of maintaining it especially when it comes to money. Could bitcoin be more
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by wraptile 5y ago
StackOverflow was successfully expanding their service even before this purchase. I'd imagine stackoverflow jobs is a valuable area - sure it's not linkedin but it's still really good. SO also has really strong community foll
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by wraptile 5y ago
Turns out nicotine is a really good drug! The problem is that cigarettes are a terrible delivery method. I've started vaping on ocassion almost purely for work reasons: I vape nicotine to focus and CBD to relieve some stress. It's
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by wraptile 5y ago
Most terminals do behave like this, or am I missing something? Sure it has some nice extras like help messages and icons but those aren't that important, right? Even super niche shells like xonsh [1] has visual autocomplete [2] 1 - ht
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by wraptile 5y ago
Alternative recommendation I have is to setup launcher/terminal script for word definitions - retyping the word aids with memorization! For MacOs I use Alfred launcher and just click option+space "define myword"
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by wraptile 5y ago
I only mentioned Fx keys in passing - my point was that they key was not present in the context menu which is a very common idiom to indicate action is not bound to any key. If all actions have key and this one doesn't: the first natur
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by wraptile 5y ago
I generally don't use mouse where's possible so click+wait+click is a rather unintuative motion for me.
728.
by wraptile 5y ago
I highly recommend "Writting Idiomatic Python" by Jeff Knupp!
729.
by wraptile 5y ago
it was just muscle memory but that's not the point.
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by wraptile 5y ago
Enter _enters_ the file - shocker!
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by wraptile 5y ago
As someone who recently switched to MacOs (not by their own choice) there are hundreds of little annoying, broken or inconsistent OS things I find. One of my favorites just happened yesterday with finder - I was trying to figure out how to
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by wraptile 5y ago
It's absolutely awful. My 2500$ macbook's window processing is at least 10 times slower than my 250$ thinkpad with linux. It's insane that such simple things don't work on such an established and valuable brand.
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by wraptile 5y ago
I've been using qutebrowser for few years now - how does Nyxt compare to it? I love seeing more keyboard driven software!
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by wraptile 5y ago
As much as I like Notion it has _a lot_ of work to do tbefore anyone can call it "perfect". It's text editor is very weak but I have stronger than average preferences so I'll refrain from commenting but more importantly
735.
by wraptile 5y ago
No way anyone cares about visual detail for job interviews.
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by wraptile 5y ago
Seems like Shopify Lite provides product, invoice CMS and payment gateway: https://www.shopify.co.nz/lite basically just no front-end and some other advance features by the looks of it.
737.
by wraptile 5y ago
Seems like that's the whole point of Shopify Lite[1]. It sells you the DB and payment backend without front-end; or am I misreading this? > Whether you’re on WordPress, Squarespace, Tumblr, or anywhere else, with just a few clicks y
738.
by wraptile 5y ago
yes, clicking on an item weirdly makes the image even smaller on my screen.
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by wraptile 5y ago
I like what Douglas Engelbart said about good tools (paraphrasing): if you use a tool the same way on the 1st day you acquired it and a year later - it's not a good tool. Which I feel a lot of modern software struggles to provide. Sure
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by wraptile 5y ago
https://mmm.page/sex.sells I did the first thing people do when new domain is available - go through hot words and park lol
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by wraptile 5y ago
Exactly, proof of work is even more for rich because it's all about availability to processors and cheap energy - guess who has that? super rich and corrupt. Proof of Stake is validation by faith in the network which is infinitely more
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by wraptile 5y ago
That's the question that has been bugging me forever and the only answer is network effect. Facebook apps _suck_. Prime example I like to use is Facebook groups - the most popular forums in the world right now and in terms of UX it cou
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by wraptile 5y ago
Can't wait for when aluminium foil wrapping your TV is the new normal!
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by wraptile 5y ago
I generally think it's just vocal minority. I might be subjected to survivors bias (I travel around SEA) but most programmers I meet, while older than me, tend to be quite healthy and happy! I'm getting closer to the magic 30s
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by wraptile 5y ago
> Hardware shopping is time-consuming, stressful, and never done proactively - so you suffer in silence till the new one arrives. Then you have to replicate your old workflow and warm the caches. What a luxurious problem to have: would r
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by wraptile 5y ago
Couldn't disagree with you second point more: you shouldn't let dangerous tech "play-out". It's much easier to kill snakes just as they've hatched. Basically every bad thing about web and software in general wa
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by wraptile 5y ago
One hack I've learned once I got burned by similar service is to always use virtual debit card with a spending limit if your bank supports one. I have a virtual card on Revolut dedicated to small subscriptions that freezes at 100$&#x2F
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by wraptile 5y ago
There's already popular open alternative that is arguably better: Googles Plus Codes [1]. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code
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by wraptile 6y ago
American software has been under "boycott" since PRISM - it's kinda getting old. Additionally I feel that people are bit tired of USA's evilness and the results of it are not so apparent but we hear of chinese protesters
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by wraptile 6y ago
I loaded up HN feed today on my old laptop and I legit thought this was just cached up page from this years April fools.

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