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by xcambar 5y ago
The status of History and the contents of History school books are not to be conflated. History, as a science, is a mixed bag of debates and consensus. History school books are bound to national political ideologies. Edit: s/confounded
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by xcambar 5y ago
Certainly but it would only invalidate my point if I had stated it as universally true.
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In case you end up not dying, it makes it memorable enough so that you won't reiterate the action causing you to almost die. "Oh sh*t, that was traumatic. I'll never eat these gorgeous little berries if they caused that"
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by xcambar 5y ago
I was probably too implicit but when I wrote "which is a very bold assumption ", I also meant that I am in disagreement with the statement. For me, open source and community-driven are not similar and I don't understand why p
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by xcambar 5y ago
nowadays, it is expected that open source is also a synonym for “community-driven”, which is a very bold assumption. I don’t know how we got to this point but it’s interesting to notice that the terminology drifted.
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by xcambar 5y ago
I'm in a totally different competition: how to get sh*t done quickly, get others to handle the hard parts and get good maintainability so that I can go home sooner?
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by xcambar 5y ago
> Also, it automatically updates after pushing a commit to GitHub, which seems nice. also not new, but you know that already :)
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by xcambar 5y ago
it is not different. CGI is replaced by JS Apache/nginx is replaced by CDN web server is replaced by edge nodes (aka, glorified runtimes automagically spread across many endpoints)
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by xcambar 5y ago
To operate properly at the scale of hundreds of engineers pushing changes, you absolutely need a cluster of machines and a team to operate it. It is significantly cheaper and more efficient to pay a third party.
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by xcambar 5y ago
Absolutely. My initial comment was using Rust as an example only. It also applies to Go. But not to JS or Python, to be clear.
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by xcambar 5y ago
I never understood this state of things as well. Additionally, I can't picture a rationale for this decision, coming from Github.
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by xcambar 5y ago
My reply will be short, but hopefully insightful: Congratulations, you're curious and have an intellectual appetite! Some people do sports, some people collect stamps, some do RPG, some... and some are curious of academic disciplines (
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by xcambar 5y ago
As far as I'm concerned, my preference when learning a new language is to build (in order of preference): * a CLI tool * a backend service * a plugin to an existing tool * an HTTP API / web app You will note that a basic CLI tool
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by xcambar 5y ago
Additionally, on the other end of the spectrum, small quantities (3-4) of countable items don't need conscious calculations to be counted. Beyond 4, we need to sum the items consciously. Beyond 10 (or so), the error rate on quick quant
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by xcambar 5y ago
A cash-only society is also a more expensive one, for everyone: not only individuals are forced u to opening a bank account and owning a card, but the businesses have to pay fees to accept card payments. I have seen many small businesses go
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by xcambar 5y ago
Unless this prop is used as a comfort totem and you can't get your hands off or your attention away.
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by xcambar 5y ago
I recently interviewed at Amazon, and failed. It was quite memorable in a bad way, it felt very unwelcoming and mechanical. I even wondered during the interview if I was actually talking to a human being or to a very elaborate AI + deep fak
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by xcambar 5y ago
It seems your perspective on the industry has been built over the hype of "Software will eat the world". Aell, I'm not discussing whether this is true or not but just remember that building software is about building automati
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Type-Fu(type-fu.com)
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by xcambar 5y ago
You're talking about the contents, GP is talking about the devices/engines. They can't compare.
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by xcambar 5y ago
I have tried and decided to ignore mechanical keyboards and custom layouts altogether. Why? * I do not have (yet?) any pain or trauma in hand or wrist * I type 50%-50% on the laptop's keyboard or a desktop, and my brains can't see
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by xcambar 5y ago
the very top row of the very first screenshot has what you're looking for.
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by xcambar 5y ago
Is this for real? To me, it looks way too error prone (3D movement per key... wat) and english only. I honestly wondered whether it was a stunt from Cards Against Humanity or The Onion. But if not, you got me curious.
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by xcambar 5y ago
Anything reimplemented in whatever is the trend-du-jour is boring, I agree. I tried to find exceptions but couldn’t.
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by xcambar 5y ago
"Neither" is an option. The marketing copy indicates something else. But that'd be the best option yes.
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by xcambar 5y ago
I love working with JS/TS (front, back, tooling), but find Node more and more annoying (especially bothered with packaging a release for production, lately). So naturally I tried Deno lately. Some things mentioned in other comments wer
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by xcambar 5y ago
> There’s several reasons you may want to hide a face: > [...] > * The faces of protestors who are standing up against a grotesque war I don't know if I find this disgustingly opportunistic or a solid gesture of protest and su
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by xcambar 5y ago
As a typical HN member, I too saw Vim first. But that's a very biased population for sure!
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I’m going to be the devil’s advocate here and vouch for no-code. The HN crowd is not the target, so do not expect to understand it. in fact, you should expect to NOT understand it. I’d say that no-code tools are made with the same mindset a
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by xcambar 5y ago
Absolutely. As a European, I see Biden as less involved than his EU counterparts. Especially Macron and Scholz, at the moment. But I'd accept there could be a bias here :D

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