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But the site is safe from dosers
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4y ago
Could build your own protocol ontop of SMS. Double opt-in, encrypted and signed. See for example MMS.
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4y ago
A garbage collector has saved my brain from overfrying many times.
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4y ago
had two batteries "explode" (ballooned ¹) because of this, then I switched to another phone and knock on wood the battery has not yet exploded (about 2 years). ¹ This is probably why you should not cut off the battery plastic se
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4y ago
I once built a shop like this for a client. Just place an image in a folder. Put the price in the file name. Then they wanted more features... each article needs to have an article number, fine add that to the filename too. Different catego
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4y ago
Recommended: Search Youtube for "Social evaluation by preverbal infants". We are basically born evil (to like people that hurt people that are not like us) and empathy (towards people that are different) is learned through society
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4y ago
What is your take on "auto" coding tools like Tabnine and Copilot ? How useful are they in your line of work ?
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Programming is mostly copy/pasting from stack overflow and example codes. (if you write documentation make sure to have great examples). Then there are software libraries for about everything, and compilers do the optimization for us.
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> Linux kills random processes by design Linux will only kill processes if there are no swap left. So always have swap. You can also configure what Linux should do when there are no memory left.
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All software is shit, the more you have the bigger the pile. So if you want to write a fast and bug free program, make the scope as small as possible.
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We are what we eat. Could try changing to the same diet as the donor...
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4y ago
The best science is found by accident.
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Pixel perfect existed in an era where almost everyone had 800x600 screens. Today it's about adapting to many different screen sizes and devices. So when people say pixel perfect today they're 20+ years too late. :P
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4y ago
undefined is not a function
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Rewriting a recursive function into a for-loop can be mind boggling, but you often end up with more simple code.
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Had a coworker that just indexed everything, and it worked too.
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If you are doing optimizations I would say you need at least a few years experience in the language. You often see people say they switched from language A to language B due to performance, then some guy optimizes the same lib/function
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4y ago
RIP Opera mail, where you could sort mail using Bayesian filters and everything was grouped by date.
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4y ago
Modern nuclear power plant around 1GW. Modern wind 8MW per pole (175m propellar)
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An app that starts out as a web app, but lets you add it to your desktop and it will look just like any other app on your computer. Given that the browser/OS supports it.
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Almost every time I open up a Word document in LibreOffice there is something missing or wrong. It's because the Word document files does not have an open standardized format. Having a standard format means that you can build on-top, i
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4y ago
The difference is that this website is accessed by humans, while API's are accessed by programs.
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Pagination in API's are a PITA as you have to make many requests to get all the data. 99% of the time you want all data, not just the first page. For the 1% use case you could use http-range or page. Pagination is often implemented as
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4y ago
It can be existential to a startup to get a good engineer that can get an MVP up in two months, versus a big team that takes 3 years to create the same MVP. The next two hires also need to be good. Then the 4th hire can be a specialist, the
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In what city ?
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If someone pay people to collect data you could outright sell the data to them.
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Or put those query results behind an anti-bot/"capcha" test.
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The most important skill is to know if something is good or bad. So its about having good taste. The rest you can learn by training. Do copy the best designs until you can make your own from scratch.
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Ive made https://webide.se that gives you a Linux shell on a shared machine. I count on Linux to be secure by default. So users are free to do whatever they want except email spam, dos attacks, and crypto mining which is blocked
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You dont need JS nor massive frameworks to build a static web site in order to publish stuff online. I reccomend learning vanillla HTML which is very simple if you compare with modern JS and CSS frameworks.
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