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by z5h 5y ago
When someone finally rules the world, what will they do next?
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by z5h 5y ago
That's fair about the history of teaching C++. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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by z5h 5y ago
Why OO? Why C++ so early in the curriculum? These seem like very specific/opinionated tools. I got a degree in math without ever taking a “HP 48GX” course.
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by z5h 5y ago
As an ex-"backend-only-ignore-ux" developer, I find this quite helpful. Excellent work. Thank you.
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by z5h 5y ago
Nice thing about a (public) rubber ducking channel is you can just send a message to someone saying e.g. “I tried fixing the problem staring here… does that all make sense?”
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by z5h 5y ago
Best luck I've ever had "taking notes" was borrowing an idea from a former co-worker. He just rubber ducked everything in a personal Slack channel. You get time-centric notes, with the ability to link backwards to former thre
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by z5h 5y ago
Helpful article. Since I’ve avoided directly coding in JS for a while: So getters and setters add complexity and ambiguity to avoid typing “()”? Did I get that right?
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by z5h 5y ago
Amazing work. Bravo. If anyone is interested in an incredible piece of music along these lines, please do yourself a favour and check out TRISTAN PERICH 1-BIT SYMPHONY http://1bitsymphony.com (you can skip buying the hardware an
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by z5h 5y ago
Speaking of one liners... is there a way to get w3m or lynx to print a PRETTY formatted output to the console and exit? Seems all the dump commands are for plain text. Hoping someone here knows as this arcane knowledge doesn’t seem to exist
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by z5h 5y ago
That's outside of my bag o' tricks. There was definitely some pain getting things to work to satisfaction in the Jetbrains tools. In a few cases I simply had to adopt a different workflow. But I'm feeling pretty happy about i
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by z5h 5y ago
I just use the vim plugin in Jetbrains products. I get vim navigation, editing modes, basic macros. Vim emulation is not thorough, so I can’t get more complex features, but they seem unnecessary when I get Jetbrains features.
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by z5h 5y ago
Randomness is not the same as free-from-physics. The former is required for quantum physics, the latter is required for free will.
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by z5h 5y ago
I’ve been away from Linux for a while. So Microsoft is involved here, and Google’s Dart/Flutter is also a key foundational component? Am I understanding that right?
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by z5h 5y ago
Much harder to kill a language than an app, no?
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by z5h 5y ago
I get the sentiment. But it seems Google is "all in" on Dart and Flutter. https://insights.dice.com/2019/03/27/fall-rise-dart-google-j...
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by z5h 6y ago
Best experiences for me so far have been: Elm on the front talking to Firebase via ports, and Elm on the front talking to a backend via GraphQL. Still a fan of relational databases and SQL. I think Rails apps can get out of hand very qui
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by z5h 6y ago
Caffeine is a drug with several benefits (to those who need it) and some people may have undiagnosed disorders and are unknowingly self medicating.
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by z5h 6y ago
This is the question!!! I’ve been coding for 25+ years. In high school my dad would get me summer jobs doing highly repetitive assembly line work. Like, the same motions all summer. I spent years being a pretty serious into rock climbing. A
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by z5h 6y ago
“Scientists” and “pro-science” aren’t immune to forgetting the process. Which is why I clarified that the process is important. I agree with your conclusion. We choose our agenda and rationalize it. Something not too far off might be: pay a
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by z5h 6y ago
More than a reaction. Any agendaist who opposes science also makes it easier for other agendaists to oppose science. Their methodologies are essentially open source! I get in many arguements with friends and loved ones, not because I disagr
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by z5h 6y ago
Any group/person/movement with any agenda other than promoting science and reason must necessarily be against science and reason at points. Any “agendaism” must be prepared to attack science and reason as well as proponents of sci
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by z5h 6y ago
I’ll make a track 1 second long, post to Spotify, and with my Spotify account I’ll listen to it non stop. I’ll earn $26000/month. I see no problem here.
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by z5h 6y ago
Beautiful work. I've been doing a lot of chess puzzles this last year and apparently it's paid off quite well. An easy mate. Though I've been inspired to make a (less beautiful) chess game.
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by z5h 6y ago
“The mRNA slips into our cells, carrying instructions to make antibodies that target SARS-CoV-2”. No. The mRNA has instructions to reproduce part of the structure of the virus. Our immune system creates antibodies to the foreign and inert b
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by z5h 6y ago
"Those who never learned to touch type are not likely to grok the appeal of mouseless work." I think this is the problem. If it can't be explained, it makes me doubt there are objective improvements.
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by z5h 6y ago
Help me understand. I’ve always felt the limiting factor for me was the speed of thought, not typing or other text manipulation. My IDEs (Jetbrains stuff) with their defaults makes it so I spend more time thinking than typing. Often times m
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by z5h 6y ago
I've used Elm at 2 places for large production use, and in a large personal project. It would be my preferred technology by far. I'll add that Elm is actually what converted me from a backend (fullstack at times) engineer to front
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by z5h 6y ago
If you haven’t built an MVP and used it, how can you be sure it’s revolutionary or even viable?
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by z5h 6y ago
Excellent work, I'm very impressed. Having said that, I've experienced RSI in the past with several pointing devices (mice are the worst for me), and trackballs. I actually find the touchpad on Mac laptops to be nearly the least a
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by z5h 6y ago
Interesting perspective. Without agreeing or disagreeing, I wonder where, on which ladder I’d want to be. Old Money is probably best, but, I don’t really have a choice. Seems Michael Scott is the next best option.

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