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541.
by zelly 6y ago
Windows switching to the Linux kernel would be wild, but I think we all know it's coming.
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by zelly 6y ago
Learned helplessness. You will never git gud if you're just copying and pasting libraries. I blame npm.
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by zelly 6y ago
> Employers will probably maintain work from home and cut back on office space. All those jobs that support maintaining offices may not come back either. I think there will be a greater demand for office real estate because suddenly ever
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by zelly 6y ago
Remember (approx. 6 months ago) when we were seriously, unironically worried that all menial labor jobs would be taken by AI? Now we're worried about all the AI jobs disappearing.
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by zelly 6y ago
HTTPS adoption is probably why this hasn't been publicly exploited yet.
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by zelly 6y ago
Legitimate shocks are not. For example, when Apple announces bad earnings or as a more extreme example, 9/11.
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by zelly 6y ago
This is not news. It was priced in when the S&P500 rose from 2300 to 2900. Now the market is starting to (already has?) priced in the Fed straight up buying equities.
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by zelly 6y ago
The market is pricing in the Fed buying equities if it gets too bad. The market consensus is that there could be 30% unemployment but ATH prices in the S&P 500 because of the Fed buying. If the Fed refuses to do this, then reality will
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by zelly 6y ago
SPAs are a product of the mobile app frenzy of the early 2010s. Web devs felt left out and tried to mimic the shiny UX of mobile apps. Also SPAs allowed the web app to be just another frontend client, like a third mobile OS, sharing the sam
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by zelly 6y ago
> this mode or that mode don’t matter because the slowest part of the creative process is the creativity and not your typing Exactly, the bottleneck is thinking, so why do I need the slick point-and-click tools in an IDE?
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by zelly 6y ago
Why? PGP works. (That alone puts it above its supposed alternatives.) It has existed for 30 yrs. That's 30 years of being exploited and patched. PGP (GnuPG at least) is lightweight. I don't need an Electron dependency or a multi-m
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by zelly 6y ago
Anyone can upload a key to keybase dot com too. You should never trust a key belongs to someone unless you have verified the fingerprint by other means e.g. speaking to them. This is basic security we have known since the 80s. Keybase dot c
553.
by zelly 6y ago
https://pgp.mit.edu/ has been around before and will be around after Keybase is long gone.
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by zelly 6y ago
https://pgp.mit.edu/
555.
by zelly 6y ago
The C++ API uses those gross Windows "^" pointers. Literally stopped reading there.
556.
by zelly 6y ago
came here to say this
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by zelly 6y ago
Agreed. On the beloved GNU/Linux distros, when you "$ python" and it's not installed, Package Kit will recommend you to install it through the native package manager (like apt or dnf). This is literally the same thing. W
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by zelly 6y ago
Can't wait until we just get internet from the air and this chokehold by local cable companies goes away
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by zelly 6y ago
True, Oracle is so old and docile that they'd never attempt a competitor
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by zelly 7y ago
god knows there are easier ways to make a C++ compiler vomit on you
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by zelly 7y ago
By this logic, any language with metaprogramming is undecidable because you can write undecidable programs as a metaprogram. Execution is not the same as parsing.
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by zelly 7y ago
> I'm really fond of my endless tinkering in Emacs, to optimize and automate away all kinds of repetition and tedium Me too, my .emacs.d directory has thousands of commits. It's fun. All procrastination is fun. It feels mischie
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by zelly 7y ago
This article is a real failure in the rule of Profile Before Optimizing. Changing your editor or whatever is a micro-optimization. Among professions where typing is involved, programmers type the least number of keystrokes. Secretaries and
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by zelly 7y ago
It's stagnation all the way down. Not only porn, video games, and TV, but cannabis and opiates have taken the 21st century by storm. Before that, the most popular drug was cocaine (and amphetamines). It's symbolic how as Americans
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by zelly 7y ago
> Because the main purpose of Harvard and other elite schools like it is to pick out the best ~18 year olds and set them on the course to be leaders in business, government, law, and other areas. Harvard isn't Harvard because they&#
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by zelly 7y ago
As long as it's $MY_POLITICS, I would love a one world government
567.
by zelly 7y ago
This was one of the best posts I've ever read. Thinking about printing it out and framing it. It's more inspirational than anything I've read, and it articulates the elephant-in-the-room problem we all know but aren't ta
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by zelly 7y ago
I'm not trolling. I'm confused why this is so controversial since it's widely accepted folk wisdom (and confirmed by science). Learning gets harder as you age. Just bing it. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-
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by zelly 7y ago
It doesn't mean the job is not important. It just means it's a different job from the other job titles which have existed for hundreds of years in the physical domain. Programming is more like being a lawyer than engineering. But
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by zelly 7y ago
C++ programmers will not switch to Rust. Most of them are older than the maximum age where you can learn new things, let alone be willing (or allowed in their company) to do so. Rust will be most popular with those who are 18 years old now

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