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by zeveb 6y ago
> There's a reason senior engineers are paid what they're paid, and it's because it saves time like this The right senior engineers, yes. The wrong ones, OTOH, would have gone further down the crazy path, inventing an a
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by zeveb 6y ago
> I don't know why we don't switch to Teams. If you'd used Teams, you'd know why. It is hilariously bad, gratuitously slow, ludicrously weird. I have periodically had to use Microsoft's team chat tools over the
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by zeveb 6y ago
> But this is entirely rational when you live in a society not far removed from subsistence farming, threatened by civil wars and with relatively weak civic institutions: social capital is simply more reliable than material capital. Heck
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Are you getting a one time allowance to buy your home office setup (desk, external monitor, etc)? Note that this really should be a recurring stipend. Nothing lasts forever; everything has a service life. I think a three- or four-yea
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by zeveb 6y ago
Do you have any concerns about the so-called 'right' to be forgotten? Are you concerned that anyone who was active back then might lose a job now due to his postings a couple of decades ago?
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by zeveb 6y ago
That's one thing I really like about Common Lisp: a project can be untouched for over a decade and still work perfectly with the very latest versions of SBCL/LispWorks/Allegro/CLISP/whatever. Sometimes a library can
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by zeveb 6y ago
> To suggest he did nothing is a flat out lie. The deadline for nominations was eleven days after his inauguration. What did he do in those eleven days — other than not being Mr. Bush — that made him merit the prize? Seriously, when I
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Pre-modern science, while not blind to utility, sought knowledge primarily in order to understand philosophical questions concerned with meaning, being, the good, and so on. Modern science, by contrast, grew out of a revolution in thou
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by zeveb 6y ago
You can get both great quality and low latency by using wired headphones and microphones.
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> A pod exists but is less common. It may be less common, but it's where Kubernetes got its term 'pod.' Docker's mascot is a whale, Kubernetes manages groups of related Docker containers … pod!
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by zeveb 6y ago
https://twitter.com/ernietedeschi/status/1308748407633309696 These graphs appear to show that real, inflation-adjusted median-income is higher for Gen Z that it was for Millenials, higher for Millenials than it wa
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But then you'd be stuck with an iPhone, not running Linux, unable to develop, run and share free software.
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> Stop pandering and go back to making a decent browser... Once I saw that they expended significant resources and thought on changing 'Master Password' to 'Primary Password,' I knew that there was no hope for them.
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by zeveb 6y ago
I really like what you're doing here, but oh my goodness that Jsonnet cries out for a more readable format which lets one focus on the semantics more than the mechanics of the mixins. This looks way more legible to me: (service m
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by zeveb 6y ago
OTOH, sometimes the CSV munger one writes today is still in use five years later, when the input CSV has a UTF-8 character for the first time, and suddenly it crashes and no-one knows where the bug could even be.
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by zeveb 6y ago
> If you're working with a "blank slate" PHP app (or whatever), where you've personally written most of the lines of code involved, typing can feel unnecessary. > If you're glueing together Enterprise Bean Fac
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by zeveb 6y ago
> It only starts looking unbelievably complex when you take control of every single stage and step, and are this doing the equivalent of running multiple enterprises. Yup, and that's a good part of the problem with central planning
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REUSE software: making licensing easier for man and machine(reuse.software)
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by zeveb 6y ago
Not bad! They remind me a bit of vector versions of the awesome bitmap artwork Susan Kare designed for the original Macintosh in 1984. These are not really my own style, but they are undoubtedly tasteful. A project could do worse than to t
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by zeveb 6y ago
From https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat... Just the first Google hit — I didn't do any thorough vetting other than it doesn't appear to be propaganda.
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by zeveb 6y ago
That is also true of any CEO supporting gun control, and yet the number of CEOs I have seen driven from their jobs for that thoughtcrime is zero.
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Spain: 212,555 Belgium: 320,007 Sweden: 190,186
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by zeveb 6y ago
> As William Bradford, the first governor of the Plymouth colony, wrote in a letter in 1623, “If ye land afford you bread, and ye sea yeeld you fish, rest you a while contented, God will one day afford you better fare.” I am pretty sure
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by zeveb 6y ago
> As the UK proved, a nation in the EU is free to leave the EU, but a state in the US is not. (Without consent of the US, of course.) Which article or amendment of the U.S. Constitution forbids a state to leave without permission of the
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by zeveb 6y ago
U.S. states are sovereign states, just like EU states are. They United States government itself is also sovereign, in a sense that the EU government itself may or may not be. (Most) Americans live under two sovereigns: their state and t
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The problem is that people want cages. They want cages, especially, for their foes (real or perceived): every time you hear someone say, 'there ought to be a law' what he is really saying is, 'I want armed men to use the thr
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> The fact that it's impossible to make good decisions doesn't change the fact that a decision has to be made, nonetheless. Does it? Maybe the right answer is not to make all decisions in one place: maybe the right answer is t
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> Unless we just forgive rent until a vaccine is out, many people will never catch up. If 'we' forgive rent owed landlords, will 'we' also forgive the mortgages those landlords owe the banks? Will 'we' also
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He did say that he prefers Emacs to be Emacs; Doom Emacs is more of a vim-in-Emacs, isn't it? That's probably a very good thing (were I starting out, I would probably use Doom or at least Evil mode), but for those of us used to t
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by zeveb 6y ago
I do really enjoy a lot of YouTube videos, but there is an opportunity cost for each one, just like any TV — or going to a show or sporting event. What I find works is to timebox or budget my video consumption, say to lunchtimes, or no more

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