CodeMage

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by CodeMage 6y ago
> It's not a law of physics, but there are a lot of pitiable kids out there who have never even caught a whiff of good fortune in their lives, and the US lacks the social sensitivity to make them feel secure enough to add another y
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by CodeMage 6y ago
>The bar (which is already dismally low) will have to be lowered further for them to graduate, and how/when will it ever be raised back again? You don't have to lower the bar. There are other options. There is no fundamental
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by CodeMage 6y ago
> I find this essay to be extremely frustrating Thanks, I was worried I would find HN readers to be largely in agreement with it and I'm glad I was wrong about that. I also find that "we need to want these things" is t
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by CodeMage 6y ago
"Spomenik" definitely means "monument" or "memorial". In a specific context, it also means "tombstone". "Spomenica" is much less used. I'm a native speaker -- born and raised in Belgrad
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by CodeMage 6y ago
Although it's a very unpopular sentiment these days, I also want to go back in time to Old Yugoslavia. I still remember reading "Moj Mikro" and "Svet Kompjutera", attending JUDEF in Šibenik and making friends with k
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by CodeMage 6y ago
I found about Mycroft through their Kickstarter project, Mycroft Mark II. What convinced me to back them was that they said that, theoretically, I should be able to self-host their server on my own hardware at home. Unfortunately, they mism
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by CodeMage 7y ago
Yeah, sure, we would all have preferred to have responsible politicians who handled this correctly. Guess what? That ship has sailed. Most countries have "leadership" that handled this abysmally and now we have to deal with all th
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by CodeMage 7y ago
It's not about moving goal posts, it's about interpretation. Allow me to repeat the same quote, with my own emphasis: > It's not right to vilify these people while we give a free pass to everyone else doing equally uneth
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by CodeMage 7y ago
> One could say “we don’t want more price discrimination.” But that is a choice to prefer shortages over price increases. Except we're not really limited to only two options. Rationing might be an unpopular option, but it works ju
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by CodeMage 7y ago
No, the argument was pretty clear: we're at this point because the majority has been tolerating -- and even defending -- similar behavior for a long time; therefore, we should stop tolerating this kind of behavior in general, not just
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by CodeMage 7y ago
If you look at @programminggeek's point without passive-aggressive exaggeration and then at the wiki, you'll see that it's specifically called out as a potential problem. Sadly, it's dismissed out of hand as a "peop
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by CodeMage 7y ago
It would be really nice if the author could add a few images or a video of how it's used. I'm really, really bad at visualization.
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by CodeMage 7y ago
Replace "wealthy" with "not poor" and the grandparent's point stands.
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by CodeMage 7y ago
I'm curious: how many people did you lose because of the shift?
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by CodeMage 7y ago
I was disappointed they didn't do a test case with std::error_code. EDIT: Is there something wrong with std::error_code? I don't care about my points, but I'm worried I might have missed something I should know.
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by CodeMage 7y ago
> Prefixing this by saying I am not siding with Google (since people make assumptions). Prefixing this by saying I'm not making an assumption about who you're siding with, but offering my opinion on the argument you're u
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by CodeMage 7y ago
Did you read what the extension is for?
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by CodeMage 7y ago
> Why would Amazon behave less profitably? Simply because we perceive it to be more moral? Yes. Why is this so controversial? Why are we okay with profits being more important than ethics?
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by CodeMage 7y ago
> Chase explained to me that the charges can follow the person, not the specific card number. Can anyone explain this? It goes against all I thought I knew about online payments and credit cards.
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by CodeMage 7y ago
I can't edit my original comment anymore, so I'll just write a clarification in the reply. Many people have pointed out that C++17 has std::optional. While that's true, I don't think it'll deprecate raw pointers. I&
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by CodeMage 7y ago
This is not even remotely true. Let's say you have: std::unique_ptr<foo> m_foo; How do you pass that into a function that can receive a pointer to foo, but does not require it? The only way to do so is to declare the funct
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by CodeMage 7y ago
Another perfectly fine example: auto * logger = Logger::getLogger("main");
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by CodeMage 7y ago
No. I definitely wouldn't like to read a post with an attitude like the one espoused in the titled you proposed. However, I would gladly read a post that reviews Calibre codebase in a helpful, friendly way.
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by CodeMage 7y ago
I'm really sad to hear that. For the record, my case was in 2013.
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by CodeMage 7y ago
Treating PIP as a pink slip is toxic. It might have become acceptable, but it's still toxic. I've only been placed on a PIP once and it's my go-to story for explaining what a PIP should really be. I had just moved to United S
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by CodeMage 7y ago
While I had one, I mostly used it for: 1) playing music that can be named in English (because fuck other languages, right?), 2) setting timers, 3) checking the time. I find voice assistants to be of very limited use to me. Generally, I pref
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by CodeMage 7y ago
I listen to music on Spotify, I watch shows and movies on Netflix and Amazon Video. I buy my video games on GOG and Steam. I buy my books and read them on my Kindle. What does that leave? I don't pay for YouTube, for example. Not that
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by CodeMage 7y ago
Presenting ads and marketing as a line of defense from monopolies is disingenuous.
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by CodeMage 7y ago
Why? First of all, why must there be a dichotomy here? Second, why must I give each site my credit card number directly? Why can't we do that differently? The conventional wisdom is that ads are more convenient. I hope that, sooner or
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by CodeMage 7y ago
Different folks, different strokes. I'm also adblocking and I started way before it became a privacy thing, because I don't. Want. Ads. In my content.

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