Dewie

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by Dewie 11y ago
> To play the devil's advocate, maybe they deserve to die out. In other words "let me present my genuine opinion by wrapping it in a more presentable delivery".
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by Dewie 11y ago
Damn it - it seems I mistakingly replied to the whole thread, when I intended to reply to this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9276508
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by Dewie 11y ago
> On the other hand, in a statically typed language there is necessarily a distinction between code that is executed at runtime and (although we often don't talk about it this way) code that is executed at compile time. Is the disti
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by Dewie 11y ago
A friend wanted to become a lawyer in LA (he's not American). He travelled there once, and he changed his mind about that for some reason. That saved him some time from starting to study American law, I guess.
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by Dewie 11y ago
Ugh, my bad. I don't even know why I thought it was a landing page to begin with. Still, the same argument applies: for a personal website by a non-celebrity (status), it's pointless indirection to have to (for newcomers) expl
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by Dewie 11y ago
Well, I never thought that I was an innovating or unique grumpy mofo. ;)
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by Dewie 11y ago
> You are suggesting using screen space for the use case of a new user. Some people optimize for people that are already familiar with the program. It's a landing page, man. Unless you're a celebrity, you should "optimize
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by Dewie 11y ago
This should be good for the Apple stocks.
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by Dewie 11y ago
> Humans assume that standing, walking or running (or even sitting!) is something that you just pick up along the way. It is not. People are so presumptuous. What are they going to arrogantly assume next? That they can breathe properly w
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by Dewie 11y ago
> Because I'm already standing, I have an easier time walking away from my desk - to get a drink, go to the bathroom, confer with a colleague, go for a walk, etc. - and I've also been incorporating squats, calf raises and stret
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by Dewie 11y ago
Maybe first travel to the West Coast on a vacation or something to get a feel for what it's actually like. If you haven't already.
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by Dewie 11y ago
> In the end, simplicity won out. But the overly ambitious title remained.
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by Dewie 11y ago
> Lets say I turn this into some kind of guard dog system (bear with me). Imagine someone wanders onto my property. I'd rather get a text/mms than an email which might get lost in my inbox. You can't have push notification
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by Dewie 11y ago
> Maybe like me you use Fresh > and you have a OCD of hitting save every 2-3 seconds as you are thinking Please stop with this "OCD" bullshit.
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by Dewie 11y ago
> Full disclosure: I work at Google, Good for you buddy.
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by Dewie 11y ago
I'm referring to the "nothing is perfect argument". It gets used to muddy the water so that one can imply that it's all a wash . "Nothing is perfect" should be taken as a given on almost all topics, so it&#x27
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by Dewie 11y ago
> The thing is, there are no perfect language, just like programming languages. There has got to be some name for this argument tactic. It's so trite and useless. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259764
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by Dewie 11y ago
* rite of passage
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by Dewie 11y ago
The difference is that a user doesn't feel like just using his computer normally gives him any backup. But if his folder is inside Dropbox, he might be lulled into a sense of comfort since he thinks of Dropbox as a kind of backup[1]. S
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by Dewie 11y ago
So I guess the conclusion is that no mainstream cloud service is to be relied on.
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by Dewie 11y ago
Manifesto: > We called ourselves Autistici, instead, for the passion we have for understanding the technical tools and for exposing the politics implicit in the digital world; even if software is created in a virtual world it doesn'
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by Dewie 11y ago
> and the article linked from that comment is why I think Go is posed to become dominant over other new languages like Rust. Is there some law that says that any top comment on HN that mentions either Rust or Go, a mention of the other i
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by Dewie 11y ago
> That capitalism is being used at all to describe our current system, is a misnomer. Well then I'm confused, since I was just going by what you seemed to refer to. And I assumed that you were talking about a contemporary (now, +
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by Dewie 11y ago
Today's "good enough" is tomorrow's technical debt. But that works perfectly, if you know the exact lifetime of your codebase.
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by Dewie 11y ago
> Experimentation is the key to science. A sort of humanitarian science, since almost everything we touch have been made by other humans. But somehow STEM people are famous for looking down their nose on the non-hard sciences.
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by Dewie 11y ago
> As it should. If it weren't for capitalism we would not enjoy any of the abundance we have become accustomed to having in the past century. That argument can't be directly applied to the future. Just because a system worked i
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by Dewie 11y ago
> I had been using it for a while, and assumed it had been around for ages, based on how it seemed to be so oriented around a unix file system and using the command line. Unix culture seems to be alive and well to this day, and still see
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by Dewie 11y ago
Logic systems can have bugs in them that make them inconsistent, which means that you can prove false (or bottom or whatever), which means that you can prove anything in this logic. And that, in turn, makes the logic system useless si
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by Dewie 11y ago
On the other hand - I'm impressed or even astounded by how people are able to fumble through life and still end up in good situations and circumstances.
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by Dewie 11y ago
Because if there is one thing we've learnt about programming languages, it is: throw enough features at a language and it gets transformed from bad to good .

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