TheAnswerMan

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by TheAnswerMan 5y ago
Performance. It matters even in the 20's.
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
Common lisp because it's lisp all the way down which makes debugging in slime is better then clojure. With CL you can just have a buffer and start writing code, evaling snippets through slime. With clojure you have to have a project st
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
The rest of the world didn't have area 51 military testing 50+ years ago producing sights no one had ever seen before. In a desert with clear skies. That triggered a cultural phenomenon. Tons of people like to make fake photos and vide
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
What if I told you people break the law and are dishonest?
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
There is no cure. The best solution is to feed the addiction. Buy as many monitors as you can then display as many subreddits on the screen as you can. Then develop your ability to read multiple reddits simultaneously. At night make sure yo
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
Would you consider rice to be "whole food plant based"? Populations that eat rice as a staple tend to get diabetes.
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
If you are are already familiar with apple software you'd be crazy not go with the new M1. Super power efficiency without compromising on power? Yes please. It's the first big advancement in a while. It's priced very well fo
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
Deciding between Debian/Arch is mostly about the package system. Debian locks in to package versions for stability. You don't need to worry about updating package A changing it's API and breaking package B. It's sort of
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
Sure, reducing transmission rate makes you less likely to be exposed in the first place. But it's not an alternative solution to a cure. Corona's have been with mankind since before history. They never go away and its a matter of
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
Both. Tabs up to the current level of indentation. Then spaces after that for alignment. Spaces never come before a tab, only after and only for alignment purposes. Everyone likes to take a dump on mixing tabs/spaces. But it solves all
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
Your assumption forgot that remote applies to the entire world, not just the Europe. Have fun competing with team from <insert South American Country> who mirrors time zones more closely with the US.
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
> Remote work will take care of this. If by "take care of" you mean put downward pressure on European wages, then sure. Unrestricted remote competition would benefit 3rd world developers and the 1st world employers. But not the
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
You have to destroy your social safety net or escape it.
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
Unreadable gray text on white background is the latest in Web Designer fashion.
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
You may want to tell that to France.
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
If you punch the US in the gut with tariffs you may get reciprocation.
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
You don't even need the "REPL" buffer to do REPL style development. You can just use the "eval" keybinds of your editor to eval the source code in the files. For any test/scratch code, just create a scratch fil
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
So REPL may make people less likely to document the code? I don't see the correlation.
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
1) fully remote 2) 50 miles away from physical workplace. 3) Great. Life is easier with less commuting. 4) Pro: no commutes. Helping the environment by not driving, and conserving precious fossil fuels for future generations. Con: physical
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
Their scarcity is not "like". The owner of beanie babies has/had full power to produce any amount of beanies, inflating their supply. The owner could start up the factory again and flood the earth with beanies. Bitcoin scarci
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
> How often is it used for that use case? 100% of all cases. You just used gold to ask that question.
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by TheAnswerMan 6y ago
Java minecraft did have issues. Professional game streamers were having issues due to the pause-the-world garbage collection. I don't mean to over hype the issue, minecraft became on of the most successful games in history riding on Ja