Tideflat

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by Tideflat 1y ago
Letting software engineers use their favourite tools, even if those tools are suboptimal, is a way to make your engineers happier without paying them anymore. it may cost you more in slower development times.
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Compile time regular expression in C++(github.com)
72 points by Tideflat 3y ago|29 comments
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MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer(ephtracy.github.io)
293 points by Tideflat 8y ago|64 comments
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How to contact CBC anonymously(securedrop.cbc.ca)
2 points by Tideflat 8y ago|0 comments
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Telepathy(telepathy.freedesktop.org)
1 points by Tideflat 8y ago|0 comments
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Telnet mapscii.me(asciinema.org)
2 points by Tideflat 9y ago|0 comments
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Yik Yak shuts down and sells off engineers for $1M(theverge.com)
4 points by Tideflat 9y ago|2 comments
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by Tideflat 9y ago
I, for one, can see what he posts and they aren't hidden in any way.
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Todo.txt: Future-proof task tracking in a file you control(todotxt.com)
3 points by Tideflat 10y ago|0 comments
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Trantor: the Big Town(rocketpunk-manifesto.com)
1 points by Tideflat 10y ago|0 comments
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by Tideflat 10y ago
In vanilla C, exceptions do not exist. Thus goto is the standard (at least for the Linux kernel) statement for handling exceptions.
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by Tideflat 10y ago
Inkscape is defiantly software where reading the manual is a good idea. I tried to use it with out doing so, and found it unusable.
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by Tideflat 10y ago
Not all markets are superstar markets. Some places the 100th best worker is about just as good as the best worker, like for janitors.
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by Tideflat 10y ago
Use boustrophedon for equality!
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by Tideflat 10y ago
Many countries are irregular polygons like Chile. Thus a square is very close to a circle, relative to the other shapes.
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by Tideflat 10y ago
Less well known languages like Japanese tend to have higher returns on investment than common ones like Spanish. IIRC Spanish has a return on investment of about 3%.
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by Tideflat 10y ago
This only works when there are economies of scale. If there are significant dis-economies of scale smaller firms can out-compete the large firms. The large firm can't just buy up all the small firms either because new firms are started
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by Tideflat 10y ago
Job training by employers doesn't work great, because the worker can get training at an employer that gives training and then switch to one who pays more because that employer doesn't have to do training. Though possibly that coul
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by Tideflat 10y ago
The business owner also doesn't have the training to account for the actions of all the other businesses. The economics professor does.
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by Tideflat 10y ago
Some employers dislike tipping because they can't control what percentage of the price of food goes towards paying the wait staff.
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Russia Wants to Test a Nuclear Space Engine in 2018(popsci.com)
3 points by Tideflat 11y ago|0 comments
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by Tideflat 11y ago
Having little or no fees was supposed to be one of the big advantages of bitcoin compared to traditional financial transactions.
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Find what links any Wikipedia article to Kevin Bacon's article(wikibacon.pancakeapps.com)
3 points by Tideflat 11y ago|0 comments
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by Tideflat 11y ago
Note that MySpace still exists.
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by Tideflat 11y ago
Woot! I can stop feeling guilty about hosting my hobbist code on sourceforge out of laziness and not understanding git.
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by Tideflat 11y ago
The people that still use flip phones do. Not everyone is on the forefront of technology.
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Beautiful Decay of AOL(invisibleup.neocities.org)
116 points by Tideflat 11y ago|52 comments
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by Tideflat 11y ago
There is a tendency to make names that are okay for print but hard to pronounce like X.org or XFCE.
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by Tideflat 11y ago
The costumers do get VC-subsidized cleaning for a while though. (Not saying it great, but it is good for the costumer is the short run.)
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by Tideflat 11y ago
Or Wikipedia books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Books (This is not Wikibooks.)

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