acorkery

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by acorkery 8y ago
Bit of a cliché, but nothing is free. You are choosing to use technology provided by a for-profit company. Community Edition does not mean it's owned by the community. It's absolutely irritating to have to create an account and lo
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by acorkery 8y ago
That's interesting. I suppose the written word is just a visual representation that needs to be parsed, natural that there could be thought processes that overlap and conflict with that process. The only similar experience I have is wh
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by acorkery 8y ago
> I think, when my mind wanders off while still reading that means I got "bored" with the text by already knowing what's going to happen and I switch to associative thoughts instead. Notice any difference between how your
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by acorkery 8y ago
I can relate with the reading issue. I've occasionally read 2 pages of a book while thinking of something else entirely, then realise I didn't absorb any of what I read. Not just tuning in and out - nothing.. I also can't ski
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by acorkery 8y ago
Ignorant and unnecessary.
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by acorkery 8y ago
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
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by acorkery 9y ago
Yeah, it doesn't work well for me either. However my 6-year old son uses the Google assistant on my phone a lot. "Lego Ninjago Kai video please", "Play". "Why do dogs have tails?" That kind of thing. I thi
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by acorkery 9y ago
If they say "Yes, why?", they're your friend. If they say "Fine." then they don't trust you. If they tell you "No, ..." they think you're a close friend I'm guessing you're a programm
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by acorkery 9y ago
> but if that is all you say, then it won't be clear how you do that, or how you're different from, say, a UI optimization tool which also improves end-user experience. In this example, what if the company isn't any differ
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by acorkery 9y ago
> The only way to reduce (you will never eliminate) such problems is to deal with the violators with certain, swift and harsh punishments (death). You put a lot of blame on the Catholic Church (not that you shouldn't) - but where ha
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by acorkery 9y ago
In the case of Russia, I was mostly thinking of it's treatment of disabled kids by the state. Up to 30% of russian disabled children are institutionalized - maybe orphanage is not the right word. https://www.hrw.org/rep
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by acorkery 9y ago
Not exactly the same, but there are kids suffering the same and worse conditions right now in orphanages throughout eastern Europe - Belarus, Romania, Russia.
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by acorkery 9y ago
Good points there. The autopilot thing - I don't see it like that at all. You can be doing a repetitive task and thinking at the same time. It can help you focus and relax. Also when you finish the menial task, you get a little smug sa
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by acorkery 9y ago
Yeah, sorry the plant issue is a bit of a silly point. I just meant that you can tell by looking at the plant, feeling the soil that it needs watering or not. So many of the use cases I see for smart home devices seem contrived. "What
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by acorkery 9y ago
I think these are great examples of technological aids that people really do not want in their lives. Our brains evolved long ago to a point where we can do many simple things concurrently, and there is a power/meaning in interacting d
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by acorkery 12y ago
Possibly, yes
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by acorkery 12y ago
Interviewers
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by acorkery 12y ago
It's hardly a full feature checkout.. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it just seems like a user-friendly form with client side validation. You still need to integrate it with a payment processor, hook it into your checkout process wh
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by acorkery 13y ago
Was it debated whether this should be a tooling feature - thinking of an IDE plugin that parses and type-checks in the background rather than a dedicated service to watch text files on disk
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by acorkery 13y ago
I like the async/await additions. Seems very similar to the .NET implementation. Was this an inspiration?
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by acorkery 13y ago
I really enjoyed this article. I started out programming in C, then quickly on to Java. I didn't appreciate the language at the time, but with hindsight, the fact that you need to worry about memory allocation and performance means you
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by acorkery 13y ago
I hope the guy who wrote this is 15. http://hownottohireadeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/no-im-g...
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by acorkery 13y ago
sorry, but..who gives a shit?
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by acorkery 13y ago
not sure what the opposite of graceful degradation is, but that's pretty close! They're right not to support it though.