always_good

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by always_good 8y ago
There's nothing you can do to guarantee they are successful. What you can do is expose your kid to a lot of things and help them find something they're passionate about. Ideally something they can use to pay their bills too when t
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by always_good 8y ago
Doesn't that simply depend on how often you have to leverage human enforcement? Whether you have to do it <1% of the time vs 100% of the time would drastically change the answer to your question. It's like chargebacks. 99.9% of
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by always_good 8y ago
I did the same thing to grind levels in Runescape and I look back with regret, getting <4 hours of sleep during an important developmental stage in my life. My parents didn't even suspect that I'd do such a thing. But they coul
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by always_good 8y ago
Agreed. In another comment, someone points out that LoL/Dota2 require a lot of dedication and metagame analysis to be good. Which is true, but doesn't change the fact that I look back at all gaming I did as a massive waste of time
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by always_good 8y ago
How is the internet "tipping over" going to change what's fundamentally human? Changing the interpretation of what someone said to fit your argument can be seen on the school playground and in Plato's Gorgias. It's
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by always_good 8y ago
I don't see a righteous battle. You mentioned Emacs as a solution which has a Rust plugin that has problems like most other Rust tooling. Yes, Rust's tooling landscape is immature and still a work in progress. Obviously you can ju
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by always_good 8y ago
Well, that's always an option, so it isn't really advice. It's already what you have to do when the tooling support is bad. It's the poorest when an editor can instead inline its output of static analysis. Integration ha
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by always_good 8y ago
What about the good qualities that websites have, like the ability to link (and deep link) people to specific parts of it? The re-trending of the local application is a step back in this regard. And "when will this internet fad die off
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by always_good 8y ago
You could say this about anything though, so it's not very damning criticism of Kickstarter. Also applies to Hacker News and everything, individually, at the grocery store. And all the Amazon boxes piling up on our doorstep from holida
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by always_good 8y ago
I think I have some lasting trauma for the year I was on call. I still have nightmares that I'm getting woken up into a hellish situation to fix code I've never seen at 3am. Or that I'm out on a date or having a beer or tryin
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by always_good 8y ago
Nothing is safe from the HN Dismissal. What's the purpose of such flippant negativity?
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by always_good 8y ago
I hope you can appreciate how fortunate you are. Though 4 Euros ($4.50) is less than half what I pay for most books I want on Amazon. It would be very expensive for me to feed my book-reading habit like that. I couldn't afford it witho
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by always_good 8y ago
The NPM organization could go much further to make these attacks harder. You pitch a really good one: Any time you npm update/install, display ownership changes (especially compared to your prev version). Another one is to show the sou
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by always_good 8y ago
Be specific: what exactly would you do in Elm to pwn someone? It would be a much more limited and a much more visible attack. NPM modules don't even have source code on display. Someone has to download and check the tarball before npm
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by always_good 8y ago
If a contributor's end goal is to publish a backdoor, then making them wait 0 or 100 commits to the project before trusting them doesn't change the end result. In fact, if you had the energy to do the attack at all here (which too
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by always_good 8y ago
Then let me ask you, how long should have dominic let right9ctrl contribute to the project before trusting him and giving him publish capabilities? With hindsight, we know that right9ctrl is going to publish a backdoor the second he gets ri
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by always_good 8y ago
This doesn't make sense because Elm is client-side only, and all code that ships is client-side executable. Node, a general purpose language, has a scope that's much, much larger.
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by always_good 8y ago
There are a few issues with NPM that make this kind of thing especially easy/lucrative: - An ecosystem of massive amounts of transitive dependencies increases the number of people you need to trust. If I wanted to attack a project that
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by always_good 8y ago
The comic is basically "women have harder lives when they have low standards for the man they let knock them up."
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by always_good 8y ago
> you're a software developer and the setup would take you one day of work I hear this a lot and I don't get it. Just because I'm tech savvy doesn't mean I want to do everything myself. My time on earth is finite like
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by always_good 8y ago
Well, one problem is that apt-get's uninstall doesn't undo everything that could have happened during install. It's just like how you need software like Revo Uninstaller on Windows to actually clean up everything: why? It mig
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by always_good 8y ago
Half the article is a "but..." of its subtitle. The title even has "can" in it which makes it non-absolute.
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by always_good 8y ago
The upside of type inference is that making small changes to types upstream doesn't necessary incur changes to code downstream. But the downside of type inference is that it makes reading code harder and you may depend on an IDE to kno
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by always_good 8y ago
I have a hard time believing that you never used or heard of English's ubiquitous gender-neutral pronoun. You certainly weren't using "it" to refer to humans. I'm actually dumbfounded that someone would make this cl
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by always_good 8y ago
We easily treat language as a malleable device. Just look in literature or internet subcultures, but you can see it in day-to-day life if you think about it. You probably do it, too. The idea and exercise of this is so ubiquitous that I t
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by always_good 8y ago
> Or do the kids just think that's how it is/has to be these days? I just don't think that's the defining feature of a job for most people, and most people don't care so much. All of my schooling happened in &quo
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by always_good 8y ago
I still have plenty of reasons to communicate with the drivers. From giving more specific information about where I'd like to be dropped off, asking if they can make a detour, talking to them when they call me because I'm at a bus
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by always_good 8y ago
Maybe when they are immortal.
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by always_good 8y ago
Well, you were misinformed that you could learn a language by doing any one thing. Apps like Duolingo are just a method for daily exposure on the long journey of language learning. For example, reading only grammar books isn't going to
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by always_good 8y ago
Why not go a step further and pat yourself on the back for completing all the challenges without even navigating to the website?

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