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by bnferguson 11mo ago
Absolutely love this little thing. Picked a couple up back when it was still a kickstarter and was super surprised at the build quality (shockingly heavy for its size) and how smooth everything went. It's not a thing I use everyday but
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by bnferguson 11mo ago
The book "Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity" has a large thread exploring this among both historical and contemporary mathematicians. How people who seem to have an almost supernatural gift for math are often
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by bnferguson 1y ago
I think you remember correctly! A lot of the BBS software would just show what the current user was doing as if it was their screen. I believe from there you could start a chat as the sysop and interact with them, else you kinda just watche
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by bnferguson 1y ago
Feels like Zig is starting to fill that role in some ways. Fewer sharp edges and a bit more safety than C, more modern approach, and even interops really well with C (even being possible to mix the two). Know a couple Rust devs that have sa
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by bnferguson 1y ago
Love this write up (and one's like it - there's so much good stuff in their archives). The stuff GloriousCow is doing with MartyPC is just so impressive.
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by bnferguson 2y ago
Quite. I had a great Christmas break a couple years back going through all the missions. It has some edges to it but people have also implemented things like RISC-V in it so it's also quite complete. The game portion is enough for fun
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by bnferguson 2y ago
That's the nice thing! You don't need to optimise the language and build a JIT as a smaller company, Shopify already did that for you. Just like Google did for Javascript, which lead to Javascript having any performance at all (wh
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by bnferguson 2y ago
I've somewhat regularly seen around 1400 show up. Which is just.... wow. I think of that whenever someone is angry about cookie banners. Like, that was just happening before without me knowing. Now when I see that, often I just leave a
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by bnferguson 7y ago
This question comes up a lot with synths and especially hardware and Eurorack gear. For me not being focused on finishing anything is what got me back into playing music (and eventually performing live sets). Previously there was so much pr
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by bnferguson 8y ago
I've heard that before from contractor friends, especially in London. Another option is working for a US company from Europe which I've done twice now. Wages can be quite a bit higher than working for a local company. Often both t
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by bnferguson 8y ago
Depends where you're comparing them to in the US but in general most European tech wages are lower than the US. If comparing to SF perhaps even shockingly lower. It can be hard to swallow at first, but when you account for lower rent,
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by bnferguson 8y ago
Found an old CDR from probably 98 or so a while back and it had my Eudora folder backed up on it. On a whim I clicked the exe and much to my surprise it started right up with all my mail intact. I'm so used to software just stopping wo
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by bnferguson 8y ago
Those gas pump screens are terrible, turns out a great deal of them have an unlabeled mute button, which has made me much happier when having to deal with them: https://www.reddit.com/r/lifehacks/comments/5szo
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by bnferguson 8y ago
You're getting voted down (likely for only saying the article is wrong but not why), but I'm curious your reasoning. I've tended to write in POSIX sh (for maximum compatibility - and because it was just the way I learned) - b
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by bnferguson 9y ago
But you still have to file, which is not only a pain, rather expensive. My tax prep bill last year was around 1200 EUR in the Netherlands on top of my Dutch tax prep.
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by bnferguson 9y ago
The study you pointed to for point number two are ten years old and predate pot being legal in any states at the recreational level. Additionally those stats are often considered to be enormously skewed as one of the primary ways you can av
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by bnferguson 10y ago
Ha! I totally used ToneLoc. Found all sorts of interesting systems in my small town. But the most memorable was my science teacher asking me why I called her at 3AM (I had disabled caller id blocking to save a bit of time that night). Whoop
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by bnferguson 11y ago
While I can't speak to all of your favorite packages, vim-mode is most definitely updated for 1.0 (it's very, very actively developed). If you ever did any development on packages, you may have a development version laying around
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by bnferguson 11y ago
May be worth noting that GitHub supports SVN as well ( https://help.github.com/articles/support-for-subversion-clie... ), I believe some of the others do as well IIRC. May be important to some legacy projects trying to g
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by bnferguson 12y ago
I'm not sure what others experiences are but for me it's mostly the same but also different in some ways than in the past. The biggest change is that there's more structure in some key places. For instance there are a few PMs
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by bnferguson 12y ago
Expanding on what mikemcquaid and mtodd said, essentially it's been replaced with bash and a sprinkling of ruby (Mostly for templating, IIRC). Me saying "replaced" is a bit of a misnomer though because the way we create, main
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by bnferguson 12y ago
Be careful if you use the GitHub "Web Flow" (edit button on files on GitHub) and this Extension. Saw one commit where someone was editing a readme to make some small correction. Well, the extension went ahead and replaced all the
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by bnferguson 12y ago
Yeah, that's totally understandable. Fortunately almost all of these cases are for accounts with no repositories. In cases where an account does have repositories (user initiated renames) the old URLs/repos will redirect as long a
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by bnferguson 12y ago
It absolutely happens at GitHub, but we typically will reach out to a dormant user to ask if they can get the name if a need comes up (and sometimes send goodies in thanks). Overall it's pretty painless, and the dormant users are thank
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by bnferguson 12y ago
I use this constantly. Building a PR up with lot of people watching and involved is pretty amazing. Certainly don't need to all the time, but when working on something sensitive or still ambiguous it's invaluable. So many of my PR
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by bnferguson 12y ago
Haha, not intended to be an easter egg at all. That message happens for any non-Organization-owned, non-private, non-owned-by-you repo. eg hit https://github.com/mbostock/d3 then https://github.com/cont
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by bnferguson 12y ago
Unsure how it is these days, but sometime back there were pretty huge issues with the rolling restart function (cluster mode pretty much didn't work, and would cause downtime) and UNIX socket handling in Puma (would hold onto sockets,
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by bnferguson 12y ago
These are manually curated at the moment. Though the selections may be inspired by machines. Or rabbits. Hard to say.
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by bnferguson 12y ago
Significant work has been done by tmm1, rsanheim and a host of others, but it's not complete yet. Basically, the work is on-going and pretty amazing to watch!
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by bnferguson 12y ago
Not completely sure all the blockers but I think it may have to do with 2.3 being in maintenance mode (may even be unsupported at this point). Either way, being able to contribute back is definitely one of the things people are looking forw

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