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by chops 4y ago
The misanthrope in me has almost completely taken over when dealing with incoming sales calls, and I've almost completely abandoned the idea that anyone calling me to sell anything is worthy of the "humanity" label. The momen
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by chops 4y ago
This has the same energy as the opening of Joe Armstrong's (RIP, Joe) talk, The Mess We're In: https://youtu.be/lKXe3HUG2l4
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Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior(gamesage.net)
1024 points by chops 6y ago|566 comments
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by chops 6y ago
It is indeed very websockety. While it is a server-side rendering framework, it relies heavily on javascript and websockets (or fallback to ajax, if websockets aren't available). However, there isn't a built-in mechanism to handl
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by chops 6y ago
Honestly, only tangentially (at best). Nitrogen is fundamentally an Erlang web framework, however the OTP skills learned should be universal. but we don't dive too deeply into OTP. We introduce gen_servers and supervisors and leave
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by chops 6y ago
Thank you! You're right, the leanpub listing should have a link to the project's homepage, and a link to the Github. And I had removed the "Fork me on Github" banner thing from the nitrogenproject.com homepage, and forgo
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by chops 6y ago
I just want to say thank you to Stripe for being amazing. I'm just now dealing with canceling service with a traditional merchant account (I switched completely over to Stripe back in August), and the experience has been terrible and s
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by chops 7y ago
It blocks the on-page ads, but, if you opt-in will show you notification ads (non-invasive notifications), and will pay you for them.
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by chops 9y ago
Indeed! Evan was a great member of the Erlang community. In addition to those qualities, he is just a very friendly and likable dude.
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by chops 9y ago
Holy moly! So cringeworthy!
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by chops 9y ago
Screensavers are great. I spent endless hours watching Screen Antics (aka Johnny Castaway)[1], and the silly things he did. But I also watched countless hours watching this art screensaver that came with my Canon printer (I think it was Ca
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by chops 9y ago
I imagine Unity will live on in some way with a Ubuntu flavor called Uubuntu.
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by chops 10y ago
> I have averaged a sale per month for the last 10 years from people clicking through onto this page. That might be enough of a "Why" to justify the title.
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by chops 10y ago
PG doesn't appear to be active any longer ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg ). Looks like 2 comments in the last 2 years (and last post is almost a year ago).
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by chops 10y ago
My favorite is PG's request to limit the fluff and get back to technical discussions like posts about the "Innards of Erlang": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 Which lead to the famous "Erlang
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by chops 10y ago
Oh man, I remember that thread when it happened. That was something else. A glorious exchange.
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by chops 11y ago
I have one major use-case for (very cheap) inkjet printers: on the beach. I run a non-trivial number of beach volleyball tournaments[1], and the beach is not a terribly hospitable place for electronics. So I carry with me a cheap printer t
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Bitcoin's nightmare scenario has come to pass(theverge.com)
6 points by chops 11y ago|0 comments
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by chops 11y ago
Surely sometimes when you glance over a patch that even without actually working through the code, you get a vibe that something doesn't seem quite right. I know I've gotten patches like this before, and my code isn't nearly
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by chops 11y ago
In the show House M.D , Dr. House explained his desire to become a doctor as based on an experience as a kid with the Japanese caste system: "When I was 14 my father was stationed in Japan. I went rock climbing with this kid from sch
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by chops 11y ago
Autocorrect? My phone corrects postgres to "postures".
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by chops 11y ago
The idea that Erlang/OTP is an OS is something promoted by Garrett Smith in this talk ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZGHzI9F5YE ), and the idea that it is intentionally OS-like has been promoted by the Robert Virding
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by chops 11y ago
Thanks, I'll look into them!
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by chops 11y ago
After years of only reading technical, business, and philosophical books, I finally decided to take the plunge and read some fiction about 2 years ago. Since then, I've caught up with Song of Ice and Fire, read the first 11 books of Sw
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by chops 11y ago
Now if only the headline had been "This person just poured water on their scanner and you won't BELIEVE what happened next. Find out why scanner manufacturers HATE this one weird technique!" But yeah, I do agree it's a c
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by chops 12y ago
So if I understand you correctly, what you're saying is that if one were to bury a radio in rich soil, it will grow a large antenna and eventually become self-aware.
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by chops 12y ago
It's pretty common in the small business world, or even printing envelopes/labels for christmas cards, wedding invitations, etc. Most recently, I'm using it for rapid prototyping of cards for a board game I'm making, but
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by chops 12y ago
Next time I encounter this, I'll definitely do it. I might still have a file around that's doing it, in which case, I'll give it a send hopefully today or tomorrow. Thanks!
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by chops 12y ago
Inkscape is great. I've only recently started using it more heavily as a tool for building a board game with my wife. It gets the job done for me, and I don't have to unlearn anything, as I'm not coming from illustrator. I&#x
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by chops 12y ago
While I appreciate effort put into making the interface prettier, one of the things that really detracts from LibreOffice and why I almost invariably end up installing MS Word for clients is the confusing way which the mail merge system is

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