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by cjfont 6y ago
Or what about sleeping in an RV, parked at different locations each night.
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by cjfont 6y ago
I use currently use puppeteer to do the same thing
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by cjfont 8y ago
JARs are okay, but they still require you to have the java runtime installed in order for them to execute.
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by cjfont 8y ago
So there's a lot of other things that can be done on the client other than interacting with the DOM. In particular, applications that render intense graphics, or manage a local database could GREATLY benefit from more efficient compil
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by cjfont 9y ago
Sometimes you don't realize there's a problem until you try doing it a different way. If you always wait until there's a problem, you're likely to get stuck doing things the hard way. There's nothing wrong with ta
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by cjfont 9y ago
He used QuickBASIC to compile it into an EXE and that was the copy he gave the students to play with.
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by cjfont 9y ago
Or the snake one called Nibbles - my 6th grade computer class teacher had made modifications to it adding levels, etc., and had his class play with what he had created. I was just starting to learn Qbasic at the time and he wouldn't l
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by cjfont 10y ago
A statement can also be an opinion, I think the intention was to differentiate from statements that are meant to appear to be facts but are false.
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Two Weeks Vacation Is Only a Recommendation, Not a Rule(expatsoftware.com)
1 points by cjfont 10y ago|1 comments
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by cjfont 10y ago
You don't drop an incendiary statement like that without at least citing an example of where that has been the case.
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by cjfont 10y ago
You could quickly drill a small hole in each case, in order to fit a tall button like this one: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8605 Also, there's some U2F devices that trigger the approval simply when they are
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by cjfont 10y ago
In regards to the length of functions, to me it comes down to whether it is preferable to have the entire content of the function visible to the programmer at the time any changes need to be made, or if there are multiple things going on th
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by cjfont 10y ago
Link to white paper: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P15-1150
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IBM invents printer that checks for copyrights(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by cjfont 10y ago|0 comments
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by cjfont 10y ago
Whatever the default search target for travel stay is, if there is one, will probably determine a large percent of what users will simply stick to using without bothering to change it to another preference, since they may not know better.
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by cjfont 10y ago
Viv is being presented as a platform for other developers to build on top of, and these 3rd party developers will be the ones responsible for fleshing out the specifics of how the queries will work given the domain they are implementing for
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by cjfont 10y ago
I too was left disappointed and wondering the same thing when I came to the end of an otherwise great article. My best guess is that anyone can do purposeful practicing simply by changing things up and staying out of one's "comfor
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by cjfont 11y ago
I'm going to guess that the format lends itself better to code obfuscation than JavaScript, for those that do not want their code to be open.
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by cjfont 11y ago
In many cases, side projects have absolutely nothing to do with one's mainstream work, so trying to have them gain traction at a company is moot. For instance, if I work for the government doing IT services, why should they sponsor my
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by cjfont 11y ago
According to the article, supernovas occur more frequently in younger galaxies, and we know these can blow a star's heliosphere away temporarily exposing all its planets to deadly radiation (which it seems has happened to Earth before)
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Dyon: A dynamically-typed scripting language written in Rust(github.com)
2 points by cjfont 11y ago|0 comments
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by cjfont 11y ago
They have a fox though, so that's cool.
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Webchurch: Probabilistic Programming for JavaScript(github.com)
2 points by cjfont 11y ago|0 comments
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by cjfont 11y ago
They can't be flaunting around big words like nanometer, it might discourage a layperson from reading the article.
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by cjfont 11y ago
I'm still not sure why one would want to place the data center at the bottom of the ocean. I would think that the disadvantage of not being able to perform maintenance for 5 years would be more significant -- can't they just crea
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by cjfont 11y ago
This doesn't seem to be a question of pragmatism -- they're going for a world record, not trying to solve a practical problem. I'm no expert on this, but it seems to me like the criteria for obtaining a world record title wo
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by cjfont 11y ago
But the importance of a job isn't what determines the salary of a worker, it mostly a function of supply/demand. A job may be absolutely critical to running a business, but if there's an oversupply of suitable applicants for
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by cjfont 11y ago
If my understanding is correct, you can use any of those C++ libraries from Rust as well.
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by cjfont 11y ago
> Then again, consumers might not be the main focus for Glass anymore. So, that's like saying it's dead for the consumer market, and isn't this the playing field we're talking about? It shouldn't be a surprise t
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by cjfont 11y ago
In each of those cases, none of those occupations can be really be interwoven into your life as tightly as a job where +90% of your labor is done via a laptop computer. If you're a farmer, woodworker, etc. you still need a separate pl

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