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by davelnewton 5y ago
IMO that's an explicitly different issue than a comparison between Promises/async/await and Ruby's metaprogramming, though. Not to mention that part of the issue with Promises is the various polyfills invented before bro
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by davelnewton 5y ago
Promises/async/await seem very different than Ruby's (and Rails') metaprogramming to me. I'd need an example of a cryptic stack trace to know exactly what you're referring to--half the problem is because of the
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by davelnewton 5y ago
Couldn't disagree more, but I think you're taking the term "magic" too literally. There is a ton of magic in Rails. It consists primarily of magic. I've been doing Rails since <1yr of introduction (Ruby for l
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by davelnewton 5y ago
DI/IoC is a separate thing from the ecosystem; the benefits are just as strong in JS or Ruby--it's just that in JS/Ruby some of the benefits aren't as noticeable because of language malleability and openness.
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by davelnewton 5y ago
> Python already exists as a dynamically-typed server language. Ruby isn't new; it's only slightly younger than Python, and brought things to the table. Rails and Django are roughly the same age (and Django started off more as
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ZipGrow: Vertical farming/urban agriculture system(shop.zipgrow.com)
136 points by davelnewton 6y ago|95 comments
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by davelnewton 8y ago
* http://www.govtech.com/data/People-Counting-Cameras-Are-Watc... * https://www.fastcompany.com/3025926/one-company-is-trying-to... * https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/new
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by davelnewton 8y ago
Of those three? Python. Why? Lots of stuff built in or well-known. But it's almost entirely irrelevant: reasonable companies will either (a) expect you to code in the language they're hiring for or something at least used within t
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by davelnewton 8y ago
Winter is coming.
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by davelnewton 8y ago
I don't know why not; IIRC FireWire was LVDS (4+m), and LVDS doesn't specify ("care about") distance, just loss between driver and receiver. I vaguely recall lossless transmissions between 10-30m, which is more than enou
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by davelnewton 8y ago
Trivial hacking is probably unlikely. Vehicles generally use CAN bus, but whether or not the camera data is available on the bus... I have my doubts, but if it's there, that'd be pretty cool. My guess would be there's a dedic
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by davelnewton 8y ago
I disagree. This doesn't "diminish the person's feelings", it's saying that feelings aren't always relevant. Not being motivated is part of life. If something must be done motivation (or its lack) doesn'
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by davelnewton 8y ago
> Your remarks here strongly suggest my conclusion was spot on. I believe it suggests what I said in the comment above: you're putting the onus on women to "know what works" instead of on men/whoever. > Your remark
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by davelnewton 8y ago
But it is more or less what you said: > [...] women need to know what works and what doesn't. I think men and women need to not treat people as sex objects regardless of how they dress. Saying that "women need to know 'w
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by davelnewton 8y ago
If it's necessary then motivation is irrelevant. You don't have to be motivated, you have to work. Your problem isn't motivation, it's not understanding that not all work is, or needs to be, pleasant, or intrinsically en
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by davelnewton 8y ago
... By writing, like you said. It's no more complicated than that. That you're asking this here leads me to believe there's some unknown (to me) internal resistance holding you back: start writing. Write some more. Then write
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by davelnewton 8y ago
Hrm.
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by davelnewton 8y ago
I suppose it'd depend on the definitions of "great" and "work". Original moon shots? Latex? In general, once you reach a critical mass of code, it stops being "great" and starts being "mundane",
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by davelnewton 8y ago
This brings back memories... One of the greatest heads-down hacking I did was back in the day, running some variant of Common Lisp, working myself through Koza's _Genetic Programming_ book. The designs arrived at were literally non-hum
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by davelnewton 8y ago
That's redundant; all marketing is designed to manipulate the psyche of its targets.
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by davelnewton 8y ago
Why would it go up more than 25% for 25% more hours? Did you mean the 22% you stated originally? If you work 25% more, you should make 25% more, seems pretty simple.
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by davelnewton 8y ago
They do--they don't have a backspace key. But they mean backspace.
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by davelnewton 8y ago
Yes, but not all keyboards have it (e.g., Apple) and you have to combo to get DEL.
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by davelnewton 8y ago
Meh; I do freelance copy-editing and transcription, and I never use it.
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by davelnewton 8y ago
The delete the character "before" the cursor; I'm not sure I understand the question. RTL languages still have forward and back, they're just RTL: it's still a backspace. Re the larger question: historical. Never se
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by davelnewton 8y ago
If you're not directly profiting from the acquisition, then this is only barely a lateral move, with more work and responsibility (so not really lateral at all). I would tread carefully: if it's a matter of the heart, that factors
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by davelnewton 8y ago
Without any analysis, this "seems" to be somewhat spurious. TL;DR: Default RNGs aren't generally cryptographically random. That said, the human mind is good at finding patterns where there aren't any, e.g., apophenia, pa
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by davelnewton 8y ago
It's supposed to set the time automatically? AFAIK it just does NTP lookups. I don't know how often it's supposed to do that, IIRC there's a registry setting to set the poll interval. The time server used may impact func
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by davelnewton 8y ago
Then you just need to read the chip docs and initialize "everything" to a reasonable state. There's not much to it beyond that--there's no generic process for doing that. Loading an app from an SD card is likely harder t
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by davelnewton 8y ago
I... am not sure what to say. Anybody can learn a language, especially if they already know any, relatively quickly. Teaching someone to think about how to solve problems is much, much harder. I'd take someone who can think over some

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