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by davidp 5y ago
The day-by-day dev log[0] is worth a read on its own. It's impressive what a single developer can do with the right determination and discipline. [0]: https://github.com/a327ex/SNKRX/blob/master/devl
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by davidp 7y ago
You're right that this is potentially anticompetitive, but “Companies will regulate themselves” is a cute libertarian bedtime story. I've never heard libertarians say that. Rather, they say that consumers have the potent
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by davidp 8y ago
Superb video, and in the public domain. Thanks so much for the link!
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by davidp 8y ago
I certainly hope we don't. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and the press, including the freedom to make mistakes and even outright lie. There is no godlike authority that can tell truth from fiction without fail, and h
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by davidp 8y ago
Seriously, switch to Firefox. It's good again, and prioritizes privacy.[0] After Chrome's forced-sign-in debacle [1] I switched away from Chrome on all my platforms (Windows, Linux, Android) and haven't missed a thing. [0]:
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by davidp 8y ago
Nothing built on X does mixed DPI well, because X itself (in most configurations) treats multiple monitors as simple viewports onto a single screen. A single screen with multiple DPIs doesn't make sense virtually any more than it does
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by davidp 8y ago
It's an improvement over writing csv files to disk. This is not a high bar.
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by davidp 8y ago
This is not intended to contradict your point, but the first video is an obvious marketing fluff piece almost certainly funded by the Chinese government (China Daily is not an independent news source). It is designed to manipulate foreign o
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by davidp 8y ago
They are hired by the agent You can and absolutely should hire one yourself. Additionally, if you have a buyer's agent, don't make the mistake of using theirs either -- the buyer's agent has the same conflict of inter
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by davidp 8y ago
These struggles sound much harder than what I've had to deal with; please accept my sympathy. About the student debt: That's a lot of debt. I suspect you and many other millenials were lied to when you were told that getting that
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by davidp 8y ago
Agreed. An expat is someone "on assignment", who has and expects strong ties with their home country. People who fit this description tend to frequently seek help from their own consulates, for example. It's particularly rele
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by davidp 8y ago
Agreed. Pre-Wayland, Linux/X typically needs to treat all your screens as viewports onto a single virtual screen, which of course has to have a single DPI. This is a more common use case than some folks might imagine. My laptop screen
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by davidp 8y ago
As simple as possible, but no simpler.
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by davidp 8y ago
> We didn’t need paywalls on the early web because we focused on plain text from other users. Plain text is easier to produce, lowering the friction for people to contribute, and it’s also cheaper to store and transmit, lowering the cost
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by davidp 8y ago
I like to trot out this old gem[1] when people wonder why there's so much hate for MySQL. Nontransactional DDL alone is sufficient to classify it as a toy DB for me. Yes, I've been personally bitten by it. [1]: https://
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by davidp 8y ago
You're mostly right, except that trees are now understood to not be a great way to sequester carbon: They eventually grow old and die, and the carbon in them is released as they rot. Over (non-geological) time trees are net carbon neut
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by davidp 8y ago
> he was a cool guy and I don't think he'd enforce the clause The problem with that kind of trust is that sometimes the person who makes the decision isn't the cool guy. It can be the company's lawyers who decide to m
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by davidp 9y ago
That's the apparent paradox in the galaxy rotation curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve
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by davidp 9y ago
I have a friend who is a linguistics professor at a major public university, and she has complained to me about some of the projects she's been involved with where her fellow researchers really are not good at math. Among other things,
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by davidp 9y ago
This light bulb is exactly why many people prefer statically-typed programming languages, especially above a certain codebase size/complexity and team size. Make my tools do the grunt-work for me, thanks, so I can focus on the actual p
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by davidp 9y ago
With the GPL at least, its major clauses are aimed at restricting software from being incorporated into closed systems. I don't know if eliminating that control was what the GP had in mind, but it would be one of the perhaps-unexpected
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by davidp 9y ago
Copyright is the foundation of all FLOSS licenses, from GPL to MIT. You might know that already, but that's a sharp double-edged sword you're swinging.
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by davidp 9y ago
Title II != net neutrality. Title II is a highly bureaucratic strong-oversight-in-all-things tool aimed at a completely different problem space, namely providing a legislative solution to the case-law-derived 1980s consent decrees with AT&a
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by davidp 9y ago
This is the problem that a lot of people have with the FCC regulatory approach, specifically abusing Article 2 of the 1996 communications act. Net neutrality is essential for the internet to continue to thrive and flourish as it has done si
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by davidp 9y ago
I know this isn't a comforting thought, but: Missiles from the most likely source (North Korea) are not thought to have very good accuracy. They may be as likely to hit Kauai or the big island (or the ocean nearby) as Honolulu. I hope
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by davidp 9y ago
Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics [1] is a superb book on the subject. It's lengthy but very readable, especially for its real-world examples. Particularly excellent are the explanations for the unintended consequences from price c
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by davidp 9y ago
> Has the top 1% really become _that_ much more productive over the last few decades relative to the middle class? No, and that's actually the crucial point: High wage earners in the US have remained that much more productive than t
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by davidp 9y ago
What do those charts look like for the rest of the world? I don't have the stats handy but I'm fairly confident that the middle class in China, Indonesia, and Malaysia has dramatically expanded over that time period, so it's
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by davidp 9y ago
Thanks for the tip, you made me go google some things! [0] Do you need a full-on JIT, or just a runtime? [1] [0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g... [1]: https://docs.m
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by davidp 9y ago
Yep. Civil disobedience, unsurprisingly, includes breaking the law.

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