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by devnonymous 6y ago
Weren't they always ? ...if you consider editions. Which essentially is what the author's promoting - access to draft editions (and presumably updates, post-release -- this wasn't clear).
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by devnonymous 6y ago
Just tried findka out and going back to my comment about Stumbleupon, what I used to love the most about it was reading the reviews about the content I ^stumbled upon^ before even looking at the content. Pretty much the same manner in which
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by devnonymous 6y ago
This reminds me of Stumbleupon[1] from back in 2005-ish. I used to love using it before they decided to pivot and remove all of the things that made it great. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon
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by devnonymous 6y ago
For perspective, here's what HN looked like this day 10 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2010-06-10 ...have things really changed that much ?
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by devnonymous 6y ago
While I sympathize with the OP and try to imagine what it would be like, I have to wonder whether there /really/ is that much of change if we are speaking strictly about linux, the internet and programming in general since the las
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ReMarkable MicroSD(davisr.me)
3 points by devnonymous 6y ago|1 comments
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by devnonymous 6y ago
>...this guy has no idea what he's talking about. This guy is Cory Doctorow. I wouldn't say he has no idea what he's talking about.
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Japanese microbiologist and war criminal who was granted immunity by the USA(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by devnonymous 6y ago|0 comments
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Actually, it has a webapp which you can acess via your browser over the wireless or USB connection ip, which allows you a rudimentary upload/download : https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/360
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Woman who was treated with anti-HIV drug tests negative for coronavirus(newindianexpress.com)
2 points by devnonymous 7y ago|0 comments
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Besides the obvious benefits of git annotate and git log, the ability to do a git bisect to isolate the exact commit that caused a regression is invaluable. So, to answer your question, yes we do get immense value out of it.
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Client Kidnaps Freelancer for Not Completing Task(corporatebytes.in)
1 points by devnonymous 7y ago|0 comments
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by devnonymous 7y ago
You might want to read '500 lines or less'[1]. Here you not only read the code but also see it in the context of the 'bigger picture' of the design / architecture / problem being solved. [1] https://
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Forgive me my ignorance but isn't this scemantically how branch prediction and pipelining in cpus work ? As in when you are writing code that looks like 'isMultipleOfThree(n) && isMultipleOfFive(n)' in a lower level l
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by devnonymous 7y ago
I'm 42 and I think a lot of people here would find it surprising that my life just 20-25 years ago was radically different than it is today. To give an example -- then, the only way to contact me when I was not at home was to leave a m
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Those who like HTTPie might also like http-prompt[1] which is an interactive prompt built on top of it. [1] http://http-prompt.com/
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by devnonymous 7y ago
... And if people were truly reasonable then your original statement would make sense.
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Umm no. Can you read threads in whatever client you are reading this on? The post I replied to said that they were put off by a CoC and alleged that this is being pushed by bad actors. My point was to say that the CoC exists in the repos be
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by devnonymous 7y ago
You do realize that he is not an average Joe with business requirements to fulfill because he decided to mount that high horse, right ? This argument of 'Oh, he'd be singing a different tune if he had to deal with today's
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by devnonymous 7y ago
> Because reasonable people already know how /letting people use/modify/redistribute modifications is good for software/ and don't need a /license/ to tell them. I've never seen a case where a &#x
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Here let me be even more clear for the downvoting-without-commenting cowards : > It's a wretched, insidious *code* sneaked in by very bad > actors into mainstream open source repositories. How would have OSS projects his
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by devnonymous 7y ago
> It's a wretched, insidious text sneaked in by very bad actors into mainstream open source repositories. Replace text with code and think about how the supposed 'meritocracy' of open source deals with the problem? Isn&#x2
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by devnonymous 7y ago
> As an aside I really feel like LibreOffice had a lot of momentum back in the day, but when the whole OpenOffice/LibreOffice debacle occurred due to the Oracle purchase, the confusion of the branch (into LibreOffice and Apache Open
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by devnonymous 7y ago
AI is such a nonsensical word these days. Will automation eat jobs? Most certainly. Will automation based on machine learning become good enough to entirely replace humans? That's hard to predict. Depends on the data. I'd lean tow
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by devnonymous 7y ago
My thoughts : Social networks as we understand it today will no longer exist. There would be cyclical phases of fragmentation into specialised services and localised networks with attempts to bridge them via a common ^standard^ but of cours
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Of course I did but like any other process if there has to be complete adoption the benefits need to be clearly visible and significant. The problem with pure TDD (and remember that's what I am talking about - writing / updating t
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by devnonymous 7y ago
> As an added bonus, they are really not in the mentality of profit sharing/equity compensation seen in the US, so you can typically get them with a very cheap salary (think ~$50k/y), where a local senior developer would cost y
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by devnonymous 7y ago
As a veteran (20+ years) programmer I've yet to witness a project where tests are written before the code for the entire duration of the implementation. I personally feel TDD is the snake oil you need to sell to get your team to do wri
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by devnonymous 7y ago
No. Your responsibility as a seasoned programmer is not to code ! I'm a 20+ yr experience programmer and still hold the title Sr. Software Programmer and no. I say no. Yes the stack is deep but it is unnecessarily so. Yes, there's
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by devnonymous 7y ago
> I am ABSOLUTELY claiming that Oh well, I disagree with you on that then. However, irrespective of how we feel it could have turned out, the fact remains that Microsoft deliberately pushed for standardization of a document format which

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