dexterous

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by dexterous 9mo ago
I agree that the "there aren't enough programmers for language X" argument is generally flawed. Acceptable cases would be niches like maintenance of seriously legacy or dying platforms. COBOL anyone? But, not because I think
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by dexterous 3y ago
Someone converted those to other digital formats (EPUB, etc.) and uploaded them to The Internet Archive. There's a link to the Archive catalog entry in their reddit post -> https://www.reddit.com/r/SmarterEveryD
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by dexterous 3y ago
Yeah, they just restrict you from doing stuff; like browsing large swaths of the Internet, for instance.
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by dexterous 4y ago
> A substitute command is ~~a class~~ an application of regexes. FTFY (Edit: forgot HN markup doesn't do strikethrough; that's what the ~~'s are for above.)
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by dexterous 5y ago
B2C markets with long-tails.
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by dexterous 5y ago
The COO at my last job kept touting the aphorism "Data Trumps Opinion" to the point where he had T-shirts made with that (facepalm!) I'm just glad those just sat on his table and never made it onto anyone's back.
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by dexterous 5y ago
Like I've always said, if there's something to be learned about society, you'll learn it in Star Trek. "Mr. Worf, villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are w
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by dexterous 5y ago
I'd say that ( https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=frame.work ) covers it. :)
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by dexterous 5y ago
> The push back is culture and practice of "we are all adults here" and that influences the language It's strange that a general idea expressing (assuming?) overarching maturity has led to quite so many petulant arguments,
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by dexterous 5y ago
Sure, we'll do all that. In the mean time, could you please get started on getting the _rest_ of the community to adopt that as a well established idiom and then also have them initiate efforts to adapt popular libraries/framework
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by dexterous 5y ago
The only explanation I have that makes any sense is that it is a very Application Developer solution to a System Administration that hasn't matured it's abstractions and is now trapped in Tech Debt purgatory.
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by dexterous 5y ago
https://twitter.com/thejoshtorres/status/1389623426688569345 Relevant excerpt from It doesn't have to be Crazy at Work.
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by dexterous 5y ago
I had a feeling someone was eventually going to pull this one out. :)
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by dexterous 5y ago
Really? Not tech that _actually_ works?
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by dexterous 6y ago
> Also, the GitHub sale was 2.5y ago, if things would have gone wrong, we would have already seen the cracks. Let's see... it took them, what, ~7yrs to screw Bungie over and take Halo away from them? So, I guess it's still too
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by dexterous 6y ago
Well, Intuit showed a little restraint and didn't offer to pay an obscene price for Credit Karma. :)
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by dexterous 6y ago
> Plaid claims to not store this info, and I assume that they don't Think of it as Plaid storing OAuth2 access tokens, sort of; and the tokens do expire (over pretty long periods), though, some bank integrations do allow them to gen
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by dexterous 6y ago
You get an upvote just for the sheer brashness of that comment! :D
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by dexterous 6y ago
No, they always knew the 500x valuation was BS. It's pretty much like they said, it was a defensive acquisition to prevent the data from going to any of their closest competitors. Visa had no idea what it was going to do with the data,
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by dexterous 6y ago
Hubris enables people, especially "smart" people, to do things that look really stupid in hindsight.
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by dexterous 6y ago
> I seem to remember a lot of Windows programs back in the day were webviews (backed by IE of course) Just how far "back in the day are we talking? 'Cause I've see stuff ranging from VB (just VB, no .NET or WinForms) all t
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by dexterous 6y ago
Originally codenamed Project Blackbox, they were eventually released as the Sun Modular Mobile Data Center (MDC)[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter ]. Famously, The Internet Archive runs off of one [
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by dexterous 7y ago
Here's the [black theme]( https://github.com/widget-/slack-black-theme); and a [Solarized Dark]( https://github.com/widget-/slack-black-theme ) one for good measure.
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by dexterous 7y ago
I'm always surprised people don't mention Orkut more often in such arguments.
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by dexterous 8y ago
> Fedora is quite instrumental to RHEL's existence Could you expand on that? I'm curious.
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by dexterous 8y ago
No one beats Oracle at sales, they are a sales organization; they just happen to be selling software.
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by dexterous 8y ago
It'd actually be great to see something like this absorbed into browser dev-tools.
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by dexterous 8y ago
> developers and managers are notoriously bad at So, basically, everybody is bad at it.
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by dexterous 9y ago
Wasn't the commute to and from the terminals also one of the things that killed the Hyperloop?
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by dexterous 10y ago
Or just IDL/Thrift/Protobuffers?

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