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by dumbmatter 7y ago
Two people declined to re-license their contributions to Racket. We therefore removed their contributions and, where appropriate, replaced them with new code and/or documentation. Is that actually allowed by the GPL? I thought it was
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by dumbmatter 7y ago
...which says > Warning you probably don’t want to use CGI for modern web development, see Why Not to Use CGI.
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by dumbmatter 7y ago
Stuff like https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html#how-can-i-measure-a-... If you're not aware of that, it is very tempting to use `useRef`, which is what I have often seen. Before hooks, we did not have the tempt
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by dumbmatter 7y ago
Tons of shitty "here's how to use hooks for X" articles on Medium make the mistake, so people learning hooks right at the beginning will not be completely immune. Also that the fix is "instead of using this one kind ref,
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by dumbmatter 7y ago
I've seen a ton of people make that mistake, though. I think it's because what you write is accurate - "refs are meant for values that don't need to trigger a rerender" - but most people think of refs (or at least r
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by dumbmatter 7y ago
I don't think that can explain it, because IIRC that rule has only been around since Obamacare, but the US/world price disparity for prescription drugs has existed much longer than that.
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by dumbmatter 7y ago
At least it'd be no worse than we have now with voting my mail.
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by dumbmatter 7y ago
Sometimes there are browser bugs that are impossible to do feature detection for, in which case have no better option than looking at the user agent. For instance, several versions of Firefox had a serious bug in shared workers, which appea
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by dumbmatter 7y ago
Alternative title: Why does software development suck so much in _______?
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by dumbmatter 8y ago
And, sadly, if we could detect Alzheimer's a decade early, it would go from a 0% survival rate to a 0% survival rate. Early detection would still be valuable for other reasons, though.
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by dumbmatter 8y ago
In this specific case, they do test for the ApoE gene which can you a 20x higher chance of getting Alzheimer's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolipoprotein_E#Alzheimer's_d... 20x more is not a sure thing, but
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by dumbmatter 8y ago
What does "rationalized" mean? Highly respected open access publishers like PLoS charge similar fees https://www.plos.org/publication-fees - maybe that's just what it costs to run a journal? If not, PLoS must
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by dumbmatter 8y ago
That's not true, 23andme tests the APOE gene (and possibly some others too) which does indeed have a large affect on the risk of developing Alzheimer's. Although having the good version of APOE doesn't mean you'll never
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by dumbmatter 8y ago
Firefox 52 may be around for a while - it's the last LTS before extensions were broken by Quantum, and it's also the last release that runs on XP and Vista.
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by dumbmatter 8y ago
I'm psyched to see the fix to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193394 released, which (amongst other things) mean that you can finally write code using both IndexedDB and promises without inadvertently com
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by dumbmatter 8y ago
Mandatory HTTPS? This discussion from 2 days ago seems relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16951831
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by dumbmatter 9y ago
Our first action, which began immediately after the incident concluded, was to implement a 24-hour cooldown on republication of any deleted package name. Why not infinity hours? I don't get it.
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by dumbmatter 9y ago
In my job, I edit the production database live because adding a special feature (or even a bug fix) takes like a year to get deployed to production, even if it's as simple as a one line change.
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by dumbmatter 9y ago
It doesn't seem odd if you've worked in enterprise, just sad :)
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by dumbmatter 9y ago
Or, shameless self promotion: https://basketball-gm.com/ https://github.com/dumbmatter/basketball-gm Currently no terminal UI, sadly. PRs welcome!
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by dumbmatter 9y ago
I drink decaf sometimes because coffee does taste good. Caffeinated I only drink rarely, like when traveling and I need to wake up really early. I remember growing up seeing people brag about how much coffee they drink and how much caffeine
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by dumbmatter 9y ago
You are right about that. They even financially support other projects that are not as rich: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/ Anyone know someone working on Edge? Maybe MS can apply to that program and get some
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by dumbmatter 9y ago
It's been 2 (nearly 3) years since the final version of the official spec, but 5 years since any significant changes to the spec draft. IE10 was released in 2012 with a partial IndexedDB implementation, and Edge is still missing featur
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by dumbmatter 9y ago
One of the most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs is "we want our browser experience to move to our phones". That's funny, my most common request is "IT'S BEEN LIKE 5 YEA
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by dumbmatter 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprachiasmatic_nucleus The SCN receives input from specialized photosensitive ganglion cells in the retina via the retinohypothalamic tract. Neurons in the ventrolateral SCN (vlSCN) have
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by dumbmatter 9y ago
It's fine to post dumb questions on Stack Overflow. It's not fine to post questions that are either incoherent or obviously have been previously asked. And you don't need any reputation/points/whatever.
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by dumbmatter 9y ago
Some buses don't have schedules, just an estimated frequency. Or some have schedules but don't stick to them with any reliability.
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by dumbmatter 9y ago
Yeah, it's like Watson on Jeopardy. It could buzz in faster than a human, so it got to answer every question that it thought it knew, which was most of them. Problem is, the human competitors surely also knew most of them (maybe even m
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by dumbmatter 9y ago
Another difference between her experience and mine outside of humanities: defenses that revel in ripping apart at least six years’ worth of work without taking the time to acknowledge its value are shockingly common I had annual meetings
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by dumbmatter 9y ago
This is awesome. When that "What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?" post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821 was up recently, I wanted to say "Get rid of the abomination that is Unity" but fi

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