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by fantasticsid 6y ago
As an iPhone user I much prefer any payment to go through apple payment UI, it’s just safer and hassle free, I don’t need to worry about scammy payment traps. As a developer I can see the financial reasoning behind implementing third party
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by fantasticsid 7y ago
Yeah, sorry for the abbreviation. I meant 'Convention over Configuration'
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by fantasticsid 7y ago
yeah, esoteric is bad, whether Rails or others. But that's just my impression with Rails, and I'm much more comfortable using other less magical libraries. I guess Ruby is just too good at making abstractions, and I tend to believ
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by fantasticsid 7y ago
I think focusing on the syntax level is a bit superficial. While Ruby (especially in the context of RoR) lends itself very well to making DSLs and making abstractions, and thus writing superficially good looking, concise, easy to follow (on
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by fantasticsid 7y ago
I wish someday Apple Watch can charge itself by harnessing the power of arm swing. I know some mechanical watches do that. Not sure though if it can gather enough power to sustain indefinitely.
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by fantasticsid 7y ago
They failed because they were not able to adapt to the Chinese market/have any competitive advantage against alibaba or JD which is the point the article is trying to make. None of what you mentioned is alluded in the article.
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by fantasticsid 8y ago
Yeah, that’s what companies do : look at the stats. And as long as stats say it’s rare enough, it’s not that bad. People are boycotting not because there’s a higher chance of being murdered/kidnapped with Didi, but that the company was
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Positioning the traffic lights of your Cocoa App(zhenchao.li)
2 points by fantasticsid 8y ago|0 comments
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by fantasticsid 8y ago
> Does anyone check every video afterwards to ensure that all the blocked content was indeed terrorist content? They might not, but they could sample them to be statistically confident?
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Biases: An Introduction(lesswrong.com)
3 points by fantasticsid 8y ago|0 comments
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Using your Head is Permitted(brand.site.co.il)
2 points by fantasticsid 8y ago|0 comments
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Whirlwind Tour of ARM Assembly(coranac.com)
2 points by fantasticsid 8y ago|0 comments
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Mental models(julian.com)
1 points by fantasticsid 8y ago|0 comments
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Instant feedback when coding – game programming with ReasonML(ldjam.com)
2 points by fantasticsid 8y ago|0 comments
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Qt vs. JavaFX Showcase (by Sequality)(resources.qt.io)
3 points by fantasticsid 8y ago|0 comments
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Qt for WebAssembly Technology Preview(blog.qt.io)
243 points by fantasticsid 8y ago|191 comments
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by fantasticsid 8y ago
That’s called a phantom jam, happens right now on 101 with humans;) Won’t happen if only people don’t tailgate.
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by fantasticsid 8y ago
I’ve thought about this and and I think the best thing to do here is to relentlessly keep a long, safe distance from vehicles ahead. There are just things you can’t possibly see that the driver before you can.(a puppy/squirrel/wha
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by fantasticsid 8y ago
Thanks. I'll wait till 11.3.3 :)
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by fantasticsid 9y ago
He has none but he could be shorting it?
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by fantasticsid 9y ago
Last I checked bash on windows is still segregated from the windows system proper. So you cannot call any windows utility/compilers from windows bash. You cannot write to existing files/directories either, based on WSL docs. Hopef
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by fantasticsid 9y ago
You can still make good abstractions with explicit code, and remove most of boilerplates. But please at least be explicit about the fact you are using that abstraction. One problem with Rails is that these abstractions are applied implicitl
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by fantasticsid 9y ago
I think the difference becomes easier to see when you need to add new data types vs new functions http://wiki.c2.com/?ExpressionProblem
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by fantasticsid 9y ago
> How are you better? It's a valid question to ask but I don't think anyone has to think that through and really have a good answer before creating!
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by fantasticsid 9y ago
This post has over 470 comments and was posted 14 hours ago, yet I wasn't able to find it on HN from the first 3 pages. On the third page I see lots of posts with lower number of comments and an earlier post time. I had to use the sear
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by fantasticsid 10y ago
I really enjoyed reading it! System programming is hard :)
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That one thing you want to achieve in 2017(thatonething.strikingly.com)
1 points by fantasticsid 10y ago|0 comments
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by fantasticsid 10y ago
I believe the same thing could be said about Go :)
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by fantasticsid 10y ago
Maybe Apple has stopped innovating, but Windows is just not there for developers, not even close to what Mac has been ~3 years ago. Saying this from recent personal experience.
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by fantasticsid 10y ago
I never learned 'all conventions'. There are countless cases where I had to dig into source code to find out how a certain feature is working/how it works with another feature/when the abstraction does not work the way I

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