fburnaby

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by fburnaby 2y ago
I do not think this extra justification is necessary, but it is valid.
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by fburnaby 2y ago
This distinction is a more useful one that the article made. I love dockerfiles and immutability, but there are good cases for mutable containers, too.
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by fburnaby 2y ago
it's like a very small part of a thesaurus.
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by fburnaby 2y ago
Does anyone here know if and how the IHO's S-100 data formats relate to this?
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by fburnaby 3y ago
I can't see from the docs what this gives me over a Makefile, Asciidoctor (or pandoc, Jekyll etc), and D3?
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by fburnaby 3y ago
does that apply to installations from apt?
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by fburnaby 3y ago
This also happens to me in Chrome on Pixel 4a.
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by fburnaby 3y ago
asciidoc is my favourite too, thanks to Asciidoctor. I agree, asciidoc hits the sweet spots as a format. Been frustrated by the tooling lately though. I can see the huge effort put into Asciidoctor, and am thankful for it, but there are sti
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by fburnaby 3y ago
I have no expertise, but this is my sleep. It turns out I have sleep apnea. I can "sleep" for 8 hours, but it does very little good. With apnea, you wake up as much as a few times an hour, getting very little REM. It took me year
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by fburnaby 4y ago
Philosophy of Science by Jeffrey Kasser
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by fburnaby 4y ago
I have to disagree with other responses. I think you could make a career of this for the same reason management consultants can. You could swoop in and "fix" some stuff and then leave the in-house team not understanding what you&#
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by fburnaby 4y ago
I have been getting tired of node dependencies and not knowing what I'm running or when it will break. I make simple things for small number of users and started playing with just writing my own CGI in C++ or bash behind thttpd. This a
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by fburnaby 4y ago
I find this pervasive idea that "documenting" things is just a thoughtless dump of facts very troublesome. Certainly, most "documentation" I read is just a thoughtless dunp of arbitrary facts about some system, design, c
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by fburnaby 4y ago
I agree with all of this. Submodules aren't easy but they perform a useful job. It's hard to see how they could be made significantly easier. Where else in software is dependency management easy and convenient?
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by fburnaby 4y ago
I believe this has less to do with software in particular and just generally reflects the typical dynamics of the line/staff distinction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staff_and_line
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by fburnaby 4y ago
I agree with your view on UML, but now I'm curious what you consider documents to be for.
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by fburnaby 4y ago
I sometimes try to edit a file in neovim only to be warned that I have the same file open already (in some other tmux window or pane). I imagine having tmux in vim instead of vim in tmux might resolve that issue for me. I'm curious to
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by fburnaby 13y ago
Hmm. I might be a "the internet is altering the course of human evolution" person. But it depends on what you mean by "the course of human evolution". Do you mean "human evolution" in the typical biological sen
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by fburnaby 13y ago
If something is worth $10,000 to me and I can get it for $0.99, I will not pay $10,000 for it.
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by fburnaby 13y ago
Someone has made and maintained the app over a few person-months of effort, and can sell millions of copies of it. In order to pay for their time spent making the app, I need to give them one millionth of the cost of their time developing i
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by fburnaby 13y ago
It's not that your app doesn't have value. It's that the marginal value compared to a free app is small.
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by fburnaby 13y ago
Pardon me for being so naive, but why does Netflix have no competition in their market? There's no alternative to switch to, and once I've taken a step back and thought about it, this surprises me.
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by fburnaby 15y ago
Study with others. Preferably others who are motivated, but don't know quite as much as you. You'll end up teaching them the material. This forces you to explain the same concept five different ways (until you find a way to say it that your
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by fburnaby 16y ago
Agreed. I'm aware of a few small businesses that seem to be doing well at undercutting the big players with SCADA.
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by fburnaby 16y ago
I'm also an electrical engineer, planning to start working this summer. I took a little detour to study for a M.Sc in mathematical ecology after finishing my B.Eng. I did some fairly heavy programming, algorithms and data visualization in M
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by fburnaby 16y ago
My last umbrella lasted 20 seconds (Halifax, NS). I just wear a full rain suit now.
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by fburnaby 16y ago
This was made (at least in part) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I recognize the statue and the train tracks.
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by fburnaby 16y ago
... so you care about other peoples' karma!
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by fburnaby 16y ago
Woods Hole sounds like the coolest place ever. I've been considering seeing if I can get in.
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by fburnaby 16y ago
> I crave the challenge ... Are there schools out there that will let undergrads touch research and tackle the problems that current computer scientists face today? If you're actually as interested as it sounds you are, then go. Lots of

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