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by hanlec 11mo ago
I have been trying to reduce my usage. I still cannot find a way to resist pulling out the phone to: - perform a quick search (browser or ai) - listen to podcasts - listen to audiobook - check the data of the last running or gym session. A
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by hanlec 3y ago
I haven't Smart Comic before. Thanks for the recommendation. Definitely going to give it a try. (I admit that panel handling is a nice to have feature, but what makes or breaks a comic reader for me is how easy is to sync comics---b
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by hanlec 3y ago
Just curious: are the copy, cut, paste and undo commands remapped by Doom Emacs? Those don't seem to be the defaults. TY
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by hanlec 3y ago
> It identified a culture where Tessier-Lavigne “tended to reward the ‘winners’ (that is, postdocs who could generate favorable results) and marginalize or diminish the ‘losers’ (that is, postdocs who were unable or struggled to generat
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by hanlec 4y ago
I'm using Scrolla. Initially I had used vim-like extensions for browsers. Obviously Firefox and Chrome extensions are eras ahead of Safari's. Scrolla was like: "hey, I can get this everywhere on my system". Wooshy and ki
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by hanlec 4y ago
It was no further than 1 week ago when I was talking with my spouse about how could we compare the size of some cars. We found it very tedious to even find the official dimension. And we had no idea how to visualize the differences. This is
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by hanlec 4y ago
Every month, I comb through previous month Downbeat, JazzTimes, and Jazzwise magazines putting together a list of albums. The trick? I do this with past years magazine though. I recently discovered the MusicBox app; sort of a listen later.
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Scala's Gitter-to-Discord migration mistake(alexn.org)
4 points by hanlec 4y ago|1 comments
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by hanlec 4y ago
Whatever system I have (tried to) used over time, I've run into the following challenges: 1. how to deal with old tasks (are they relevant anymore? should they be removed?). 2. connecting tasks to their related source and needed infor
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by hanlec 5y ago
Is the email notification sent synchronously? What happens if there's an error sending the email?
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by hanlec 5y ago
Does this mean that tools like sdkman can include the Oracle JDK? (I haven't found any PR for it yet)
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by hanlec 11y ago
Who signs this post?
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by hanlec 11y ago
> Some technology is designed for massive scale and some is not. You may have to layer a little scale magic on top. This is as wrong as saying that everyone needs to scale day one.
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by hanlec 11y ago
> I have a simpler suggestion, nicknamed the Big Bang license. Congress should allow anyone with a scanned library to pay some price—say, a hundred and twenty-five million dollars—to gain a license, subject to any opt-outs, allowing them
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by hanlec 11y ago
I recently finished reading Walter Isaacson's The Innovators books. One of the things that caught my attention was that for many of the people mentioned in the book there was a mention of extra-curricular interests.
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by hanlec 11y ago
I assume this is the (counter) reaction to Facebook's instant articles. The lack of details doesn't help though.
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by hanlec 11y ago
Off the top of my head I know that Netflix and LinkedIn have been running Oracle for quite a while until they moved away.
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by hanlec 11y ago
The store was in read-only mode to prep for the new iPhones so the sales loss is already accounted for. As a side note (and speculation), as compared with other online stores, I don't think the Apple store has the same risks as the oth
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by hanlec 11y ago
If it gets back online in time, it'll be a story to be told. If not, then :-(
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What makes us human?(googleblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by hanlec 11y ago|0 comments
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by hanlec 11y ago
I did a quick search for Grace Hopper and there doesn't seem to be anything in the pdf.
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Doing What We Can(blog.patrickrothfuss.com)
1 points by hanlec 11y ago|0 comments
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by hanlec 11y ago
This got me thinking how much test coverage exist for the kernel. It sounds like most of those issues could've been caught by tests (and I'm not referring to API compatibility, but purely to the behavior of the implementation)
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by hanlec 11y ago
As many other parts of an interview, I've always found the blackboard coding session extremely strange. When was the last time you coded in TextEdit with no docs around, no time to think, standing up, and being watched over the shoulde
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by hanlec 11y ago
If I could cache the page I wouldn't need a metro app anymore.
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by hanlec 11y ago
I never really got to play extensively with Docker mainly because I have found the setup of OS X not quite friendly. While I understand the value of Docker, basically booting up a VMware/VirtualBox image was faster for my own use. I&#x
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by hanlec 11y ago
I've been using iBank [1] for a couple of years now. It's able to pull data from different banks, import CSV, and other format. It has many other features that I'm not using. It's not a hosted solution so everything is o
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by hanlec 11y ago
The rich buyer trick is present in every other movie. It's still works. Why?
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by hanlec 11y ago
Amazon's Prime 2-day delivery completely changed my ability to wait for gratification. For deliveries that take the normal 5 days, I'm finding myself checking Delivery app a couple of times every day, hoping that something is wron
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by hanlec 11y ago
As someone that have worked in the CMS space for quite a while (and ended up implementing a couple from scratch) I welcome any new solutions that are not antiquated. One thing that I've learned during that time (and does not apply only

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