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by mdiep 2y ago
"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it." –Alan Perlis
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by mdiep 2y ago
A friend of mine made a fun (upcoming) cooperative party game based on this: - BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/408945/boubakiki - Kickstarter (Funded): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects
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by mdiep 2y ago
If you're interested in property-based testing, I highly recommend "How to Specify It!" by John Hughes, which is available both as a talk and as a paper. https://research.chalmers.se/publication/517894&#x
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by mdiep 8y ago
I made a Swift library, Logician ( https://github.com/mdiep/Logician ), based on microKanren with the help of these links. I also wrote about how it works with Swift: https://matt.diephouse.com/2016/
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by mdiep 8y ago
ScreenHero. Slack built it their app, but made it way slower and ruined the simple UI. What used to take 3-5s now takes 30-60s.
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by mdiep 11y ago
What we've done with GitHub Desktop is very different than the write-an-entire-app-in-JS approach that a lot of apps have taken. There's a small piece of custom UI that's built with HTML, JS, and CSS; but even it is controlle
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by mdiep 11y ago
This actually has nothing to do with our startup performance, at least on OS X. The comparison graph doesn't have a substantial impact on it. :) Also, any similarities to Atom are superficial at best on OS X. We use WebKit (where Elect
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by mdiep 11y ago
That is something that we've considered. Both Mac and Windows clients predate Electron (but maybe not the initial versions of Atom). Rewriting from scratch in an unfamiliar environment would have taken a lot more work. There are tradeo
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by mdiep 14y ago
I really liked the sound of Crashlytics. Then Twitter bought it. Now it's free. I don't trust Twitter and I don't trust free, so I'm less likely to use this. If I don't understand why something is free, I grow suspicious. I want to know how
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by mdiep 14y ago
I think the argument is that if Apple made a calculator that looked like the Braun one it would be stealing. But since it's not the same type of device, it's a tribute. I'm not sure if this is a valid legal argument, but I understand it. Le
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by mdiep 14y ago
I think we can all agree that Marco overreacted: he says as much in his blog post. But this doesn't affect my confidence in the Instapaper service. I think it says a lot about Marco that he was willing to admit his fault and reverse his dec
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by mdiep 14y ago
The article does not say that downloading it over your wi-fi connection will result in $2.58 in delivery fees. It says that the average delivery fee for the book was $2.58.
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by mdiep 15y ago
Is there a reason I should care about GCC anymore? Admittedly, I mostly code ObjC on OS X, where GCC is no longer relevant, but LLVM seems to have leapfrogged GCC so dramatically that I'm unsure why I would even care about GCC. LLVM integra
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by mdiep 15y ago
Absolutely. I read GEB in high school, and have often thought of reading it again, but it's a hefty book to carry around. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll see an eBook edition too soon. Hofstadter describes himself somewhere (in the GEB p
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by mdiep 15y ago
As a tea neophyte, I strongly suggest that you add a link to recommended equipment for brewing loose-leaf tea. I have considered trying to get into tea several times, but could never figure out exactly what I should buy if I want to brew lo
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by mdiep 15y ago
Very cool! A few things for you to consider: 1. Consider putting preferences in their own window. This is the standard Mac behavior, and it's a little confusing to have your app do something different. You could also use the standard prefer
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by mdiep 15y ago
I'd love to see a full list of all the books you read and the order in which you read them. I recently started reading The Story of Civilization and augmenting it with other works seems like a wonderful idea.
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by mdiep 15y ago
Ha! Remarkable because I know Seun. He's not dangerous, but he does have a thick Nigerian accent. I can't help but wonder if his accent helped him get through security and on the plane. It's hard to catch someone in a lie when you're strugg
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by mdiep 15y ago
I don't think that's really a fair treatment of the issue. It probably doesn't make sense, from a business standpoint, for Amazon to maintain their facilities there if Texas can make them collect sales tax. So Amazon would probably save mon
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by mdiep 15y ago
For a long time, that was also my impression. But it's wrong. Mostly. It turns out that there isn't a single definition for the word species—there are multiple definitions that lead to different results. Reading through the Wikipedia articl
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by mdiep 15y ago
Not only that, but airports don't need to use the TSA: they can opt to use a private security firm. (Source: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2010/11/amid-airport-... ) Maybe Texas should make a law preventing the TSA from handling s
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by mdiep 15y ago
If HP made an iPod Touch competitor, I would buy one in a heartbeat. I don't want to buy another phone, but I'd love to have a WebOS device to play with.
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by mdiep 16y ago
Okay, I know hating on Republicans is fun, but is that really necessary? Why sow the seeds of discord?
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by mdiep 16y ago
These aren't unique to Metro Detroit. Portions of the East Beltline (M-44) in Grand Rapids, one of the busiest streets in the area, make use of the Michigan Left.
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by mdiep 16y ago
Google likes to hire women. They go out of their way to do so. (So does Microsoft.) That substantially raised her chance of getting an interview and a job.
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by mdiep 16y ago
You're looking for Dolby Volume: http://www.dolby.com/consumer/understand/volume/dolby-volume... It helps maintain consistent volume across commercials, different channels, and different input sources. I have a Toshiba Regza TV that's equ
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by mdiep 16y ago
It's no surprise that Bezos is fighting this initiative. He moved to Washington to start Amazon.com specifically because they had no state income tax. (He was choosing between Washington and one another no-income-tax state that I can't reme
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by mdiep 16y ago
But Uniform only styles selects (drop downs), checkboxes, radio buttons, and file upload inputs. jQuery UI could nicely compliment Uniform by styling everything else.