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by qppo 4y ago
"Orthogonal" in this context means "wholly and completely unrelated." It's not a buzzword.
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by qppo 4y ago
I think you have a false dichotomy. Slack and email are for talking to people who I'm not on the phone/video conference with or are away from their desk when I'm working. That is an orthogonal problem from the "Maker&quo
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by qppo 6y ago
Fat chance of this changing anything. Berkeley is liberalism run amok. Unless you already own property in one of the shrinking "nice" parts it's not that nice of a place to live, and loosely committing to allowing multifamily
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by qppo 6y ago
To me, there's an irony that the nationalist desire to sever Britain from the EU is the best way to hasten the dissolution of Great Britain. Now that Brexit is done with, reunification of Ireland and Scottish Independence are in the co
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by qppo 6y ago
Compilers seem to manage just fine with bootstrapping themselves. The trick is not to overwrite yourself
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by qppo 6y ago
Why do you think they had an incentive to prevent it? The President was the one encouraging the insurrection!
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by qppo 6y ago
I haven't seen these calls for surveillance. I have seen calls for sedition charges against the politicians that encouraged it and law enforcement that ignored the evidence of coming insurrection.
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by qppo 6y ago
Interesting how the decline of child labor in Korea is followed by a booming high tech economy while regions that remain affixed to the practice havent
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by qppo 6y ago
It's hard to lift the next generation out of poverty when children are working instead of going to school.
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by qppo 6y ago
VSCode extensions are driven through "commands" that are exposed through the package.json of the plugin (which can be parsed by other plugins if you wanted) and issuable through another plugin, or using a task (this is kind of ann
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by qppo 6y ago
I'd question why you're running code in a meeting. That's some morning standup stuff for your team which can be done at your desk or placed in a gif in an email, not hauled off to a separate room. Meetings are for collaborati
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by qppo 6y ago
All my presentation materials are in the cloud somewhere, I don't need to bring a computer anywhere these days.
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by qppo 6y ago
You can do all that and more in vscode as well... you just have to "learn to master and config" it with your own plugins in JS. It's not that hard.
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by qppo 6y ago
I don't know how this should be structured but there has to be some principle of "use it or lose it" for IP protections, and some limitations on transference of IP. Obviously there are a lot of negatives to implementing some
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by qppo 6y ago
I think the answer is to look at things that can't be done by executing code from a library. In other words, think about something you can compile that isn't executable code. Some examples: hardware description languages (VHDL, Ch
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by qppo 6y ago
I don't think it's even technically true, they're fundamentally different circuit elements that just share a principle of operation. Diodes allow current to flow in one direction (rectification), triodes provide a proportiona
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by qppo 6y ago
The story I've heard is that the original lightbulbs filled with soot and darkened well before they burnt out. Edison guessed the soot was coming from the filament and was charged, so he placed a charged plate across from the filament
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by qppo 6y ago
Type inference is great and undeserving of the "bah humbug" type comments. Not a fan of it in function return types but that's easy to avoid in code review or linting (both of which you need plenty in C). The closure proposal
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by qppo 6y ago
I don't think I've ever run into a "broken" API on MacOS. But I haven't seen a "well documented" one either. There's a lot of arcane knowledge in targeting MacOS.
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by qppo 6y ago
Why ship a desktop app when you can ship a browser product? The business incentives often outweigh the technical benefits of desktop apps. DRM and payment processing are easy. Discoverability is a shit show but the only competitive advantag
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by qppo 6y ago
Phonetic alphabets tie the representation of information to human vocalization, which is only slightly more useful than tying it to human sight like pictographs. Without launching into a diatribe on all the shortcomings of phonetic alphabet
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by qppo 6y ago
That growth isn't exponential. Mortgage debt isn't a bad thing, the equity you build through it means you essentially come out ahead or even, once adjusting for inflation. In other words, real estate is a great way to preserve wea
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by qppo 6y ago
Consumers want one cable and connector for all devices regardless of the ridiculous notion that all devices should have similar enough electrical requirements that they could use one cable. The result is USB.
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by qppo 6y ago
A question I like for non-tech businesses is: "do you see this as a software business or transitioning to become one?" Because these days every business has to be investing into software products, and the ones that don't reco
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by qppo 6y ago
The federal government has identified semiconductor manufacturing as a critical piece of national infrastructure. If it comes to it, Intel can get subsidized like Boeing.
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by qppo 6y ago
I'm getting quite tired of these false equivalencies. Trump directed a mob yesterday to storm our Capitol and it sounds like you're being sarcastic about him threatening our democracy. What does he need to do? Burn it down and han
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by qppo 6y ago
Point 3 sounds made up. Banks are in the business of lending, I can't really imagine a scenario where they have an incentive to lend less.
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by qppo 6y ago
Think or Swim from TD Ameritrade is effectively free (you need an account with money in it, but you aren't charged to access it or the API). When/if you want to make trades you can as well.
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by qppo 6y ago
This page looks incomplete. Tangent: I'm very interested in implementations details for ordered key-value stores. B trees and their variants like B+ trees are pretty straightforward conceptually but there seems to be scarce resources o
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by qppo 6y ago
Or create an iterator and use Iterator::filter, which is probably a bit more idiomatic.

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