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by sanityinc 5y ago
Yup, the Ian Knot and the Secure Knot ( https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm ) have taken over my household. The latter is particularly good for kids, who often learn the "bunny ears" method, but the
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by sanityinc 5y ago
Yes, Nix is totally viable. Steep learning curve, but many benefits.
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by sanityinc 7y ago
Presumably etags/gtags/hasktags etc., ie. having built a TAGS database for such a helper program, you can use it in an editor to jump from a field name to its definition. That wouldn't be the case with a lens accessor.
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by sanityinc 7y ago
I wrote a simple solution for this which is used in production at several businesses now: https://github.com/purcell/postgresql-migrations/
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by sanityinc 8y ago
You can control which categories of ads will be displayed in your Adsense account settings. It shouldn't be necessary in a civilised world, of course, but there you go.
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by sanityinc 8y ago
Author here. I answered this and other questions in discussions on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/8ye1h0/explaining_...
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by sanityinc 8y ago
Author here. The blog is for my personal brand, because I often work independently, but I was employed full-time as lead architect for this venture.
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by sanityinc 8y ago
Author here - thanks very much. That was what I was going for.
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by sanityinc 10y ago
Check to see if the battery is swollen -- that happened a lot with those machines, and typically interfered with the trackpad click.
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by sanityinc 11y ago
I had the Skerton. The Porlex Mini is better in every way.
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by sanityinc 12y ago
Most people tend to automatically reflect back at others the emotions projected towards them: someone gets angry at you, and you get angry right back at him. Being able to notice this in the moment and sidestep the reaction is a learned ski
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by sanityinc 12y ago
Rewritten, not knowing anything more about you than the above: - Enthusiastic self-taught hacker with 13 years of experience. Currently seeking work in the IT Sec field: drop me an email at xxx@xxx to find out how I can help you.
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by sanityinc 12y ago
A much more extensive article about this caper was published in Wired in 2012: http://www.wired.com/2012/01/ff_ux/all/1
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by sanityinc 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Travel possible Location: UK Hugely experienced veteran of top consultancies like ThoughtWorks and many web start-ups in hands-on technical positions up to CTO level over the last 20 years. I help my clients pla
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by sanityinc 12y ago
This might indeed be a problem for Irish nationals, just as the "IR35" rules affect UK contractors working through limited companies, but I can't imagine that a non-national working outside Ireland through an Irish company wo
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by sanityinc 12y ago
Mithril is a tremendous little framework, and Leo has done an exemplary job of writing it, documenting it and blogging about usage patterns and tricks. While declining frequent requests that he cram more functionality into its core, he take
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by sanityinc 12y ago
I'd say the worst case is that it might encourage people to drive faster , if they assume that the app will warn them of speed traps.
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by sanityinc 12y ago
It does: it links to the "multiple gunshot suicide" page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_gunshot_suicide
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by sanityinc 12y ago
In my experience, stretches and foam roller are both ways to alleviate the discomfort, but they don't fix the underlying problem, which is related to running form and specific muscle weaknesses. When the gluteus medius is weak, or when
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by sanityinc 12y ago
Bravo! This is the kind of uniquely developer-oriented innovation I've come to expect from Stripe. Following an export, it'd be nice to have access to a trickle-feed of incremental updates in the form of SQL statements which could
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by sanityinc 12y ago
I believe the point is that the neural net will still have preconceptions -- but the random wiring just means you've chosen to not see what they are.
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by sanityinc 12y ago
Yes indeed, but with light and ultralight variants. A day later, and I'm still enjoying Input a lot.
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by sanityinc 12y ago
Just the Mono family alone is excellent. There are a number of different weights available, each with italic and bold variants, and the repertoire of glyphs is extensive. I enjoy condensed fonts like Pragmata Pro (which I highly recommend),
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by sanityinc 12y ago
There's literally a single person who adjusts the whole power grid according to second-by-second fluctuations in power which result from half the nation boiling water for tea after the most popular TV shows finish: https://w
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by sanityinc 12y ago
> back in the day there were two big software essayists - PG and Joel Don't forget Philip Greenspun!
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by sanityinc 12y ago
I didn't say anything about Swift: rather, I was responding to the parent's overly general assertion.
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by sanityinc 12y ago
Not only that, but the payment might end up being charged back up to 180 days (or even longer) later.
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by sanityinc 12y ago
> To be fair, learning a new language is a joke. It doesn't require a substantial investment of time. I think that rather depends on the language and your past experience. Most programmers with experience in mainstream languages wil
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by sanityinc 12y ago
The author, Luke Gorrie, is a true hacker's hacker who built a good chunk of Emacs' Slime environment for Common Lisp. He ended up in Sweden to be part of the first successful Erlang-based business Bluetail, which got sold to Nort
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by sanityinc 12y ago
At least xmonad starts with an "x". Alternatives like "ratpoison", "enlightenment", "metacity" or "sawfish" have names which are arguably even less meaningful to end users. In my view there&

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