typicalbender

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by typicalbender 4y ago
Just a heads up the "Discuss on HN" button links back to the blog post and not HN. Not sure if that was intentional or not.
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by typicalbender 5y ago
Easier to multi-task maybe? Its really easy to do other things while listening to a video and then jumping into the parts that sound interesting as compared to reading where its necessarily a very active experience.
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by typicalbender 5y ago
Early 30s here. Possibly to your point and completely anecdotally, I generally have a much harder time learning via text than I do from a more kinetic learning environment or watching a video... but I wish it was the other way around. All o
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by typicalbender 5y ago
This is why commit messages are so important. Documentation that is external to the code its referencing will always drift but a commit message is a snapshot in time that is attached to the thing it is referring to. In my experience not eno
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by typicalbender 5y ago
I haven't thought this through at all but are you aware of any package repositories that do something like levenshtein distance between package names maybe combined with a heuristic on common mistyped characters to not allow typosquatt
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by typicalbender 5y ago
Hard truth is you're not worth enough for a spammer to look for that pattern, it's a numbers game and you're just making it harder on yourself. Also unless you're keeping a lookup table you're losing a great benefit
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by typicalbender 6y ago
Here is what it looked like for me after I signed in to Medium[1]. As far as I can tell there is no way for me to read the article without subscribing to Medium. Incognito allowed me to bypass this requirement as suggested by another user.
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by typicalbender 6y ago
I think you're right however the only action it gave me was an "Upgrade" button. As far as I could tell there was nothing I could do to continue to read the article without subscribing to Medium. Here's the only thing I
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by typicalbender 6y ago
I usually do that but was presented with this text from medium after I signed in: > Not every story on Medium is free, like this one. Become a member to get unlimited access and support the voices you want to hear more from. Which makes
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by typicalbender 6y ago
It looks like I have to pay for Medium premium in order to read this story... can anyone give me a tl;dr? Or it looks like I can use Google cache text only to get around the paywall but that seems sub-par.
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by typicalbender 6y ago
To me the biggest power of Vim is modal editing which you can now get emulated to varying degrees of completeness in your favorite editor. Whether or not a command line editor is your bag, learning modal editing and Vim keystrokes can be a
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by typicalbender 6y ago
They have a paid hosted option that I use they just also allow you to self host which is great.
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by typicalbender 6y ago
Oh I see interesting. That's correct in Chrome you get an entirely separate instance of Chrome with the new profile. Thanks!
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by typicalbender 6y ago
Is the Firefox implementation different from Chrome? I don't think Chrome allows you to default links to specific profiles but I have used this feature in Chrome for a while to separate work and personal profiles to sandbox Chrome inst
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by typicalbender 6y ago
wow that's really cool. I had only seen the "Iron Man" style jetpack demonstrations that hover a few feet or the jet suits that I thought usually jump from an airplane but I'd never one of these take off from the ground.
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by typicalbender 6y ago
Apparently they do live in the upper atmosphere. [1]. > Although many of the organisms borne aloft are likely occasional visitors to the upper troposphere, 17 types of bacteria turned up in every sample. Researchers like environmental mi
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by typicalbender 6y ago
Right, I wont even pretend to be an armchair expert on this just regurgitating what I've read. Long and short of it is we have no idea but from what I recall the original paper was very thorough in trying to explain the phenomenon and
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by typicalbender 6y ago
The other place where life could exist is in the upper atmosphere where apparently temperatures are much more hospitable. There's a really good write-up with more information here [1]. On earth there exists microorganisms that live in
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by typicalbender 6y ago
They are both large problems which is my point but given the choice between two hard problems I can understand why they chose the one that has the potential to solve the entire surface instead of just part of it.
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by typicalbender 6y ago
Sure but as I mentioned in my original comment you're assuming that Tweets are only created in a Twitter owned property and this just isn't the case at all. I have no insider knowledge here but my hunch is when they were talking a
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by typicalbender 6y ago
> it's not hard to create a simple UX that would enable this. This is a gross understatement. The number of different clients that Twitter supports (apis, third party clients/vendors, mobile, etc) means that it isn't a sim
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by typicalbender 6y ago
I'm guessing the tweets referenced in that article were based off of the original[1] (that I saw). The original tweet series did a bunch of testing with different variations of the same image to attempt to get to the bottom of why the
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by typicalbender 6y ago
It's worth reading the full dissent and majority opinion but its a textualist argument that the original legislation did not intend to include homosexuality and transgender in the Title VII law against sex discrimination and its not t
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by typicalbender 6y ago
I'm not sure why they are trying to tie an experimental engine test so tightly with the crew launch. I know the two events are temporally close to each other but seems a bit alarmist to start the article attempting to connect the two.
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by typicalbender 6y ago
It's amazing how much a technique like rubber ducking[1] helps to work through issues. The number of times I've felt like I have no idea how to solve a problem until the moment after I ask someone else is incredible. I think the a
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by typicalbender 7y ago
My understanding is that pay for parking (aside from large garages) is generally about space availability rather than making money. Public street parking in Boston is fairly cheap per unit time and my understanding is that the maximum time
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by typicalbender 8y ago
Old opinions strongly held. I think Angular 1 left a bad taste in peoples mouths and that gets carried over in perpetuity. Take php for example, I'm sure you can find plenty of devs who haven't touched php in 10+ years but will st
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by typicalbender 8y ago
This stack overflow[1] post goes into some more detail about why specifically that syntax. tl;dr is that you can actually redefine the keyword `undefined` since its actually a global property and not reserved. void 0 will always return you
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by typicalbender 8y ago
"Facebook changed every post by those users during the affected time period to private, including posts that people may have meant to share publicly. The company told CNN it took five days to make those changes." The headline and
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by typicalbender 8y ago
That's incorrect. "If the Data Subject, moves out of the EU border [...], or goes on holiday then their personal data processed under these circumstances is not covered by the GDPR and they are no longer a Data Subject in the cont

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