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by vjust 9mo ago
awesome, I will try it
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by vjust 10mo ago
This article seems to focus mainly on Western civilization. Not saying they aren't wonders. There were many engineering feats in the South/East Asian subcontinents that are not covered.
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by vjust 2y ago
I have a bunch of these pencil brands Tombow, Mitsubishi. I usually buy them on ebay. Its an amazing experience to write with them... I usually use the H, HB to write, and its fascinating, how the premium ones H differs from an ordinary H
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by vjust 2y ago
I bought a Dell 34 inch widescreen curved monitor 2 years ago for ~500. Somedays even that feels too narrow when I'm coding. 32 inch would feel restrictive.
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by vjust 2y ago
Support for linux was there, since the very early days of Azure. But at the time this was clearly Nadella's baby. AWS was running away with market share, and Azure gained some decent marketshare, at one point they said 25% of Azure r
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by vjust 2y ago
Ballmer hated Linux & open source. He would've driven their cloud division to the ground trying to sell Windows servers in the cloud. It would've taken him another 20 years to accept that Linux was key to the cloud. VSCode (V
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by vjust 2y ago
Companies profiting off Open Source is a very common pattern. Look at AWS (amazon web services) long list of 'managed' services, and there are quite a few open-source candidates. I'm not saying Amazon is not adding anything t
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by vjust 2y ago
In my past non-profit we used WPEngine, that was about 10 years ago. Yes they were expensive but we didn't have people, nor did I (a backend python guy) want to mess with websites and be on the critical path. If I had been aware of, o
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by vjust 2y ago
The question is why has that innovation of breakthrough ideas dried up. Past glory is small consolation, or none at all. How long will we keep sharing these 1000-year old memes in 'modern' India? Maybe innovation still happens (li
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by vjust 2y ago
I guess the author, a historian, writes about ancient Indian mathematical contributions (a science of which he has no expertise presumably). These historical references I have learnt in various mathematical texts (the story of Fibonacci an
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by vjust 2y ago
You're likely as old as my kid, so I am sad to see this. Yes, take your health into your own hands. Medicate as little as possible - but this won't work for many people - in fact it could be dangerous. I am lucky to not have chron
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by vjust 2y ago
Geeks who worked 24 hours straight to remedy the outage earned their cup of coffee. Uber is happy for sure.
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by vjust 2y ago
Land of the free, home of the brave - doesn't come cheap. By definition "Leadership" in this capitalistic society is predatory - this style extends to the armed forces, where everyone is expendable.
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by vjust 2y ago
She goes back to skydiving. I have mixed opinions about that. She should've not revealed that part.
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by vjust 2y ago
I love info, and wish more developer docs where available on Info. Saves me from opening up a PDF - navigating an info-based reference manual is more ergonomic in comparison
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by vjust 3y ago
Fermented foods, especially yogurt, kefir, buttermilk are vital for good health. People buy probiotic pills etc. But all it takes is to buy a tub/can of Greek yogurt. The best snack there is. Medicine is food, food is medicine.
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by vjust 3y ago
I stopped reading when he started talking set theory. there's a far simpler way to explain it and learn it. nice way to tie ourselves into knots. no thanks.
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by vjust 3y ago
I find jq's syntax (and docs) kind of opaque, but I guess we have no other options. And I don't think this latest incarnation breaks any new ground there. But it'd be better if I just wrote it myself - "be the change ..
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by vjust 3y ago
All these fads prevent us from producing simple maintainable code.
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by vjust 3y ago
Give me a date when it will be done. That’s mgmt for you
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by vjust 3y ago
Agile is evil
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by vjust 3y ago
Employee surveillance under a different name. Pick your poison, i.e. sell your soul to a big player, or a toxic startup, or someone with a size in between. It also depends on how you think about it. What's agreeable for you is toxic fo
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by vjust 3y ago
Even if the accusations are true, India will not respond. To protect the lives of Indian nationals in Canada , and to protect the Indian high commission and ensure staff safety is paramount for them. Because, if I was an Indian who had the
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by vjust 3y ago
The Khalistan movement found a fertile breeding ground in Canada about 40 years ago. They bombed an airline (AirIndia flight 182) in the 80s, the terrorists who plotted walk free in Canada to this day. Additionally, any Sikh , in Vancouver,
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by vjust 3y ago
All Lisp related stories, especially those that refer to the creator of Lisp, get automagically upvoted.
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by vjust 3y ago
thanks Bram.
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by vjust 3y ago
Well put.
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by vjust 3y ago
> Not knowing what you are building is the greatest impediment to building it. 100% agree. Am a consultant, and its frightening how many FTE's of my client, don't know what business their employer is engaged in. They aren&#x
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by vjust 3y ago
SICP is a beautiful book. The Youtube lectures are just as good.
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by vjust 3y ago
While Data is always associated with SQL, there is a world of data separated from SQL. SQL is a standard way in many cases to persist and work on data, but doesn't span the lifetime/journey of data. Software systems are built on

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