wild_preference

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by wild_preference 8y ago
I think "web development" is too generic to say something like that. I'd consider a small data processing service, maybe a service invoked from the web server you're already using in Ruby or whatever, is a perfectly plea
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Video URLs always pointing to the same content is a critical guarantee for a service like Youtube.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
No, the alternative here would be to just let the write()'s throw and let upstream handle them. You don't try/catch to catch an error just to re-throw it for the same reason you don't try/catch every single line of
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by wild_preference 8y ago
That's just your empty entitlement of "he should share his toys with me more" under the guise of "F/OSS" and, uh, being a "good citizen" or something. You're a horrible citizen of the fantasy wor
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Writing negative comments/tweets is a helluva lot easier than staking skin in the game.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
I like this reddit post by rhickey regarding entitlement: https://old.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/73yznc/on_whose_au... It gets pretty tiring on HN/reddit to watch people demand so much shit for f
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by wild_preference 8y ago
They do it for NPM deps too.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Also, what made this interesting wasn't the question but that the question won the lottery of someone contributing substantial time to craft a great answer. I don't think you could've done a better job than linking that moder
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by wild_preference 8y ago
There's the idea that a corporation has at least some economic incentive to do a decent job and government doesn't since it has zero competition. The classic example to the average person of the government's level of hustle b
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Why do anything if you're not willing to do everything?
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by wild_preference 8y ago
We've been using https://adorstore.com for years for our turkeys.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
One issue with cryptocurrencies that pretty much everyone has a vested interest and you can't separate out the bullshit. And it's not just vested interest though, there's vested delusion. If you read enough comments on /
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Their point wasn't just "it's their MO". You just attacked the lowest hanging fruit. It doesn't make for good discussion.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
I interviewed for a week at a consultancy known for pair-programming a long time ago. Each workstation had two chairs, a large iMac in the middle, and the developers had an individual macbook/kb/mouse on each side. The code was on
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Electron apps don't have the ethical issue of directly killing living things for our benefit. That's a good enough reason for a levy, imo.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Yeah, and kinda shows their age wrt "haha this guy uses a computer, what a nerd." Even playing video games is pretty cool and mainstream now.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Type 2 diabetes can be reversed. Many people aren't seriously suggested this option by their medical professional or are unwilling to change their lifestyle. I don't think it's a counterpoint to the study, but rather to the w
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Sure, but this was not a response to my post.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
I like the idea. I find it incredibly tedious to lookup IMDB ratings while surfing Netflix since that's almost all I care about when I'm indecisive ("Just give me a movie roughly in this genre that's roughly decent"
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Meh, they are less annoying than the self-important comments that just have to let us know which minutiae they disapprove of. I mean, there's just three whole images.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
I've done this experiment every time I've eaten beets.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Not everyone can take care of a dog or wants to. You even admit it ("inconveniences") yet immediately dismiss it.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
I switched to Safari when it added favicons to browser tabs the other month. The CPU-usage/battery difference is huge. I also like the new Safari extension paradigm and have ported some extensions of my own that could be improved by mo
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by wild_preference 8y ago
All batteries decay.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Staking your claim on what teenagers today do today doesn't make much sense to me because teenagers get older. Facebook just has to be the social network people end up on. I'd at least look at college-aged people, not the weird, l
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by wild_preference 8y ago
This is usually where someone confirms your original point by saying Mastodon.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
They're just talking about https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-htm . > A Babel plugin that compiles htm syntax to hyperscript, React.createElement, or just plain objects.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Nice work. Though I didn't know the right sidebar was interactive until I read the comments here that said they hated it, then I went back to figure out why. Maybe a "Click me!" above the demo on the right, pointing down at t
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Well, if that's all you want, then sure, you don't gain much from using boilerplate. Boilerplate like create-react-app precisely hooks things together that are nontrivial to glue together, and often come with additional polish you
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Notice how abstract you're getting trying to defend yourself. It's because you know it's unreasonable, so if you speak abstractly enough, you hope you can liken your little crusade here to some axiom of civilization. Maybe yo

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