workthrowaway

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by workthrowaway 7y ago
> Until you have a dependency which has a C dependency (like a crypto framework, SQL connector, etc). but... that's not a python problem. every time people say they are having a hard time installing a python module, it's almost
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
thank you!! i had the same exact thoughts last night but refrained from commenting. same exact thoughts about pilots and surgeons. plus this: pair programming has only been studied / proven to work in a teaching environment, where one
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
thanks!!
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
> It's so tedious, repetitive, and obvious that I genuinely can't understand what people see in it. same! but i finished it anyway. it was during my speed-reading / audiobook transition. i have now become a normal reader a
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
sanic seems nice. also, sqlalchemy is an over-engineered system imo. i only go for it when i have no other choices. otherwise i use a database client directly.
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
yeah, i mean where's the matrix like app that allows me to navigate computer systems and networks like they were some kind of physical thing?
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
infinite scrolling is very bad! especially on mobile because on mobile you can accidentally tap on a link or whatever while swipping. happens to me all the time with the youtube app!! infinite scroll needs to go away!
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
omg wow! when will people start being held accountable for the BS they put on twitter?!!
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
woah, woah, hold on. don't let him walk?! just use the old way for finding evidence. data gathered by companies like google is mostly permanent, too easy to retrieve, and in one place. that's the real problem. nobody likes doing h
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
imo, python won because the community does not condone monkey-patching and dark magic tricks. it's totally possible, yes, but it is frown up. i just realized how important language communities are, actually! i, unlike GP, do not get a
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
> ...Going Home OMG not familiar with the person being talked about but "going home" resonates with me. leonard cohen wrote some powerful songs in his old age and "going home" is one of them.
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
> This actually looks great, installing it now to try out. same. i think it is a superb idea for ubuntu here. hopefully there are tools like this for other OS distros as well.
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
> consisted of the reg, the joelonsoftware forum and then the inquirer. that's very selective. here's a few more: digg, fark, slashdot
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
> A good idea if you want your personal relationships poisoned. not how it works for me! i have friends on fb that i haven't talked to or seen since high school. i don't use fb proper but it's good to know that it remember
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
wow, you've just opened a pandora box :) from the school system, to vegan diet, to parenting, to immigration...
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
both dystopic and dystopian are synonyms. btw did you know that grep (as in the unix tool) is in the dictionary? it even says it comes from the operating system.
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
yep, it's accepted in other fields. the craziest for me has to be the music/sound industry. you could spend months coming up with the right chords just to have some big label or famous person you don't have any relationship w
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
you forgot that some of us are debating the sign-off process as well. the most surprising aspect if you ask me...
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
from her blog: > This kind of code change happens all the time. we have all been there. i think she knew she wasn't following proper procedure. even if it's done "all the time".
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
> I'm honestly a little surprised (and worried) about all the commenters who argue Google is in the right here. i, honestly, want to know why you think otherwise. what she did is wrong. but assuming she didn't know and that&#x2
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
> ...I was in high school and before buying one it was very stressful knowing there might be emails I really need to respond to asap that's an interesting anecdote. it was the opposite experience for me. friends and i had yahoo and
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
> In theory there’s no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is. love this :)
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
> Sleep Cycle is a mobile application that monitors your sleep and allows you to track times of deep sleep... oh come on. the examples were good so far... why would i need an app to monitor my sleep if i don't have any sleep disorde
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
> And 2/3rds of the US population lives in 3.5% of the land area oh wow! really?! very interesting
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
the problem, as i see it, is not with data collection itself. because the larger public 1. does not care 2. does not seem concerned. 3. the collected data is deemed harmless to the user. what worries me is the sampling itself. or how divers
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
interesting!
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Adobe's open source text editor(brackets.io)
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
> humans can boot from disk wow, this is so intriguing. i like this analogy even if i don't know how accurate it is. we indeed have things that we forget (running out of space?) and things that take time to remember (disk latency).
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
> No. But redoing it all from scratch and getting mindshare is difficult. i think it's more because it does not really matter for most people. not because it's too difficult. there are companies today that can put the resources
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by workthrowaway 7y ago
this looks so good! thanks.

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