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Jacob4u2

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About Jacob4u2

Software Developer. Amateur Philosopher. Young Punk.

Bay Area, CA, USA

Recent public activity

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    Hold up, is that illustrious Sprout Social alumni Dex Horthy? If you and Ravi are in SF we should catch up after the holidays.

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    Comment #42247814

    Docs link is broken; https://www.humanlayer.dev/docs

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    Comment #33284149

    It also spawned the American Socialist party. https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120244344/american-socialist...

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    Comment #9880773

    I also came from a XAML background to React and had the same feeling. This is a long shot, since most people have a love/hate relationship with the VisualStateManager, but I have b…

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    Comment #6635056

    Direct link to the game is http://labs.gooengine.com/mozlod/ . The song the band is playing is actually sort of nice background programming music.

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    Comment #6057947

    Seems like the author combined the spec side of mocha with should.js and a stub/mocking library, focused it on node and polished it up with some neat conventions and utilities. I'l…

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    Comment #5609855

    Like the GP, food is one of the glorious luxuries of life. The great thing about having values is that each person can value what she/he wants. You and GP value food, soylent green…

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    Comment #5609750

    I don't think that's a fair comparison. What if sleeping on the floor and not showering made you think better and your body healthier? It's not simply a privation technique, he see…

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    Comment #5527928

    I was the technical reviewer on a recent book called "Design for Software". It's a good introduction to design with a focus on an engineering audience. More info at http://www.desi…

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    Comment #5460644

    I also came to post a link to that book. I thought it was along the same lines as the OA, but at times I found Crawford bordering on being a Luddite (the remark about bathroom sink…

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    Comment #5357275

    The concept of themes looks interesting. For anyone looking to see what a theme looks like, take a look at https://github.com/jashkenas/docco/tree/master/resources/par... , though …

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    Comment #5306214

    I'm not going to pile on in the GH issue, but I'll at least confirm that his reaction may have been a little over the top. You had good form on your PR and specifically mentioned t…

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    Comment #5306156

    From the original PR comment: "This pull request is a more of a feature request with proof of concept really." It's definitely not the norm, but if it were my project I would appre…

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    Something that most people might not know about this is that you can spin up at least 2 small linux instances on this plan. I run a Node.js app on a small Ubuntu instance with git …

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    Comment #5265691

    How does a typo in the first freaking sentence get passed an editor, or even a single proofread?

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    Comment #5247154

    I believe this is handled by Backlift: http://backlift.github.com/docs/basics.html#backlift-variabl...

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    Comment #5213388

    Wow, you're a winner. Have a good day dude, time to go back to work.

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    Comment #5213324

    I'm interested in why you think this comment you made contributed anything to the discussion here. I'd encourage someone who _can_ downvote, to downvote you, since I can't.