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reflectiv

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    Comment #43165886

    my current job still uses it deep in some abstraction created ages ago...

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    Comment #42330074

    AI in general at the time was led by a VP and a particular group (that was AI tech specialized) under him. The initial idea came about from them. We were trying to find new ways of…

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    Comment #42328749

    I was a developer at Shell a couple years back and led a project where we were using nascent GPT-1/2 to process and search over mountains of documents. It was a fun project where I…

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    Comment #38916103

    ...and its been hugged to death in minutes.

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    Comment #37859721

    What kind of stupid statement is this...no it certainly does not. But humor me with an explanation, please...

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    Comment #36709235

    The 'light-based' network thing kinda threw me for a second...wifi IS technically light, its just a frequency (RF) at which we can't see it and that can (somewhat) penetrate walls.…

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    Comment #35359985

    His timeline sounds exactly right to me, I basically did the same thing. Mid-late 90s I used Beej's network programming guide to write an IRC client.

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    Comment #34369268

    > Which sites do that for any meaningful reason? Literally none...this is just the argument of contrarians or people who've only ever worked on personal projects who take offense t…

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    Comment #34121100

    > I actually can't imagine any other use for vh that isn't related to screenjacking Creating fixed panels on the left or right side of the viewport that are full height and sticky.…

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    Comment #33316805

    I think we're making a supervillain recipe here guys...chill

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    Comment #31260269

    Yes, I do this too...its a different thing when you are talking about your own insular project or something at a smaller scale. The thing I was talking about was larger scale proje…

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    Comment #31258521

    I really wish software was written this way these days. These days I am always being rushed through sprints barely knowing what is going on. What you described sounds like a wonder…

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    Comment #30685689

    Yea... DO has some really great documentation for their services so I am hopeful they will only enhance/make-better css-tricks.

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    Comment #29966912

    Each environment should have its own keys for the services it is talking to so ideally this would restrict the scope of damage.

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    Comment #29391680

    Ease of use is a separate topic from money no matter how much you want to try and mix the two. Yes one is often at the cost of the other...but they are different topics.

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    Comment #27858510

    Just wanted to say your grandpa sounds pretty damn cool

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    Comment #27560461

    This is basically what I tell people when they ask me why I put my start menu and task bar on the left side of the screen.

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    Comment #27474370

    mobile is much more akin to desktop development because the API's/etc are specific to each device type (android/iphone). The web is a different beast from that too.

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    Comment #27474193

    20 years is a bit much IMO...5-10 tho, that sounds at least reasonable.

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    Comment #27474087

    ok but like....thats for desktop application development... ...this is the web, a completely different and totally unrelated beast.

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    Comment #27313885

    I write web apps for a living and literally ran into this last week...and was promptly annoyed when I realized chrome was ignoring the attribute to disable it.