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About thedaniel

maker of things with computers

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    Comment #19084763

    Such a legend - for an easy intro definitely the short stories in Birthday of the World are worth a read

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    Comment #16857189

    Well, I'd guess the most culturally diverse city (Los Angeles) is a likely answer.

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    Comment #16298558

    They aren't, exactly. In one of the articles linked from this one, it says > It’s easy to confuse the ePrivacy regulation with the General Data Protection Regulation, a broader law…

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    Comment #16123625

    The author of the article is a professor in said department.

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    Comment #15707826

    Well, one of the people in the scenario uses tab characters, not spaces.

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    Comment #15489972

    That's literally the etymology of the word "entrepreneur", if you go back to the latin roots it's basically "go between and take"

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    Comment #15436742

    I suspect the opposite - given that whatsapp dominates texting in europe, and twice as many people live in europe as the USA (which is upon what i suspect you base your assumption …

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    Comment #15251310

    The next day, we'd severely punish entities whose profit-seeking actions denied people fresh water.

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    Comment #14800388

    > Disagree. Private messages are the analog of walking over to someone and just talking to them, and one-on-one discussion has valid purposes (e.g. discussing user stories or parts…

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    Comment #14800380

    I very nearly added an extra point "manage your notifications" with a simpler subset of what you posted here but decided it didn't fit in the in the tone and spirit of my post

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    Comment #14652961

    Sorry to come across so harsh, I was in a poor mood yesterday :) There are a bunch that friction fit onto tubing that have e.g. 10 holes and spray out to the sides

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    Comment #14646622

    In the water distribution section the author mentions the other gardening software doesn't mention how they distribute water. There's a longer history of irrigation than there is o…

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    Comment #14568076

    cosign for splice, i have been using it since beta and now it's an essential part of my workflow - i don't really use their collab stuff much (just to send people projects, not to …

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    Comment #14568070

    > * Only a single project can be open at once, which makes copying from old projects tedious unless you shuffle files around into your current project. You can drop entire projects…

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    Comment #13984850

    The name is a reference to Alan Kay's M.Sc thesis from 1968: https://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/kay68.html

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    Comment #13819504

    Why so mean? https://github.com/naftulikay/travis-pls/pull/2

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    Comment #13419241

    The parent mentioned probably the two biggest mail clients in the world, and you mentioned 2 that I haven't heard of despite 20 years of sending email and toying around with new so…

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    Comment #13301790

    This is a paraphrase of a semi-well-known quote from a respected business professor named Warren Bennis, about the "factory of the future" - who knows whether he coined it or adapt…

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    Comment #13033791

    > I'm going to seem like an elitist prick Great tip, if you feel the need to start a comment like this, don't post it.

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    Comment #12892173

    relevant discussion here https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/6677

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    Comment #12889939

    Or... that it was an option for port placement they'd already considered, and they pulled an existing prototype out of the library, which seems more likely to me.

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    Comment #12864174

    Indeed: https://whoownsyouravailability.com

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    Comment #12863490

    > This was an honest mistake on their part From my outside perspective, it doesn't seem like a mistake on their part at all. Later in the thread you say this accounted for 10% of t…

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    Comment #12662018

    I like this interpretation too!