chunkyguy

Joined 13 years ago

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151
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92
Member since
Mar 2
I make apps and games. https://whackylabs.com
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Comment · 2 months ago
What is wrong with this layout?
Comment · 5 months ago
Like last year at a cafe in a small town somewhere in Greece.

You make it sound like indoor smoking in public places is a thing of a past.

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
> You treat your code as a means to an end to make a product for a user.

This sounds more like a product owner not a developer

Comment · 7 months ago
You need to understand the context. The quote in Gita was to motivate the best warrior of the time at the battlefront facing opponents who were mainly his cousins and uncles.

In that context the quote is about performing the duties you were born to do without overthinking the consequences.

Comment · 1 year ago
If there is HTML in the list then why not JSON?
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
This is so true. I switch from iPhone 5s to iPhone SE to iPhone 13 mini. After my current phone dies I don't know what phone would I get next.
Comment · 1 year ago
C has many syntactic sugar and [] operator is one of them. -> is another popular one.
Comment · 1 year ago
> After a formal investigation in 1907, psychologist Oskar Pfungst demonstrated that the horse was not actually performing these mental tasks, but was watching the reactions of his trainer.

Sounds like machine learning

Comment · 2 years ago
> The tooling idea is particularly appropriate for JavaScript since many developers actually code in TypeScript and rely on compilers such as Babel, Webpack or the TypeScript compiler to output JavaScript.

Hot take

Comment · 2 years ago
Can you not simply use a feature flag that you control remotely to toggle the app between fake and real modes? You just need to toggle the flag on when submitting for review
Comment · 2 years ago
this sounds like a good explanation:

> University of Göttingen had more academic freedom than generations past. They were promised intellectual autonomy and freedom from close religious supervision. Instead, they were recruited solely to advance knowledge and carry out original research. The education of students was also more egalitarian than it had been previously in Europe, as both rich and poor were admitted and trained.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago

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