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thunderbong
118,638karma·18,324submissions·May 20, 2012
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That's a really interesting point. I never thought about knowledge like that. I've always thought that the difference between knowledge (or knowing something) and being informed is when you …
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DBeaver is really excellent for so many things. I use it to organize my scripts which I need regularly. I can also put them on a network/shared drive so that others can access it. I don't kn…
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For Postgres or any SQL database, I've been relying on MyBatis Migrations for years. http://www.mybatis.org/migrations/ …
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I agree with the GP with regard to Angular4. But have you really tried to create a modal in HTML/CSS/JS without any framework? It's surely not one line of code!
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That's really interesting. Can you tell more about how it is implemented technology wise?
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Nowadays, it seems to me that every time I hear the word 'disruptive', the word 'free' seems to be close by.
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I had, for some reason, never thought of that directly. Although I do remember some joke on arithmetics in one of the Asterix comic books. But reading this article and trying out a few things, I found…
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The question is - how're you going to find them?
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Sometimes when this happens, I try to think of the worst - What would happen if I lost my job? What would happen if I were to die tonight? Sometimes it helps to realize that nothing much really, I mea…
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Fossil [1] has always been my go-to DVCS for ages. Not only can I host it myself. I can also run it when completely offline. It offers Bug Reporting, a Wiki and both a web interface and CLI. Created b…
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I had never heard the word 'anorak' used that way before. Thank you for enlightening me. Anorak 1. A kind of heavy jacket 2. Someone considered boring because of their obsessive hobby or nar…
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I liked this line - "climbing Everest should not be about ego"
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Mister God, this is Anna By Fynn[0] Physics, Religion, Philosophy, Life, all rolled up into seeing the world through a child's eyes. [0]: https://www.amazon.com/Mister-God-This-is…
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Thank you. Really. I hadn't heard of her before. She's incredible!
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I was so piqued by this article I wanted to see a video of him and found this amazing one of Foster talking to Bill Maher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExElEMpJN3M Really enjoyable…
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Fantastic! Humour is generally downvoted on HN, because us programmers (mostly) take things too literally. But, seriously, tech really is the biggest laugh because we take each generation of software,…
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Typing. By far the most under-rated and the most useful skill to have as a programmer. When I seriously started programming, I spent one hour every day for 30 days on typing using one of those many ty…
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From the article - [3] Google spent 6500 CPU years and 110 GPU years to convince everyone we need to stop using SHA-1 for security critical applications
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Yes! And posts dealing with quadratic behavior in languages!
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Thank you. I wonder how many open source advocates recognize this.
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URL: http://semver.org/
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brouhaha means - Loud confused noise from many sources. I don't think anything was said about it being a success or otherwise
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Use something better? Like Fossil? I find Fossil way, way more friendly and useful for individual users and teams. http://fossil-scm.org/ …
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I've been a very happy user of MobaXTerm for many years. Generates keys, has inbuilt sftp, and X11 forwarding. http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ …
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Yes, it is. But let's also not forget time. It should be money/time.