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johndifool

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johndifool··on Program your next server in Go
Nothing wrong using a screwdriver when you do cabinet work as opposed to using electric drills for carpentry. A manual and more precise work calls for a different tool. Electric drills will strip the head of the screws over time. And every tiem I need to use an electric drill, its battery needs to be charged first, sending me back to the manual screwdriver.
johndifool··on Show HN: New calendar app idea
Double-clicked on the left side bar and it locks it without being able to re-open it.
johndifool··on Android platform engineer on application architecture
I remember her name. Wasn't she the one who vehemently was defending activity lifecycle and other broken multi-threaded API, something every Android developers I talked to would consider totally broken?

To be fair, developing on Android has become so insane releases over releases that her crazy write up about no engineering design hardly comes as a surprise...

Shame on Google for forcing us to use that POS.

johndifool··on The top Google result for 'blockchain' is a scam ad
"this is another reason I dont use google anymore"

What are the alternatives? I am trying that too but can't find s...t using duckduckgo and the gang.

johndifool··on Swift 3.0 Release Process
How about using `lazy` for a memoized function?
johndifool··on Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'
For the fact you mentioned you are included, it seems to imply that you are not to the extent for it to be meaningfully wrong.