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Not him, and I adore the geekiness/goofiness of Land of Lisp, but I found Practical Common Lisp much more helpful.

My advice would be allowing to start take a course without signing up, and offering to create an account during the learning process "to save progress" i.e. the way Codecademy does it (as far as I remember).

I take magnesium every day because I have leg cramps, and supposedly it helps with that. Can't say that I notice any nootropic effects at all, but I do get less cramps, I guess.

>Transmission being infected twice

Could you please elaborate? I only recall one instance of compromised Transmission installer.

Same, slashed over dotted any day.

It might be more country specific (I don't live in the United States, nor in a metropolis), and specific to the art/music scene and venues I'm interested in, but Facebook really covers most bases for me. And I often discover great events because some Facebook friend is interested in them. Some dev meetups are crossposted to meetup.com or eventbrite.com, but only some, and Facebook aggregates both for me. There's even a group for local IT events.

I understand that things happened before 21st century, obviously, there's still posters, word of mouth, newsletters (in some cases, but they're not that popular over here), but these days, at least where I live, event organizers are using Facebook as a core platform to spread awareness. I certainly didn't know about a lot of these events before I joined Facebook.

And there's events like bike rides, hiking trips etc. organized by individuals... on Facebook.

>And they are not helping your damn social life!

First of all, I use Facebook in a similar way (dedicated email, sandboxed browser, external tracking disabled (I know it still tracks me internally), not entirely my real name, no mobile apps, all paranoia privacy settings on, don't really share anything). And I only signed up there a year or two ago. But Facebook absolutely helped my social (and even professional) life. Even if I can reach people by other means, it doesn't change the fact that they prefer to keep in touch with Messenger, we have our private group chats there. Facebook lets me keep up with cultural (art/music) events, and also local dev meetups. I have my current relationship thanks to Facebook as well (I met her in real life first, but we only started to hang out because I looked her up and added her on Facebook and we started chatting there). I even got my dream dev job accidentally, because of a Facebook share by an acquaintance. Buy/sell groups also got me a lot of good deals, including my current apartment.

That doesn't change the fact that, as a company, ethically, strategically etc. I despise Facebook. I hate their manipulative practices. Most of the information shared there is pure shit (but I can more or less choose not to follow it). Regardless, by not being there I'd be losing more than gaining.

Now, LinkedIn I detest even more, thanks to the unsolicited invites from strangers that I get to my private email, even though I haven't even registered there, and I have no intention of doing so.

I'm saying this as someone who's considering buying iPhone 8, but I still think the iPhones are ridiculously expensive (especially here, in EU). You own a mattress for years, but your phone is deprecated in a year or two.

My current and previous phones have been budget phones. It's so nice not having to worry about your phone. I can drop it, I can throw (I accidentally catapulted it a couple of meters once), I can drown it (it's waterproof, but even if it wasn't, no big deal). I don't even have a case or screen protector. You don't have to worry about losing it, or theft, as you're not constantly carrying around a thousand dollars in your pocket. Conversely, with iPhone (or any other flagship), you have to cradle it, protect it. I think the allure of cheap phones is the lack of weight on your shoulders. I'm only considering switching because no new android phone looks appealing to me anymore, and I have had enough with Google.

In my opinion, the only reasonable way of owning an iPhone is buying a new one every year, while selling the last years model around the time new one's announced. They don't lose much value, and you're staying on top of new tech. It's a hustle, but I know people who are successfully doing this.

Just curious, how can you use both? Isn't muscle memory an obstacle when switching between them?

If I wanted a newer version of Perl (or Python, or anything else that ships with macOS), I'd use homebrew, if only to keep everything in the same place. By doing so, for example, brew upgrade would update everything. That's the whole point of package managers, having a discrete package manager for each package defeats the purpose. This is also a reason why I dislike npm and the weird practice of distributing non-js packages with it.

There was a concept like this floating around the internet a couple of years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JelhR2iPuw0

http://gizmodo.com/keyboards-that-rise-out-of-a-touchscreen-...

I don't think anyone confuses nut milk for cow milk in stores. It's usually more expensive than cow milk and clearly labeled with the specific main ingredient. I don't think these companies are trying to deceive anyone. There's a relatively small subset of consumers, who are interested in milk substitutes, so it's a niche product that serves them well. And cow milk contains sugars too, lactose, which is a disaccharide of galactose and glucose. Finally, the thought that they would squeeze almonds to get milk also never even crossed my mind. I know it's a suspension of powdered almonds in water. There's even recipes of DIY nut milk, that are essentially "grind almonds, add water, stir". So your whole argument seems just ridiculous to me.

> Second, if people are so grossed out by milk, why do they want to drink surrogates of it?!

I can't explain it, but milk is just gross to me. I eat almost every other dairy product (okay, I'm not a fan of something too fermented, like kefir, ayran and such), but plain milk is psychologically repulsive. Maybe it's because my grandma had a cow when I was a child, and seeing milk come out of a cow was disgusting. Processed dairy products are kind of too far removed from a cow in my mind, so they're okay. Maybe it's the smell of country milk. I don't like homemade country cheeses because of the smell as well. For this reason I love oatly, and almond and coconut milks. Soy milk is fine too. I can also dring flavored milks or coffee with milk (although I prefer it black). I've only met one other person like this in my life, and it felt very validating that I'm not alone in this.

Agreed. Considering Java background, Spring Boot with a little bit of help from JHipster is the most sensible choice.

They could rebrand to merely Duck, but duck.com is already registered... to Google [0].

[0]: https://www.whois.com/whois/duck.com

Props for the domain name.

>How would the raw concrete metaphor relate to UX / Web design?

I'd say it would be making the page look like bare HTML. Black on white typography. Blue anchor links. Monospace fonts (or arguably default serif font would be more raw).

Of course the manufacturing cost is considerably smaller for restaurants, but they charge a significant markup, which is the only reason eating at home costs less. It's funny that you mentioned McDonald's, I shamelessly love it (in moderation, of course), but in my country it's not the dirt cheap option. It's somewhere in the mid range of fast food places. I literally would not be able to afford to eat at McDonald's 365 days a year.

My setup costs are pretty much next to none, I pay a rent for fully furnished apartment with kitchen, pots and pans, tableware and everything included. Actually it would be a shame not to use them, those would be wasted expenses.

My cooking habits are opportunistic, if I'm at home, with no plans, I'll cook a meal and enjoy the process of doing so. A lot of the times I'm simply not home, so I don't even have the opportunity to cook.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it just the de facto way of dimming LEDs? Since as opposed to incandescent bulbs, they require certain voltage/current to be lit, if you pass them less, they simply won't emit light.

I'm sorry, but it does cost less, like I can shop and make both the dinner and next days lunch in an hour. Sometimes I make 3-4 portions so I can eat for two days. My hourly rate is less than the difference of home cooked meal and eating out. I don't cook that often, because while I enjoy doing it, I don't always have the time or motivation, but even counting temporal expense, I save money considerably. Several hours each day is either a ridiculous overexaggeration or you're just very inefficient.