andrew_n

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Bird Poo(birdpoo.com)
1 points by andrew_n 5y ago|0 comments
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by andrew_n 7y ago
The technical deep dive was a great read, thanks! I think it would be a good submission. https://news.ycombinator.com/submit
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by andrew_n 7y ago
Programming TypeScript has a section on “Simulating Nominal Types” [1]. You define a type that’s impossible to create naturally, and provide a function that asserts something is of that type. type CompanyID = string & {readonly br
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by andrew_n 7y ago
Yes, and the medical professionals dealing with this are getting statistics about diagnosis and recovery rates and times by analyzing case histories, not applying estimation formulas to totals. Data gets aggregated and used in mathematical
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by andrew_n 7y ago
It depends on what the messes are. Separating into different services adds significant overhead to addressing cross-cutting concerns. If the modules of your system are already relatively independent with well-defined interfaces, microservic
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by andrew_n 7y ago
A typical UML-bashing article/comment doesn’t suggest some potentially superior alternative, but takes the “everything is awful” stance. The text of the article reads in that same vein, but given that the title is “Monoliths are the Fu
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by andrew_n 7y ago
Spot on. The metaphor I typically use here is cleaning up a mess vs spreading it around. If you have a really big mess and spend a year or two rearranging it into dozens or hundreds of smaller messes, yes the big obvious mess is gone, but t
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by andrew_n 7y ago
I used Mathematica’s notebook interface quite heavily 15-20 years ago; Jupyter’s interface is a clone of that in many ways. At the time, my workflow was to use two different notebooks for everything: foo.nb and foo-scratch.nb. I’d get thing
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by andrew_n 7y ago
I don’t believe this is correct; when I look up the details of transmitters, they’re often 100kW+, e.g., https://fccdata.org/?lang=en&facid=62331 for an arbitrary example in Montana
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by andrew_n 7y ago
Yeah, self-configured DNS blocklist. Some of the reasons I’m not a fan of twitter apply to hacker news as well; for example, both can be distracting and contribute to procrastination. Compared to hacker news, my main issues with twitter are
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by andrew_n 7y ago
Yup, this is very common. Exact numbers are pretty confidential. Ballpark numbers from something a few years ago: tech company sold for $400+ million. CEO got $10 million, head of sales $5 million, CTO $1 million, middle managers $20k, and
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by andrew_n 7y ago
Consider the remark not as the cause of death of the company, but the remark as an instance of a general attitude, and that attitude fitting in quite well at the company.
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by andrew_n 7y ago
> My understanding is that Joyent is comprised primarily of Sun refugees This is by far the best explanation I have heard. Suddenly Joyent makes sense to me after all these years. They have been continuing to do what Sun did. In a very s
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by andrew_n 7y ago
Market capitalization = share price * number of shares As a first approximation, this is how much money it would cost to buy all the shares. You’d pay $SHARE_PRICE for each share and then own the entire company. Therefore the concept is a d
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by andrew_n 9y ago
It’s been a long wait, but High Sierra should ship with ruby 2.3 in under two weeks. An August beta came with ruby 2.3.3p222.
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by andrew_n 10y ago
Here it is in HTML if you prefer: http://www.math.ualberta.ca/mss/misc/A%20Mathematician's%20A...
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The beginnings of TECO [pdf](tenex.opost.com)
2 points by andrew_n 17y ago|1 comments
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by andrew_n 17y ago
The title is misleading: there will definitely be more linux exploits.