benburton

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by benburton 2mo ago
Oh. That's kind of disappointing.
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by benburton 2mo ago
Today New Zealand has lost a national treasure. Haere atu rā ki te okiokinga.
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by benburton 5mo ago
This proposed economic model creates a dystopian situation: whoever has the most capital has the right of first refusal to consume art. Current primary and secondary ticketing markets are not ideal, but this proposition disenfranchises whol
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by benburton 8mo ago
I love writing documentation, and I love teaching people how to solve problems. At my day job I've written a lot of the organization's most trafficked explanations and how-to guides for understanding our codebase and engineering p
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by benburton 1y ago
My first thought too. Glad there are other indie rock folks poking around!
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by benburton 3y ago
As someone who works in the music industry, this Snoop Dogg streaming thing is an obvious straw man. I genuinely hope people stop using it as evidence of, well, anything. For that low of a payout on 1 billion streams, you'd have to (as
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by benburton 3y ago
FlexPats?
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by benburton 3y ago
Unrelated to the content of this post... this looks to be hosted on Notion. Is that a reasonable option for a personal blog? I do a lot of writing in Notion for work and I would love to transition into something more public. I don't re
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by benburton 3y ago
Thank you. I thought I was going crazy.
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by benburton 3y ago
I struggled with linear algebra in college, in part because my professor had a tenuous grasp of the English language. Strang's book was our textbook, and I did a bit of digging and found the OCW lectures. I stopped going to class, and
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by benburton 3y ago
I never met Bob Lee, but I was a huge fan. Google Guice was exceptionally useful for non-Spring-based dependency injection in the early 00s. I don't know if Bob had his hands in the Google Collections API, but that in combination with
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by benburton 4y ago
What's your proposal to enforce restrictions against this behavior?
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by benburton 4y ago
You wrote an entire sentence that has literally nothing to do with the ticket resale market and how scalping is related. A secondary ticketing market enables scalping. There are legitimate reasons for the resale market to exist. If you thin
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by benburton 4y ago
Waiting on the response here because there will not be one.
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by benburton 4y ago
This issue isn't as cut and dry as simply banning scalping. I spend most of my discretionary income on music... merchandise, vinyl, concert tickets. At any given point in time I have tickets to about 7-8 performances in the future. Som
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by benburton 4y ago
NYC checking in! Surely there are enough of us to put together a meetup?
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by benburton 4y ago
Correctly but also incorrectly.
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by benburton 4y ago
If I recall correctly, the primary method of "punting" was to send an instant message with a bunch of unclosed HTML tags, which the client's renderer wouldn't be able to handle and would crash the AOL application.
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Ask HN: Do you have sudo on your company-issued machine?
8 points by benburton 5y ago|11 comments
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by benburton 5y ago
Looked interesting. Thought I would take a deep dive. README references a video behind a subscription paywall? I'm out.
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by benburton 5y ago
> I think we can all sleep easy that the terrifyingly smart rich people made the right call on how to handle their own exposure. My personal Venn diagram of "terrifyingly smart people" and "people involved with cryptocurre
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by benburton 5y ago
Never use Upwork? Got it. Thanks.
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by benburton 5y ago
I'd love to give this a read from someone with a lot of experience in the source material, but given a $50 pricetag for a book I don't need to read I'm not into it. Who are your editors?
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by benburton 5y ago
> Docker Desktop doesn't let you decide whether you want updates or not, unless you pay them This made me uninstall Docker Desktop.
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by benburton 5y ago
This is my favorite thing I've read today.
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by benburton 6y ago
> most car makers can't design a good UI if they tried, because they are just so incredibly bad at designing software. Interface as a secondary concern to any other business function is historically a budget race-to-the-bottom. Just
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by benburton 6y ago
Hiring for a junior dev position, and being disappointed seeing a Github repository filled with homework assignments? Ok.
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by benburton 6y ago
I think the question is actually "what is this company trying to sell you?"
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by benburton 6y ago
Ah of course!
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by benburton 6y ago
const add = ({ a, b }) => a + b; const _add = ({ a, b }) => b + a;

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