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The Chart of Everything(economist.com)
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by bww 2y ago
Interesting, and this kind of service seems fine to you? It doesn’t seem fine to me. Even if most people will have no problem with them, I’d say that knowing how a company handles edge cases like this is much more valuable than knowing how
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by bww 2y ago
I recently transferred all my domains and cancelled a DNSimple account I’ve had for more than a decade for similar reasons. A couple years ago they migrated me to a more expensive plan with no notice, I had to catch the price difference on
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by bww 2y ago
You may be interested in Groupcache's method for filling caches, it solves the same problem that I believe this project is aimed at. Groupcache has a similar goal of limiting the number of fetches required to fill a cache key to one—re
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by bww 2y ago
> You'll notice I added four "food" emojis: the crab, shrimp, squid, and lobster. I have no idea why they were assigned "food-marine" instead of "animal-marine". They look happy, healthy, and uncooked.
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by bww 2y ago
Just FYI, you’re still using buttondown.email in your HN profile.
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by bww 2y ago
Hmm. I was excited about Zed, but it now seems painfully clear they’re headed in a completely different direction than I’m interested in. Back to neovim, I guess…
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by bww 2y ago
The author seems to imply, as if it were generally understood and accepted, that the reason nuclear reactors are heavily regulated is because they produce a lot of energy. Perhaps that's a component, but one really doesn't need to
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by bww 2y ago
I’ve also recently switched (largely) from Vim to Zed and I also think that Zed is in many ways great. At the same time it’s been pretty frustrating to use an editor that is spending so much time building AI integrations, REPLs, and so four
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by bww 3y ago
Given that the unemployment rate in the US (at least) is still extremely low (about 3.5%), it’s at least worth considering that if the people working gig jobs wanted full or part-time employment, with the set of trade offs that entails, it’
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by bww 3y ago
… and you’ll give them plenty. I live in New York, but I rarely go to hotel bars here because, while frequently comfortable, they are outrageously expensive. On my most recent visit this spring I paid $24 for a single very mediocre cocktail
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by bww 4y ago
FT Alphaville is “the FT markets and finance blog”, so this is essentially an opinion piece and the Financial Times is not presenting it as news.
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by bww 4y ago
It's worth pointing out that retaliation, itself, is not illegal or even necessarily morally dubious. If a company were to retaliate against an employee for stealing by firing them no reasonable person would find fault with that. Only
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by bww 4y ago
This looks pretty cool. I've long been looking for something similar to Soulver ( https://soulver.app/ ) that I can use on Linux. This seems promising. One small criticism: In my opinion, no web-based writing app is usef
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by bww 4y ago
Shameless plug: for REST APIs, I've written a tool called Instaunit which combines HTTP API integration tests with documentation generation, since these two things must always be maintained in lockstep. It's got a ways to go befor
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by bww 5y ago
I’ve taken to just making /v0 or /v1 the root of every package I maintain. Even though it’s not required I think it’s a good practice. It doesn’t affect the package name (unless you choose to), only the import path. So it eliminat
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by bww 5y ago
Wine was originally released in 1993. You're talking about a period 7 years into it's development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)
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by bww 5y ago
The same way you don't get to make up any value you feel like when you account for donated property. https://www.irs.gov/publications/p561
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by bww 5y ago
Sure, a program couldn't have a level of access that it's not supposed to have. Let's design security beginning with that assumption.
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by bww 5y ago
There seems to be a surprising amount of antipathy towards standups in this thread. Reasonable people may disagree about how useful they are, sure, but the suggestion that 15 minutes of daily coordination is somehow a foundational problem i
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by bww 5y ago
If Apple allowed developers to keep 100% of revenue from App Store transactions while Apple continued to pay for all the operating costs it would still, undoubtedly, work out greatly to Apple's advantage. They derive enormous value fro
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by bww 5y ago
Somewhat related: the saga between Hoefler and former partner Frere-Jones, who Hoefler almost certainly attempted to (and perhaps successfully) screwed over. https://www.fastcompany.com/3036423/type-stars-jonathan-hoef.
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by bww 5y ago
Certainly people should use the tools they like and are comfortable with. That said, I would suggest that there's a limit to this "whatever you like is fine" logic. If you were building a birdhouse and decided you liked hamme
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by bww 5y ago
> Mark Gyetvay, the deputy chief executive officer of Russian LNG exporter Novatek PJSC, warns that the green movement could disrupt the delivery of adequate and affordable supply to consumers. Russian natural gas executive says promotin
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by bww 5y ago
> He plans to return the unopened device, and while he's glad the strategy worked, he doesn't think it's fair. "The only way you can get any customer service is if you prove that you've actually purchased somethi
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by bww 5y ago
This sort of thing is a common pattern in Go, where it is accomplished by the fact that Go interfaces do not require types to opt into them by declaring their adoption. If a type conforms to the interface it's a type of the interface.
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by bww 5y ago
Like most people, I enjoy being physically around my colleagues from time to time. There is real value in that sort of interaction. It is not, however, an essential component of most jobs that traditionally have been conducted in an office.
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by bww 5y ago
> Because we see equity as part of total compensation, we believe employees should receive equity as it’s earned — every quarter. This reads to me like someone looked at the data and discovered that almost everybody who stays employed fo
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by bww 5y ago
The example in the hero animation has a bug. The ${text} may not be correctly URL-encoded, which would make the body invalid. And because this sort of feature encourages people to blindly trust the machine and not think about what they&#x27
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by bww 5y ago
It doesn’t really matter whether any of these companies are monopolies in the Sherman Act sense. That act was passed about 130 years ago and could never have possibly envisioned the challenges presented by tech companies today. What does ma

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