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by david-s 2y ago
I've no idea if TFA is good or not, but it is very new and has only 4 upvotes. The HN front page is a mix of new and popular-despite-age. So it's not surprising to find some barely-vetted things on the front page. (AFAIK the idea
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by david-s 2y ago
What makes you think this is about individuals rather than volume?
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by david-s 5y ago
FINALLY. Kept having to re-disable this cursed anti-feature after updates turned it back on
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by david-s 6y ago
There's no "easy" to the tech interview process
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by david-s 6y ago
Thanks for the video link.
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by david-s 6y ago
I'm definitely a fan of higher level tests that frequently survive refactorings. I'm not arguing unit tests are useless.
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by david-s 6y ago
The point was to change the code structure without changing the tests (possibly to enable a new feature or other change). The challenge being when the tests are at the wrong "level", probably by team policy IME. If you change the
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by david-s 6y ago
Seems to defeat the point of the tests. At least partially.
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by david-s 6y ago
you should probably be comparing Flash to the wide variety of engines and tools that can release to HTML5 rather than to raw WebGL
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by david-s 6y ago
They don't really offer the articles under a payment model that matches my (and apparently many others' reading habits)
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by david-s 6y ago
If a single code base has multiple non-isolated deployables designed to be published simultaneously, and/or having a shared data store, is it a collection of microservices or a monolith? I've taken to calling it a scalable monolit
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by david-s 7y ago
Why should we not let it influence the decision? It's seems to me entirely possible that closing the schools could result in worse outcomes.
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by david-s 7y ago
It doesn't seem to include Digital Ocean in the comparison.
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by david-s 7y ago
i find blacklisting sites that abuse JS works better for me than the whitelist approach
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by david-s 7y ago
It's absurd
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by david-s 7y ago
Barring live calculation of shipping based on location, for inclusion in the display price, this seems ideal.
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by david-s 7y ago
It failed for over a month for me, but only in one direction, and I didn't know. Other party thought I was ignoring them. Lack of confirmation makes it 'worse than useless' in the failure case
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by david-s 7y ago
All this junk they've been doing to Windows lately is making me feel like a restricted guest in my own computer. I'll definitely be exploring alternatives next go around
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by david-s 7y ago
I was able to find one for some hospital procedures on their website recently. It was not helpful. It was both incomplete and inscrutable.
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by david-s 7y ago
the original title has "yearlong, 30-bank" there. "yearlong" has been removed for some reason, but the comma remains
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by david-s 7y ago
This system has resulted in issues in the "host" and with an unresponsive control plane for me the few times I've tried to use it. Compared to no issues with type 2s. To say nothing of the madness of using it on a laptop with
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by david-s 7y ago
I believe Evernote's browser plugin has a feature kind of like this. It's not as smooth (or private) as native would be though.
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by david-s 7y ago
i would not look to dictionaries as the arbiters of what is a word or not. they seem to me to be convenient references at best. they frequently leave out common technical jargon.
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by david-s 7y ago
Thanks. That makes me feel a lot better about a recent decision.
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by david-s 7y ago
work is work, whether or not it gets used. arguably this is, though
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by david-s 7y ago
That's fair. I suppose I treat learning a language as more utilitarian. I need the external motivating factor to stick with it. Languages often have neat features, but that isn't enough for me to prioritize learning one above othe
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by david-s 7y ago
The first sentence is important. It's not about the abstract idea of "interesting items of culture" existing. IME they have to be already interesting to the learner to be a motivating factor. Some people likely find any items
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by david-s 7y ago
I've taken to making them say "this is not random (insert password here)". Still haven't seen if that actually works in practice.
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by david-s 7y ago
No. Largely the dark pattern mobile "get the app" hassling. But also the sheer load time on desktop. And to a lesser extent the breaking of the "a bunch of mostly-static links with associated commentary" model. Using the
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by david-s 7y ago
I've had really good luck with the tilted stand ones. If my phone is propped up on it, it's charging. I have had much worse luck with the lay-down pad ones.

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