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by edw 6y ago
Can we collectively refrain from making comments like this on Hacker News—or in any venue, for that matter? Is it that hard to read an assumed “In my experience, it is often the case that…” in front of everyone’s comment?
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by edw 6y ago
The care and thought you put into your writing, regardless of medium, says everything about how (and how much) you care and are thinking about your audience.
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by edw 6y ago
Some cigar chomper transformed The X Files from a beloved show to one where everyone just wanted the damn thing to end.
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by edw 6y ago
When I think of royalty free music for “creators,” my mind instantly goes to the sort of cliched, bombastic audio that is used to score “epic b-roll” that serves no purpose in so many YouTube videos. The world needs less of this, not more.
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by edw 6y ago
I don’t know about you, but reading that first paragraph of the organic chemistry textbook was not a drag. It may not have been Carl Sagan’s Cosmos but I don’t understand how any generally curious person wouldn’t find it interesting. For th
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by edw 6y ago
Coming soon, if it's not already here in Preview Edition: Eternal Hacktober. Every day GitHub more resembles a gamified social media platform.
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by edw 6y ago
I wanted a monochrome terminal but was willing to tolerate traditional ANSI color. Once you start with 24 bit color you may as well start using a VNC client. What sapped my will to live was the impossibility of doing a C-u C-x = on the over
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by edw 6y ago
I basically gave up on Emacs and switched to a combination of VS Code and old-school vi for Go and everything else, respectively. Finding an effing theme that allowed me to program in Go in a terminal without making LSP’s overlays unreadabl
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by edw 6y ago
And can’t we all get back to the really important work of complaining about the absence of free snacks, the main reason we’re here?
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by edw 6y ago
Upon reading it my thoughts went to yesterday's Verge article on the audio recordings of Zuckerberg's Q&As. Facebook has many vocal rank and file people who seem to believe they've arrived at Enlightenment and want Zucker
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by edw 6y ago
ICX Media | Golang/Python GCP Data Engineer| DC, NY, SF, LA | REMOTE ICX Media is helping organizations gain insight into online audiences and act on those insights. Key to achieving that goal, ICX is building a world-class data practi
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by edw 6y ago
Yes and? If you carry this on your keychain heading into a security checkpoint, expect to receive interrogation++.
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by edw 6y ago
"This (watch|car|toupee|smartphone|encrypted USB key drive) will totally make you more attractive to potential relationship partners!"
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by edw 6y ago
The claimed "plausible deniability" benefit seems dubious. You are carrying a branded device with marketing materials that tout its ability to offer you plausibly deniability…
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by edw 6y ago
SO is the opposite of MDN. If you do not approach any piece of StackOverflow content with the presumption that it could be dangerously not-even-wrong, God bless you.
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by edw 6y ago
Preaching to the choir. It amazes me that the ML and Data Science folks have settled on anti-FORTRAN. (Or maybe, put that way, it’s less amazing.)
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by edw 6y ago
Django's migration tool is awesome; I can see how people could get seduced by it. It's happened to me.
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by edw 6y ago
Assembly code making poor choices can be outperformed by Python code making smart algorithmic choices. The sentiment behind "don't use Python for performance critical code" isn't wrong, but there's nuance. Programm
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by edw 6y ago
Both your and the parent's sentiments are so on-point. And they're one of the reasons I don't like ORMs or the use of in-app constraint checking. The mid-Aughties rise of CRUD-focused frameworks that treat the database as a
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by edw 6y ago
It's not necessarily about money. An engineer can burn through tens of thousands of dollars per month in cloud spend because they have access to the AWS [or] GCP console, but that same engineer may not have the first idea about how to
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by edw 6y ago
Sometimes the best thing that could possibly happen is something not working. How many times did Twitter bump up against its inability to scale on the way to being successful? (Yes, maybe a bad example.) What if someone had said, “Oh it’s n
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by edw 6y ago
Color me old, but wtf, the JS script kiddie obsession of never writing a line of code that can be packaged in a module has now come to shell scripting?!
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by edw 6y ago
We don't care about reality, merely perceptions. "Well I humiliated the person for an hour in front of a whiteboard" is the new "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM."
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by edw 6y ago
Meaning and purpose are not things that you find in work; they are things that you make. As a CTO in a small adtech company, my standard pitch to hungry young talent went something like this: You're not going to be curing cancer or put
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by edw 6y ago
This has been going on for decades. Websites are a battlefield in the eternal war for supremacy between factions inside an organization. Tufte talked about this effect in print material in VDoQI. Carousels are a strategy designers use to ge
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by edw 6y ago
How about hashing IPs? You could still see if someone were on your abuse list if abusers.contains(hashfn(req.addr)).
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by edw 6y ago
If people are cutting Barclays slack, perhaps it's because the guy on Twitter is painting this as a satanically evil deed when it was probably just someone making a stupid mistake. Additionally, the aggregate bandwidth cost of deliveri
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by edw 6y ago
Here’s another question: Would any of our lives be any worse — or would they be better? — if we simply chose to walk away and not be a part of any of these platforms, HN included? How much of our lives is made up of karma whoring, level g
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by edw 6y ago
Tim's thoughts dovetail nicely with the Mathbabe "Microfinance is mostly a scam" story also on the front page at the moment. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23662482 ) Technological change always causes
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by edw 6y ago
“Higher quality than Yahoo answers” is an extremely low bar.

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