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by galonk 20d ago
Thank you! Kind of nuts they posted this with that title but no explanation.
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by galonk 1mo ago
"Normal" keeps getting more and more depressing. Did they think that image would make them look fun or interesting? Because it's exactly the opposite.
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by galonk 2mo ago
Pedantic as hell but `"100" * 2` in Python (= `"100100"` for those who don't know) isn't really typing, it's operator overloading. Any language with that could implement the same questionable design decis
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by galonk 5mo ago
They said three times "ask me anything" and then didn't respond to a single question. Stop making HN wose by comparing someone dodging accountability to slavery.
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by galonk 5mo ago
They pretended to be fronting up but didn’t respond to anything after that. Doesn’t seem very commendable to me.
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by galonk 6mo ago
My favorite story from the book. Working on hardware, the engineers would often have problems where the whole machine would crash because some signal happend one nanosecond too early or one microsecond too late. Eventually one of the engine
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by galonk 1y ago
Maybe a dumb question, but... I'm a Canadian who would qualify for a TN visa if I worked in the States, but don't currently have a visa or green card. On the online submission form for job openings, it always asks "Are you le
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Meander, a procedural river generator with beautiful visualizations(rarevolume.com)
16 points by galonk 1y ago|0 comments
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by galonk 3y ago
I don't know how it works, but it seems very odd that serialization/reflection wouldn't work with AOT... the information you need is there in memory either way, isn't it?
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A directory of on-demand manufacturers for your creative projects(buildlist.org)
1 points by galonk 4y ago|0 comments
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by galonk 4y ago
I was introduced to this word by the Carl Sagan novel Contact, and I’ve always remembered it.
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by galonk 4y ago
AA sounds like a horrible company. They had a design legacy from when their logo and identity were designed by Massimo Vignelli, but they threw it away and didn't seem to have any concept of its value. Their website has terrible design
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by galonk 4y ago
I didn’t know adding text to the submission would show up as a comment so it looks like I’m the author. Sorry about that!
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My Tongue Cancer Story(medium.com)
2 points by galonk 4y ago|3 comments
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by galonk 4y ago
A month ago I was diagnosed with tongue cancer. This is my journey of regret, joy, anger, and inter-species body modification.
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by galonk 4y ago
I don’t know why floats aren’t included, but any float can be easily represented by an int with same bits, or a bytestring, using the struct module to convert between them, so there are clear workarounds.
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by galonk 4y ago
Wendigos!
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by galonk 5y ago
I just assumed they were broken or that the image server was slashdotted.
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by galonk 5y ago
A lot of people sing BB's praises but I never had a good experience with them. The client was always slow, buggy, and resource hungry, and its UI is terrible. They got shirty with me for reporting bugs when I was using a macOS beta. An
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One year of Defector (indie paid sports blog)(defector.com)
2 points by galonk 5y ago|0 comments
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by galonk 5y ago
SideFX | http://sidefx.com/careers/ | 3D software developer; Technical writer | US or Canada (Remote) | Full-time SideFX makes Houdini, one of the most popular and widely-used 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and eff
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by galonk 5y ago
Facebook is the new tobacco industry.
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Designing for Culture and Community at Automattic(automattic.design)
2 points by galonk 5y ago|0 comments
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by galonk 5y ago
I would have said splurge for a Ubiquiti Dream Machine, but it's not quite the automatic recommend it was before they started taking a "go fast break things" attitude toward their software. Still better than any consumer-leve
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by galonk 6y ago
Maybe it's a weird sex thing involving Jonathan Frakes.
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Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging(theguardian.com)
277 points by galonk 6y ago|239 comments
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by galonk 6y ago
I love this proposal. I think I would use it too much at first, and the pull it back to using it a reasonable amount :) I've wished that Python had something similar to C#'s LINQ, where a user could express a query using familiar
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by galonk 6y ago
That video is great, it was linked on HN a while ago and I watched the whole thing even though it's not my area at all. Really interesting :)
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by galonk 6y ago
The argument that browsers should stop trying to become an OS on top of the OS (e.g. webUSB) deserves better than this overly emotional rant. The browser that has been holding the line in this respect, Safari, is dismissed without explanati
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by galonk 6y ago
I am a Canadian technical writer who is also a programmer and a graphic designer. Is it easier for me to work in the states through a TN visa (which specifically mentions technical writers)? I've never tried looking in the US but I&#x2

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