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by j4pe 1y ago
I am a simple man I see -2k lines of code, I upvote I've told this story to every client who tried schemes to benchmark productivity by some single-axis metric. The fact that it was Atkinson demonstrates that real productivity is only
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by j4pe 1y ago
Yeah we're opening an engineering office in NYC, TBD whether it's Manhattan or across the river, likely depends on the location of the next few hires.
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by j4pe 1y ago
GovPilot | Senior + Staff Software Engineer | Python NYC Onsite | C# NYC + remote I'm CTO of a bootstrapped civic tech provider powering hundreds of local and county governments across 40+ states and 3 countries. We provide 150+ servic
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by j4pe 1y ago
This was my first thought as well. I wonder if he hired someone to build it and is paying some kind of monthly maintenance fee. Anyone here could contact this guy and offer to put the page behind a (probably ~free) CDN.
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by j4pe 2y ago
GovPilot | Senior + Staff Software Engineer | NYC Onsite | C# Python Elixir I'm CTO of a bootstrapped civic tech provider powering hundreds of local and county governments across the country and federal governments abroad. We provide 1
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by j4pe 3y ago
Joe Eskenazi, the author of this piece, is a solid journalist who helps run the tiny donation-funded Mission Local. They've done incredible reporting on corruption in the SF city government and punch way above their weight in the stor
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Ask HN: What's going on with T-Mobile numbers and fraud?
3 points by j4pe 4y ago|3 comments
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by j4pe 4y ago
I actually registered a bet regarding his eventual conviction: https://longbets.org/922/ I was bothered by the level of rhetoric from high-profile people in technology predicting that the US justice system would never
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by j4pe 4y ago
It's charmingly on-theme for the title of this HN post to be a Youtube-style clickbait, but we should probably edit it to something more informative.
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by j4pe 4y ago
You may enjoy HN darling(?) Pinboard's 2013 talk on Thoreau and his phoniness: ( https://idlewords.com/talks/thoreau_2.0.htm )
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by j4pe 4y ago
It's an incredible essay for anyone who feels stifled by the society they're living in, the organizations they're a part of; anyone who wants to create and to do something original; anyone who wants to understand their compul
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by j4pe 4y ago
Congrats on the launch, Stefan. That is a heck of a nice wrap on that tractor. Best of luck!
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by j4pe 4y ago
As a longtime freelancer and agency founder: misaligned incentives are not the same thing as dishonesty. Honestly pursuing your own incentives, and being open about what those incentives are, is really the only honest way to do business. Br
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by j4pe 4y ago
Has anyone compared memory usage of these launchers? I can report albert consumes a constant ~600MiB on my machine, which seems high for a list of filenames and application names.
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by j4pe 4y ago
Parag apparently lost his patience with superficial and misleading claims about Twitter spam (like this analysis) and posted about it today. You can see it here ( https://twitter.com/paraga/status/152623757884367257
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by j4pe 4y ago
It's worth appreciating how fluent all of these people are with their craft to create something of this quality on that timeline. The director got the script on Wednesday! Look at the set layouts, the lighting plans, and the lens choic
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by j4pe 4y ago
Is it a bit of extra complexity? Yes. Does it cause friction for new devs? No - I can't think of any mainstream Elixir use cases that require Erlang libraries, with the exception of math operators like `:math.sqrt/1`. Chris'
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by j4pe 5y ago
The incident this piece revolves around seems strange. I can't find the avalanche report to confirm this, since only fatal accidents seem to be publicly available [1] (all reported US avalanches are cataloged publicly [2]). First, it s
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by j4pe 5y ago
Wait, why and how? Did I miss this?
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by j4pe 5y ago
Another example, similar to the open source world, of a volunteer's passion project becoming a critical infrastructure component that people rely on.
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A New Zealand volunteer is a major contributor to CA wildfire updates on Twitter(wired.com)
3 points by j4pe 5y ago|1 comments
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by j4pe 5y ago
Sixty years on, the most interesting thing about the case is enthusiasts' refusal to consider the most plausible explanation because it doesn't deliver the same satisfaction as less likely theories like government conspiracy. Gran
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by j4pe 6y ago
I've been watching Urbit for a while, the grand vision is just so cool. But it never seemed to have any immediate utility, even for the most DIY hacker type. They're combining the hard things about technology (let's rebuild t
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Urbit: Late 2020 Progress Update(urbit.org)
6 points by j4pe 6y ago|3 comments
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by j4pe 6y ago
And in particular, the protagonist of that short story who is so happy he lives in his grim and grotty but real cyberpunk future, instead of the sterile, facile utopia imagined by the retro-futurism aesthetic. It's an interesting idea!
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by j4pe 6y ago
Why don't gig workers just work for themselves? Gig apps are basically trivial to engineer in 2020 until they get scaling problems, largely due to the contributions of the open source community. It would be nice if there were also open
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by j4pe 6y ago
I've always admired your work, and read your source code to learn how to structure a great project. Looking forward to reading whatever you do next!
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by j4pe 7y ago
Chromium has very little to do with whether a browser shares user data - it's just an open-source package for making browsers. I also primarily use Firefox, but Brave is definitely a more serious effort at a privacy-focused browser.
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by j4pe 7y ago
Previous discussion: ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4333578 ) Yanis Varoufakis, who wrote the post during his tenure as "Chief Economist" at Valve, went on to serve as the finance minister of Greece during i
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What do we need corporations for? Former Greek finance minister on Valve (2012)(blogs.valvesoftware.com)
1 points by j4pe 7y ago|1 comments

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