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by kovac 8mo ago
Also, Gogol's Chichikov is a better metaphor for the dysfunctional corpo software dev than Akakyevitch...
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Static site search without JavaScript (Perl + FastCGI + SA index)(asciimx.com)
5 points by kovac 8mo ago|2 comments
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by kovac 8mo ago
Implemented search for my website (lup) using Perl + FastCGI + SA index. A throwback to the old net. Send me some search traffic, and ideas on what I could improve. I've linked the source for both search and the benchmarks.
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Show HN: 13MB full-text site search(asciimx.com)
1 points by kovac 8mo ago|0 comments
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by kovac 10mo ago
> My goal now is to use less words to convey an idea. This is what I'm encouraged by Grammarly as well. To some extent, perhaps the book "Elements of style" encourages this too. However, I read Mary Shelley's Frankens
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by kovac 10mo ago
I'm not convinced that we can spend quality time with loved ones outside work while spending most of our time at work pretending, and doing useless or unnatural things. I think what you practise shapes you.
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by kovac 10mo ago
Right. During times I'm looking for a job, I use uBlock Origin to completely hide the feed. Otherwise, I see no reason to use LinkedIn at all anymore.
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by kovac 11mo ago
I think this is the right place to start. A free OS will empower developers to implement technical workarounds that could trick these apps into working there. If the OS is tightly controlled, we have no recourse. Even in the worst case scen
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by kovac 11mo ago
If winning means mass adoption, I think by definition free software won't win while remaining free. If a tech becomes main stream, corporations (and people) begin commercializing it. The de facto strategy in our era for commercializing
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by kovac 11mo ago
Thank you for sharing. As a hobbyist with a devotion to the field, I'm fascinated by how the actual professionals work. It's a very challenging domain.
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by kovac 11mo ago
When professionals use Arduinos for such use cases, do they use the Arduino software platform or do they use the chio verndors' toolchains? Just curious how the professionals work with these things.
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by kovac 1y ago
> My daycare sends me updates, my barbershop tells me when they're closing and I used it to sell my fridge. To consider the other side of this, read "The age of surveillance capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff (really read it t
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by kovac 1y ago
Forgot to reset the context after a test run? :p
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by kovac 1y ago
"Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better." - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra. Simple/complex is subjective. Software domain
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by kovac 1y ago
How is inferno? Is it ready for production? I'm not a frontend dev, but been looking for a light weight, fast framework. Inferno looked pretty good alternative to react. https://github.com/infernojs/inferno
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by kovac 1y ago
I thought it was just me. I gave up on reading the book midway,because I was confused most of the time, and found it hard to engage.
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by kovac 1y ago
Impressive. The page loaded very quickly for me here in Singapore. Is it still running on the Pixel?
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by kovac 1y ago
Thanks for the bear blog. Considering how LLM companies don't respect licenses, and if your livelihood depends on it, I'd go a step further and only make the source available upon request, under strict agreements about how it&#x27
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by kovac 1y ago
The 2FAs require their mobile app sometimes.
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by kovac 1y ago
Do you not have to use a 2FA app for things like banking? In Singapore, they are phasing out 2FA options other than the banking app. The banking apps only work on iPhones and Google-approved Android phones. It's pretty bad.
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by kovac 1y ago
The wages listed there are pretty reasonable. Someone who wants more could work more hours/jobs. Life a little more on your own terms.
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by kovac 1y ago
Do these live coding interviews lead to better hires? I haven't noticed a difference between the teams at jobs I had to pass live coding interviews to get in and those that didn't. I haven't worked at a FAANG, but I've h
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by kovac 1y ago
I bought my dad a Nokia phone in 2008. A dumb phone, with just texting and calling features. It continues to work to this day, so, 17 years (the markings on the buttons are fully erased now, other than that it works). It outlived him. I don
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by kovac 1y ago
> The self taught developer will eventually figure it out, if they are intelligent enough to approach the given problem. As would someone with a CS degree and "are intelligent" in the sense you describe. Early hackers who gave
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by kovac 1y ago
Windows 11 is exceptionally slow. I installed it on a ThinkPad Carbon X1, it was quite unusable. Unresponsive after starting up, copilot and O365 trying to run stuff and i had to wait for them to comolete. I was very surprised that they thi
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by kovac 1y ago
Despite it's limitations on the UX side, PGP is still the better option for email privacy I think. That and using your own domain. There's tor for the web when one needs it. None of these are ideal, but they depend a lot less on t
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by kovac 1y ago
IT is where words and their meanings come to die. I wonder if words ever needed to mean something :p
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by kovac 1y ago
In the context of software, I wonder what would qualify as a wheel. I'd say implementations of standards like protocols, BLAS, etc probabaly are wheels and not trivial to reinvent. Would you consider something like Kubernetes, Docker,
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by kovac 1y ago
Not sure if the author can share the code. For claims like this, I'd like to see source code. I think a lot hinges on the details.
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by kovac 1y ago
That's a good point. I do see developers overestimating the difficulty when supporting the use a 3rd part lib. I recently came across a library in our code base that's about 200 LOC including comments, line feeds, etc. The library

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