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by stirner 6y ago
Antonio Garcia Marquez’s employment history includes quanting at Goldman Sachs, founding an advertising startup, and working at Facebook. I don’t feel as if I can take the arguments made here at face value, knowing how much money—for the au
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by stirner 6y ago
I use AdGuard, a content blocker that supports the major ABP lists like EasyList, Fanboy’s, etc. I wish there was a content blocker that support automatic translation of ABP lists into content blocker rules—I’ve been working on one but have
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by stirner 6y ago
I’m with you. Maybe it’s something specific to being a techie and having a ton of peripherals, but being able to connect power, display, keyboard, mouse, webcam, backup drive, Ethernet, etc. with a single cable when I sit down at my desk wa
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by stirner 6y ago
I had the exact same experience, but I feel grateful since it’s what got me into programming. I first learned C in order to customize the dwm tiling window manager on Linux. Over time, my priority became simplicity and overall cohesive desi
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by stirner 6y ago
I agree, I’ve often found smaller or less “online” businesses (e.g. a local car stereo shop) on Google that Maps doesn’t surface. But I usually just search for these in a browser anyway, and open Maps when I actually want to navigate there.
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by stirner 6y ago
I walk past PETA’s west coast headquarters in Los Angeles every week, and they have inset windows behind a small ledge that’s raised from the street and protected from the weather [1]. They have the raised metal studs near the edge of the l
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by stirner 6y ago
> Emacs is a computing environment that happens to revolve around text. And it’s usually embedded in another computing environment that happens to revolve around text called UNIX. If only the scripting language of the latter was as elega
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by stirner 6y ago
None of those messengers were tied to expensive hardware like iMessage.
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by stirner 6y ago
I grew up nearby in Washington, Maine, and we burned our fields using this method. It was always fun seeing the firemen in their hazmat-like suits; very Cormac McCarthy-esque.
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by stirner 6y ago
It’s a bit clunky, but Graphviz and its DOT language[1] might do the trick. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphviz
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by stirner 6y ago
Location: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Can relocate next year if necessary Technologies: Go, C, Rust, Swift/iOS, JavaScript, HTML/CSS Résumé/CV: Hosted on my LinkedIn profile in the Featured section Email: wil
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by stirner 6y ago
Meanwhile, you can still use youtube.com/tv to control playback on your PC from your phone—but only if you spoof your User-Agent to that of the Nintendo Switch [1]. Sounds like they are more interested in phasing out user control than
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by stirner 7y ago
Oh wow, you’re right, at the very top. Skimmed right over that. Thanks for pointing it out. I guess SwiftUI exacerbates the problem since expressions are necessarily very deeply nested.
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by stirner 7y ago
I’ve noticed that when editing the ContentView in SwiftUI, errors will sometimes be attached to a totally unrelated line (OTOH, forgetting to unwrap an optional returned by NumberFormatter.string() showed type of expression is ambiguo
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by stirner 7y ago
When I was young my parents installed a system-wide child filter for OS X called Safe Eyes that had tons of false positives (and more importantly, blocked online games). I didn't know much about computers but it drove me to learn how t
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by stirner 7y ago
When working in a kitchen in California, I had to take the ServSafe Food Handler course online, which consisted of long, patronizing, unskippable videos explaining basic food safety concepts (which I already knew from previous experience) a
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by stirner 7y ago
The “Volvo effect” refers to standardized testing mostly reflecting the income and education level of one’s parents. I can’t find any research showing that Volvo owners drive more recklessly, but I’d believe it. Do you have any more info?
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by stirner 7y ago
Off-topic, but this is the first time I’ve seen a colleague’s name show up in a random academic setting. I worked on a group project with Ronald Yu as an undergrad at USC. A smart and friendly guy.
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by stirner 7y ago
As other comments have pointed out, it seems like the author is looking for PowerShell. I have used a fair amount of PowerShell and it always leaves me feeling like I should just fire up Visual Studio and learn C#. I think that shell langua
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by stirner 7y ago
I used to do something similar when I ran my own mail server. Whenever I created an account for a new service, I would add an entry to /etc/aliases e.g. news.ycombinator.com: stirner and sign up for the service as news.yc
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by stirner 7y ago
> Ultimately I suppose you’d be able to zoom out to the world and see its Google review score. “Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence expressed through time, was given a 6.8 out of 10 rating in an review pu
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by stirner 8y ago
> “Perhaps surprisingly, in practice it turns out that the special case is the main use of the program.” This is, in fact, a Useless Use of Cat [1]. POSIX shells have the < operator for directing a single file to stdin: figlet &
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by stirner 8y ago
> When deep space exploration ramps up, it’ll be the corporations that name everything: the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks. (Fight Club, 1999)
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Are coders worth it?(aeon.co)
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by stirner 8y ago
> Most of the fragile insights that laid the foundation of a new vision emerged not when the whole group was together, and not when members worked alone, but when they collaborated and responded to one another in pairs The article gives
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by stirner 8y ago
The undergraduate logic programming course I took used Learn Prolog Now! which is available online for free. [1] I found it to be pretty straightforward and helpful. [1] http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pageid=onlin
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by stirner 8y ago
True, the next frame can start getting drawn before the last one, but every desktop compositor I know of uses vsync.
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by stirner 8y ago
> When dragging items on the screen, for example, users perceive latencies as low as ~2ms This seems doubtful, given that even a state-of-the-art 240Hz screen only refreshes every 4.16ms. I guess they could compare dragging on a screen t
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by stirner 8y ago
>The talk reviews reasons for UNIX's popularity and shows, using UCB cat as a primary example, how UNIX has grown fat. cat isn't for printing files with line numbers, it isn't for compressing multiple blank lines, it'
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by stirner 8y ago
Because it's not a Go project, it's a Google project[1]. It's like Apple posting new iOS features on the Swift blog, e.g. [1] https://github.com/google/go-cloud

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