supercucumber

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by supercucumber 3y ago
None of this is surprising. I was a sw engineer at 23andMe about 5y ago. Their backend consisted of some of the worst python/django spaghetti code I’ve ever worked on. There was also no engineering culture whatsoever.
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Ask HN: Why hasn't a readily available universal mosquito trap been developed?
2 points by supercucumber 3y ago|3 comments
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by supercucumber 4y ago
there's a solid chance said jobs don't pay equitably either
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by supercucumber 4y ago
Apparently they have a malware problem too: https://lifehacker.com/great-now-the-apple-app-store-has-mal...
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by supercucumber 4y ago
System Preferences was rewritten for Ventura in SwiftUI, which is absolutely not ready for production, especially on Mac. Speaking from personal experience, I recently wrote a simple macOS app using SwiftUI. I found the framework to be s
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Wikimedia Toolforge Pastebin(paste.toolforge.org)
1 points by supercucumber 4y ago|0 comments
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Apple education store now requires Unidays and only 1 device per year(apple.com)
2 points by supercucumber 5y ago|0 comments
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Keyring – an easy way to access the system keyring service from Python(github.com)
1 points by supercucumber 5y ago|0 comments
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Soup Sieve – A modern CSS selector implementation for BeautifulSoup(github.com)
3 points by supercucumber 5y ago|0 comments
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The Log4Shell zeroday 4 days on. What is it and how bad is it really?(arstechnica.com)
4 points by supercucumber 5y ago|0 comments
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by supercucumber 5y ago
mildly ironic that the FBI employs so many elite hackers but can barely keep its own properties safe
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by supercucumber 5y ago
Yes, it’s known as the Russian reversal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Soviet_Russia
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by supercucumber 6y ago
> Matthew in accounting that will open that invoice attachment so he can pay it. This is painfully accurate. A chain is really only as strong as its weakest link :/
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by supercucumber 6y ago
Obviously not, but I think it’s pretty straightforward: use common sense. If you think someone might take offense, then don’t say it.
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by supercucumber 6y ago
The main issue here is that you made a joke about race. It wasn’t funny, and was extremely distasteful. If this is still lost on you, then I suggest you take a moment to educate yourself on the matter and consider why this was offensive to
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by supercucumber 6y ago
Sarcasm or not, your post is racially insensitive, hence the downvotes.
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Wikimedia FontCDN – an anonymizing, privacy-first reverse proxy to Google Fonts(fontcdn.toolforge.org)
87 points by supercucumber 6y ago|53 comments