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by 0x445442 8y ago
Here's a discussion on Jeff Raskin's Canon Cat https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14650365 One of its strengths was discoverability. Jeff's son Aza iterated on a number of the ideas from the Cat with Enso a
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by 0x445442 8y ago
I've been responsible for hiring 10 or so engineers in my career and everyone of them turned out to be a good hire from the company's perspective. I was always able to smell the BS pretty quickly during interviews and it's al
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> To me, it's the difference between pulling the strings on a puppet (method calling) vs placing a request to a colleague (messaging). This is the way I think about it as well, the more concise notion is ask don't tell. By don&
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by 0x445442 8y ago
How about The Running Man? I never read the book but I believe the villain was a game show celebrity, same as in the movie.
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Not sure if nathanaldensr means that but that's what I would say is the straw man. Also, it's been my experience a lot of developers have a lot to learn about OOP principles. The most common OOP idea that's seemed to have bee
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Software not being bound by physical constraints like other engineering disciplines is a huge distinction. So much so that I think software development is closer to writing a novel or movie script than it is to building a bridge. However, I
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More pictures of Pelosi?
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RSS, it's catchy. I like it.
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Does it make sense? Do the things you list add up to 2.5% - 3% of their revenue? I don't know.
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> I can see all the advantages from their POV Advantages of cashless? Is the cost of handling cash really greater than the percentage paid to the payment processors? It's an honest question and I'd be interested in some real s
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Ahhhh, intersectionalists and libertarians make strange bed fellows. What's even stranger is most of these politicians fighting for the rights of the "unbanked" embrace the surveillance state win that comes from cashless.
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> If that one Nazi were to turn into a thousand Nazis, then I suspect people would be more circumspect about the whole thing. Why? I mean what do you care how many people say the earth is flat? As for Nazis, Antifia and whatever other gr
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Yeah, my son was kind of getting into this stuff a couple of years ago, he's 17 now. When it first came on my radar and I started to ask him about it I had the same thought... kids these days. Ironically, when I asked him some more que
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Oh how I miss Ted Dziuba posts. He's was a treasure trove of pragmatism for the industry.
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The only thing that was not "normal" was how late in the year it was before significant rainfall came. Look at the rainfall totals since like two weeks after the fire. It's quite normal for this area to get next to no rainfal
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by 0x445442 8y ago
I'd say the one down side to HN is the moderation and I don't think social media has any responsibility to moderate comments. Readers of NN comments are free to ignore any content they wish to ignore. I find the trend of individua
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Exactly. Go to any retailer with these green screen Point of Sale systems and watch them wiz around the keyboard.
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Can't remember where I read the story, Steve Yegge perhaps. But they were talking about how where they worked secretaries actually used Emacs apps developed by the IT department and, over time, the secretaries started to extend the app
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by 0x445442 8y ago
How is embedded development WRT requirements and process? I've had this theory for some time that a number of dev's frustrations are rooted in the fact that what they're doing isn't anything close to real engineering. Th
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The fees aren't the point. The point is, using something other than cash tends to trick people into spending more in the same way buy one get one free does.
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> but I'm very convinced that you end up paying more in the end This is actually the same tact credit card companies use, even if the balances are paid off every month. That's why we still use budgeted cash from envelopes to p
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by 0x445442 8y ago
I can't speak to Tridactyl but some time back I looked at extending one of the other plugins, can't remember if it was Vimperator or Pentadactyl, but when I looked at adding my own custom scripts for extension it failed the 10 min
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by 0x445442 8y ago
If only we had a plugin/extension called Meta-x. When the user typed the Meta-x key combination a mini-buffer would be presented at the bottom of the browser and the user could then run any command they wanted. This plugin could ship w
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I'm currently working on a project that's implementing this whole pattern using AWS. 1.) Requests are written to a DynamoDB table 2.) a Lambda subscribes to the Dynamo event stream 3.) each event from the stream causes the Lambda
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Not sure why you got down votes for this because you speak the truth. It reminds me of a time when I was in a lower division Physics class and the professor announced to the class that calculators would not be allowed during the test. Since
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>> Is it really just "I worked hard for it why should I give it away" No it's more "I worked hard for it why should it be taken from me by force or fiat". I've found most folks who are well off (not livi
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There are credible scientists who disagree with the climate change narrative. Just because you don't agree with them doesn't make them "nut jobs" or "deniers" or any other label you care to attach. Equating fol
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I see these types of stories as propaganda aiming to placate younger generations into accepting a lower standard of living than their predecessors. The ones I really get a kick out of are all the Tiny Home shows popping up. I know, I know,
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There's also Pharo (pharo.org) which forked from Squeak some years ago and is chugging along at an impressive pace.
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That's interesting. Admittedly, I've not done UI work for many years and I've never used FP for UI development. But what you described is really the way we used to design things with OOP. You'd have classes which represe

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