Alex3917

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by Alex3917 5y ago
> Is a software developer who makes a dating app doing one or the other? What about the designer? Both are thing oriented because you’re doing work for people as an abstraction, not individual people. User stories might be based on actua
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by Alex3917 5y ago
Great post. I more or less assumed this is what had happened, but great to see it written up. On one hand, the fact that you need to go through this kind of song and dance to get anything done is probably yet another good indicator that Ame
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by Alex3917 5y ago
> It won't be, and that's okay! These days hosting costs are cheap enough that even if it takes you several years to turn something into a business, that doesn't really cost you that much. We've seen several examples
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by Alex3917 5y ago
This piece seems to conflate being smart with being intelligent. Basically being smart means being well educated, whereas being intelligent means you have fast processing speed. Or maybe you have slightly different definitions, whatever, bu
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by Alex3917 5y ago
The problem is that you can get more page views on Twitter for something that takes a day to write than you'd be able to get in an entire year of blogging full time.
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by Alex3917 5y ago
When is the last time you saw two people at a party adding each other on FB? It's been a pretty long time. Probably no other option of FB at this point.
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by Alex3917 5y ago
> I struggle with arranging such activities, and I'd be happy to fork out real money for curated, guided shared experiences that connect with both generations. In the last few months this has actually become a relatively straightfor
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by Alex3917 5y ago
I was also talking about the amount of RAM. The reason they didn't allow people to increase the RAM at all for a couple years as because of the power consumption. After people freaked out they eventually added an option, but kind of di
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by Alex3917 5y ago
Thanks, I'll check this out! I just need to run Python on Ubuntu, so hopefully that isn't too crazy of a use case.
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by Alex3917 5y ago
It looks like Vagrant doesn't work yet with UTM: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/12518 Conceptually I'd love one of these machine, but realistically if I can't develop locally in an
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by Alex3917 5y ago
> Plus bumped up RAM limit, M1, new displays, 120Hz... Wow. They couldn't use LPDDR5 RAM with Intel chips. They wanted to bump up the RAM years ago, but couldn't do it until now.
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by Alex3917 5y ago
Docker doesn’t really work on Mac. Like it technically runs, but just barely. Because it uses containerization inside virtualization, it pegs the CPU just to run a hello world app and completely drains the battery in 30 min. Oh and the fans
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by Alex3917 5y ago
Can I keep my existing vagrant / Ansible setup? Or, basically, what would I need to use in order to provision the instances?
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by Alex3917 5y ago
> It's literally everything you could want in a new MacBook Pro. If it doesn't run VirtualBox then I can't use it to write code, so why does it even matter if it's faster?
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by Alex3917 5y ago
> Meanwhile, when people think of "Tier 1" AWS services, its Cloudflare equivalent, Amazon CloudFront, rarely gets any love, and the official AWS Twitter account hasn't tweeted about it in almost a year. In the last couple
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by Alex3917 5y ago
I mean I've been called an anti-vaxxer on HN, and I'm the one who submitted it.
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Flu vaccine as an intervention for prevention of myocardial infarction (2016)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3 points by Alex3917 5y ago|0 comments
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by Alex3917 5y ago
> I think it's a pretty poorly kept open secret There are lots of book about this. E.g.: https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Boys-Surprising-Problems-Educ...
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Covid-19 was the No. 1 killer of Americans age 35 to 54 last month(theweek.com)
7 points by Alex3917 5y ago|4 comments
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by Alex3917 5y ago
For email threads, fwdeveryone.com. (Attachments are temporarily disabled for most users, although I can send you a workaround if you need that in the short term.) For individual emails, posthaven is the successor to posterous.
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by Alex3917 5y ago
> things like `.append` changing the object, returning `None` instead of creating a copy and returning that The obvious question is why it can't return a reference to the list instead of returning None. I feel like if I've been
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by Alex3917 5y ago
> Currently, PHP is about 6x faster than Python. In a 100KLOC codebase, 99% of the performance issues are going to come down to 5 or 10 lines of code. Don't get me wrong, I'm extremely happy that MS is funding a multi-year proj
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That's its biggest strength.
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by Alex3917 5y ago
But anyone using typescript would just be Googling JavaScript syntax. Rarely is there anything Typescript-specific you need to look up while writing TS code.
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by Alex3917 5y ago
As a mushroom enthusiast, this is disappointing. I was imagining millions of pounds of maitake just sitting there, waiting for someone to steal them from the military.
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by Alex3917 5y ago
fwiw I was talking about the campaign HQ folks, not the Iowa folks (who were unionizing).
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by Alex3917 5y ago
> The campaign team was full of fools who squandered almost every good turn received He also fired them one day before dropping out of the race just to send a message. I don't know that that's great leadership, but to me that s
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by Alex3917 5y ago
> The alternative is we go the banhammer route, and as we learned with prohibition era, that had unintended/undesirable consequences. Prohibition never banned a specific delivery mechanism but not the actual drug, so it's never
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by Alex3917 5y ago
> I focused on learning new tech; Python, Go, Kubernetes, Cloud, etc. OK, but it's also completely legitimate to just say, "I already know Python so now I just want to focus on building better and better things each year, not g
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by Alex3917 5y ago
As the CEO of a social network with more active users than Facebook, I am very confident in my analysis.

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