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by EMM_386 2y ago
I had ECMAScript on my resume (as JavaScript/ECMAScript) and a technical recruiter asked me what that was. "Oh, I've never heard of ECMAScript before". Well, it's a thing. You'll have to trust me on that one.
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by EMM_386 2y ago
I do believe I've seen something like this under another name. Using "$" to shorten JavaScript? That seems a lot like jQuery. > This README was generated by ChatGPT You don't need AI to explain this one.
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by EMM_386 2y ago
> The current state of Front-end frameworks is an absolute mess. Speaking for myself, I don't want to learn a complex framework. It's really not that hard. I was able to pick up Angular to a level where I could create complex
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by EMM_386 2y ago
I have been using Microsoft Flight Simulator from the earliest versions (maybe 2.0 or something) through all the versions afterwards. I got to a juncture in my life where I was wondering what I should do. I thought "well, I love fligh
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by EMM_386 2y ago
The one use of AI that annoys me the most is Google trying to cram it into search results. I don't want it there, I never look at it, it's wasting resources, and it's a bad user experience. I looked around a bit but couldn&#x
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by EMM_386 2y ago
British Legends I was obsessed with that MUD on CompuServe. My father had a second phone line at home for work and I'd log in on that line. Then the bill came in. Something ridiculous for at the time. Hundreds of dollars. He walks in
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by EMM_386 2y ago
True, they are too big and have their tentacles in too many things to make them go away. However, when you are dealing with people who are supposed to be helping people, and they are staring at how much money is currently coming instead, ju
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by EMM_386 2y ago
I've never heard of them. Then I read the bring in more revenue then "Disney, FedEx or PepsiCo". Wait, what? Oh, right, subsidaries. And, of course, a giant in Medicare Advantage. That company sounds ... very bad and needs t
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by EMM_386 2y ago
I honestly have given up in this battle. I'm curious, what do you think deleting accounts and starting new is going to do? They'll just link it all together another way.
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by EMM_386 2y ago
> Why? The most important info was the time at which the error happened (which, for users who were on Windows, was in the bottom right of the screen). Except it isn't in UTC and it doesn't show an offset. Even if you stored the
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by EMM_386 2y ago
The funny thing is I spend my free time learning as much as I can about consciousness, alterered states of consciousness, the nature of reality, spirtual experiences, all that stuff. That's how I ended up in a breathwork session. But I
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by EMM_386 2y ago
I've done breathwork sessions before. It felt strange, yes you can midly hallucinate and feel "otherworldly" but I always left thinking "ok, I just hyperventilated for 20 minutes ... this is exatly how I'd expect to
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by EMM_386 2y ago
That's amazing. It's terrifying to take a step back from this and think about how much incredibly sophisticated technology had to go into ensuring that we could wipe out the human race in minutes. And then, of course, there's
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by EMM_386 2y ago
> Envious bullshit! No, no ... it's not. First of all I don't care one iota about Jane Street or how much money Jane Street employees make. The problem is that this money has to come from somewhere. And while you say it's
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by EMM_386 2y ago
> Liquidity provides a great service, if we need long market hours. If Jane Street is so critical to the normal functioning of markets that their significance between "exists" and "don't exist" is a major change
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by EMM_386 2y ago
> They provide market liquidity. I actually know a little about this space. You know what the easiest response is that is always the answer ? "We provide liquidity". Sounds important, most people don't get it, it works.
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by EMM_386 2y ago
> Jane Street is stupidly profitable — net trading revenues of $4.4bn in the first quarter, after a $10.5bn haul in 2023, and a profit margin north of 70 per cent — but it bears repeating. That is the fourth straight year of net trading
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by EMM_386 2y ago
The strange thing is this can be used effectively. I don't know about full-screen like this, but we were visiting a client recently who used a certain project management software and when you closed an item out, the button changed to
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by EMM_386 2y ago
Yep, I've seen a few things :)
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by EMM_386 2y ago
> Well it's a lack of training problem. The industry spends billions of dollars on developers writing Java. If they could spend 3 times less by simply training developers to use Smalltalk instead, they'd be doing it. They&#x27
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by EMM_386 2y ago
I've been through cgi-bin, to ASP and PHP, to ASP.Net Web Forms and RoR and ASP.Net MVC. I now work on an Angular 17 enterprise application. Out of all of them, the Angular 17 application is by far the most enjoyable to work with. And
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by EMM_386 2y ago
I have worked in small companies and big companies, on monoliths and microservices. Good and bad. Everyone has already gone into the weeds yet again on that topic. I'm just confused on why these types of stories keep coming up recent
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> Either I'm a super genius or this has been discussed before and made it's way into the training data. If an LLM can tell you the relatonship between a compost heap and nuclear bomb, that doesn't mean that was in the trai
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by EMM_386 3y ago
Tested, and ... no? I tried two different VPNs, currently on NordVPN ... no issue accessing Reddit. And I get that it's cool to bash Reddit on HN, but the sense that "I don't visit sites like that ... I exclusively visit HN
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by EMM_386 3y ago
They are doing this with hospitals also. Hospitals . The large PE firms come in, buy the hospital and rent the land back to it. Eventually the hospital goes under. This involves some of the biggest PE firms out there, and often MPT - &qu
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> I feel we are under qualified to speak with conviction about anything else's level of consciousness You don't need to feel that ... that's the truth! There is not a human being alive on the planet at the moment who can e
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> With MongoDB, we lost out on many nice features from the relational world ... > ... this hurt in particular because our data was very much relational. That is my best attempt at the summary. The write-up is good, but after you'
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> he will be using it without knowing. I will know. Not because of the "little green lock". I will know in the same way I know this site is secure. In this case, because of PKCS #1 SHA-256 (aka CKM_SHA1_RSA_PKCS_PSS). Cert i
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> The, what I call "millions of tiny buttons" interface is ugly and distracting. I agree. I used to use N++ when that sort of interface was common everywhere. It didn't look as out of place. These days I find it too jarr
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> being able to close the window without being asked whether I'd like to save the document Notepad on Windows now has this behavior. Finally. After having used it for more than three decades, it now has the one feature that prevent

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