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Ask HN: Is the recent increase in email spam due to Google's politician policy?
1 points by EricRiese 3y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why are customer support processes so awful?
15 points by EricRiese 4y ago|12 comments
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by EricRiese 5y ago
There is still code in no code in the same way that there is still procedural code running when I execute an SQL query. I don't care how much code is being executed. I care about maintenance burden. Postgres is better maintained than a
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by EricRiese 5y ago
WSJ just posted a story about this yesterday: https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-need-more-workers-why... I think a company could do well by teaching HR about game theory: take into account what your competitors ar
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by EricRiese 5y ago
I thought this was going to be a new album by The Flaming Lips.
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by EricRiese 5y ago
I appreciate how the hardware pictured is an Intel "NeXT" Unit of Computing.
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by EricRiese 5y ago
The graph shown when talking about daily cases exploding was a graph of cumulative hospitalizations with the y-axis not starting at 0, to make an increase from 360k to 380k look like a tripling. Do better CNN.
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by EricRiese 5y ago
That's not how you would want to implement the tax law, but it reflects the moral intuition.
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by EricRiese 5y ago
That logic doesn't really apply when you scale up to the ultra-billionaires. Shares of stock are plenty liquid.
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Programming Paradigms: Procedural, Object-Oriented, Functional(ericrie.se)
2 points by EricRiese 6y ago|0 comments
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by EricRiese 6y ago
Arbitrary random numbers are pointless. 37% of people know that.
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by EricRiese 6y ago
Lenovo now offers the X1 Carbon and some other models with Linux, either Fedora or Ubuntu, out of the box. Maybe the author was unaware or ordered shortly before that became available.
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by EricRiese 6y ago
apparently. Not surprised.
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by EricRiese 6y ago
What character is the url supposed to be?
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by EricRiese 6y ago
You guys are just now getting to Perl 7? I'm already on Perl 11. http://perl11.org/
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by EricRiese 6y ago
I had an idea for how to deal with that sort of harassment. There's no point in the harassment unless the harassee knows where it's coming from. But revealing that would allow Wirecard to be caught. So you have to play a game of &
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Code bounty site BountySource stealing old bounties
1 points by EricRiese 6y ago|0 comments
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How to Nab Unethical Hotlinkers?
2 points by EricRiese 6y ago|0 comments
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by EricRiese 7y ago
Command Line Heroes is exactly what you want. https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes
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by EricRiese 7y ago
Isn't this all the sort of stuff that freedesktop.org is supposed to fix?
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by EricRiese 7y ago
There's a $380 bounty for this [1]. If you fixed this, please collect this. You deserve it. I hope this doesn't get lost just because it got fixed in a different ticket number. [1] https://www.bountysource.com/issu
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by EricRiese 7y ago
The Terms of Use ask you not to scrape https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/terms-of-use/
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by EricRiese 7y ago
You're behind the times on the red light/melatonin feature. It's now built into probably every major OS. Windows calls it Night Light. Apple calls it Night Shift. Android calls it Night Mode. I used to use the f.lux app on Li
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by EricRiese 7y ago
Raku Perl 6 uses rationals by default for decimal literals. No imports necessary. You actually have to opt-in to floating point by using engineering notation. https://docs.perl6.org/language/numerics#Rational
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by EricRiese 7y ago
Wow, Apple brought back DOS. I guess the hipsters like their hoppy craft beers, hence the name IPA-DOS.
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by EricRiese 8y ago
While we're at it with the misleading titles, this one could have been "Sun's micro system turns copper into gold".
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by EricRiese 8y ago
The lego analogy is something I've thought about before. Inspired by Firefox's Tilt 3D[1], I've wondered if it makes sense to code in VR with indentation, or even level of the AST projected onto the z-axis. Wobbling the persp
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by EricRiese 8y ago
If some of the unicode symbols aren't displaying for you and you're on a debian-based distro, I followed the advice from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Special_characters and ran sudo apt-get install
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by EricRiese 11y ago
Proudly powered by WordPress my ass... It should be embarassed.
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by EricRiese 11y ago
Just the idea that all conflict resolution is fallible and should get a second look. I don't see why a rebase conflict should be treated differently than a merge conflict.

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