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by NAR8789 5y ago
Ahh, "backlink" was the terminology I needed-- found one that's working ok for my purposes so far... https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker EDIT: on closer examination, not sufficient... fails to turn up expecte
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Ask HN: Backlink lookup tool for community discovery purposes?
3 points by NAR8789 5y ago|3 comments
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by NAR8789 5y ago
Ah, I hadn't thought about it from the publishing side. That makes sense. Easier to break into as an unknown writer than google rankings.
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by NAR8789 5y ago
Perfect! I just so happen to be learning common lisp right now. Will give that a try and see if I get more mileage out of that example.
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by NAR8789 5y ago
Stupid question: how do folks generally use awesome lists? I think it's neat they exist, but they don't really live up to the "curated" promise in my mind. Mostly they seem to be a grab bag of everything under a topic,
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by NAR8789 5y ago
It's a "naturally occuring" source of nitrates and/or nitrites, used in meat curing (think ham or hot dogs or beef jerky or bacon). 1. Good: Nitrites produce that pink color and particular salty flavor. 2. Good: Nitrites
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by NAR8789 5y ago
> the earliest incarnation of the software was a prototype Kevin wrote while in college, to motivate himself to do things like get enough sleep. Did this work? Is Kevin still getting enough sleep nowadays?
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by NAR8789 5y ago
Weaning off chores but adding more and more to the platorm feels ominous, dystopian even. The end goal should be to wean off of Joon, not suck more and more of external meaningful actions in . I understand though that the business incent
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by NAR8789 5y ago
Put another way, you're trying to build a "lesser evil" to draw children away from greater harms. What if you took another tack? Instead of building a habit RPG for children, build it for the parents, and make the quests smal
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by NAR8789 5y ago
That is insightful but also depressing. Paraphrasing... 1) the incentives are set up to create more companies like Joon, but 2) the nature of the solution space ensures those companies tend to be parasitic on society rather than helpful. i.
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by NAR8789 5y ago
> One of the hardest parts of parenting (and of growing up!) is getting kids to do things that they don’t enjoy. This sounds like "eat your wheaties", and I think this is a faulty premise / self fulfilling prophesy /
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RSpec Is for the Literate (2011)(avdi.codes)
47 points by NAR8789 5y ago|7 comments
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by NAR8789 5y ago
Ahhh, that's the critical piece of context I was missing. Thank you! Article didn't fully explain why the sticker matters so much, so that left me scratching my head. (my gut reaction was "well, wouldn't a genuine sticke
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by NAR8789 5y ago
I'd argue it's slightly different-- - no brown m&m's specifically calls out no brown m&ms in a list of requirements, and uses it as a canary for reading comprehension. - a misspelling is an "obvious" problem
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by NAR8789 5y ago
I think so, but assuming that is the case... what's to stop a shady chipmaker from printing properly-spelled "American Megatrends" stickers? More generally... are there any actual protections offered by genuine stickers? The
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by NAR8789 5y ago
> Many things heralded as the best thing since sliced bread in presentations and video tutorials are hardly every opened, let alone used. This reminds me of something I heard once... that the first half of Portal (the video game) is basi
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by NAR8789 5y ago
Devil's advocate: as a consumer, google's ads seem 2-4x higher quality than ads out of other networks. I'd be curious whether the conversion rates on the marketing side back up my gut instinct on the consumer side. Any mark
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by NAR8789 5y ago
I mostly buy Intel, but more and more nowadays I'm pondering AMD for its support of ECC RAM.
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by NAR8789 5y ago
"Square dancing" here is I think a fairly awkward translation by the author. "Square" here refers a location, as in "public square" or "field". The literal chinese is 广场舞. 广场: public square (like Time
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by NAR8789 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc toxicity tends to come in symbiotic pairs
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by NAR8789 5y ago
TIL what ELI5 means
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by NAR8789 5y ago
I can't decide whether this joke is marketing folly or strategic genius. On the one hand, making light of how big an undertaking a _database engine migration_ would be makes you come off sounding like the "mongodb is web scale&quo
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by NAR8789 5y ago
looks like it's a ways off... planetscale says they're built on vitess, and vitess has postgres compatibility at the bottom of their "Medium Term" roadmap: https://vitess.io/docs/resources/roadm
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Twitter Is Acquiring Scroll(blog.twitter.com)
2 points by NAR8789 5y ago|0 comments
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by NAR8789 5y ago
Thanks! To pick your brain... did you approach mostly the data modeling / data security / other slices more closely related to software engineering, or did you also socialize it out and get other people and teams involved in other
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by NAR8789 5y ago
tangential: Has anyone read DMBOK and what's your impression of its usefulness for software engineers? https://www.dama.org/cpages/body-of-knowledge I ran into DMBOK just a few days ago when trying to figure out h
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by NAR8789 5y ago
+1 it feels like this or something similar could potentially speed up initial steps of picking up new skills by providing "the right term to google for". In particular, it feels like it targets that stage of problem solving where
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by NAR8789 6y ago
I'm not able to get it to work in firefox either, but it feels like "reduced timer precision" shouldn't be sufficient to stop this particular attack. The authors of the demo here claim to be able to "amplify timing
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Seven Ways to Say “Inequality”: a short study in the rhetoric of policy(writing.kemitchell.com)
1 points by NAR8789 6y ago|1 comments
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by NAR8789 6y ago
This is amazing! I didn't realize this was a thing. You've made my world a little bit bigger and richer today, thank you.

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