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by Niksko 10y ago
I guess what he's getting at here is that these variable names don't convey what the variable holds. Let's say you're writing C and you want to return status information from processes as integers. Instead of: > retur
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by Niksko 10y ago
Yes, but the regulatory and development hurdles involved in developing an operating system are significantly different to those of developing an autonomous vehicle.
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by Niksko 10y ago
Probably embedded stuff. Web dev will probably die down, and with robots and automation and IoT becoming more prevalent, embedded programming will probably become popular. But hopefully by then embedded devices won't force us to us lan
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by Niksko 10y ago
I found this article to be really helpful in understanding how Bitcoin works. http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-a... When I finally came to the realisation about what mining is actually doing a
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by Niksko 11y ago
> Eventually CAD software vendors will be disrupted, but we're a long way from that point right now! Not so sure we're that far off. Nobody really has much incentive to innovate in this space because it's so niche. If you&
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by Niksko 11y ago
Makes sense, but there are ways of being even petty and nitpicky without being condescending or rude. State facts, don't throw insults, don't demean or belittle.
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by Niksko 11y ago
Accessibility definitely, but I think it's naive to assume that just because the centralized teacher-student model of education has been around for a long time necessarily means it will never be supplanted. I think the evolution of edu
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by Niksko 11y ago
That's a shame. I'd like to believe that large companies like Google could throw a bit of cash towards open-ended problems. Realistically it's large companies, governments (please no) and research institutions that can afford
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by Niksko 11y ago
That's not really avoiding the problem. The problem isn't just figuring out how to get all of your nice ES2015/2016 constructs to compile down to a format that can be understood by browsers and node. It's also all of the
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by Niksko 11y ago
Gotta agree with the author here. Trying to wade into modern JS is really really hard. There are sooooooo many different ways of doing things, and tutorials written a few months ago can be out of date.
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by Niksko 11y ago
That seems a little harsh. Nested list comprehensions with multiple filtering if statements? Scald away. But the simpler examples there are perfectly readable, understandable and maintainable if you understand list comprehensions. And if yo
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by Niksko 11y ago
Easy. We'd end up with thousands of people named 'Boaty McBoatface' marked as safe
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by Niksko 11y ago
And there's your answer. The average HN user and the average person are very far apart. I personally love animation as part of good design, but I know plenty of people that don't care. Even non-tech people I know say things like &
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by Niksko 11y ago
Cool little story. I really like speculative fiction like this. The only part that is too far-fetched is "A lawnmower repair shop down the street builds these mowers and provides them for free.". Why would they build and provide t
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by Niksko 11y ago
I agree with you. It's a pretty, modern looking template that suits a variety of products. Good design is hard, and good designers are expensive. Wouldn't you rather have the default design be a good one, instead of paying shitty
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by Niksko 11y ago
I'm in the process of learning a JS stack at the moment, and I've come to almost an identical conclusion to this article about the packages and tools to use. One difference though is that I've read Relay and GraphQL will even
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by Niksko 11y ago
> job offer Really? For brute forcing an un-rate-limited endpoint? I doubt it.
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by Niksko 11y ago
Something my dad taught me is to bake them. Slice a cross in the top, add some brown sugar, wrap in foil, bake for a while until they're caramelly and softened. You just eat around any seeds.
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by Niksko 11y ago
Bokeh is cool, but I've found that it's method for customizing appearance of graphs is a little unintuitive and clunky. For example, have a look at this cursory analysis of my Reddit comments that I did late last year. Getting the
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by Niksko 11y ago
> That alone proved Snapchat has no relevancy to anyone, and is a waste of time and money. I think our definitions of 'proof' differ greatly.
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by Niksko 11y ago
This is essentially exactly what I've been wanting. I really want to start doing some real world work on open source projects, because I feel they'll be great experience. However the projects I'd love to work on (TOR among ot
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by Niksko 11y ago
I think factory color calibration for every device with a display is a pipe dream. It simply doesn't provide enough value to the user for the extra effort you'd have to go to. I think the more realistic option is some sort of easy
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by Niksko 11y ago
Seems like (as I've said in every thread on Urbit) it just needs more developers and users so that we get the Urbit flavoured higher level languages.
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by Niksko 11y ago
I think this is just borne out of the stark and daunting difference between the way Urbit works and everything else we're familiar with. I'm daunted by it, but I'm intrigued by it. I'm also pretty convinced that if I dev
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by Niksko 11y ago
Realistically, what justification is there any more for working on somebody else's machine, being force to use their config? Ok, if your machine explodes and you need their's for a bit fine. But in the long run, the amount of time
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by Niksko 11y ago
Good tutorial. Looking forward to combing over my vimrc tomorrow when I have some time. It's similarly copied from somebody else's many moons ago, and there are things that it does that I don't really like but haven't be
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by Niksko 11y ago
The "we'll release this to the public when it's finished" mentality is what's causing this project to fail. Urbit sounds really cool, but it needs people to actually get used to it, understand it, and then parse it
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by Niksko 11y ago
The Model 3 will be my first car, unless my circumstances necessitate that I have one sooner. The stuff that Tesla is doing is just so bonkers cool. Not only that though, I'm sure it's going to be safe, reliable and fast.
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by Niksko 11y ago
I like this guy. Can we get him to make other things?
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by Niksko 11y ago
Some people don't give a shit, and are perfectly happy to go through life this way. Case in point, my boss at the moment does something I've noticed quite often in stupid people. As soon as the train of thought requires more than

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