Shish2k

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by Shish2k 7y ago
> If only Inoreader would correctly open the comment link and not the original article in the HN RSS feed I'm pretty sure that's down to HN themselves choosing to put the original article's URL into each entry's &quot
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by Shish2k 7y ago
To my knowledge the "default" editor has changed ~3 times in the past 5 years (fbide, atom, vscode) - and yet I've been using vim this whole time with no problems, and never had anybody suggest that I stop ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by Shish2k 7y ago
... you're using pycharm as a cluster management tool? I'm not sure if I'm impressed or horrified :P
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> by "partner" they just mean they replaced their internal thing with VS Code? Wow Incorrect - they built their own remote-editing solution (similar to vscode's built-in edit-over-ssh, but with a load more features), and h
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by Shish2k 7y ago
I think you have some wires crossed. YOU, a random developer working at some other company, or on your open source projects, are not sending data to facebook. Facebook employees, using facebook's tools, running on facebook's dev-s
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Not to appeal to popularity, but if it's so bad, why do so many companies use it? Anecodtally - of the 120 icons on my phone's home screen: - 50 are blue-white logos (eg twitter) - 14 are red-white or red-black (eg youtube, netfli
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Uber for Murders
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by Shish2k 7y ago
"Use tor for everything" is a bad answer, because the question specifically said "I'd really like to be able to access [...] everything else directly as usual" "Use tor for everything" might be good life a
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Aside from the software side, the licensing also heavily restricts virtualisation - if Apple would just /permit/ it, I know of several companies (not to mention open source groups) who would /love/ to create some industr
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Could you not just add an index on `Right(SomeColumn,3)`? Creating indexes for common queries seems less weird than adding columns...
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by Shish2k 7y ago
One thing I always want to see in a README: what command do I type to build and run this thing :P
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by Shish2k 7y ago
And anyone who knows that song from youtube is missing out on one of the best west-end musicals ;)
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by Shish2k 7y ago
I find the OM approach to be much more fun when you have friends to compete with - "Making a solution is easy" opens it up to a lot more people, but "Making a GOOD solution is hard" makes it great for competitive play. (
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by Shish2k 7y ago
"pure git has all the features you need, if you use pure git alongside all these other third party tools" The point of github / gitlab / etc is to have all the tools in one place, nicely integrated
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Facebook started with PHP - but quickly replaced the standard library, the interpreter, and then eventually the language itself (Hack still looks kind-of-like PHP, but is no longer compatible) (Working with both vanilla PHP and Hack; I find
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by Shish2k 7y ago
My last job had similar -- our internal tools were a buggy mess, to the point where customer support spent upwards of 75% of their time fighting the software instead of supporting customers - but the CEO decided that the dev team would not
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by Shish2k 7y ago
"Is performance still an issue in this era of cheap 486 computers and super-fast Pentium computers? You bet. How many programs that you use really run so fast that you wouldn't be happier if they ran faster? We're so used to
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> I explained, why systemd is a step in the wrong direction I see a bunch of "I want X", but I don't see any "why"
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> They're sucking up libs to figure out what apps their users use. Hypothesis 1, debugging: requires full copies of system libraries Hypothesis 2, fingerprinting: requires hashes of application libraries Evidence: full copies of sys
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> This article makes it seem like debating politics is a good practices in workplace. It is NOT! This seems very straight forward and clear cut - one question though: can you define "politics"?
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by Shish2k 7y ago
I remapped capslock to escape, which simultaneously gives me back a useful key and gets rid of a useless one :P
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> Giving to the visibly homeless There are already homeless people carrying QR codes to accept digital donations, I assume a lemonade stand could do something similar...
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by Shish2k 7y ago
What stops a group of 20 people from robbing a normal store?
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> Certainly the worst of all modern stack languages So have you not used PHP, or are you counting it as not-modern? :P
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> there is no investment potential. It is just as bad as cash I don't want to invest in money. I want to exchange my money for goods and / or services. It seems that bitcoin is great for the former and not so great at the l
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by Shish2k 7y ago
I had the same thing, after leaving the country - I had to fly home to take 1p out from the bank in person. "Don't spend it all at once!", the bank teller told me :P
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by Shish2k 7y ago
I wonder if we're heading to a world where any company who wants to run internationally needs to keep all US-citizen data on US servers, and EU-citizen data on EU servers?
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> After several days, we finally narrowed down the issue to a bad Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) instruction on a single CPU in our fleet This isn't even the first time I've heard of an issue at FB being caused by a single ba
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> we now know where the loyalty of HN moderators lie Loyal to consistently implementing the rule of "HN submission title should match the original page title"?
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Also frequently combined as "Thing X is known to be imperfect, so thing Y which we've never tried before must be better" D:

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