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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
The article conflates “popular” with “loved”. JS is popular because it’s the only* language in which it’s possible to write browser apps and extensions. The number of people using transpilers for this purpose is minimal. In actual fact, mos
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
To combat some of the anxiety I had about people looking over my shoulder at my monitors, I bought a privacy filter for one of my screens. It has really improved my personal feeling of being watched.
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
During my first internship when I was 20, I worked for a summer at a medium-sized packaging company to improve their aging order-handling software. Because the floor managers were on the warehouse floor almost the entire day, I took over on
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Show HN: Planetary Distance Calculator Inspired by CGP Grey(kats.coffee)
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
I strongly disagree. I think it would be hard to articulate why an iPhone 6s (released in 2014) which is the phone my partner has, is not usable today. Many of my friends have phones that are currently 2-3 years old, and they work just fine
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
I travel (for pleasure) a lot with my wife. I want to talk about phone uses besides the camera (which I think others in this thread have covered extensively). We have a DSLR camera, and those photos IMO are much better than what phones cou
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
You are 100% right. However I was trying to respond to the parent commenter’s point about mediocrity. I was trying to craft a simple metric which would speak to mediocrity. It’s an imperfect metric for sure.
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
I’m not sure this is accurate, if attempting to compare US political figures with those of other countries. I don’t know if there is hard data on this, but I would bet the US Congress has proportionally just as many graduates of top univers
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
Sorry OP to hijack your thread I skimmed through the comments and folks have said they read slowly, but also say they average about a book a week. Is that really true? How many books would you say you finish on average per year? I read quit
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
My advisor’s advisor worked with Lamport, and my advisor’s thesis was in distributed consensus in file systems. My advisor worked heavily on a lot of the Paxos follow up work. He told me that Paxos is actually so complicated that only Lampo
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
To the Chinese native speakers here on HN: how clear would the message have been to you, if you didn’t read the explanation on this website?
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
I’ve heard it in at least one other context: to mean “inheritor” or anointed successor. Here is a quote from Gore Vidal: ‘I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name C
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
While I understand where you’re coming from, I don’t agree with this sentiment. Imagine saying this about electricity or gasoline. Modern cities would be completely shut down without these resources, and we should treat the Internet in the
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
I’m genuinely interested, can you provide a source for this? My understanding of companies is they have always been exploitative. Any large company from the gilded age is a good example (now almost a century ago). Further back, the companie
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
Big thanks to dang and sctb. You’re doing an impossible job, and doing it as well as two humans can. As others have said, this makes HN the best forum left on the Internet. I want you to know your efforts aren’t wasted or invisible to me. I
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
Thanks for the answer. Can the durability of the fused quartz be compared to the durability of this storage format though? (from a more detailed article [1]) > The information encoding is realised in five dimensions: the size and orient
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
I have a question for anyone here who understands how this works: is the glass from the article resilient to physical shocks like falling/shaking/heat/other mechanical stress? Documents that are meant to last a long time used
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
I have a serious question for you, curious on your answer. Can men “have it all”? Is “having it all” different for men than women? My experience is that men are able to “have it all” often at the cost of their spouse making sacrifices to st
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by SoylentOrange 7y ago
As someone who grew up in Russia and went to school in Russia in the 90s and early 2000s, this is not true. I would be curious what your sources are, if any. Just because there is limited freedom of the press in Russia doesn’t mean it’s a S
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by SoylentOrange 8y ago
After trying to get better at Civ6 (Civilization 6, a turn-based strategy game), I found no good way to really analyze my games. Since I couldn't find anything, I built it myself. I present to you (tadadada) a Civ6 timeline visualizer.
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Show HN: Civilization 6 Timeline Visualizer(boompig.github.io)
2 points by SoylentOrange 8y ago|2 comments
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by SoylentOrange 8y ago
I'm the author and can answer any follow-on questions here.
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A Gentle Introduction to Attribute-Based Encryption(medium.com)
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I don’t know if it will , but I agree with the author of [1] that it should. Python should aim to be faster in its next iteration, as it is increasingly being used for long running computational tasks like science experiments. I would go
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by SoylentOrange 8y ago
I'm the author and I'm happy to answer any questions about this post.
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State of Python in 2018(medium.com)
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Open access, as is mentioned in the article, is both important and difficult to achieve. As a PhD student or associate professor, you work on a strict schedule to publish or perish. The only acceptable publication venues are the 4-6 respect
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by SoylentOrange 8y ago
I like the design philosophy behind BoringSSL: https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl If some portion of the library is overly complex, look into the use case and delete it wherever possible. It maintains a long-term
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by SoylentOrange 8y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. These sites are usually for quick and dirty prototypes within my company and won’t live very long. They usually have a little client side functionality because that’s what users expect. I’ll definitely check out V
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by SoylentOrange 8y ago
Great survey, very excited to see the results. The option of complexity really spoke to me. If you’re building a small one-off website, then you want something short of a framework like React, but something more modern than Jquery (manage s

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