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by StevePerkins 3y ago
What a truly awful "sign up for my newsletter in order to read my blog post" nag modal. All you have to do is scroll down a bit and then scroll back up, and the modal remains off-screen below the bottom. A determined user can eas
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
Things will certainly change. However, I don't think professional studio productions will go away. In the age of MP3's and streaming services, "anyone" can put their music out there. And while many do, the most popular
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
I get a little tired of this format of "article". TOP 8 ALTERNATIVES TO <<OUR COMPETITOR>>: 1. Us. Summary: The best alternative. 2. Other competitor #2. Summary: Here's some faint praise to seem objective, but cl
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
Oh my God, thank you! That was infuriating. This twist on Geoguessr is an awesome concept, but that UX detail really needs a re-think.
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
I don't see a SINGLE comment in any of these examples that threadjacks to discuss CSS or font kerning. This absence breaks my suspension of disbelief entirely . Something to work on for future iterations.
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
And yet the trades still have uneven access (or none at all) to health coverage, retirement planning options, etc. As an American parent of young children, I keep being told that college is a scam and I should steer my kids toward the trade
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
The language in this article is a bit confusing to me: > "In a sample of nearly 3,000 older adults who took vision tests and cognitive tests during home visits, the risk of dementia was much higher among those with eyesight problem
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
What IS "cool"? It's that moment just before something becomes uncool, lol. Software developers are glorified teenagers. Once something goes from upstart to widely used, developers get bored with it or else frustrated with t
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
It's been ~40 years, but this brings back a delightful memory of being bored in middle school, and drawing out a design for a pencil factory. I don't remember all the details, but their design is probably a little better.
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
This strategy doesn't make any sense to me. As the article points out, many (most?) recruiter software platforms aren't going to show a human your original Word or PDF file. They're first going to show a human the contents
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
They sure do seem to mean a lot when someone recommends Firefox and people shit on them.
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
I just want a decent open source native editor with a native GUI. 10+ years ago, when I and almost everyone I knew were on Windows or Linux, this was simple and ubiquitous. UltraEdit, Notepad++, Vim and Emacs of course, etc, there were doz
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
Maybe the title of the blog post was changed after its link was posted here? HN generally frowns upo submission titles that differ from the actual page title, and currently the page's title is "Being a good mentor – a developers
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
It took WAY too many hops to figure out what this thing even is. I assume that they're going for a very specific audience (i.e. people who regularly write SQLite extensions in C code). And don't have much interest in reading a br
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
This is probably the most absurd comment that I've read so far in 2023. Apple is a 2.73 trillion dollar company, and single-handedly makes up 13.3% of the entire S&P 500 index. The iPod was launched 22 years ago. Apple hasn'
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by StevePerkins 4y ago
You can review the source code right here: https://github.com/deck-of-cards/standard-deck I'm not sure that there are many technical challenges. It's 10k lines of Javascript, and a ton of that are curly brac
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by StevePerkins 4y ago
I'm not sure what "open source" even means in the context of trained ML model. No one's going to be downloading this to their Macbook even if OpenAI would let you. As for "non-OpenAI version", I'm not sur
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by StevePerkins 4y ago
The entirety of this thread is people talking about their espresso machines and grinders, or else contrarians talking about their instant coffee. Am I really the only one speaking up here who simply enjoys "Mr. Coffee"-style drip
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by StevePerkins 4y ago
I would love for there to be a Mac equivalent of Notepad++ (i.e. Scintilla). I miss that editor every day. The Mac world has many advantages, but in terms of text editors all your options are either: 1. Electron-based, and take forever to
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by StevePerkins 4y ago
It should be called out more prominently that this website belongs to a freelancer firm. This thread is free advertising for a corporate P.R. piece, and doesn't reflect anything more broad and genuine than that. If you're going i
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by StevePerkins 4y ago
Has a governing body issued you a license, without which one cannot practice your profession? No? Then indeed, you are not an "engineer" in the sense of a profession , as with doctors and lawyers and CPA's, etc. This is w
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by StevePerkins 4y ago
There is no such thing as a "software engineer", period. An "engineer" is someone who works in a technical profession with a governing body. Either the State, or an entity that might as well be the State. An engineer is
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by StevePerkins 4y ago
In terms of developer credibility with the entrepreneurial community? Sure. In terms of being a going concern for large customers and investors? The make billions of dollars of profit per year, have a P/E valuation better than Apple&
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by StevePerkins 4y ago
These Japan threads are always so fascinating to read. When pressed, everyone seems to roughly agree on two main ideas: 1. Japan has extremely low levels of many of the problems that we have in Western nations. 2. The reason WHY they'
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by StevePerkins 4y ago
I have spend the past 15 years working in early stage startups, and I have never experienced a company with more than 30 people that were not doing annual performance reviews (mostly superficially just to tell investors that they were doing
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by StevePerkins 4y ago
I just want to be able to drill into ZIP or other archive files, like any regular folder. Drag files in and out of the archive, view and even edit them from within the archive. You know, basic functionality offered by Windows Explorer for
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by StevePerkins 4y ago
The sequel "1493", about the local and global impacts following Columbus' landing, is even more fascinating.
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by StevePerkins 4y ago
If by "applied to Vim and Emacs", you mean "included in a list of theoretical differences from Vim and Emacs", then sure.
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by StevePerkins 4y ago
Is this basically the approach speculated by Neal Stephenson in Seveneves ?
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by StevePerkins 4y ago
For someone who starts by saying they don't fight tech holy wars, this sure does read like a tech holy war. I am not insulting your personal identity by disparaging your choice in text editor. I am responding to a question of what cou

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