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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I too got tired of the yelling and the fire-and-brimstone-you’re-gonna-burn-in-hell if you’re not God-fearing. That word: “fear”. They were using it as a tool to manipulate. Finally, I realized, “Why does God want me to be scared all the ti
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Ask HN: What's Going on with Spotify and JRE?
1 points by Zelphyr 6y ago|0 comments
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I've had the exact opposite reaction to the comparison between Google and DuckDuckGo. I use the latter daily and only rarely revert to Google. Even then I usually don't find the results to be any better and often find them to be
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I have a little. I couldn't find documentation that was as extensive as Clojure's around CLR interop so I put that project to the side.
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Facebook Waited Too Long to Stop Repeat Misinformation Spreaders(tech.slashdot.org)
1 points by Zelphyr 6y ago|0 comments
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It’s not you dying that’s the problem with your statement so much as the other people you’re going to kill because of your choice not to get vaccinated. That’s one step away from a family member of mine saying recently, “You all can live in
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
As a somewhat aside; the author points to something about finding therapy that I think most people don't understand which is: you need to find a therapist you connect with and usually you have to see a few before you will find one. It&
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I see the avoidance of vendor lock-in as a way to prevent Amazon from gaining too much power compared to their competition (they already do, but you see my point, hopefully) I’m designing a system right now and I’m specifically not allowing
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
My uncle spent some time in prison in the late 80's and early 90's and was able to learn FoxPro while there. In addition to it being hard to find work having a criminal record, by the time he got out, everybody was transitioning
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I think you're right about that. Coupled with the fact that extremes from both "wings" are, despite being quite small, very loud and have the megaphone of the news media and social media to make them seem larger than they rea
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I can’t speak to what Nietzsche said or didn’t say, but anyone who says Stoicism or Buddhism is about avoiding suffering understands neither.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Data collection like that is harmless until it isn't, and then there's no turning back. So, no, it's not harmless. I'm assuming by your use of the word "we're" that you work for Google?
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IBM’s cloud platform is laughably bad. Avoid at all costs!
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
What is the benefit of Telegram over other platforms like Signal? I haven't been on it in awhile but was quite turned off by all the "HODL!" channels that it seemed to be filled with at the time.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
This was such a fun read. It inspired me to buy http://xn--vn8hkk.ws/ Edit 1: TIL Hacker News doesn't support emoji. lol Edit 2: Yeah, I know; that's a cow, not a bull. Don't yuck my yum!
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I would like to add that you'd be foolish to use my post as a reason for building a system to scale to high levels prematurely. I agree with the original article that doing so bogs you down in needless complexity and wastes time and r
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Many people keep saying something to the effect of, "There is a right time to scale a system and we need to focus on that." This is true. There is a right time to scale up. In my experience, you rarely know when that might be
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Complexity is never the right answer. Complexity, in my experience, comes from two things: The person building that system doesn't understand the problem well enough and/or equates complexity with quality. Neither are good thing
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It already happens in medicine. Of course, a lot of it is "I'm afraid of getting sued so I'm going to cover my ass with all these tests." but, still. When I was younger I had a pain in my abdomen I had never experienced
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I agree with your first point but, with regards to the second point, how many people learn coding during gaming? Do you mean that more people get into gaming because of modding?
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I guess I've been assuming they did that because they wanted to temporarily disable whatever was within the conditional block but, yeah, you're right. Just delete it if you don't want that to run. Either way, that code shou
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
One of the greats is "number of bugs fixed". You're practically begging your less-than-ethical programmers to create silly bugs so they can "fix" them and get a cookie. Edit to add: This happens outside of programm
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
> There were conditionals that were impossible to hit The number of times I've seen: if (my_var == 'some value' || true == false) { ... } Why do people do this instead of commenting out the code?!
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I had a manager once tell a co-worker (who is easily one of the best programmers I have ever worked with), "There's no way this can work. There's not enough code." Why we keep promoting these people into positions of ma
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
A medical provider I know had a medical assistant that would write charts that were next to illegible. Little to no punctuation or capitalization. Slang. etc... The provider invariably had to go back and rewrite the charts because they
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I know we're not supposed to discuss voting but people downvoting someone simply because that person said something disagreeable, yet still within the rules of Hacker News, is becoming a serious problem in my opinion. I'd like it
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I’d consider myself senior. I’ve been using Javascript since it was beta. I like Javascript. I don’t mind TypeScript. I mean, it’s nice and all but it doesn’t strike me as the be-all that others make it out to be. Maybe I just don’t use it
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
You can't apply a literal interpretation of the story when no such interpretation was intended by Vonnegut. Of course he never expected actual lead weights would be strapped to people by legal decree. That's not the point. How it
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Wow, you bring up a point I had never considered which is; we've seen this before. In the 1950's and 1960's, you kind-of had to tow the line in what you said, how you dressed, etc... The cancelling wasn't quite as broa
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I had gotten used to my Apple TV remote. Sure, it kinda sucked not being able to instantly orient it but I kind-of got used to that too. Sure, it kinda sucked when I would accidentally brush my finger against the trackpad and do something

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