_benj

14 ms·

121.
by _benj 2y ago
This
122.
by _benj 2y ago
For me is the psychology of money getting things done, first edition How to Win Friends and Influence People (Unfortunate title for one of the best books on plain common sense when it comes to interacting with people)
123.
by _benj 2y ago
> The answer, to use a term that any client of Workday could surely use, is POSIWID. This is a saying in systems thinking: The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID), not what it fails to do. And the reality is that what Workday —
124.
by _benj 2y ago
I mostly did it on the side. A job on C might be quite interesting but seems to be limited nowadays to system level stuff, which is kinda rate to find.
125.
by _benj 2y ago
Echoing the sentiment of others here, a “good programmer” is not one that is able to implement some weird algorithm or complex data structure from memory. If that where the metric I prefer working with “bad programmers”, say, that that actu
126.
by _benj 2y ago
I’ve been actually looking for some of these myself. The two that I’ve used are cloudflare pages and bunny storage. Cloudflare integrates with git and even runs builds for multiple static website frameworks (hugo, 11ty, etc) Bunny storage i
127.
by _benj 2y ago
Great tip! Thanks for sharing :-)
128.
by _benj 2y ago
Thanks for the correction!
129.
by _benj 2y ago
This is an interesting read but I think it leaves outside what kind of trading is the one that would benefit from ULL. ULL and currently HFT seems to be very useful for market making (buying the ask and selling the bid and profiting from th
130.
by _benj 3y ago
What a fascinating article. Probably an unsophisticated model but the way I approach my credit card rewards program is as a “forced savings” deal. I’m aware that they are subsidized, I’m also aware that I’ll pay the same thing if I were to
131.
by _benj 3y ago
These stories sadden me because I can’t help but wonder, what else could you possibly “need” after your net-worth is above seven or eight? Figures? Watching the Bernie Madoff documentary on Netflix I couldn’t get away from the question “why
132.
RStudio: Integrated development environment (IDE) for R(github.com)
99 points by _benj 3y ago|81 comments
133.
by _benj 3y ago
ImHex “A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.” I actually used it not too long ago to inspect why a mp4 file wasn’t valid. The pattern language that they have is quite nice a
134.
by _benj 3y ago
I find this type of question a little funny. What do you mean by “dead” and who’s “everyone”? Vim will likely be alive for decades to come for sysadmins editing files in /etc over ssh. It might be “dead” for the new languages with a sm
135.
by _benj 3y ago
This reminds me of a video I watched years ago with uncle Bob talking on a Clean Code talk mentioning that clean code was more than just a method to write code but also a strategy, a guideline if you will for when policymakers wake-up to th
136.
by _benj 3y ago
True. I have no idea, not even a clue where to start looking for such thing. It seems to me that the best one can do is just diversify, acquire a bunch of stuff that might grow and hold them for 20 years.
137.
by _benj 3y ago
Hindsight is rough. I wanted to buy some when I was in college living of student loans, they were at $600… I should have use my student loans to buy bitcoin instead of the hobbies I had in college…
138.
Capital One is acquiring Discover(npr.org)
42 points by _benj 3y ago|2 comments
139.
by _benj 3y ago
> (admirable) these images did incredible psychic damage to kde designers made me chuckle :-) But for real, there is something about a good wallpaper, at least for me, the wallpaper being the first thing I set on a new linux install. I f
140.
Precursor: Secure Open Hardware Development Platform(crowdsupply.com)
1 points by _benj 3y ago|0 comments
141.
OpenFPGA(analogue.co)
220 points by _benj 3y ago|121 comments
142.
by _benj 3y ago
If I put myself in the position of an employee, yeah, that the deal didn't went through does sucks, but at the same time, am I supposed to feel sorry for Adobe and their world domination goals being thwarted by regulatory agencies? it
143.
by _benj 3y ago
> Mercifully, C does not have exceptions This made me smile, because while yes, C just segment faults. I think there’s a way to handle segmentation fault? Or is it just the OS that kills the process when it tries to access an invalid mem
144.
by _benj 3y ago
this made me chuckle, but I'm with you on that! The times that I've been deep into something, either a project that enjoyed a lot (like writing a CHIP-8 emu, that was fun!) or a book that I couldn't put down, or a video game
145.
by _benj 3y ago
If I dare reply your hot take with my hot take, It was engineers who implemented those dark patterns. I think that still “lots of people” see excel formulas as stuff that geniuses do, so I think it comes down to us. Will I write that privac
146.
IRS Direct File(directfile.irs.gov)
2 points by _benj 3y ago|1 comments
147.
USB-C Power Pelivery (PD) pitfalls [video](youtube.com)
2 points by _benj 3y ago|0 comments
148.
Starlink's Latest Offering: Gigabit Gateways Starting at $75,000 per Month(pcmag.com)
41 points by _benj 3y ago|17 comments
149.
by _benj 3y ago
That’s a good point! I find the lower cognitive load and thus the ability of “understand” instead of trusting on multiple layers of abstractions intellectually stimulating! Sure, I’m still trusting on a compile and an OS and a handful of li
150.
by _benj 3y ago
Whatever it is, a change of the usual “AI”/“GPT”/“LLM” barrage we’ve had for the last months is welcome! I miss coming to HN and seeing cool things that I wasn’t aware of!

More ›