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by _tom_ 5y ago
Aren’t emojis part of the fonts? I don’t know, I’d just assumed that. So they’d be owned by the font designer?
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by _tom_ 5y ago
Biofeedback is a real thing. You can learn to control (within limits) many aspect of your body: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/biofeedback/abou... I had a professor studying using it to mitigate Reyna
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It’s such a shame to get this much traffic, and have it almost all bounce, because there’s no description of WHY someone would care.
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damn, that’s a lot of interesting content. I meant to go to sleep an hour ago, and I’m still reading.
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by _tom_ 5y ago
A great job of explaining file redirection to people who already understand it. Unfortunately, anyone who needs it is highly unlikely to make it through the first four paragraphs.
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by _tom_ 5y ago
The loan approach misses the fact the the entrepreneur is going to spend several years of his life on the project. Nobody starts a company they don’t believe in. The cost is too high, even without the loans.
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Depends on whether by “average” you mean “median” or “mean”! I’d bet the median return on startups is negative.
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by _tom_ 5y ago
“A search engine for medical specialists” would be a more accurate, and thus more useful, title.
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Great write up!
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No one seems to be mentioning privacy. This would allow senders to verify email opens, something no email client should do.
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by _tom_ 5y ago
They are on a back-end that does auto-scaling. They stated that they had problems when scaling up past 1000 nodes. Now, maybe they could have fixed that issue instead, but going from 29 to 58 workers is easy, it's not the same going to
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by _tom_ 5y ago
Java 5 was still v1.5, except for marketing, iirc. The 1.x versions persisted internally for a few releases.
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I had gotten up to 1000 a few times. Just never getting back to things to close them, mostly. It turned have to have huge performance impact, so I don't do it anymore. I got out of the habit a few years ago. I think since then, browser
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by _tom_ 5y ago
The fundamental flaw in this article is trying to redefine stupidity to be one specific cognitive failing. This leads to the comments being full of people quibbling about the definition. If he’d called out “cognitive tool failure” and defin
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by _tom_ 5y ago
> about >95% of ES was written by Elastic Nope. I'm not sure what the numbers are, but Elasticsearch is based on Lucene, so a large chuck of what makes up Elasticsearch predates Elasticsearch.
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> generation species
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I guess I should stop squashing my commits when I merge!
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Dilbert is relevant: https://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=Write%20Minivan Metrics are frequently inaccurate and easy to game.
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Leetcode is one reason people don’t job hop. If you actually have a job, you don’t have time to spend on the silly, non-job-related problems. Leetcode doesn’t filter for skill, it filters for who has too much time on their hands.
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The problem is that it also is a vulnerability multiplier. People used to understand every package the installed. Now, they install dependencies of dependencies of dependencies, to the point that they have not even SEEN the name of most of
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Sounds like waterfall, but with tests, instead of documentation.
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It’s valid for his interpretation of his experiences. Companies varied tremendously. I don’t share many of his opinions and experiences, and I’ve been coding his entire career. I LOVE pair programming, for example, on the rare event that I
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by _tom_ 5y ago
Came here to advocate for this feature. You need to be able to set a minimum volume, so quiet sounds are audible over the current level of background noise.
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by _tom_ 5y ago
That is incorrect. The final position is what determines that knot. There can be many ways to get there, but they are all considered one knot. Search for how to tie alpine butterfly for an example of a knot that are many ways to tie, but al
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by _tom_ 5y ago
I suppose it’s pedantic to be annoyed that he’s calling this an “Ian knot” when it’s the standard shoelace knot, a slipped square knot, and not anything new. The change it in how you tie it, not in the resulting knot.
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That was my first question, but then I realized you’d need more than just one magnet per square, as it’s possible for a knight to capture something without an exit path. Or you would need some path finding software. To figure out what piece
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It’s just hitting modern marketing requirements. In old Newspapers anything other than the headline didn’t sell the paper, so could be informational. Now the article headline determines click through rate and therefore revenues. So, you are
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I’m reminded of the old saying: The best person to have on your team is a productive, high-quality coder. The worst is a productive, low-quality coder. Copilot looks like it would give us more of the latter.
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My last site’s generator is 71 lines of JavaScript. Just enough to walk the directory and run mustache over each file.
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To be fair, he was in the process of fixing the poor network architecture when this happened.

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