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   by a_c 7y ago

   I appreciate very much for the summary, thank you! For one, I haven't heard about Planet Money before. You summary gave me context what the post is about and I subscribed to the podcast because of your reply. I bet many others would fi
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   by a_c 7y ago

   Can someone be kind enough to provide a TL;DR
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   by a_c 7y ago

   Have been following the issues for months. There was this tweet the other day https://twitter.com/ennolenze/status/1193423375403601920 saying HK police is more terrifying than ISIS.
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   by a_c 7y ago

   A tremendous useful feature, well to me at least, is to let user specify graph data structure with associating data and export the data after drawing is done
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   by a_c 7y ago

   My Ferrari is on HN.
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   by a_c 7y ago

   > If you want to learn about topic X , land on the stories around X, and then expand into X itself. How do I know what story/books surround X without reading X first? More, how do I know what books surround X without reading those b
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   by a_c 7y ago

   I realised the Emoji topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21182705 after posting my comments. Blizzard, emoji, Hong Kong, and in part NBA too[1], once again shows how unpredictable viral-ness can be. [1] https:/
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   by a_c 7y ago

   Interesting how an incidence in gaming garner more eye balls on the topic of Hong Kong politics than whole month combined. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Good for the people of
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   by a_c 7y ago

   I guess the answer to does apple smell more apple than orange is yes
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    by a_c 7y ago

    Identifying the right problem is indeed the golden nugget. Teams chasing after arbitrarily defined KPI, with no feedback loop in place, or the feedback is 1 year later. Implementing features based on feedback from 1 customer, then find out
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    by a_c 7y ago

    I am very curious to know if the rule of "being responsible to the link a website links to" applies transitively, i.e. a link in the link my website link to. If applies, then can the law be interpreted as my website needs to be re
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    by a_c 7y ago

    AV is almost a cargo cult nowadays. Born for windows, now as a de facto must have for corporate IT. Everyone use it. Either no IT bothers to question why is it needed, or management hold beliefs from the 90s that AV is useful
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    by a_c 7y ago

    > [for] a single unit within a subdivided flat that's around 100-200 sq. ft.
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    by a_c 7y ago

    My kid recently turned one. I can't read this article without weeping. Everyday when I back home, I regret not spending more time with my family. I love coding, by all means. But this article is a huge wake up call on where I want to s
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    by a_c 7y ago

    Software engineering is the blend of software, business and people. When the business is itself purely about software, and the sole team member is yourself, then I agree with the article. The ultimate currency in software engineering is tim
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    by a_c 7y ago

    I think one would benefit from coding regardless what one perceive "coding" is. On one end of the spectrum, it can be treated as a vehicle for abstract thinking. On the other end as getting things done quickly. Well.. just like ma
17. 587.▲
    by a_c 7y ago

    Should anyone not learn to code?
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    by a_c 7y ago

    Being bombarded with Hong Kong news on Bloomberg [1], I am thinking perhaps Hong Kong took the other extreme. Having one of the lowest homicide rate in the world [2], the police is apparently turning against its citizen. [1] https:/&#
19. 589.▲
    by a_c 7y ago

    i think the editor is well implemented. Am interested in learning the design consideration in making the editor itself
20. 590.▲
    by a_c 7y ago

    https://tiddlywiki.com/
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    by a_c 7y ago

    Am on a small dev team in a fast moving startup. To me, one of the O is to measure distractions and KR being - having the amount of time spend on planned work vs adhoc work - source of distraction being measured (cross team requests, adhoc
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    by a_c 7y ago

    It depends on your background. Having written web app before let's you quick grasp the ideas laid in the book. To me, the most important chapters are - https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/book/chapter_mocking.html
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    by a_c 7y ago

    When using firefox focus on android, the whole image is blocked from loading
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    by a_c 8y ago

    Before clicking I was like: why would one not use pdb. With vim, python-mode, and 'find . -name "*.py"| entr python testcases.py', setting break point and re-running is painless. I was wrong. Upon skimming, it seems a hu
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    by a_c 8y ago

    Bookmarking this. Since it gave me pointers to so many good comments
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    by a_c 8y ago

    Indeed. So much substance in such a short time. - clarity vs efficuency on abstraction - the need to unwind (not sure if it is the right word) entropy - naming and comments - etc Things were not so obvious to me when just started my career
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    by a_c 8y ago

    You don't have a tech problem (yet). What you have is more a people problem. Overly complicated architecture, inconsistent ETL pipeline and lack of service discovery are all due to a lack of "mentality". Together with relying
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    by a_c 8y ago

    Great work! Would love to learn how the sentiment is scored!
29. 599.▲
    by a_c 8y ago

    Am I missing the reset button somewhere?
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    by a_c 8y ago

    I always consider four factors in estimating software cost - the scope of the task - the resource/people you have - the confidence in the resource/people - and the dependency on both the resource and the task Estimation goes wrong