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by aazaa 6y ago
> As designers and engineers, we knew of a rather niche problem: if your company has a design system, it's practically impossible to know the adoption rate of those components in your product. Huzzah! we thought. We should build a t
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by aazaa 6y ago
> A smooth UI on Tesla's dashboard screens is not a moat. Agree with many of your points. But dashboards are horrendous. Too many people making decisions leads to kitchen sink design. There might be a moat around Tesla in that sense
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Since then, he has been unable to remember almost anything for longer than 90 minutes. So while he can still tell me about the first time he met the Duke of York for a briefing at the Ministry of Defence, he can’t even remember where h
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by aazaa 6y ago
> This is the single biggest reason I've started to push for more comments in code. More so than all other tools (issue tracker, code management system, etc.) comments in code have the greatest chance of still being around and easil
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by aazaa 6y ago
Watching live-streaming coding sessions can be a real eye-opener. Everything from how to use revision control systems to keyboard shortcuts to labor-saving technologies will be on display. It's extremely hard to figure that kind of stu
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Programmer’s time is valuable, and, if you pick Rust, expect to spend some of it on learning the ropes. Of all the arguments, time-to-productivity may be the most compelling. Rust will keep most new programmers from being productive fa
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by aazaa 6y ago
Good point. What's the bar to a post getting marked "flagged" and removed from the front page? A single user flags? Two? Five? Up to the mods?
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Blue Banana(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
Why was this story flagged? This happens all too frequently on HN. A story blows up, then gets flagged - with no explanation whatsoever. At the very least, it seems it would be in the interest of the moderators to include an explanatory com
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by aazaa 6y ago
> i like this used car analogy. basically, they bought a used car and ran it without oil changes until the engine seized. This brings the Growth Ponzi Scheme to mind: > What we have found is that the underlying financing mechanisms of
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Methane on Mars(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
The thinking seems to go like this: 1. phosphine is found on earth in low-oxygen environments that harbor life (e.g., swamps) 2. abiological routes to phosphine, although known, require unusual reagents and/or elevated temperatures Thi
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by aazaa 6y ago
There's a simple antidote to the claims: ship products. The company appears to have trouble doing this, and AFAICT has not shipped a single production vehicle. Nikola should focus on that, not trying to levitate the company's shar
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by aazaa 6y ago
The article offers some anecdotes, but nothing to support the claim that attacks have been "unusual" in the past or are increasing in number. There's no sense of whether this is still an isolated problem, whether it has explo
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by aazaa 6y ago
This article could benefit from a definition of "security by obscurity." Every crypto system is based on obscurity of one kind or another. That private key, password, or token is just an obscure form of information that may yield,
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by aazaa 6y ago
> The biggest argument against “checked” exceptions is that most exceptions can’t be fixed. The simple fact is, we don’t own the code/ subsystem that broke. We can’t see the implementation, we’re not responsible for it, and can’t fi
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by aazaa 6y ago
> For those keeping score, not only does Amazon own the The Washington Post and oversees the CIA’s Commercial Cloud Enterprise, it now has on its powerful board of directors the most visible figure from the NSA who illegally spied on Ame
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by aazaa 6y ago
> ... Most of them are failing miserably. Not because the statements they are making are wrong, but because they fall prey to a common critical thinking mistake: failing to define our terms. ... Article then goes on to cogitate for 1,500
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by aazaa 6y ago
The recent focus on racial bias in policing has had a negative outcome: to distract attention from the fact that the law is being applied unevenly across the US. Racial bias in police encounters is a symptom, not the disease.
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by aazaa 6y ago
> A controversial law that allows police in Minnesota to take and sell someone's personal property is coming under more scrutiny after the state patrol seized a woman's car during a drunk driving stop late last year, even thoug
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by aazaa 6y ago
Too much attitude, not enough substance in this piece. It does little to actually fulfill the promise of the title in a way that hasn't been done hundreds of times already. Number go up, so people buy. Number will go down. Don't e
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Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
An article linked by the Wikipedia article puts the scale of the Ponzi schemes into perspective: > ... At their peak, the nominal value of the pyramid schemes' liabilities amounted to almost half of the country's GDP. ... http
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by aazaa 6y ago
> On Wednesday afternoon, someone asked whether it was possible to recover Uniswap liquidity tokens that had been accidentally sent to the pair contract itself. Uniswap itself is a pretty interesting protocol: > Uniswap is an exchange
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by aazaa 6y ago
Apple's MO is vertical integration. So this only makes sense in the context of a vertical integration play. The article talks about some of ways a search engine could integrate with existing products, but they don't seem very comp
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Bogeyman(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
If so, what replaced it? What methods do teams use instead to ensure that: 1. software works as advertised 2. software can be refactored If there's "no time" to write tests before code, it seems likely that there will also be
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by aazaa 6y ago
The BBC article doesn't explain what "wild" means in detail. This NPR article does: > And there's another type of polio that's problematic. Sixteen African nations are currently battling outbreaks of what's
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by aazaa 6y ago
The article doesn't mention the way that word placement changes the meaning of sentences. From a video I recently saw but can't recall, consider these sentences: - Although John is a nice guy, he beats his dog. - Although John bea
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by aazaa 6y ago
No mention of record-low interest rates on the 10Y and 30Y - held in place by a Fed terrified of erring on the downside. Officials swear it's not yield curve control, but of course it is. There's nothing magical going on. Housing

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