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by acobster 8y ago
Their firmware updates are just straight up not working for me on my work laptop. To be fair, I've had zero gripes with how this machine has worked so far (got it about a year ago), and it's probably still the best computer I&#x27
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by acobster 8y ago
Very cool! One small quibble: why is the /bright endpoint a GET? GET should never have side effects. :)
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by acobster 8y ago
There's more than one big problem with WordPress, and namespacing is one of them. It's way too common, even in some of the most popular plugins, to just toss plugins into the global namespace and prefix them with $your_plugin_abbr
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by acobster 8y ago
This is so awesome. I'm consistently amazed at how much kids can understand intuitively, even when they can't express their understanding in precise language. For example, my partner teaches lower elementary at a Montessori school
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by acobster 8y ago
Yeah that's what it looks like on Android Firefox too. Algolia powers HN search and it's always worked fine for me.
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by acobster 8y ago
We won't know how to build machines that understand until we know what understanding actually is at a biological level. I'm not convinced that we do.
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by acobster 8y ago
> Matherson said Cloud "was created as a way to connect with our readers...and give us the technical ability to post content to the Wordpress website." Um. What?
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by acobster 8y ago
Same.
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by acobster 8y ago
I thought it was funny and kind of charming that Vsauce is the single account they follow.
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by acobster 8y ago
The premise is that FB is the target of lots of recent scrutiny about how they've exposed your data and that of many, many other FB users, even turning a blind eye to companies collecting that data in violation of FB's own terms o
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by acobster 8y ago
You don't see any journalistic value in a story about a government contractor cutting off access to its data, and then trying to compete with the company accessing it?
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by acobster 8y ago
Yes. More generally, good programmers aren't crucial because they know how to code, they're crucial because they know how to construct good programs.
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by acobster 8y ago
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by acobster 8y ago
Wow, how surprising and, in a strange way, kind of beautiful! Thanks for this.
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by acobster 8y ago
I guess he just means sympathetic frequencies or something like that, rather than resonance. As an admirer of Bret's other work, I'm guessing he intended this as a showcase of interactive illustrations of how frequency works in co
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by acobster 8y ago
Wondering about this as well. INAG, but I think fossils are extremely rare relative to population. And things like wedding rings will have disintegrated after just a few million years. But still, you'd think some of them would surviv
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by acobster 8y ago
It's really cool to see Racket being used like this! Its power really shines through: > Due to the way Hackett is implemented, many things that are language features in Haskell can be derived concepts in Hackett. In fact, Hackett’s
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by acobster 9y ago
I use a System76 Serval laptop at work. Up til then I had worked almost exclusively on Macs. It's the best computer I've ever had.
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by acobster 9y ago
Reminds me of a fictional program devised by EFF: YTKAd-Free. https://www.eff.org/missing-devices
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by acobster 9y ago
> Thanks to the Eve team: Chris Granger, Corey Montella, Josh Cole, and Jamie Brandon. You were an inspiration. And I hope they continue to be! The ideas that Eve made concrete are too good not to carry forward in the design of future
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by acobster 9y ago
Thanks for this! "Grep for absolute path" is the use-case that the otherwise awesome `jq` doesn't address well. I've found myself having to iteratively drill down to find the field that has the data I need. One of those
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by acobster 9y ago
I read the OCI runtime/container specs when I was first starting to move all my work projects' dev environments to docker (Lando, to be precise - in case you haven't used it, it's awesome!). That was very illuminating, b
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by acobster 9y ago
This person stored their PGP private key on Google Drive, which they use "to encrypt" emails. I'm glad the author is security-conscious enough to know what PGP is, I guess. And that they deleted it from Drive (didn't say
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by acobster 9y ago
Money.
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by acobster 9y ago
Basing it off not just the IP allegations but the history of these two companies, linked from the article, but also (mostly) from my own experience and that of pretty much everyone I've talked to about dating apps. I don't know to
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by acobster 9y ago
> step back from identarianism and recognize that members of both genders are disproportionately afflicted ... it would be more constructive to put aside this 'which gender is a greater victim' competition (Aside: ALL gende
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by acobster 9y ago
Sigh. I guess I'm not surprised at the negativity here on HN about this, but I'm still disappointed. If you take offense to the effort to dismantle masculine posturing as it's practiced in corporate culture, or see a meaningf
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by acobster 9y ago
I was drawn to that passage as well. The author goes on: > Sadly, this star’s passing likely went unnoticed by our ancestors. I mean, I get it, but why is it sad? Is it because it feels like a "missed connection" with our
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by acobster 9y ago
These are good guidelines for spotting any kind of bias in media. I get that this is targetted at engineers, but aside from the tech-specific examples this advice applies to all kinds of content/reporting, and I wish it were taken more
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by acobster 9y ago
It's more in the logical programming paradigm than the functional paradigm, IIRC.

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