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by adtac 8y ago
>I kill the tab of any site that does I believe this is one of the intended effects. For example, when you click on a link after a Google search, and then click the back button to go back to the search results, I imagine Google records t
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by adtac 8y ago
It's legit. Also used for GSoC: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com
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by adtac 8y ago
Unfortunately, that advice is nearly useless on HN as the people who need it aren't on this platform.
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by adtac 8y ago
That information can and should be a part of the commit body. An extra commit just for that information is, in my opinion, a hack and a workaround. I guess we have fundamental differences on how a tree should be structured. It's more o
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by adtac 8y ago
Me too, but I put a full hyperlink to the github/gitlab issue in the body instead of just the number so that someone can just click and start reading what it's about. It also creates a back-reference on the issue page in some web-
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by adtac 8y ago
That is also exactly what a new dev goes through, so one should remember that it's not just for themselves.
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by adtac 8y ago
I fail to see how that would be useful. Commits are supposed to be atomic, self-contained changes by themselves. More often than not, I see merge commits only when people abuse commits for temporary state of work (with useless commit messag
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by adtac 8y ago
>You now have 35 bits and can addres 16GB 32 GB, right? 2^32 is 4 GB, so 8 times that is 32 GB, unless I'm missing something? Edit: yep: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/HotSpot/CompressedOops
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by adtac 8y ago
This was a GSoC project :) https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2018-July/006...
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by adtac 8y ago
So I used to have a blog, but I felt this pressure to publish stuff regularly. And that showed in the quality of posts I wrote; shitty, unsolicited articles about nothing. And when I didn't have enough content (whatever that means), I
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by adtac 8y ago
Is there a statistical report on this? I'm not contesting your claim, I'm just curious to see _how_ much more efficient.
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by adtac 8y ago
The problem with overflow isn't just needing to store numbers larger than 2 billion. Sometimes, intermediate values are larger than that even if the final result isn't. Take averaging as a very simple example. Doing (a + b) /
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by adtac 8y ago
Honestly, that's hysterical even for HBO's Silicon Valley. As someone who has never lived in or experienced Silicon Valley, I always assumed the show was a bit of an exaggeration. But people like this are proof that it's not.
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by adtac 8y ago
If you're looking for a strategy game that doesn't suffer from this, try Age of Empires II. At least I don't find the game tiring at the end; in fact I find it more exciting. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that mo
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by adtac 8y ago
What do you think sold data is used for? If the end product is the same, the ethics of the medium doesn't matter.
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by adtac 8y ago
Let's say the company gets acquired for $20M. Is it still possible for the other 90% to make $0? Or is the preference amount exactly equal to the invested amount?
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by adtac 8y ago
I thought PAs just helped you forget about menial, boring tasks like setting meetings, making initial calls, etc. so that you can continue working on the real problem. I didn't know they got to bust your balls if you slacked off.
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by adtac 8y ago
Very interesting. Do you have a link where I can read more about this?
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by adtac 8y ago
I don't think that was a easter egg given that they work on compression. It's a standard test for image compression, after all.
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by adtac 8y ago
Bill posted this on /r/SiliconValleyHBO: https://old.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/9yh7dp/wh... I like to think he photoshopped it in his spare time lol.
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by adtac 8y ago
I use git so much that I made these aliases in zsh: alias g="git show" alias gh="git show HEAD" alias gs="git status" alias gl="git log" alias gco="git checkout" al
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by adtac 8y ago
rg (ripgrep): https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep I used to use ag (the silver searcher) [1] before, and `ag` was practically a muscle memory to me, but then I came across ripgrep and it was so much faster. I've
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by adtac 8y ago
So the moment an IPO happens each investor is going to dump their stock? That's probably a great short opportunity right?
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by adtac 8y ago
Ah, the Netflix model. After a point, you just have to start producing your own content.
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by adtac 8y ago
Even for HN, I don't think that was necessary.
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by adtac 8y ago
Once we achieve sustainable fusion, will it be possible to "share" the energy with everyone else to create more independent fusions? Kinda like keeping the candle burning so as to light more candles because matches are too costly.
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by adtac 8y ago
>keep Google from mining their data for ads I just got this morbid idea of Google mining storing passwords to recommend LastPass/1Password in ads based on your password strength.
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Ask HN: Did HN just go down momentarily?
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by adtac 8y ago
WW1 was not an accident.
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by adtac 8y ago
Tbh, that comparison is unfair. Stock is meant to be an investment. If crypto wants to satisfy its goals of being a currency , it has to be much more stable.

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