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by alexwebb2 4y ago
Few shot learning for sure “Answer in USD, rounded to the closest integer. # EXAMPLES What is the average price of a banana? 10 What is the average price of a ticket to see a Star War movie? 1 # QUESTION What is the average price of a bagel
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by alexwebb2 4y ago
Well, this is timely! I've been looking into porting one of my favorite classic games, VGA Civil War Strategy, from QBasic to JS – just reached out to the current maintainer today about it. I remember doing a lot of QBasic on the compu
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by alexwebb2 4y ago
JS modules can produce side effects on load. Does that present an obstacle to that kind of REPL pattern?
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Ask HN: Good resources for mastering SaaS user engagement?
4 points by alexwebb2 4y ago|1 comments
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by alexwebb2 5y ago
An ACM membership ($99/year, discounted to $75 for the first year) gets you access to ~40,000 books via O’Reilly. It’s a very good option if you think you might want to dip your toes into a variety of programming books, and don’t want
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by alexwebb2 5y ago
"Not pushing malware", _wink wink_. Let's say I set up a lemonade stand in my neighborhood every weekend, where I pour a bunch of cups for people to take, put up a sign that says it's free, and I set out a tip jar. After
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by alexwebb2 5y ago
The immediate interpretation I have from the placement of the words is: - Directly behind me? OK, that's fine. - Passing on the left or right? Horn, please.
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by alexwebb2 5y ago
CamelCamelCamel is a similar tool for tracking Amazon prices: https://camelcamelcamel.com/
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by alexwebb2 5y ago
Because otherwise you’re on the hook to support N versions of the software instead of just one. It’s vastly easier, simpler and cheaper to support hosted software.
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by alexwebb2 5y ago
The implicit assumption powering this is that programming experience from 35 years ago is not only irrelevant to today’s challenges, but undesirable due to having the wrong habits and patterns of thinking; this stands in contrast to surgery
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by alexwebb2 5y ago
Hi Mike! Great resume – are you looking for full-time or contract/project based?
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by alexwebb2 5y ago
Quick links to the five "must read" posts that William highlighted: > FFF #243 - New GUI tileset: Showing off their GUI design document. A MUST READ, if only for a good example of a comprehensive design style that fits the game
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by alexwebb2 6y ago
Serious answer: this is still very much in flux. We're not at the point where you'd get audible gasps from using these terms, but in certain audiences you'll get some raised eyebrows. If you believe that having "black=ba
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by alexwebb2 6y ago
> very few consumers benefit from cloud-based gaming > It's not a good way to do things, it's not good for any consumer or user of those things > no matter how impractical or stupid it is Hard disagree on this take. I wou
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by alexwebb2 6y ago
An app is not a table saw. And your comment here is at odds with the tone you used above.
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by alexwebb2 6y ago
Just be clear between you and your boss what the expectation is. If the expectation is that you'll check your email at least once a day at a set time and do maybe 15 minutes of work tops, then yeah, that absolutely goes with the territ
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by alexwebb2 7y ago
Recording and playback of complex bug reports might be nice. Instead of having a user install screen recording software or hop on a screen share, just have them click a link that opens the app in one of these, repro the bug, and then close
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Show HN: const [err, result] = await Ω (fnThatMayThrowError)(github.com)
2 points by alexwebb2 7y ago|0 comments
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by alexwebb2 8y ago
Having the wisdom to let well enough alone - to be available if needed, offer guidance when prudent, and otherwise trust in your professional judgment as a team and focus on other behind-the-scenes stuff - _is_ your boss being a big part of
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by alexwebb2 8y ago
The company is Raytheon.
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by alexwebb2 8y ago
I mean, if you're selling branded products that you don't actually have available to give to the customer, aren't able to get quickly, and don't even have the legal rights to sell anyway, and then customers start filing
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by alexwebb2 8y ago
> We will continue to develop and support both Atom and VS Code going forward [...] for as long as there is a healthy community of people who love each of them, which I expect to be a very long time.
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by alexwebb2 8y ago
I assume that's just an embarrassing mistake on the part of Github's PR team. There's really no reason that a CEO currently making headlines should be on /r/AMA instead of r/IAMA (70x more users).
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by alexwebb2 8y ago
FYI, Puppeteer does indeed support header and footer templates when printing to PDF: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/v1.3.0/docs/a...
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by alexwebb2 8y ago
> So you see Alice has a whole bunch of problems to face. Oh yes, and there is one more thing I forgot so say - Alice doesn't trust Bob. We don't know why she doesn't trust him, but at some time in the past there has been
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The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)(urbigenous.net)
102 points by alexwebb2 8y ago|23 comments
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by alexwebb2 9y ago
Oh god, I hate this. Scrolling the page should not be an irreversible action. That's crazy.
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by alexwebb2 9y ago
I'm working on a voice-driven rapid prototyping tool for web development. The goal is to be able to say things like "give me a header element at the top - height 250, width 100%", and it'll inject it immediately. Combine
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by alexwebb2 9y ago
> I find the data from the "I've used this but wouldn't again" almost as interesting as anything else here. I'd love to see an explicit "percentage of those who've used it who would use it again" n
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by alexwebb2 9y ago
This is actually a fantastic interview and I'm surprised it isn't higher up. I remember first encountering CoderPad a few years ago and being immediately sold on it as a development hiring manager. It's an excellent product a

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