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by amyjess 7y ago
That's definitely an uncommon comparison. Go is basically Oberon with C-ish syntax, and Oberon is probably the Wirthiest of Wirth languages, basically everything Wirth thought was good distilled into a single language. And given that W
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by amyjess 7y ago
As someone who works at a company where Perl is used as duct tape, we've slowly but surely been ripping it out piece by piece and replacing it with Python (and by "we", I mean "me"). Much of our "duct tape&quot
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by amyjess 7y ago
I'm surprised by how hard this article is on Algol 68. It was pretty influential: - Influenced C's type system. I'm just going to quote Dennis Ritchie on this: "The scheme of type composition adopted by C owes considerab
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by amyjess 7y ago
I think GP means Asian supermarkets in the US, places like H-Mart. Non-Asian people haven't been raiding them because a) they either never knew or simply forgot these stores even exist or b) because racists think they're more like
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by amyjess 7y ago
I'm in a similar situation. I have a very large number of physical tics (classified as "tic disorder" and not "Tourette's" because mine are all nonverbal), and on top of that I have a massive number of sensory
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by amyjess 7y ago
You've made the mistake of assuming that any significant fraction of the population even cares. Whether or not anyone has this information is totally irrelevant to me, and I'd imagine this is true of upwards of 95% of the populati
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It's legitimately fast. My company migrated our time-series data from InfluxDB to ClickHouse last year (I personally led this, in fact), and the performance difference is night and day. While I liked a lot of what Influx could do, it w
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by amyjess 7y ago
> Maybe we could compromise with "FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system" or something similar. I think this would make the best headline.
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Large companies all custom-package their own insurance instead of just buying off-the-shelf plans.
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Exchange health insurance is still pretty unaffordable if you're unemployed or underemployed, and it's much less likely than employer health insurance to cover medical conditions that aren't required by law to be covered (e.g
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by amyjess 7y ago
IIRC Welch came up with rank-and-yank because he needed to lay people off and decided he wanted to be "fair" about it and not lay off his best performers. And somehow that got cargo-culted into "we should continuously get rid
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by amyjess 7y ago
It's pretty much impossible for me to go to sleep any earlier than 2am, so getting to work at 7 would require me to only get a couple of hours of sleep at night, which isn't nearly enough for me to function on.
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by amyjess 7y ago
Going down to a 32-hour workweek would be lovely, but I'm simply not interested in doing 4×10. I'd rather get home at a decent hour than have an extra day off.
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At least part of it is to keep civil. There are memes floating around that joke that common businesspeak phrases like this are just polite ways to phrase insults, and that's only a little bit of an exaggeration. In my experience, when
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by amyjess 7y ago
Any union in the tech industry is going to resemble professional unions such as Hollywood unions or sports unions much more than the punch-clock unions seen in manufacturing and government.
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It's almost like cryptocurrency advocates are starting to discover the benefits of fiat currency and modern financial regulation one at a time.
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by amyjess 7y ago
Eh, I could argue that "purple" is just dark magenta, or "teal" is just dark cyan. And the difference between "pink" and "brick red" is that both are just desaturated reds at different levels of light
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by amyjess 7y ago
You could also say similar things about the secondary colors. Dark cyan = teal. Dark magenta = purple. Dark yellow = olive. And maybe some of the other tertiary colors too, but yeah orange/brown is the more prominent one.
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by amyjess 7y ago
And keep in mind that HN is only able to be the way it is because of constant, vigilant moderation. The Internet has simply grown too large over the past couple of decades for any unmoderated public space to not be taken over by people who
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by amyjess 7y ago
I would imagine that they're not talking about general North Carolina English so much as the dialect of the island of Ocracoke, which has a number of conservative features that date back to Shakespeare's day. https://en
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by amyjess 7y ago
IIRC, the American accent is also specifically derived from the West Country accent, which to this day has some features that are more associated with AmE such as rhoticity and the father-bother merger. This was because Bristol in particula
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by amyjess 7y ago
I remember in college some friends of mine decided to macro C into really bad fake German. Think 'inten mainen" and 'printenoutenf'.
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Regarding chronic disease... So I have a friend with Hashimoto's. Before finally being diagnosed, she had a long history of being misdiagnosed, blown off, and having her symptoms dismissed as nothing. After being diagnosed, she connect
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by amyjess 7y ago
> If you can, I'd encourage you to find the care providers you need. FWIW, it took a few years but I finally found a doctor I'm happy with. But I'm also lucky enough to live in a major US city.
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Stephen Bourne's love for Algol 68 is also why the control flow in his shell makes use of backwards words such as 'fi' and 'esac' to end blocks: they originated in Algol 68, and Bourne loved them so much he put them
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Yes.
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I'm a trans woman. It's widely acknowledged in the trans community that most of us have to teach our doctors what meds to prescribe, what starting doses are common, and how to interpret lab results to determine how to titrate the
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I am not going to trust the veracity of any story hosted at a site called freeross.org. They have no objectivity.
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For me, it breaks down like this: * My purse counts as a carryon. I don't go anywhere without it. * My other carryon is my backpack, which contains my electronics. I have my Surface, my headphones (which are very large padded cup model
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White flight in the US also wasn't about people leaving the city centers for the suburbs; it was about people leaving suburbs for other suburbs. The postwar flight to more distant suburbs was due to WW2 veterans suddenly having way m

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