andrewbinstock

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by andrewbinstock 7y ago
I often do the same thing. Which really says something about HN. I can't think of any other forum where I regularly read the comments, much less read them first.
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by andrewbinstock 7y ago
And if its presence is made clear upfront, rather than buried deep in a Terms of Use contract.
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by andrewbinstock 7y ago
Does it run on Windows? I can't tell if the lack of Windows binaries is because the author didn't compile it/test it for the platform or because for some reason it won't run there. For a desktop project, supporting the O
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by andrewbinstock 7y ago
>The only truly successful Java domain is Java backends Java Card runs on 1+ billion devices.
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by andrewbinstock 7y ago
If you went Java -> Python -> JS, then surely you saw how the lack of the strong typing you enjoy in Java affects Python and JS. You also saw how those languages allowed scripting that is for all intents impossible in Java, and so for
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by andrewbinstock 7y ago
> The current job market totally disregards the passions and aspirations of our generation. It's been that way for generations.
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by andrewbinstock 7y ago
>This is very much Oracle This is very much large companies.
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by andrewbinstock 7y ago
That's true of products that are true innovations, that is, they create entirely new product categories. Here, however, he's just improving on an existing product. Getting opinions about what's wrong with the current product
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by andrewbinstock 7y ago
Wait, you cited my text and changed it from the original dropping a key word and then attacked me for it. Not cool. There is no feigned surprise or lack of respect either implied or actually present in my inquiry about the lack of tests.
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
I'm not seeing tests anywhere. Am I blind or are they hidden away or non-existent? Thx in advance.
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
Their original US office (and I believe still their biggest in the US) is in SF.
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
Yogi Berra lives!
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
>She doesn't really care about the underlying cause. She's been calling out large companies for her whole political career, motivated by the inequity she saw in her previous career in bankruptcy law.
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
Definitely not the Boomers that did Prop 13. Prop 13 was passed in 1978, when the oldest boomers were 32 and the youngest 14. Not many owned houses then. This was passed by voters of earlier generations. Look at the two leaders of the movem
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
I've never heard it described that way. Now, you've given me the incentive to read it.
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
Surprised not to see mention of 39dollarglasses in this article or the comments. They've been great in my limited experience (two pairs of glasses) [1] https://www.39dollarglasses.com/
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
>The mythos of the Stradivarius is 100% about look and feel as opposed to anything real about the sound. Nope. The Strads do have a great sound. The fact that select modern instruments can make equally great sound does not in any way d
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
This! I am convinced that with a lot of careful work, you can beat the market a little. But to do so, you've got to work at it more than full time. To get paid for your time, you've got to be working with a ton of money so that a
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
Golang is not what Knuth has in mind. Literate programming is primarily long explanatory comments written around code snippets in a narrative form. Such that you could sit down and read a whole listing as you would a book. When I interview
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
C'mon, man, click the link before arguing with the premise. Had you done so, you'd have seen in big bold type "Unlimited private Git repositories for free"
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
Oracle and TK understand one thing that GCP does not: the importance of great support. Oracle charges a ton for top-tier support, but if you have a problem they can't solve remotely, they'll send a team of engineers to your site a
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
Transportation companies--truck fleet data, airplanes, etc.
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
Sviatoslav Richter describes his great frustration with this phenomenon in his notebooks. His sense of loss is palpable.
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
For the retro folks among us, JetBrains' PIM, Omea, is still available from them. [1] It's free, but not supported. And not as feature packed as the PIM described here. [1] https://www.jetbrains.com/omea/
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
Most employees have split loyalties as well: Family members, personal projects, etc., which to varying degrees affect their loyalty to the company. It's how it should be. Neither side is free from conflicting loyalties. Nonetheless eve
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
>It costs nothing to link to the original study, which is online somewhere, in some format a) You have no way of knowing whether the data beyond what is linked to in the article is available online. b) Finding it is not free if it requir
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
This looks much more like a competitor for Asana than for Evernote.
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
Kudos to you for being forthright enough to say this. It helps those considering children to be able to speak to those who in retrospect might have stayed non-parents. The problem is finding such people to talk with b/c the narrative i
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
> the actual execution does not follow scientific principles. It can't really. The practitioners are generally brought into a project under heavy non-disclosure and generally allowed to keep stats on the project as long as it is com
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by andrewbinstock 8y ago
What I begrudge Bob Martin for is making TDD into religion. Even this article, which wonders why TDD is not more practiced, has religious overtones ("Print out this list and place it at your desk," --as though the reader cannot by

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