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by ary 3y ago
Since I couldn't find any screenshots on their website and I wanted to recall what it was like (having used it for a time) this is the best I could find. http://campus.bethlehem.edu/centers/computer_center/Peg
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by ary 3y ago
This is not entirely true. The poor may value their time like anyone else, but they often have a very different grasp on the time/money tradeoff. Not having money warps the value of time since (for the poor) lack of money is acute and
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by ary 3y ago
This, at least in concept, looks like a potential successor to printf() et al. The general accessibility of it is lacking given that it's a C-only API at the moment (there don't appear to be bindings for other languages), and I&#x
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by ary 3y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35935979 https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110354541574112092
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by ary 3y ago
We applied some advice that I saw on a HN thread years ago (but sadly do not have the link handy) and it has worked well: we pay our candidates for their time. The take home concept really is insulting when a candidate’s time isn’t valued.
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by ary 3y ago
Perhaps, but most accounts describe him as having done QA on circuit boards at Atari and not actually writing any kind of software.
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by ary 3y ago
> In 1977, Mike Markkula gave two unknown, shaggy-haired computer programmers, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, $250,000 to help turn their young partnership into a new company. The opening statement doesn't bode well for the factual a
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by ary 3y ago
As usual of "reporting" in the United States this is devoid of anything beyond informing the reader that something happened. Tipping in this country should be called what it is: customer subsidization of service worker wages. Rest
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by ary 3y ago
The design should also fix the worst parts of using a box fan: 1. Make less noise. 2. Use less electricity. Point #1 is not the worst part of a box fan for many people, myself included. I have a lot of fond memories from growin
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by ary 3y ago
This is the answer I would give. We did design work, but not at the fidelity that you would want to actually implement.
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by ary 3y ago
A simple maxim that our investors basically demanded of us was: "Sell, design, build". Accepting that approach had two pretty noticeable benefits: 1) We didn't spend a lot of time building something nobody wanted (which is th
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by ary 4y ago
TLDR; No, you can't (for now). This was a little bit of an uncomfortable read as I really didn't want to see this defeated, but I'm glad people are checking that it works as intended. The pessimist in me fears that when SIP b
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by ary 4y ago
Yes, I'm aware of that. The commenter seems to be implying that one should stop using a shell script when one needs "true" random, and I'm curious as to why since one can call out to Perl, Python, etc. The linked gist do
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by ary 4y ago
> As always, my advice for things like this is that if you’re in need of true random numbers in your shell script then you should probably stop writing whatever it is you are writing as a shell script. The use of "true" here se
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by ary 4y ago
Did anyone think otherwise and need to have it explained? Having been on both sides of the employment equation a few times now I can say confidently that people act on their values and respond to incentives without regard to where they sit
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by ary 4y ago
Completely agree. Occasionally I run Charles Proxy[1] on my iPhone to analyze network activity and am disturbed by what I see. Software shouldn't be able to open arbitrary network connections without user consent/control, but we&#
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by ary 4y ago
People are probably going to be confused between this and the "full" version of Little Snitch. My take on it is that Little Snitch Mini is something you can install on a non-technical friend or family member's computer wherea
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by ary 4y ago
This links one of my favorite critiques of API design: 'A fork() in the road' https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0... It's very much worth a read.
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Ask HN: Are larger one-bit display panels available?
3 points by ary 4y ago|0 comments
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by ary 4y ago
Safely removed from broadcast television where there are many, many people who are not innately curious or able to fathom a different set of ideas. Exposure to different points of view are crucial to a well rounded mind and development of c
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by ary 4y ago
While I agree that Hyundai's console design is seriously lacking, anything immovable/unchangeable has a key benefit over touchscreens: it can be habituated. Personally I find any interface that can move while you use it to be bo
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by ary 4y ago
One of the biggest travesties of American culture is that people like Grace Hopper are not lionized on television. The best we've been able to do is the occasional appearance of intellectuals on late night or premium channels. There wa
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by ary 4y ago
> Even with the discounts, savings plans, multi-year commit discounts, etc., the cloud costs are absolutely absurd if you are running stable applications where you understand the future growth, use, and demand. This is true, but it doesn
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by ary 4y ago
This is not what we're seeing (disclosure, I'm a founder at a cloud-cost management startup). Momentum is still towards the cloud, with some exceptions, given the amount of talent available to deploy there versus on-prem. The &quo
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by ary 4y ago
What, exactly, is a "prompt engineer"? I should note that this question is asked in good faith, that I have attempted to ascertain the answer on my own, and I am very skeptical that the term has validity beyond self-aggrandizement
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by ary 4y ago
“The Mom Test” by Rob Fitzpatrick - How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you. https://a.co/d/8KzUk8b It ended up saving us a lot of time.
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by ary 4y ago
When S3 was released the Internet was very different. Two of the things that stood out were: 1. It offered a resilient key/object store over HTTP. 2. By the standards of the day for bandwidth and storage it was (and to a certain extent
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by ary 4y ago
This is really interesting and something I've been thinking about for a while now. The SEMANTICS[1] doc details what is and isn't supported from a POSIX filesystem API perspective, and this stands out: Write operations (write,
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Show HN: AWS Pricing Add-On for Google Sheets(workspace.google.com)
3 points by ary 4y ago|0 comments
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by ary 4y ago
We had a similar problem in terms of engaging with our target audience. This might feel a little silly, and I was initially somewhat skeptical, but our investors pushed us to read and integrate "The Mom Test" into our thinking. It

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