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by asaph 9y ago
The GP means to imply that smartphones and tablets are far more compelling to children than books.
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by asaph 9y ago
Anecdotally, I've seen many parents do this with mixed results. YMMV.
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by asaph 9y ago
What would you have done at his age? Would you have done your homework promptly or played video games first? Did you ever skip your homework altogether? Be honest.
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by asaph 9y ago
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. If no one is testing the build on platform X, no one should be surprised if it doesn't "just work" on platform X.
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by asaph 9y ago
When is the Hacker News site redesign coming? Things I'd like to see here: - TLRD; article summary for each post - markdown support - image support - user profile page enhancements: avatars, pretty URLs, more links to user's other
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by asaph 9y ago
My impression was that building his own URL shortenner was undertaken as a mitigation of the risk of other URL shortenners disappearing.
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by asaph 9y ago
> it worked well enough for me for a time until I got lazy, got ill, and got rid of the server it was running on. But I was bang on-target about the likelihood of such things disappearing... Oh, the irony...
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by asaph 9y ago
This underscores the importance of independently reproducing experimental results of others. It's not done often enough.
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by asaph 9y ago
Lately more companies are using digital hiring packets which employees e-sign, making this strategy essentially moot. You're unlikely to sneak under the radar when each field is required.
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by asaph 9y ago
He's accusing him of malice or he's accusing him of laziness. Hanlon's razor applies to the former and not the latter. You're splitting hairs.
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by asaph 9y ago
Hanlon's Razor applies because the GP literally accused the person of malice. Direct quote: > Point is, this is a core thing that should've been tested, and not doing so implies either malice or laziness...
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by asaph 9y ago
Hanlon's razor applies here. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by asaph 9y ago
This comment ignores the fact that SpaceX built on a foundation NASA helped create. SpaceX stands on the shoulders of giants.
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by asaph 9y ago
> It’s inconceivable that another composer could take Bach’s place... I'd like to put my vote in for Lennon-McCartney. I know we're talking about classical music here and I'm not trolling. I just think they're the top
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by asaph 9y ago
This is political? Please explain.
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by asaph 9y ago
An army of full time employees ain't cheap either. I imagine your ad business would have to be very large to justify the investment, especially if building & supporting an ad platform is not your core business.
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by asaph 9y ago
> Additionally, adding support for advertising at scale is a massively complex effort... My interpretation of the GP's comment is that the advertising platform is not the core business but rather a secondary concern. Focus on your c
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by asaph 9y ago
Not every java web app needs to be this bloated. It's possible (even practical) to build robust, database driven web apps/web services without spring/hibernate and with far shallower stacktraces.
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by asaph 9y ago
Why not outsource the complex ad work to a company that specializes in it? Why not use Google's DFP platform for instance?
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by asaph 9y ago
Hey Folkhack. Nice to see you on this thread. I posted a link to my retirement calculator here too. It was always fun discussing design with you.
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by asaph 9y ago
Related: Here was a weekend project I did about a year ago: http://retirement-calculator.net/ I use it for my own financial projections. I wanted something simple that didn't base post-retirement income on a percentage
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by asaph 9y ago
The mistake was corrected. Please stop punishing me with downvotes.
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by asaph 9y ago
"latter", not "later"
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by asaph 9y ago
Your implicit assumption is that the hum is caused by something electrical; i.e. not a diesel engine or some natural cause.
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by asaph 9y ago
It seems Amazon and Apple have settled their differences. Prime Video is now available on AppleTV. https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/6/16741136/download-amazon-... And AppleTV is available for purchase on
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by asaph 9y ago
They should be paid whatever the market will bear.
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by asaph 9y ago
Store your monetary values as cents instead of dollars and use integers. Convert to dollars in the presentation layer. My assumption here is that you're dealing in US currency but the same idea applies to any currency; use integers, no
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by asaph 9y ago
> "Because I don't have a lot of time to plan out the full requirements of my objects, it has been a great boost to productivity to just toss in an additional few attributes on unsuspecting objects, or quickly sort through a li
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by asaph 9y ago
It's often impractical to audit the source code for all your 3rd party dependencies even if they are open source. When was the last time you or anyone you know reviewed every line of your web framework or DI framework? How about the de
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by asaph 9y ago
It seems to me that forks are treated more like RSUs (restricted stock units) than stock options. When a company grants you RSUs, you're immediately responsible for tax on the value of the shares. If you then hold the stock for any per

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