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by austinl 6y ago
I've heard another variant of this joke: A friend asks a programmer if they'd like to go bowling or go to the movies. The programmer answers: "Yes".
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Oddly enough, Lua was my first introduction to programming. I was into Valve's Half Life games and Garry's Mod, and Lua was typically the way that you'd make modifications to things (e.g. increase player movement speed). That
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I agree in the sense that the HN community cannot save a bad product. And sometimes it wouldn't even save a good product. But I think the thanks here is for the community that was willing to give a new product a try, provide feedback,
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by austinl 6y ago
Wikipedia has some great content on megastructures. It's a good place to find some sci-fi book recommendations as well. I've ended up there more than once on late nights. Here are a few good starting points: https://en.
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I can appreciate this — I stayed with my previous company for 5 years, which seems like an eternity to most folks I talk to, but I worked on 3 very different teams during that time period. It felt like joining a brand new company each time
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I use Hacker News as a quick benchmark for "how fast is the Internet here?" because the speed is so consistently good. Typically slow Hacker News load = slow Internet.
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Strongly agree with this. I’ve been playing on Nvidia GeForce Now (so essentially a high-end PC), and haven’t encountered any major issues. I’d say the game sets a new standard in terms of the level of detail in the environment. The first t
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by austinl 6y ago
Can anyone familiar with the topic explain what distinguishes essential from non-essential cookies? GitHub gives the example of "those used by third-party analytics, tracking, and advertising services", but curious if the law defi
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Pointing and Calling(en.wikipedia.org)
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I like this format in general, since it communicates the command is severe/irreversible. Heroku implements a similar confirmation when performing destructive actions. Commands require your to pass a `--confirm ${APP NAME}` flag, so the
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by austinl 6y ago
I came to the comments specifically curious about this. I'm currently running Firefox with multi-container, and a couple of the about:config tweaks from https://www.privacytools.io/browsers/#about_config Obviously
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As an iOS engineer, I'm a bit biased, but I'd still say it's currently not practical to learn it if you're not doing Apple development. That said, I love the language, and it's a big part of what motivates me to con
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We have a lint rule that will fail if your TODO comment doesn't have a link to a ticket for that task in it. It's not perfect, but I think this has reduced TODOs in our codebase to tasks that will be more or less done in the immed
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by austinl 6y ago
People also expect too much after reading a book just once . Reading a book once isn't enough to make a lasting impression, if you're able to remember anything at all — especially for a complex book like Thinking, Fast and Slow
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This reminds of startups founded by folks that were former executives at BigCos. Of course, it varies from person to person, but many of them reek of big business formalism that's kind of off-putting. Certainly there are pros and cons
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by austinl 6y ago
I've heard this happen in a lot of places — companies want to be "data-driven", but then leadership simply ignores the data. I think being data-driven is something that is built into company culture, or otherwise it's to
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The book The Grid by Gretchen Bakke is a great primer on why this is such an important problem. Energy is strange, in the sense that everything produced needs to be consumed more or less immediately — it's not like other resources th
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as by a man of leisure is my favorite phrase in the passage. I think it's the key to the whole thing. It's implies what kind of mindset you should try to adopt: relax, enjoy what you're doing and appreciate the moment (if y
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by austinl 6y ago
One of my favorite quotes on this topic comes from Aurelius' description of his adopted father in Meditations . [Y]ou would never say of him that he "broke out a sweat": but everything was allotted its own time and thought,
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I'd also love to see a journal that agreed to publish work before any results are known. Researchers would submit hypotheses and methodology for review, and the journal would publish the results after the experiments were conducted,
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Another reason we see duplicate startups within a few domains is that there are many VCs, and each wants to have a horse in the race. Perhaps they missed on one fintech company, and now it's grown enough to make the market. So they lea
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by austinl 6y ago
This is me as well. It really hit home when I was talking with a friend about not joining a company that's just trying to get stuff out the door quickly. She said "you're an artisan, you just want to practice your art! And t
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by austinl 6y ago
This section on Wikipedia covers the history of the concerns. I wouldn't say there's a definitive smoking gun that's public knowledge. Instead, there are several instances of vulnerabilities discovered in Huawei systems that
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by austinl 6y ago
Great advice. Honestly, things like this are half the reason I don't pick up the phone any more if I don't recognize the number. I used to enable the feature that sent all unrecognized numbers to voicemail, but found this was too
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People who are extremely comfortable with vim + tmux look like they're doing straight up wizardry (probably the closest to what people imagine programmers do in movies). I remember seeing one of these folks during my first engineering
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I'm sure it depends on the challenge. Most folks that I'd consider geniuses just relentlessly pursue the things they're interested in. Depending on the topic, this gives them enough ability to get by the basic concepts tested
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This is something that afflicts a lot of younger, talented students. I was able to breeze through K-8 without studying, then attended a challenging high school where I went from a straight A student to a B/C student. It took me at leas
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I like the theory behind app architecture, but I haven't seen a complex design pattern work well in practice (unless the team is small, and everyone has a solid understanding of how it works). I worked on a mobile app once that really
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> " Rather than saying 'the government provides subsidies / loans' -- it's preferable to think of this as the population does this, with the government merely administrating. " I think this is true of all pu
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I should add that the key to good writing (in most domains) is to be concise . Editing is primarily about cutting what's unnecessary, but it's often treated like the part where some words are swapped out with fancier ones (e.g. &

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