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by beefsack 8y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513030 Related discussion (lots of comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18509735
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by beefsack 8y ago
My offline maps expire in years, not in months or weeks. I'm not sure that's a huge issue, roads change over time and eventually maps will be so old that they are harmful.
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by beefsack 8y ago
Here's a specific example for a C++ compiler: CVE-2019-0546 I have a feeling you could find Java ones too if you looked hard enough. Compilers are complex beasts. [1]: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019
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by beefsack 8y ago
I'm incredibly wary about opinion pieces about the current generation of kids by previous generations. Nostalgia is an incredibly powerful influence.
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by beefsack 8y ago
For those unaware, raphlinus actually created Inconsolata.
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by beefsack 8y ago
Convenient, easy to access / use debuggers are a boon for logic bugs. Being able to see the flow of the program and snapshots of state reduce the time it takes to identify and fix bugs significantly. Perhaps everyone being a print debu
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by beefsack 8y ago
Reminds me of the fall of Rare. They were absolutely untouchable in the N64 era, nearly everything they made was gold. I believe Rare's decline happened after an acquisition (Microsoft?) but I may be misremembering.
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by beefsack 8y ago
I've tried and failed to get into some RPG campaigns in a few different systems (my general anxiety didn't help) but I listen to and absolutely adore The Adventure Zone podcast[1]. There's scope for some really wonderful coll
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by beefsack 8y ago
Not OP, but direct management venting to the team can have a really negative impact on morale, motivation, and inter-team relationships. Managers who have a tendency toward complaining and negativity can really hurt a team.
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by beefsack 8y ago
If anyone likes his storytelling and is into PC gaming, he is a founding member and regular on what I feel is the best gaming podcast around: The Crate and Crowbar[1]. It's run largely by a bunch of ex-PC gamer magazine journalists so
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by beefsack 8y ago
If the last chart in that post[1] is anything to go by, then we will hopefully see some significant performance improvements from this. [1]: https://githubengineering.com/counting-objects/#the-results
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by beefsack 8y ago
This is a healthy mindset to have. I feel that for every company that self-reports a leak, there are multiple other companies that have leaked your data and either haven't discovered the breach, refuse to disclose it, or flat out sold
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by beefsack 8y ago
It boggles the mind that something that massive didn't get picked up sometime, especially in this age of broadly accessibly high quality satellite imagery.
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by beefsack 8y ago
Using social media nowadays is like standing in a room with everyone yelling at the same time. Only the loudest people get heard, and they rarely have important / interesting / well informed things to say.
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by beefsack 8y ago
It appears the ebook is in PDF format[1], does anyone know if an EPUB will become available? [1]: https://gumroad.com/l/pim-book
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by beefsack 8y ago
Tangential, but there is actually a board game based on the rebuild of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake - Lisboa by Vital Lacerda[1]. Lacerda is a graphic designer come board game designer known for his intricate, heavy economic games. Lisb
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by beefsack 8y ago
Your quotes also highlight the possibility that this is all fabricated.
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by beefsack 8y ago
To be fair, you can say any company operating in a specific country works under the influence of that government. Many US companies run or ran warrant canaries for this specific reason.
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by beefsack 8y ago
Turing Tumble[1] is wonderful, happy that it got a mention. I thought it'd be a great idea for our office as we've got a lot of staff here who love logic puzzles, but my 4yo daughter at home had the first try and she won't le
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by beefsack 8y ago
No, "judder" is like a shaking or vibrating, "jank" just means bad quality.
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by beefsack 8y ago
I was lucky to jump on when the lifetime sub was available too, it's a great service. I stopped using it for a while because they didn't support Firefox, but it works perfectly now.
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by beefsack 8y ago
Tangential, but as someone in the southern hemisphere it's frustrating when people use seasons for timelines. "Q2 2019" is immediately more understandable instead of having to do some mental gymnastics to convert it.
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by beefsack 8y ago
And I've definitely seen young people so convinced older people have it wrong without understanding the nuance of situations. It's easy to give a simple solution when you over-simplify the problem. People need to be open minded to
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by beefsack 8y ago
I asked previously when a CockroachDB post was on here, but didn't really get an answer to it. Is anyone running this in prod at a significant scale and able to comment on reliability and performance? I absolutely love CockroachDB in m
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by beefsack 8y ago
This is equal parts impressive and scary. It's awesome from a stability perspective, but I'm not completely comfortable with "dial home" functionality apparently being enabled by default in a database system.
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by beefsack 8y ago
Twitter is a publishing platform.
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by beefsack 8y ago
Sounds really clever, but also has the potential to be really opaque and confusing. On the other hand, the trick in the article is quite verbose. Can be tricky balancing terseness with readability.
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by beefsack 8y ago
Calling this "data mining" is adding a neutral spin to a horrifying practice. "Harvesting personal information" is more accurate. One annoying aspect of companies doing this is the term they steal becomes encumbered with
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by beefsack 8y ago
I'd absolutely love to see a list of preserved historically important computers that are accessible to the public. It'd be great to go and see some - I was already planning to go see a Babbage Difference Engine when I have the cha
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by beefsack 8y ago
I feel the more general lesson here is that zealotry in our industry is almost always a bad thing. Whether it be in technology choices, development paradigms, project management techniques, training strategies, or even just how you deal wit

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