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by beering 6y ago
Yeah, further down in the article they track down the gap between cpp and Go/Java to the ref-counting deallocation work. I'm not a cpp expert, but it seems surprising to me that GC would beat ref-counting in any scenario.
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by beering 6y ago
Glancing around the website, it's not hard to see who the target audience is. I.e. the people who are most interested in this "defending from deplatforming" book are the ones pushing conspiracy theories and hate speech. The p
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by beering 6y ago
Someone on HN recently showed off their own mobile-app version of Exquisite Corpse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22777768
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by beering 7y ago
I am excited for more open-source video-calling tools, but I am also confused by how this "provides video quality and latency simply not available with traditional technology." A quick glance at the readme suggests that this negot
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by beering 7y ago
I was curious enough to look it up and the given name Mortimer means "dead pond" according to Wiktionary. Mort Drucker's name is Morris, not Mortimer, so I guess this is a somewhat irrelevant piece of trivia.
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by beering 7y ago
Worth pointing out that RDS includes PostGIS, which is good since you can't poke the DB server directly. Although I am sympathetic to the blog post, since PostGIS is overkill in complexity for simple use cases like a store locator.
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by beering 7y ago
For anyone else curious, these 7-day planetary weekday names are from the West and are not a Japanese invention. Monday = moon = 月, Sunday = sun = 日 is not a coincidence. The pairings of elements to planets seems to have been done by the Ch
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by beering 7y ago
Your guess of 90% seems in line with AirBnB: 0.1 * 170,000 = 17,000, which is still more than AirBnB's current headcount, right?
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by beering 7y ago
If you read the article, that's the issue the author was talking about: it's basically impossible to make an app that can store its data locally, instead of on some web server. All apps that you download from App Store can live of
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by beering 7y ago
The 10k hours idea, to me, feels like it's more about the distribution of competitors' skills. By the time you reach 10k hours, you're way on the right-hand side of the bell curve and there are very few more-experienced compe
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by beering 7y ago
I think a lot of cheap shared web hosts let you upload via browser in a drag-and-drop widget. For example, neocities has a basic drag-and-drop uploader.
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by beering 7y ago
There exist tools to merge Minecraft maps. There's some trickiness around making sure entities get merged properly, but it's a somewhat common need to take a section out of one world and plop it into another world.
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by beering 7y ago
Not sure if this is "good" advice, but this would make for a very appealing kickstarter: cool gadget with very useful functionality for popular activities (music festivals, hiking, skiing) that could even help in an emergency. It
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by beering 7y ago
It's not zero financial interest, but certainly more indirect and less compelling. If investors in Lambda ISAs are not getting good returns, the value of buying a Lambda ISA will go down. If Lambda can't sell ISAs for a good price
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by beering 7y ago
Re: Shell, I think there's something similar playing out with automobile manufacturers and "mobility". They will honestly give it an effort, but perhaps without the clarity, expertise, or strategy that's actually needed
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by beering 7y ago
It also seems to be lacking the technical component as I didn't seem to find any dispatching logic (e.g. geospatial awareness).
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by beering 7y ago
Having set up a lot of SAML2 SSO integrations, I'm definitely going to put SAML2 in an enterprise tier. My sanity is not worth dealing with SAML2 for customers who are trying to get by with some $100/month subscription plan. In f
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by beering 7y ago
For Apple Maps this is also country-dependent, since different countries/regions use different map data sources. The turnaround time for regions covered by Apple's own data would be fastest to change, I assume, followed by OpenStr
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by beering 7y ago
... replied to wrong thread?
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by beering 7y ago
Curious and want to ask: if this were available 15 years ago, would you have done it? It seems like you'd need to 1) have CS as your goal, 2) know about Shopify and their program, and 3) get in. I know a lot of people don't even h
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by beering 7y ago
People should be aware that many of the cheapo "ELM327" readers on Amazon/eBay are counterfeit chips that merely identify themselves as ELM327. They do not perform as well as the real chip, but may be good enough for reading
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by beering 7y ago
Take anything Zed Shaw says with a grain of salt, given that he has his own very strong views on how to teach/learn coding (as shown by his books). For example, "FBTA"s are real and I have encountered them in real life. There
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by beering 7y ago
Probably because a lot of the antivax scare was around thimerosal in vaccines (which is a mercury compound). Logic was: mercury is known to be poisonous, thimerosal is a mercury compound, thus vaccines must be poisonous.
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by beering 7y ago
You could just put speakers in your ceiling. But given how people have trouble telling whether sounds are coming from above or below them anyways, I'm not sure it's worth the effort.
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by beering 7y ago
Can you elaborate 1) why you can't r/w atomatically from a progress variable (even if it's a byte?), 2) why are we writing Python code for 8-bit or 16-bit machines, and 3) why is it bad to take advantage of our language'
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by beering 7y ago
Which of these can't you calculate ahead of the launch? Numbers 1, 3, and 4 seem like you could calculate it ahead of time. And maybe number 2 as well, if you do it relatively close to launch time.
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by beering 7y ago
And I think there's a good case to be made for big companies flush with money to throw a bit of that money at open-source products: you're hedging your bets on your future software needs and signalling to vendors that they're
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by beering 7y ago
I'm sympathetic to the feeling in this blog post, but not the specific examples. It's not about cost-cutting, because Tim Cook's supply-chain wrangling has resulted in us getting nicer stuff while Apple pays less. In fact, I
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by beering 7y ago
It's Google's strategy for selling Maps and maybe some other enterprise services. I think it makes sense, actually. The reseller deals with things like basic support, consulting, drafting up contracts, limited negotiations, etc.,
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by beering 7y ago
If you're the sole author of the code (or own the copyright or have the ability to relicense), then you can. It's not "un-GPL"ing the code because whatever you GPL'd will continue to be available under the GPL forev

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