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by bfung 4y ago
They’re both shortcuts to creating class-like things. Take @dataclass in python for example, that’s similar to Struct for Ruby. ‘Data’ documentation from the GitHub PR ( https://zverok.space/ruby-rdoc/Data.html ):
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by bfung 4y ago
I found my most successful job via HN back in 2011 before the whoishiring bot was made, when these posts were less formal and structured. (Not sure how good or bad this is internationally, but great in the USA). The companies I’ve been with
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by bfung 4y ago
> Is there any easy way to correct for HN traffic? Hmmm I have a couple ideas, but nothing simple w/o some longer scraping or being able to find HN traffic data elsewhere.
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by bfung 4y ago
> just HN, a small part of the bigger picture. Yep, totally, very small picture. Personal experience, though, I was laid off in August 2022, first time in my 18+ year career. I found something else, but recently, many friends and ex-cowo
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HN Who is hiring job posts over time
120 points by bfung 4y ago|78 comments
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by bfung 4y ago
Severance pay from layoff and having 6m emergency savings.
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by bfung 4y ago
fyi, Molly White is the creator of https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
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Is Web3 Bullshit? – Molly White at Web Summit 2022(youtube.com)
60 points by bfung 4y ago|14 comments
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by bfung 4y ago
Agree with Earth’s “weight”, disappointed a physics website would make such a silly error! > void of space, it is like a free falling apple falling where in space??? =p ;)
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by bfung 4y ago
Value here is not just the amount of storage: 1. Multiple people and devices use this one account. 2. Said multiple people are not technical - they don’t always know/remember to plug in a drive to their device for backup. 3. The mental
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by bfung 4y ago
There are certainly other points, but I think a big reason is practice/training. The process of translating thought into a language (written or spoken - also picking a language, being multilingual), and then into concise language, at
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by bfung 4y ago
iCloud+ 2TB: 9.99 € does the macOS and iOS backup. Click buy and pretty much done. Also have my parents data backed up with family sharing, I don’t have to be family IT support! If you have other devices… Tim Cook recommends replacing those
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by bfung 4y ago
That's what we thought in the early 2000s until Google Maps blew it's competition out of the water, making use of XmlHttpRequest when no one took js seriously back then. Blogging? sure. Making interactive content? a turing complet
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by bfung 4y ago
google in dire need of better customer support in some products if it expects to stay competitive in the non-search and YouTube areas. Perhaps moving the $$$ resources to the right place is in order. 200k off a 500k salary still leaves the
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by bfung 4y ago
An older one: Watching tv can become a bad habit. Maybe good bonding time once or twice, but years? Does one really need to watch the hit show of the season? Talk about with others to be seen as being in the “in crowd”? Cancel Netflix/
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by bfung 4y ago
How about a side-by-side comparison? Far too often, these articles of X is bad, use my homebrew Y instead, without showing comparison to X doesn't help illustrate 'why Y instead'. You know... <cheeky>For science.<&#x
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by bfung 4y ago
For HN, goto your profile and turn on “noprocrast”. HN will then limit the time you spend here and not let you back in for awhile.
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by bfung 4y ago
More than several times, there are data APIs that return raw text/csv, esp taking data from older systems. Writing a scraper for those, bash & curl comes in handy w/o needing extra cruft of file writing ceremonies (ex: with op
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by bfung 4y ago
In other words, marketing budget big and needed to be used up or else shrunk next fiscal cycle. /s Realistically, this is probably very cost efficient as it’s a relatively low effort project compared to a fully fledged feature, and som
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by bfung 4y ago
Reading the article and not having a stake in twitter (no account, no stocks, don’t use it at all), seems reasonable. It’s basically, we’re closing office tomorrow, exit the premises please. Not dystopian at all and there was nothing in th
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by bfung 4y ago
Before this article, I had no idea that a Hollie Mengert existed. In a different light, this could be a new market of people the artist can cater to. A flesh & blood original could hold sentimental value, with the AI being an ok sneak p
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by bfung 4y ago
But a little too late still. It's not nearly massive enough -- even the most crude mental exercise: China has ~4x the population of the US, so the US needs to 4x current onshore output levels while keeping prices low to meet demand to
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by bfung 4y ago
> it is a self-correcting problem because as prices go up people will no longer have as much money. It’s not as simple as that, and thinking about the second and third order follow-ons is important. History has taught us it goes somethin
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by bfung 4y ago
Also agree with basically all of it. My order preference would be: 1. use shellcheck. … rest …
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by bfung 4y ago
The title bait’ed my inner troll. The author did not disappoint at the very end of the article. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/multi-track-drifting
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by bfung 4y ago
It looks like the author is Japanese and learned English quickly. The grammar/style does have a Japanese feel to it, so seems legit - plus photos of the author on his blog - the photos look real enough that the prompt engineering woul
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by bfung 4y ago
Fun! If someone reads the comments first, try this in a private/incognito window please! (Then compare in non-incognito) There’s a clever product recommendation section, and the test will say “you might own…” and it showed me something
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by bfung 4y ago
Hard to confirm the article and the tweet. The author should provide the exact details and operations for someone to replicate and verify, or at least do the math. The mongodb pricing page says one can setup a M10 instance for $57/mont
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by bfung 4y ago
There’s gov intervention now, not due to shortage nor Covid related supply, but strategic moves that’s happening between US and China. With China having “seized” Hong Kong, and Russia invading Ukraine, flags went up signaling that the next
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by bfung 4y ago
In a less corporate greed light: give person X coupons and discounts to healthier restaurants and change their behavior, if they choose to. But don’t “punish” them w/higher rates as some people would view that as some sort of discrimin

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