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by blowski 3y ago
Given limited time, I’d rather read War and Peace in its entirety, and a blog post on 7 Habits.
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by blowski 3y ago
And today’s prize for most un-original comment goes to…
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by blowski 3y ago
I can imagine that Facebook and Google liked the way Angular and React allowed for more advanced tracking. But it seems like you're giving too much weight to that as a primary cause. From my memory of working through this time, it was
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by blowski 3y ago
> The real reason that SPAs arose is user analytics. Can you go into that a bit? I don't really understand what you mean.
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by blowski 3y ago
> it's easy enough to parallelize and cache I beg to differ - that’s a whole new layer of bugs and race conditions. And I’m extremely sceptical you can speed them up enough that I can run them every couple of seconds on every micro-
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by blowski 3y ago
That was true for IBM in the 1970s and Microsoft in the 90s. Despite holding a royal flush, they managed to lose the game through a combination of arrogance, internal fighting, innovator's dilemma, concern over anti-trust, and bureaucr
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by blowski 3y ago
I don't remember using recursion in a real project, but I built a HN clone on top of Postgres, with the following query: WITH RECURSIVE thread(id, parent_id, user_id, post_id, timestamp, text, depth) AS ( SELECT id, parent_
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by blowski 3y ago
Articulating your specification in precise language is the hard part. Learning syntax is easy.
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by blowski 3y ago
Exactly. You could easily frame it as "if AWS seems expensive, you're using it wrong". That an internal team could get it so wrong is testament to how difficult it is to get right, but of course, there's a consultant for
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by blowski 3y ago
Printed has obviously declined, but the quantity of local information has vastly increased thanks to Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Flickr, hyperlocal news sites, etc. The unknown is how much of that data will be accessible, say, 100 years from
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by blowski 3y ago
It’s also confusing to call it a printable cup holder given “CUPS” on Linux. Probably trademark infringement. Blatant clickbait.
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by blowski 3y ago
I agree with your comment, but I’m curious what “pizzled” means.
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by blowski 3y ago
There was a whole panic where mobile phones were thought to melt your brain. Similar with radio. Some belived TV would literally give you square eyes. Vaccines. The internet was simultaneously apocalyptic and useless.
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by blowski 3y ago
I've been on HN for more than a decade, and it's definitely a thing. I've even done it myself.
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by blowski 3y ago
I agree that you don't need to have read it to be a good programmer. Yet, in my experience, there is a large overlap between those who are good programmers and those who have read it. With such a heavy use of anecdata, it's hard t
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by blowski 3y ago
I think "anti-feminist" implies it expressses some opinion about the feminist movement, which it doesn't, to my recollection. That said, it is somewhat sexist in its assumption that all programmers are men, which is not a sur
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by blowski 3y ago
I often use cheats and walkthroughs, to the chagrin of my gamer friends. I have fun though, so who cares?
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by blowski 3y ago
I believe the noisy shop thing is intentionally to discourage you from chatting. Chatty customers buy less. I think I read this in Trolley Wars.
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by blowski 3y ago
Conferences are places where people with overlapping interests meet for fun and profit. I know a married couple who met at a Drupal conference, and one of my closest friends now is a dev I met at a PHP meetup in 2006. I’ve been hired by a c
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by blowski 3y ago
Yes, while we all tend to jump to permanent disabilities as the justification for accessibility, one can have situationally or otherwise temporarily reduced ability. Examples that jump to mind: * broken fingers * wearing gloves at a cold st
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by blowski 3y ago
Both ChatGPT and StackOverflow suffer from content becoming outdated. So some highly-upvoted answer on StackOverflow has been out of date since 2011, and now ChatGPT is trained on it. I see the future as writing test cases (perhaps also wit
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Flooding McDonalds Superflex(youtube.com)
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by blowski 3y ago
I was given a free Oculus headset in late 2021. The novelty wore off after a couple of weeks, and I've barely used it since.
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by blowski 3y ago
I've noticed a lot of IT departments want to have an internal appstore from which users can install webapps. So it's not necessarily for the end users but the device managers, where those are different entities.
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by blowski 4y ago
It's electrified rocks all the way down.
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by blowski 4y ago
In the late 90s, I used to collaborate with about 10 people, all in the same office on the same LAN, for production of a magazine that sold IT stuff. We used the "Excel Shared Spreadsheet" functionality. The file was hosted on a n
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by blowski 4y ago
It’s obvious 99% of the time, but that 1% equates to a lot of fatal errors.
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by blowski 4y ago
HN Guidelines for comments: > Don't be snarky. It makes for a nicer community if you just post the link and leave out the snark.
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by blowski 4y ago
On the BBC article: > Dominion chief executive John Poulos told a press conference the deal included Fox "admitting to telling lies, causing enormous damage to my company". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-
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by blowski 4y ago
I don’t know whether you meant it this way, but your comment comes across as “let me Google that for you”. Either way, I also wanted a source, and thank you for posting the link here so I also don’t have to go looking for it.

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