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by blowski 2y ago
It's best to think of it as spending $20 on entertainment.
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by blowski 2y ago
This seems like a generic advert for a generic email product, that's only posted here because it says "Google is bad". I don't disagree with the sentiment, but let's face it, if this company got the same level of tr
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by blowski 2y ago
This was my impression of the article as well. Nobody can agree on what they're all trying to improve in the product and why, everyone's just trying to avoid being fired while working on their own stuff.
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by blowski 2y ago
We have a gritter called Grit Rhys Jones in our area. Griff Rhys Jones (popular in the 80s - “Alas Smith and Jones”, “Not the Nine o Clock News”) lives nearby, and occasionally drives it.
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by blowski 2y ago
Pragmatists used inheritance because it gave a quick benefit now, and the longer-term costs were ignored. Some pragmatists became successful because they moved quickly, so the "Programmers from the Church of Purity" used inheritan
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by blowski 2y ago
Thanks for the correction on that. In the UK cold and damp go together, and I’d always assumed you can’t dry clothes because of the cold.
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by blowski 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34074344 His resignation four weeks later.
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by blowski 2y ago
You’re right, I didn’t even think about these! I still wouldn’t include them in end-user facing features, but try are certainly necessary to be a valuable product at Twitter-scale.
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by blowski 2y ago
Many British houses are already damp and small, and heating them to dry clothes doesn’t save energy. Putting clothes outside when it’s -2 degrees or raining consistently also doesn’t help. I think I’ve seen the kinds of indoor drying lines
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by blowski 2y ago
AWS doesn’t give you automatic 100% of NFRs, it just gives you more options in the trade-offs. For example, doing a database upgrade safely.
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by blowski 2y ago
I reckon I could implement 90% of the end-user functional features of Twitter in a weekend. The remaining 10% of the features would take at least another year, and the non-functionals (performance, reliability, observability, scalability, e
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by blowski 2y ago
I was there yesterday, which is what led me to stumbling on the submitted link. The people in TNMOC are astonishing - their knowledge, experience, and passion was one of the best museum experiences I’ve ever had.
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by blowski 3y ago
I don’t imagine it’s an industry that sees much opportunity in converting impulse buyers.
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by blowski 3y ago
Works fine on mine (M3 Max). The controls aren’t particularly intuitive.
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by blowski 3y ago
I would assume a mistake, albeit one that raises questions about their QA processes. A static HTML page is hardly going to break their bank.
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by blowski 3y ago
The Colossus Machine was a huge code-breaking computer built in the UK during World War 2. Multiple models were built but most were destroyed by the intelligence services at the end of the war. So far as I understand, it calculated possible
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Virtual Colossus(virtualcolossus.co.uk)
88 points by blowski 3y ago|18 comments
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by blowski 3y ago
I’d guess the OP is right in nominal terms, because I think those companies combined have made less profit than AWS.
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by blowski 3y ago
I find the challenge is not putting things you want to do in “urgent and important” to justify the decision you’ve already made.
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by blowski 3y ago
I’d like to see empirical evidence that supports any of those claims.
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by blowski 3y ago
Do you think a woman should have a choice whether she remains a housewife or gets a career? Can a man do the “housewife’s” job?
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by blowski 3y ago
If that's not polished code, then I'm really curious what you consider to be polished! * It follows Go conventions, has helpful comments and readme file. * Given it's not user facing prod code, I'm assuming high-performa
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by blowski 3y ago
The course sounds brilliant, the right mix of technical and crafty. I'm not sure I'm capable of actually doing it though - I struggle with most hardware stuff.
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by blowski 3y ago
I really like the idea of getting code reviews from Hacker News for personal projects. There's so much knowledge and passion on here, it could be really useful. It would also help for me, as a bystander, to understand the context of th
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by blowski 3y ago
So it's thinking about the opportunity at the level of tournament and ladder, rather than individual games.
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by blowski 3y ago
It might be more obvious for you, but I have no idea what I'm looking at in the algebraic_structure. Perhaps the traditional method is easier for the average numpty like myself.
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by blowski 3y ago
I don’t understand your distinction between types of games. In Chess, your stupid mistake creates an opportunity your opponent can exploit. The failure to exploit an opportunity is itself a mistake. I guess in Poker there is an element of l
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by blowski 3y ago
If they are publishing a story about company A, what’s the ethics on buying in company B, where the latter is a competitor or supplier who will be affected by the story? There’s a murky line here that they haven’t necessarily crossed, but I
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by blowski 3y ago
How do these companies pay the bills, let alone turn a profit? I love this investigative journalism, but I like to follow the money, to understand why they investigate what they do.
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by blowski 3y ago
I really like this list, and it's a great idea to explain testing this way. Perhaps there is also a level -1, when the tests actually make things worse. I see this when tests are extremely brittle, flaky, don't test the most compl

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