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by bobnamob 4y ago
Duplicate word removal seems like a naive, coarse grained method to improve writing style. Smells like the high school trope of throwing a thesaurus at your essay and hoping for the best
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by bobnamob 4y ago
I feel like this is trying to play off of https://grugbrain.dev/ Not sure if the riff lands though (same author?) Edit: “with HTMX (big fans and of grugbraindev -- no relation)” apparently unrelated.
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Carp: A Statically Typed Lisp(github.com)
20 points by bobnamob 4y ago|5 comments
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Setting a new focus for my blog(drewdevault.com)
6 points by bobnamob 4y ago|0 comments
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by bobnamob 4y ago
Some acquisitions at FAANG I’m at have carve outs with legal and finance for docker desktop. Originally internal projects are all on internal tooling for compliance reasons
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by bobnamob 4y ago
> Moreover, it has been noted that the authors state that “no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study” which is contradictory to the study described. Is peer review even worth anything any more? Is journal publicatio
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by bobnamob 4y ago
It isn’t often I verbally exclaim on opening an HN link. Wow.
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by bobnamob 4y ago
Likely a proving ground for yet more functional features
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by bobnamob 4y ago
How much have you travelled? From my experiences there are plenty of nations/states that make higher taxation work for the people.
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by bobnamob 4y ago
The Path of Exile and Oldschool RuneScape wikis have gone through this same transition recently. I think this is a broader movement as a reaction to fandom’s business practices
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by bobnamob 4y ago
There’s definitely been flooding.
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by bobnamob 4y ago
The 3 “once in a century” flood events haven’t been great either
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by bobnamob 4y ago
As always, thanks for keeping HN interesting Dan
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Simplicity and Survival(borretti.me)
32 points by bobnamob 4y ago|6 comments
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by bobnamob 4y ago
Reference xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1172
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Nightscout – personal blood glucose monitoring as a service(github.com)
1 points by bobnamob 4y ago|0 comments
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The Jank Language: LLVM Hosted Clojure(jank-lang.org)
320 points by bobnamob 4y ago|79 comments
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by bobnamob 4y ago
Homoiconicity
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US library defunded after refusing to censor authors(theguardian.com)
90 points by bobnamob 4y ago|261 comments
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by bobnamob 4y ago
Grammarly is banned by my employer and plenty others I imagine. I’ll let that speak for itself
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by bobnamob 4y ago
I think you need to go a layer or two deeper to find the shovel vendors, maybe those selling compute?
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by bobnamob 4y ago
https://helple.fly.dev/ Wordle helper that I threw together over a few weekends. Stick in the day’s solution and your guesses and it’ll tell you how many valid words remain after each guess. My first stab at anything webdev
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by bobnamob 4y ago
If you can hold your nose and work for a hyperscaler there's plenty of rust work to go around.
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by bobnamob 4y ago
That phenomenon probably has more to do with wealth being spread increasingly thin across ever-larger generations
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by bobnamob 4y ago
Isn’t the whole appeal of fly that they’re geolocated near your users, reducing latency so you can use fancy serverside rendering stacks like Phoenix? Cold start latency kinda ruins that no?
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by bobnamob 4y ago
As is tradition when talking about "let it crash" or "crash-only software", Joe Armstrong's 2003 thesis "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors" [0] is required reading. Sec
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by bobnamob 5y ago
They’re still offering on-prem for airgapped usecases afaik. It’s just become a “contact us” pricing plan
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by bobnamob 5y ago
As much as I think the other replies to this question hit the nail on the head, I think there’s more to it than just tool obsession. Software developers are in the fairly unique position where most of our tools are software defined. We are
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by bobnamob 5y ago
The good news is that Adelaide airport has a fairly restrictive curfew. These poor homeowners don’t have to put up with air traffic 24/7
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by bobnamob 5y ago
The s3 api is rapidly becoming a distributed storage standard. Building your product around it is hardly lock-in these days. AWS does offer one (very reliable) implementation but they’re very definitely not a monopoly.

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