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by boffinism 4y ago
> The situation is bad enough that the Snap employee said they’d considered quitting since then. So, only bad enough that an employee might consider quitting? That... really suggests it's not a particularly bad situation.
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by boffinism 4y ago
It's HN, don't.
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by boffinism 4y ago
This whole article feels like it was written by someone who never really stopped to understand what deadlines are or why they exist. The author was only concerned with how they impact them, and desperate to push back. For one thing: "I
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A billion is two different numbers(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by boffinism 4y ago|1 comments
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by boffinism 4y ago
"[Plain-text email] is strongly preferred" I think it's significant that this is written in the passive voice. Because written this way it has the semblance of officialness, of generalness. Whereas writing it in the active vo
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by boffinism 4y ago
Bet someone will be rooting out hard-coded strings with incorrect pronouns in for years to come.
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The first no-coiner conference(decrypt.co)
3 points by boffinism 4y ago|0 comments
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by boffinism 4y ago
The sentence immediately after the one you quoted was: "Don’t get me wrong: React is good". So dismissing the article on the grounds that 'React is good' doesn't get you very far.
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by boffinism 4y ago
Also, if I'm calling 'getInstance' on PlaneFactory, why am I having to explicitly assert that I'm expecting a Plane in return? Isn't that a given?
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by boffinism 4y ago
This is just string typing: PlaneFactory.getInstance<Plane>('BoeingPlane') Doesn't that defeat the point of both TypeScript and the factory pattern?
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by boffinism 4y ago
... within the context of ticketing.
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The Quantum Computing Bubble(ft.com)
2 points by boffinism 4y ago|1 comments
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by boffinism 4y ago
Is the "3rd-party marketplace" bit a hard requirement? If I'm organising an event and I am ok with tickets being transferred, would it satisfy requirements if I offered a mechanism for transfers myself?
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by boffinism 4y ago
I believe the concept referenced is the one mentioned in the second paragraph: uniqueness+art.
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Helium core team proposes migrating to Solana(medium.com)
2 points by boffinism 4y ago|0 comments
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OptiFi's program has been closed by mistakes we made(twitter.com)
1 points by boffinism 4y ago|0 comments
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by boffinism 4y ago
Today is a great day for you, because you get to learn something new! Specifically, that if you derive pitches of notes from harmonics, D sharp and E flat are slightly different pitches! There's actually a great article about exactly t
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by boffinism 4y ago
> Another way to phrase this is “statically typed languages suck if you want to write highly dynamically typed code.” Reminds me a lot of the NoSQL wars which eventually boiled down to 'Non-relational databases suck if you want to s
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by boffinism 4y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/24/23319552/facebook-bug-cel... - media picking up on it
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by boffinism 4y ago
Verge article on this: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/24/23319552/facebook-bug-cel...
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by boffinism 4y ago
Sure, here you go: https://www.ft.com/john-burn-murdoch
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by boffinism 4y ago
"But it dawns on me that luck is just the product of all these other qualities" This, to me, highlights the flaw in the whole article. They nearly died. They were saved by a chance encounter with a friendly boat. This encounter wa
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by boffinism 4y ago
Do you believe, privately, that there's a really great business here? (I don't mean 'do you believe that if enough miracles happen what you have might turn into a great business?') In my experience, that's the quest
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by boffinism 4y ago
Growing up, #2 was called 'the sermon game', but only letters that started words counted. The goal was not to reach the end of the alphabet but to get further through than your peers.
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by boffinism 4y ago
The thing about virtual sets is, like real sets, they force you to have commotted to every decision about a shot at the point you shoot the actors. And half the reason Hollywood uses VFX so much is to NOT do that. So don't expect virtu
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by boffinism 4y ago
Sneaky little hotbitses.
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by boffinism 4y ago
In my very recent experience (specifically in the UK for roles to do with Ruby), the shirtage of developers mean it's way less painful than it used to be, cos companies are marketing themselves on their ease of interview process. I w
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by boffinism 4y ago
That. Doesn't. Work. Burned into my auditory memory.
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Thousands of Solana wallets drained in multi-million dollar exploit(techcrunch.com)
2 points by boffinism 4y ago|0 comments
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by boffinism 4y ago
In my experience (UK traditional banking system) I can move money directly A to C at 4am on a weekend, any amount, without talking to anyone for a NO fee. That's just how online banking works, and I'd have to increase the sums of

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