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by brlewis 7y ago
I was replying in the context of "This paper came at a time when threads were really painful to work with," which seemed to imply that they're no longer really painful to work with.
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by brlewis 7y ago
Are you saying that concurrency issues can reliably be found via testing?
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by brlewis 7y ago
> Java threads work everywhere That depends how you define "work". Java has a decent concurrency library such that if you have a limited-scope project implemented by 1 or 2 highly-skilled programmers, you stand a good chance of
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by brlewis 7y ago
If emacs keyboard macros haven't bridged the gap for you, try https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el Keyboard macros: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KeyboardMacros
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by brlewis 7y ago
That looks awesome! All of a sudden I feel so primitive with https://gitlab.com/brlewis/brlewis-config/blob/master/emacs/...
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by brlewis 7y ago
> I feel like Helm is similar, I've tried it briefly, but I'm not sure if or how it would fit into my workflow. Prefix-based autocompletion is always good enough for you? I don't use Helm, at least not yet, but thought the
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by brlewis 7y ago
Much better for me because I had a cassete tape drive where I could save my programs. It had a counter. I kept a piece of paper with the counter numbers so I could fast forward/rewind to get to specific programs I'd saved on tape.
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by brlewis 7y ago
I hope the cat analogy is helpful to someone. I can't help pointing out an inaccuracy though: > The system wouldn't work if it only got satisfaction from eating. Many predators only hunt when they're hungry, and it works f
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by brlewis 7y ago
Apple once advertised "Macs don't get PC viruses", which was true, but misleading. Microsoft often claimed that the reason there weren't Mac viruses was that it wasn't as attractive a target. They kept this trope go
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by brlewis 7y ago
Back when I was doing a lot with server-side rendering of HTML I made one: https://brl.codesimply.net/ These days I generally make SPAs. I occasionally think of reviving BRL but don't have any plans.
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by brlewis 7y ago
I have not bought into the meme and am not a huge Apple fan, but I think you can continue to if you wish. "Reuters could not determine why exactly Apple dropped the plan." It's possible that Apple didn't want the suppor
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by brlewis 7y ago
I don't do the same very often, but here's one from 2015: "Hi Professor Harris, I still talk about how well your phonetic approach to Spanish 1 worked when you taught me over 25 years ago. Since email makes it easy to mention
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by brlewis 7y ago
It doesn't fit the HN definition of startup, but here's a small, growing company doing just that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Horizons
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by brlewis 7y ago
Finding diamonds in minecraft isn't gambling mechanics?
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by brlewis 7y ago
No, the comment by asdf21 says religiosity results in fertility (causation), while the comment by AQuantized says it's just correlation. Please don't start comments with "I recommend you reread the post you replied to".
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by brlewis 7y ago
Thanks. The project is new. I hope this month to get a better idea of how receptive people are to the idea.
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by brlewis 7y ago
None have multi week battery life. All the ones that do sleep stages are equal in sleep tracking. I think Charge 3 has the best battery life. Again, I don't speak for Fitbit. But this page does: https://www.fitbit.com/c
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by brlewis 7y ago
>In 3D CNN photo, I see crowds all the way Not true. From the CNN perspective, the big gaps on the right are still visible, even though what I said about the vantage point is obviously true. Here's a picture that illustrates why the
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by brlewis 7y ago
> Oura and Fitbit seem to be the best the market has to offer with reasonable accuracy I don't speak for Fitbit, but I do work there. I'll take it as a compliment that you see us as the best the market has to offer even though
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by brlewis 7y ago
What may happen, though, is that the proponent may ignore you pointing out the false argument and keep repeating how true the fact is. Online discussion often includes a lot of this kind of repetition, plus noise to keep people from focusin
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by brlewis 7y ago
That vantage point has a limited view of the entire crowd. Here's a higher-altitude look: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-media-idUSKBN15... Found via https://www.factcheck.org/2017&#x
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by brlewis 7y ago
(I work for but don't speak for Fitbit). If your Versa is still under warranty, get it replaced. Even when the first Versa came out almost 2 years ago, battery life was 4+ days. If you're seeing a 2 day battery life either you&#x2
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by brlewis 7y ago
> you’ve fallen into a pit of despair (tech debt) and have no ecosystem to leverage your way out of it or people you can hire that want anything to do with it It sounds like you're saying that the way out of tech debt is to install
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by brlewis 7y ago
> Going back in time 50 years ago the resistance to commit to the laser printer for high performance office printing was so high Gary’s only option to finish his invention was to move from corporate to a supportive environment at Xerox P
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by brlewis 7y ago
> no one worries about what we might break in humanity by disrupting the evolved pattern of death Haven't we already disrupted it with spears to ward off predators, and more recently, hand soap and vaccines?
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by brlewis 7y ago
Imagine them as a view inside living muscle.
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by brlewis 7y ago
For those who don't like the name, think of it as the verb.
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by brlewis 7y ago
> Pebble was such a cool platform The only true part of this sentence > it is a damn shame that FitBit was allowed to purchase the company Pebble failed financially and put its assets up for sale, some of which were bought by Fitbit.
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by brlewis 7y ago
I think this was intended for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21971223
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by brlewis 7y ago
Sounds like the process worked great. Your performance review led to you delivering more of what your company wanted to pay you for.

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