brlewis

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by brlewis 7y ago
>forces me to use a different browser on my phone versus my desktop Firefox has a desktop version too. Works well.
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by brlewis 7y ago
That was not intended. If I could edit my original comment I'd say it was a great hack and the humor in the FAQ is appreciated.
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by brlewis 7y ago
Enjoyed the hack and the FAQ.
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by brlewis 7y ago
On the flip side, when a change doesn't take long to implement because of a successful campaign waged against technical debt, it's important to communicate that to the stakeholder too, even though they won't ask. I implemen
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by brlewis 7y ago
Yes, just as you could draw conclusions about chemical exposure that increases or decreases jump-rope ability. If you use the metric in the right context it's fine.
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by brlewis 7y ago
The distinction between medical and non-medical devices is meaningful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_device
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by brlewis 7y ago
To be clear, a lisper would not solve the problem by switching to a more verbose syntax, but that doesn't mean no depth is too deep. Breaking a big, deeply-nested function up into smaller ones is a perfectly lispy thing to do.
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by brlewis 8y ago
>if my Fitbit notices that my heart rate has gone below 40 BPM for more than 10 seconds I get a notification, as it is almost indicative of an attack of Autonomic Dysreflexia. I can honestly say that this home automation system has actua
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by brlewis 8y ago
We don't know how well their watches sell. The headphones+watches number is surely dominated by headphones.
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by brlewis 8y ago
It's a nerd thing. If I see someone's shoe untied I tell them. If I see someone trying to cut their steak with the dull edge of a knife I tell them to flip it over. If I see someone forgetting that this world is big, and being ali
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by brlewis 8y ago
>What about Romeo and Juliet? Do you think fictional depictions of obviously-mistaken suicides will increase suicide? >What about the Bible ( Jesus )? What about Socrates? Do you think examples of convicts who did not resist their dea
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by brlewis 8y ago
>Why should suicide be seen as anti-social? Suicide causes long-term emotional pain for your family and friends. >this is a throwaway account so that I can talk openly about being depressed and suicidal Do you want people who don&#x27
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by brlewis 8y ago
You may be comparing to the C era. Compare nodejs to PHP/Python/Ruby and "2019 performance" makes sense.
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by brlewis 8y ago
In the past year or so, pulling non-spam out of my gmail spam folder has become routine. Previously it was very rare that legitimate mail ended up in my spam folder, including personal mail from my father from an email address he's bee
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by brlewis 8y ago
I bet the frame busting is deliberate. As a consumer I prefer seeing the Stripe padlock on the current page...a reason this commenter gives for preferring paypal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19741689
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by brlewis 8y ago
Concurrency plus mutability is hard. And idiomatic Java works by mutating state. A language where immutability is idiomatic can be appealing even to somebody who knows that java.util.concurrent exists and has a handy reference to the releva
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by brlewis 8y ago
One big reason why running on the JVM was a success factor for Clojure was that in Java, concurrency is hard.
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by brlewis 8y ago
It has always been a compiler. The REPL works by compiling expressions when you type them.
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by brlewis 8y ago
Whose law? In the U.S. there's a term called "party" for whoever's suing or being sued. It can be a person or a combination of parties. Three people can be sued without collectively being a human being. Also in the U.S.,
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by brlewis 8y ago
Disclosure: #FitbitEmployee but I don't speak for Fitbit. Any Fitbit with heart rate will give you maximum acccuracy according to https://www.wareable.com/fitbit/fitbit-sleep-tracking-defini... Heart rate is key t
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by brlewis 8y ago
> I don’t understand why we can’t celebrate our differences instead of expecting women to fit in to men sized roles. Who's asking you to "expect" anything? I think if you assess people's abilities individually everybo
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by brlewis 8y ago
"(npx comes with npm 5.2+ and higher, see instructions for older npm versions)" To me it seems obvious that you use npx unless you're stuck with an older npm version, or you're already using yarn.
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by brlewis 8y ago
Information doesn't become proprietary just by having value. Inventions, creative work, trademarks... only these are treated as property.
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by brlewis 8y ago
That's true if by "official documentation" you mean the Google search result page. Google Search Features gives a summary box that's as ambiguous as you describe. Click through to the actual page, though, and you get a s
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by brlewis 8y ago
You should stop using HN. I can tell that 4 hours ago you were awake, using your computer, not taking steps. Are you really comfortable with this loss of privacy?
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by brlewis 8y ago
I'm a #FitbitEmployee but don't speak for Fitbit. The advantage of the device is that it doesn't interrupt you if you've already taken 250 steps that hour. I take it you own a smartphone based on this previous comment:
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by brlewis 8y ago
"Dark pattern" has a more specific meaning than it seems like you're using here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern
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by brlewis 8y ago
You also like the package bind-key EDIT oh, included with use-package. I'm going to use it now along with your zoom bindings. Thanks.
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by brlewis 8y ago
Is the lost focus for the work you do as part of the job you described https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18400859 ?
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by brlewis 8y ago
What competitor would you recommend for public transit directions?

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