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by burtonator 4y ago
This is senseless and a huge loss. Bob was a great guy. I met him briefly when he worked at Google. He was just starting to work on Guice and I was skeptical of dependency injection and we talked about it for an hour. I went home and did a
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Ask HN: Best design for an Alexa-like voice powered ChatGPT
1 points by burtonator 4y ago|0 comments
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by burtonator 4y ago
I wish we would just refuse to recycle to push for reuse. Reuse could actually work. If we were to standardize on thicker plastics, that could last longer, we could just have like 10-20 standard container sizes and constantly reuse them.
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by burtonator 4y ago
GraphQL or not... cargo cult explains a lot of what happens in tech. Basically, "Google does X so my smaller company should do X too." That's just VERY often not the case.
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Ask HN: What do you think of GraphQL?
14 points by burtonator 4y ago|9 comments
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by burtonator 4y ago
The R issue is a data cleansing problem too. Data cleansing is something that not many people talk about because it isn't exciting work.
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by burtonator 4y ago
Also, If you look at each layer as just a vector, how the heck do you describe that so that it's easy to understand? I think this might be perpetually difficult to diagnose. Maybe there could be a tool that could show WHY a decision wa
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by burtonator 5y ago
The main problem with FTS isn't the search indexing component it's actually the HTML content parser. There are TONS of projects like Elasticsearch or just raw Lucene that will allow you to parse text and index it. HTML? Not so muc
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by burtonator 5y ago
If the timezone database is updated locally that resolves this issue.
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by burtonator 5y ago
It might if the function is broken but 'time' as you think about it is usually stored referenced at UTC timezone and then converted. Timezones then are stored in a database with the specific zone name and offset. You have to conve
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by burtonator 5y ago
> New support for BroadcastChannel allows tabs, windows, iframes, and Workers from an origin to send messages to each other. This enables experiences like syncing login state for a site across multiple tabs. This is SUPER nice... there a
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by burtonator 5y ago
At what point in time in a company's history is it a good idea for the founder to just pay themselves market rate?
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by burtonator 5y ago
Anyone know what % of papers are submitted with their LaTeX sources?
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Ask HN: What do you do and what's your consulting rate?
98 points by burtonator 5y ago|109 comments
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by burtonator 5y ago
The biggest challenge here is measuring the quality of someone's contributions and adjusting compensation accordingly. Not every commit is worth the same level of compensation. Companies like Google/Amazon have to go through and a
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by burtonator 5y ago
> I would not first describe them that way should they choose to premeditate harm against others. That's why a judge often has to determine if the person is mentally ill or just a criminal. There are plenty of situations where someo
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by burtonator 5y ago
Are these 'points of failure' ? not single points of failure? I assume some of these have redundancy but could fail.
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by burtonator 5y ago
The other reason this is awesome is because domesticated trout/salmon are really sad. When you catch them they just don't look happy. :-/
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by burtonator 5y ago
I want lab grown FISH... I'm a fisherman and LOVE fish and we're ruining the ocean. Are there any firms working on artificial fish? Fish are seriously underrated because we can't really connect with them like we can with dog
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by burtonator 5y ago
This really hits me hard. Dan was the kind of guy you read about and were almost intimidated by his work. Then you met the guy and realized he's just an awesome guy. This just insanely sad. I'm really sick of hearing about my fr
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by burtonator 6y ago
If my children want to work in coal mines I'll be damned if some union is going to take that away from them! /s
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by burtonator 6y ago
I think this is just happening because their SSL cert is invalid. Both Chrome and Firefox give me a deceptive site warning and then Firefox tells me the SSL cert is invalid.
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by burtonator 6y ago
I'm about to get downvoted to oblivion but the solution here is don't sell apps on Linux. People on Linux don't pay for apps. Target a platform like iOS where users are willing to pay for apps. 85% of total app store volume
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by burtonator 6y ago
Let's assume Google was in the wrong here - for the sake of argument. How would it been possible for Google to do this without just taking the API definitions. Could they have just use compiler errors?
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by burtonator 6y ago
I still think it's fascinating that the moon doesn't have any effective rotation. I mean NONE .. what are the odds of that? Additionally, the fact that it's the PERFECT distance from the earth to the moon to perfectly obscure
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by burtonator 6y ago
> I once worked with a guy that looked just like you. He was a normal human with a family. Are you a normal human with a family? This is EXACTLY something an AI would say! As a human I find it very humorous. Very humorous indeed.
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by burtonator 6y ago
This is going to suck... now 2% of my users won't have HTTPS referrers.
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by burtonator 6y ago
So this is is a MAJOR flaw with WebExtension design. Each uses a separate URI scheme. So Chrome uses chrome-extension: Firefox uses firefox-extension: ... etc. which means web extensions for Firefox won't work with Google Firebase beca
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by burtonator 6y ago
Twitter did NOTHING as Trump basically spend the last 4 year inciting a mob on their platform, threatening people, and committing HUNDREDS of violations that would get you and I kicked off. THEN ... when there is a literal armed insurrectio
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Google Cloud is blocking Firebox and Safari extensions(github.com)
2 points by burtonator 6y ago|0 comments

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