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by chis 4y ago
Only facts here. I think most large codebases eventually see type hints drift away from reality as individual contributors are more incentivized to hack in `Any` types to make things compile instead of typing every line properly. This is
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by chis 5y ago
I've never heard anyone describe the implicit "negative short" all renters have for housing but that totally makes sense. I wonder what the takeaway is for someone who isn't interested in buying a house soon - maybe ind
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by chis 5y ago
I love this site. My favorite page is https://senseis.xmp.net/?ThePowerOfTheB2Bomber , such classic old-school internet humor. "The secret of the B2 Bomber is of course that it contains not less than two empty tri
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by chis 5y ago
It seems like this design will make it very difficult to design cases. On most phones with camera bumps, the case ends up sitting flush with the bump and has a hole for it. Here the case would either have to go over the bump (adding thick
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by chis 5y ago
I think it's something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI__qNx8Gdk Track both eyes, and then project an image to each eye based on its image in the room. The part I don't really understand is how it's p
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by chis 5y ago
I thought the problem with multiple wings is that the first one pushes air downward (to induce lift), and then the proceeding wings get caught in the downdraft. Just looking up pictures of planes with multiple wings, it seems like it'
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by chis 6y ago
real talk can any facebook employees remind me how to get to the IRC chats
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by chis 6y ago
Honestly I went at the grille with an electric toothbrush for a while and that fixed it.
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by chis 7y ago
It probably works the other way around. Amazon is incentivized to not compete with their customers because they’re already collecting rent on them thru AWS. Why drive your competitor out of business if they already pay you yearly fees? And
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by chis 7y ago
My understanding is that this budget is just a bargaining tactic. Note that it includes huge boosts to defense spending, 8 billion for a border wall, and cuts to every agency that democrats like. http://www.ncsl.org/ncsl-in-
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by chis 8y ago
This comment is totally unrelated to the article.
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by chis 8y ago
Amazon has an internal git which is pretty heavily modified for use at their scale. It combines Git and package/version control into one application that works pretty well.
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by chis 8y ago
This gives some perspective. Google buying GitHub would’ve been a tragedy. In fact, I can’t think of a single megacorporation I’d rather have running GitHub than Microsoft in 2018. Still a shame they couldn’t stay independent though.
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by chis 8y ago
Hey op your andrewkelley.me/donate link is broken! might wanna look into that.
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by chis 8y ago
It’s cool that there are alternatives, but github is still the only one providing a search engine over billions of lines of modern code. It’s an irreplaceable software development tool and I hope Microsoft treats it well.
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by chis 8y ago
It already does that, but now after 7 days it won’t even open a data connection to check if the computer is trusted. This also removes the last obvious channel for exploits. Sometimes there have been jailbreaks/unlocks which just need
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by chis 8y ago
In 1944, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern proved that any non-zero-sum game for n players is equivalent to a zero-sum game with n + 1 players; the (n + 1)th player representing the global profit or loss. https://en.wikiped
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by chis 9y ago
This article is arguably fake news. To support their claim they cite a few tweets and one line from a NYTimes article which is barely related. I love Hacker News but lately this place has had a bit of a singular focus... It seems to me th
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by chis 9y ago
This is scary. I always assumed that the "access contacts" permission was read-only, but I guess it's not. Just another thing to be paranoid about in modern life.
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by chis 9y ago
David Roberts When you curtail the coal plant, though, you still have the fuel. You’re not wasting it. Paul Denholm But what fraction of the LCOE [levelized cost of energy] of a mine-mouth coal plant is the fuel? It’s a small fraction. The
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by chis 9y ago
Wirecutter was since bought by the New York Times, which gives a lot more journalistic credibility IMO.
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by chis 9y ago
Are you targeting Anvil as a competitor to Django/Ruby on Rails? I'd love to find something better than Django, but closed-source + small community + the pricing model all suggest that I'm not quite the demographic. I feel l
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by chis 9y ago
An interesting decision. I guess they’re playing it safe but it’s hard to see how reddit could be held liable for people using their site to exchange beer.
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by chis 9y ago
This is a reasonable application, but AI-powered price discrimination definitely raises some ethical questions. What if we find that one ethnic group is being charged more for a product? That would certainly be illegal for a traditional st
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by chis 9y ago
I used this store every day over the summer when I worked in this building. Don't underestimate the reduced friction of cashier-less shopping: I went to that store way more often than the alternatives. I was able to get in and out of
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by chis 9y ago
I thought the number of miners is supposed to be equal to the expected value of the coin. If there’s profit to be made, more miners would open up shop to capture the marginal benefit. So I guess China thinks that bitcoin will ultimately be
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by chis 9y ago
My theory is that they lag when logging people in and sending the questions over. Seems like streaming video is a solved problem, but they’re struggling to scale their custom logic governing the trivia.
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by chis 9y ago
Meta: the hackernews community is clearly fixated on some topics and will always upvote articles attacking FaceBook, Tesla, Bitcoin, social justice, Trump, and maybe a few others. A lot of the submissions are low effort and beat out more in
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by chis 9y ago
I’m a big fan of Gitkraken. Great for doing common actions in one click, and graphically viewing history. It’s crazy how negatively people judge me for using it though. It’s like telling someone I prefer Microsoft Word as my IDE.
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by chis 9y ago
I agree. If your options are to apply to 20 jobs with blank cover letters, or apply to 4 jobs with custom letters, it’s obvious which one has a better chance of working out.

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