codemac

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by codemac 6y ago
> I'm not sure how many tech workers didn't already have some kind of desktop computing arrangement at home but I have to imagine it's a miniscule number. Once again, in SV/NYC/etc very few due to real estate cos
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by codemac 6y ago
Where does 84% come from? Would love to see a cited source, so I can understand your point better. Re: health without meat & dairy: B12 and other vitamins missing in vegetables are also missing in our meat, which is why all chicken, p
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by codemac 6y ago
> (which on laptop is done using two finger dragging) How did you determine this difference? I use a mouse with my laptop, because work only gives us laptops.
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by codemac 6y ago
Just use byron's rc shell: if (condition) { statements; } else { do other thing; }
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by codemac 6y ago
Normally coworkers are excited to update and get new features. This time everyone was talking about how much they didn't want to, and how scared they were. Then the bugs and issues were a solid month of sadness, very rough release for
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by codemac 6y ago
Most that I talk to do - but it's similar to how they care about the national debt. There's nothing they can do, they have no realistic expertise or control, and they vote with what - dollars once every phone purchase?
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by codemac 6y ago
> Missing premium features like an Aluminium case. Magnesium is a different type of premium for some.
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by codemac 6y ago
This is why it was a founder that complained about the equity/pay problems, rather than any engineer. If they actually rewarded their Waze employees with enough equity, the employees would have pushed much harder to not get acquired an
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by codemac 6y ago
Huh? If we're reading from disk, then we DEFINITELY don't want radix, as then it's almost guaranteed that all time will be dominated by loading pages rather than cpu cache locality being leveraged by linear time algorithms -
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by codemac 6y ago
Sure, but it has the classic problems of the memory/storage required for the sort (minimum double all your keys), and a classic math issue relating to it's speed being O(k*N) and since k = number of bits/digits, N can only be
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by codemac 6y ago
> which is our indication that it pulled more particles out of the air This is not a good indication. The larger black particles are not nearly as harmful to you, and generally just fall to the ground. BlueAir and other vertical filters
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by codemac 6y ago
In this case centralization is the usability, just like AOL centralized internet access options for users? Maybe you're unfamiliar with AOL in the beginning but it was largely a walled garden that happened to have a web browser.
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by codemac 6y ago
Sure, but what about in 1992? How much did you need to understand about TCP/IP when you got AOL? Very little. And what happened when you got online? You could communicate online, suddenly reaching millions and then billions of humans.
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by codemac 6y ago
> The advantage of UBI is that everyone gets it. As opposed to a negative tax rate below some amount? Why would everyone not get that? I guess it just feels like there are two equations that can be made equal so easily: UBI_POLICY(income
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by codemac 6y ago
$$$$$$$$$ Also the wikipedia link you pasted itself has a section on technology, and specifically how it was so much faster (pushed the paper into the ink rather than the ink into the paper).
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by codemac 6y ago
Or who have positive effectiveness when looking solely at their production, but negative effectiveness of the team or company's production?
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by codemac 6y ago
Hypothetically they'd get rid of a lot of welfare programs and just institute a negative tax, which has a smooth curve upwards. More money always means you make more, just maybe not linearly. UBI can do this too - it's not clear t
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by codemac 6y ago
There is very little built in, but this is an advantage. Yes GNU Parallel (that's what you're referring to I assume) can still run under rc, though I'm not sure exactly what makes you think it couldn't!
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by codemac 6y ago
Byron's rc. https://github.com/rakitzis/rc Sane quoting eliminates and a lack of recursive expansion make ssh a breeze. Pattern matching, backquote status, and pipe status simplification are all incredibly easy to
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by codemac 6y ago
I've found that input methods & speed decide how "consumptive" a device is. Great example are tablets are a pita to type on for me, so I can't use them for much other than playing Go and watching youtube. Even search
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by codemac 6y ago
> “footpaths are made for shoes not people”, “cycle lanes are made for bicycles not people” or “rail lines are made for trains not people”. Only one of those literally puts a glass and metal wall between every single person, and I think
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by codemac 6y ago
Well, this year I've met two friends at the store because we were buying similarly weird produce. But it's just a reply about the car making your interaction with your community almost exclusively commercial. I've met far mor
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by codemac 6y ago
I'm not saying it's a cynical commercial racket, that would be silly. What I am saying is that you should have connections with the other people in your community at the shop, not the person hired to interact with you. The relatio
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by codemac 6y ago
> the butcher, and at the fish market, and at the grocery store Those are all just commerce that you commute to, though. As someone who worked in the service industry for years, 99% of the people I met at work (the "regulars",
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by codemac 6y ago
https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ Yes, someone attempted to build a tool that was interesting to them, and ran into DRM related roadblocks. Life is not all or nothing. Even GNU is a a matter of free software improving
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by codemac 6y ago
Matze doesn't seem to be able to reconcile these two conflicting ideas. - "free speech" meaning everything should be published on wildly accessible platforms, including death threats and organizing attacks against individuals
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by codemac 6y ago
Awesome! I didn't realize Puppet was clojure, nor pandora.
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by codemac 6y ago
Right, and Google was using Golang extensively internally - but that doesn't mean it made the impact that docker's use did. I was curious about specific products/projects, seems like you may be able to answer my question. Do
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by codemac 6y ago
Clojure has come up a lot more frequently on HN than in the past. I'm curious if there is a particular larger project that is using clojure that's driving a lot of this? Or particular JVM application like Kafka?
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by codemac 6y ago
Because the term was popularized by Jim Cramer on Mad Money referring to the growth of Facebook, Apple, Netflix & Google back in 2013. $MSFT hadn't really taken off like the others until later that year.

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