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by crehn 6y ago
How do we ensure Twitter’s censorship is and stays reasonable?
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Ask HN: What’s Going on with Apple Design?
1 points by crehn 6y ago|4 comments
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by crehn 6y ago
How frequent are outages and operational issues with DNA?
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by crehn 6y ago
From a purely UX perspective, there’s a huge difference between “no lines of code” and “a few lines of code”.
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by crehn 6y ago
Totally agree. I sense ML in general can benefit tremendously from buttery-smooth UX, something it has typically lagged behind on. Keep it up Nidhal, you’re doing a tremendous service. Don’t let the snobs get to you.
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by crehn 6y ago
Apple's obsession over small details and creating a delightful UX.
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by crehn 6y ago
Happy someone else echoes my sentiment too, especially when Ruby seems to be beloved by everyone around. So many ways of doing the same thing; unnecessary cognitive burden for both reading and writing.
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by crehn 6y ago
For better or worse, I feel that one "simple" change that would make any project more attractive to newcomers is switching to GitHub for development.
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by crehn 6y ago
So you're just going to mention the recording without sharing it?
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Ask HN: Why Is the Favicon a Dog?
1 points by crehn 6y ago|1 comments
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by crehn 6y ago
A much saner heuristic could use a reasonable range (for some value of reasonable) around the current timestamp to check whether it's also one. The assumption being that logs will be streamed, hence any timestamp will likely refer to s
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by crehn 6y ago
> why support single quoted strings? That just makes parsing harder. And something that a lot of language designs ignore: it makes writing harder and unnecessarily contentious. People will use them inconsistently, which has the usual eff
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by crehn 6y ago
But unfortunately YAML is a complex maximalist mess with a million ways to do the same thing and more ways to shoot yourself in the foot.
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by crehn 6y ago
Some companies (e.g. Amazon) have a separate verification interview to ensure the candidate is the author of the deliverable.
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by crehn 6y ago
After learning Korean to a fluent level (and working there for 3 years), here's some things that come to mind: - Be persistent. Studying languages is often boring, annoying and takes years. Nobody likes memorizing vocabulary. Embrace i
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by crehn 6y ago
And how would such a solution not be immediately thrown out during code review?
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by crehn 6y ago
Even without sideloading, the Google Play Store is so full of trash apps that request dubious permissions and are littered with dark patterns. Not that it doesn't happen on the App Store, but it's significantly worse on Android. I
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by crehn 6y ago
That sounds like a good guideline to be honest. Perhaps not the best-worded one, but gets the point across and avoids becoming another Google Play Store.
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by crehn 6y ago
While we're talking about terrible decisions, can you guess what the following code will print? String s = null; switch (s) { default: System.out.println("Hey"); } Hint: it will throw NullPointerExc
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by crehn 6y ago
On a slight tangent, I'd rather have only checked exceptions, so I know exactly what might throw where. Instead, I have to rely on potentially outdated Javadoc and debugging runtime exceptions in production to find them.
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by crehn 6y ago
What is it about HN that makes it feel much more productive than other similar sites?
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by crehn 6y ago
Out of curiosity, how does one “divert power”?
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by crehn 6y ago
Well it does keep things simple, and as a side effect removes the cognitive burden of choosing a certain argument style (for both the developer and user).
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by crehn 6y ago
Or anyone that might want to watch without sound, also falls within “accessibility”.
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by crehn 6y ago
I dealt with serious anxiety in high school and accidentally learned that just forcing myself to breathe slower made everything much calmer. No need to overthink any special technique. Just breathe slow, and try not to breathe too shallow.
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by crehn 6y ago
The less there are dependencies, the better.
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by crehn 7y ago
Fun fact: YAML is a superset of JSON. That is, any JSON is also valid YAML. YAML is a complex and unintuitive mess that allows doing every thing in a million ways. I’m surprised it ever got so much traction. TOML is a breath of fresh air ne
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by crehn 7y ago
I wish the whole experience wasn’t so laggy (on 2020 iPad Pro).
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by crehn 7y ago
For those curious, here it is in action: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wtMlEcf8x6Q
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by crehn 7y ago
Regarding (1), I think the parent still has a point. Too many choices can be stressful to the user. How do you expect users to interact or choose between "7 minute version" and "9 minute version"? Are they expected to ke

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