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by dack 10y ago
I know there's a million ways to search HN jobs, but I built this because I didn't want to keep the console window open and type "query('x')" to filter. There are probably bugs - but from my tests it works as
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Show HN: Search HN Jobs bookmarklet
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by dack 10y ago
Hackage is like npm. Anyone can put something up there, but people expect them to be depended on for production stuff. There is another thing called "stackage" - it's a curated set of packages from hackage that are known to w
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by dack 10y ago
I mean, we don't rely on pixels because we usually care more about behavior than we do the actual design. It's too brittle to rely on exact pixel locations in the face of added features and small design tweaks. Maybe it makes sen
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by dack 10y ago
They aren't editing links that already have an affiliate though, it only adds an affiliate if the link doesn't already have one.
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by dack 10y ago
but can a function which is basically "name -> gender" really be honest with its users? It's claiming something that would require much more information to predict with any reasonable chance of success (even excluding lgbt
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by dack 10y ago
I like the description of graham's number (by graham) using the up-arrow notation https://youtu.be/GuigptwlVHo?t=31
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by dack 10y ago
not only could you enumerate all images, you can also enumerate all books. the library of babel does this and youre looking at the particular page where this exact paragraph is written, for hacker news by dackerman, no less. https:/&#
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by dack 10y ago
especially considering all go boards exist _within_ the universe!
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by dack 10y ago
I've never personally experienced something like affirmative action holding me back, and I'm not advocating people blame that system. I am all for taking personal responsibility for _everything_ you have to deal with in life (not
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by dack 10y ago
This is what I was wondering - we'd have to be careful writing a script that happened to traverse into the dropbox folder, because it might try to inflate all the files. It still seems like a cool idea, but I wonder if they have a wor
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by dack 10y ago
Many people have a legitimate problem handling their email and drop things on the floor they wish they didn't. It doesn't sound like you're one of those people, so the article wasn't for you, and that's fine. For me
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by dack 10y ago
You're just talking semantics here - you have a different definition of "read email" and "archive" than the author. The article is just explaining how to process all of your email and take action on the relevant por
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by dack 10y ago
I dunno, after you do the rewrite, then what? If the bureaucrats won't ever let you make incremental fixes/cleanup, then even your rewritten version will eventually rot. I think the idea of building software "the right way, o
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by dack 10y ago
This is pretty neat - does it actually support unknown identifier search though? Like, I can see "if:a===b" as an example, but what if you don't know the variable names? Like "if:<ident>===b" or something?
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by dack 10y ago
Are you saying you disagree with the idea of a secretary at all? I mean, handling mail and communication is one of the main tasks of a secretary. If you're against that because he is making someone do tasks he doesn't want, then I
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by dack 11y ago
I'm pretty sure jschwartzi was kidding :)
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by dack 11y ago
trick's on me, i thought it would be a React application. Cool nevertheless!
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by dack 11y ago
I think we need to think about why people might donate. Picture you use a service, it shows you an image... do you think to pull out your credit card and send them money? Why would you with all the other image services out there? I mean, a
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by dack 11y ago
Which is wrong (and fails) mostly because the startup hasn't spent enough time verifying if a solution really solves a problem, and not that their MVP really required the extra performance.
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by dack 11y ago
I used to be a big proponent of Clojure because of the tooling and solid library support (what you mentioned, but also persistent immutable data structures). However, I never got over the runtime errors that kept cropping up due to a dynam
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by dack 11y ago
Yeah I think there is a very real cost to going the STM route when you can have arbitrary side-effects, so it's a lot harder for that tradeoff to be worth it than in haskell. That's not to say there aren't any downsides to a
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by dack 11y ago
I don't have experience with Drupal, but it says "plan for periodic upgrades of their project to the latest major release (every 6 years or so)". So, even if a new release comes out, you have _literally several years_ to deci
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by dack 11y ago
The problem with bugs is they can have a widely varying complexity... it's a lot harder to turn a profit that way (either the requester pays a lot since it turned out to be hard, or the solver gets a bad deal if it's fixed price).
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by dack 11y ago
There are libraries that reimplement these types of functions using Maybes for the reason you would guess. I think it's mostly a historical artifact at this point.
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by dack 11y ago
Yeah this might be one of the biggest complaints about Meteor, and is definitely valid. It's being worked on actively!
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by dack 11y ago
Have you tried Elm? I always found the default mutability of JavaScript to be somewhat hostile to immutable data structures. Elm is very different - but feels very integrated and the functional nature of the language really makes a lot of
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by dack 11y ago
I just took it to mean he doesn't really value spending his time building a PC when a Mac fulfills his needs. If you truly enjoy building PCs, then it's not bullshit.
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by dack 11y ago
I'm continually surprised that Guidewire is up there near the top. If you look at the company itself, it's insurance software, yet they've managed to rank above Google and 3rd overall. I'm somewhat sad that the article
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by dack 11y ago
All databases that I know of have settings that allow you to control the consistency of your transactions in the documentation. I don't think it's necessarily the problem that this particular situation is inconsistent - I just thi

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