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by datpuz 4y ago
I had to write a little VB to maintain a legacy codebase at my first job. VB is long before my time, but at least from my perspective at that time, it was just a gross language to me. Who on Earth would rather have to end a function block b
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by datpuz 4y ago
Meanwhile, spotter drones are getting smaller and more stealthy. How do you detect, much less shoot down, a drone the size of a small bird or even an insect?
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by datpuz 7y ago
Why is the moon vs. planet distinction important?
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by datpuz 7y ago
Odds are slim that such a plague would kill every last person, even if everyone were to become infected.
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by datpuz 7y ago
If you actually owned a Tesla, I promise you wouldn't miss CarPlay. This is a complaint that seems to mainly be propagated by non-Tesla owners.
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by datpuz 7y ago
I guess just index funds
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by datpuz 7y ago
I asked this in a similar thread a couple of weeks ago, but I feel like the sentiment is a lot more pessimistic today than it was then. Anyway, I've been holding way too much cash for the last two years in anticipation of a recession.
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by datpuz 7y ago
I've only been holding out since ~2017, but I definitely see your point. I know I'm probably being irrational by continuing to hold out, and I'm suffering a bit from the sunk cost fallacy. I guess I'm irrationally avoidi
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by datpuz 7y ago
To perform better, do you think buying in now when you're already sitting on cash would be a smart move? Assuming a recession hits in the next two years, and I'm able to invest at a considerable discount, wouldn't it be bette
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by datpuz 7y ago
I'm in this boat. I've had too much cash sitting in a money market account for a couple of years in anticipation of a recession. I feel like the corporate tax cuts might have kicked the can down the road a little. It's a weir
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by datpuz 7y ago
This would have appealed to me before building a rather large side project with Google Cloud's proprietary Firestore database. There are loads of drawbacks that slowly become apparent the more I build and the deeper I dig myself into t
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by datpuz 7y ago
I saw a fascinating interview with Kevin Hines, a guy who attempted suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, and lived. He said he immediately regretted it after he jumped. It seems like there is something about there being no turning
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by datpuz 7y ago
> She imagines, for example, her future grandchild asking her why people called each other “binch.” “How could you explain it?” she asks rhetorically. It's not that hard to explain "binch." Urban Dictionary managed to do i
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by datpuz 7y ago
I don't feel like my ability to interface with the computer is a major bottleneck for me. If I'm writing code, for example, my typing speed is really not a factor. Even typing this very short comment, I paused several times to thi
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by datpuz 7y ago
I love this. I wonder: would something wonderful like this actually be illegal the US due to the fact that you'd technically be discriminating by hiring only those with dementia?
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by datpuz 7y ago
Considering that Tesla's cars are significantly less likely to flip, significantly less likely to catch fire, slower to burn when they do catch fire, and the safest cars ever tested by the NHTSA ...is it fair to say that the added extr
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by datpuz 7y ago
Glad they listened!
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by datpuz 7y ago
tl;dr: parseInt takes an optional second argument, the radix. It defaults to 10 (so the number is parsed in base 10). Since map() passes in each item in the array as the first argument, and the index as the second, you're parsing each
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by datpuz 7y ago
There's also more to it than checking process.platform: 'process.platform === 'win32' || /^(msys|cygwin)$/.test(process.env.OSTYPE)
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by datpuz 7y ago
I'd argue that having the function process.isWindows() would be a bad design. You'd then need to add process.isMacOS(), process.isLinux(), etc. You can do a switch statement on process.platform.
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by datpuz 7y ago
Just poking fun, but I like how the post says "Many features that required frameworks are now standard" then introduces a... new framework!
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by datpuz 8y ago
I'm getting doing Georgia Tech's online CS master's program.
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by datpuz 8y ago
Sounds like they're "moving fast and breaking things"
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by datpuz 8y ago
Cool! If I were more bored, I'd be interested to see how correlated these two data points are: GDP per capita, number of countries that allow no visa or visa on arrival Just playing with the input, I suspect there would be a strong cor
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by datpuz 8y ago
Thank you!
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by datpuz 8y ago
My girlfriend is a doctor in her last year of her medical fellowship on a J-1 visa. She's looking for a job in a medically under-served area but not having a lot of luck. Is there any other way for her not to have to go back to India f
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by datpuz 8y ago
You have heard wrong.
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by datpuz 8y ago
The ironic thing is that Hacker News' sorting algorithm puts your site on the front page, while your own does not. I like it though :)
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by datpuz 8y ago
My guess is that he has some kind of glove on.
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Ask HN: Can .NET win back developers?
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