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by ddulaney 4y ago
Just use iframes! But more seriously, you do this in multi-page apps by just having that UI element in every page. Just about any (server-side) templating system lets you do that easily.
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Unfortunately, it's also C++ code. Most of the weakest parts of C++ come from its close association with C. When asking why some people like Rust over C++, I think not enough weight is given here: Rust got to not worry about decades
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by ddulaney 4y ago
It's better than it was at the worst of the pandemic, and the used market has cooled off a lot. At this point you're into regular market timing questions.
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by ddulaney 4y ago
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.ht
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Eh, it's pretty nuanced. Certification, rigor, and lots of other things that software folks associate with "real" engineering aren't actually that different between software and traditional engineering projects. I recomm
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by ddulaney 4y ago
I love royal regalia as much as the next guy, but this is a made-up big number. Treat this as you would a non-liquid startup talking about a huge market cap or when the Trump brand gets valued at whatever it takes to make him a billionaire.
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by ddulaney 4y ago
If you say that Intel MacBook Pro is a different product category from Arm MacBook Pro, then yes, gains are incremental within a product category. The parent is arguing that really, these are the same product category. If you bought, say, a
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by ddulaney 4y ago
A former employer swore by FramingTech: https://www.framingtech.com/ Their super power was that you could ship them a SolidWorks file with assembly steps marked, then they would bag all of the parts by step (i.e. for step 1
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by ddulaney 4y ago
To pick a small part of your comment: I think that retaining developers for a legacy codebase is doable as long as you have strong technical leadership. If I come on board a new team and there's a ton of legacy code, the main question
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Related work: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
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by ddulaney 4y ago
I think Amazon sees unionization activity as a critical risk for them. With a headcount of a million, any increase in cost for them is huge. I suspect they are extremely active in looking for ways to quash these efforts. That will probably
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Depends on the jurisdiction. Where I am (Jefferson County, KY), corrections officers are routinely used as additional back-up during protests or other times when the police feel they need more manpower. They are also routinely hired to work
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by ddulaney 4y ago
> AFAIK no one has definitively settled the matter I think we can be confident that the really definitive work on this subject hasn't happened yet -- thank heaven.
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by ddulaney 4y ago
I think we’re on the same page here. You are discussing that individual lives are valued at various numbers. I’m pointing out that when deciding whether to implement safety mitigations, the government will in practice use a single value. Fr
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by ddulaney 4y ago
The VSL used in this case is $11.8 million in 2021, the most recent year it’s been adjusted for [0]. $10m is the usual rule-of-thumb. When making policies, governments generally pick a single value. Those “micro” VSL choices are one way gov
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by ddulaney 4y ago
You might consider a “source available” model a la SQLite. The maintainers there chose to make the code open and freely usable, and you’re welcome to fork it and use it for whatever you want, but they won’t take contributions back. It might
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by ddulaney 4y ago
I find the code-based drawing tools to be a little finicky for my taste, and the compilation pipelines turn into a real pain if you want to, say, embed a .png in a markdown file and just have it display in your Git web interface of choice (
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by ddulaney 4y ago
I've been surprised at how widely set up these programs are. They must have some models that they show retail CEOs that's highly compelling. (I assume that model includes sales going up and to the right.) But the costs seem insane
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Does ninja fit your needs? It’s available on just about all of the Linux distros and it’s extremely fast with very few bells and whistles. The language is (for better or worse) designed to be generated by a higher-level tool, so it strips o
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Sorry for the wall of text. I found your question super valuable for crystallizing my thoughts. TL;DR: Abstract names are good when your scope is poorly defined and hopefully your functions aren't like that. If they are, maybe consider
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Software names and component names can be really hard to change though, especially because those names tend to leak into the public API. When my company got acquired, they rebranded our C++ library, but to this day the old software name per
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by ddulaney 4y ago
I like that a lot. Judging from the criteria (in my extremely limited French) it’s a measure of effort rather than outcome, but honestly effort is all we can really ask for.
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Hard to imagine this working, even in a perfect world. Set aside regulatory capture and corruption and politicking and pretend that everybody does a genuine best-effort attempt to be honest. It's extremely hard to know ahead of time wh
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by ddulaney 4y ago
That sounds really frustrating. What I’ve found is that kind of behavior really depends on what gym you go to — in my experience, a gym is kinda like a bar in that you have to like the mood or else it’s time to move on, and sometimes the mo
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Hmm... Hard to see where that gets mainstreamed from. If it was coming, you'd expect to see it now in fringe groups. Most of the "fringy" belief systems I'm aware of either go the other way with a radical rejection of te
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by ddulaney 4y ago
N is one of my favorite platformers of all time. Happily, it's still around and doesn't require any Flash hacks! https://www.thewayoftheninja.org/n.html Do you know if there's been any progress on preserving
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Interesting that polling data is different from State Department issuance data. I wonder what the difference is? https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/about-us/reports-...
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Closer to 45 or 50% of Americans. 152 million valid passports in 2022 [0] vs 333 million people[1], of which ~93% are citizens [2]. The “Americans don’t have passports” idea seems to mostly be a holdover from the early 2000’s [3]. [0]: htt
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Eh, having worked with both systems, I'd say they're roughly equally impenetrable. For sure, the registry sucks. But at least it's uniform and scriptable. Once you know what needs to be changed, you can write a .reg file and
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Sodium and sulphur are very cheap and easy to get, but not because of this. Sulphur is a byproduct of lots of different industrial processes, usually oil refining. Sodium is most commonly extracted from seawater. Frequency of elements in Ea

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