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by delish 3y ago
For the record, the Dilbert comic[0] whence "here's a nickel, kid" mentions Unix, not Linux. macOS is a certified Unix. Accordingly, Macs c/o Unix have been used to perform real work for decades. Even so Don Norman, Appl
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by delish 3y ago
>But they do need to expand to feed the monster. Take that as given, it still doesn't explain why, among all business opportunities, Apple picked 1 An area they had little experience in 2 That already serves its customers well 3 Tha
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by delish 3y ago
I don't know the source for the above stat, but for another frequently-mentioned one, "40% of Americans can't cover a $400 unexpected expense" it looks like the fed accounted for that: >When faced with a hypothetical
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by delish 3y ago
https://archive.ph/y77f8
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by delish 4y ago
Irrelevant compliment: I'm impressed by your idea and execution of gitbook-as-blog! (Or if your gitbook is your homepage and your substack is your blog, gitbook-as-homepage.) Nice taxonomies, information-dense: https://www.b
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by delish 4y ago
The commenter probably meant this coincident submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32936581 That they both involve Saturns delights and confounds!
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by delish 4y ago
Stylitics | Clojure Software Engineer | Full-time | Remote, East Coast or US-timezones preferred, NYC HQ | https://www.stylitics.com Stylitics is a fast-growing retail B2B SaaS company with HQ in New York City & a global rem
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by delish 5y ago
Is clojure the newest popular-language-you-can-get-a-job-in? It's initial release was 2007. Rust (2010) (edit Kotlin (2011) perhaps), but point being there aren't many newer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time
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by delish 5y ago
Stylitics | Clojure and ClojureScript Engineers of all stripes; Data Engineer (Clojure experience is a plus); More | Full-time | Remote (U.S. timezones preferred but not required), NYC HQ | https://www.stylitics.com Stylitics i
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by delish 5y ago
Forgot to mention: the customer success engineer role is indeed remote (as is the SWE job); I'll update the job listing on our site.
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by delish 5y ago
Stylitics | Software Engineer and Customer Success Engineer | New York, NY | REMOTE (US timezones preferred) | https://stylitics.com Stylitics is the leading visual outfitting and styling solution for the world’s top retailers a
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by delish 6y ago
Hiring fogus to work on Clojure sounds great to me. Two thoughts: - I'd love to know if this was enabled by Nubank's purchase of Cognitect. It's none of my business; I'm just curious. - As an enjoyer of the history of pr
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by delish 6y ago
From the Verizon link you posted: Lowest plan: "In times of congestion, your data may be temporarily slower than other traffic." Upper plans: "Get access to 50GB of 4G LTE premium data per month. ... . In times of congestion,
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by delish 6y ago
I did a google image search for 'facebook revenue', 'google revenue', 'apple revenue' etc. I saw the same thing for each: exponential growth, sustained for years. Google in particular surprised me because I &qu
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by delish 6y ago
As the article says, we shouldn't have the norm, "the data matters unless we already agree with the conclusion."
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by delish 7y ago
Agreed. I'm not an electrical engineer, but I'm curious: Isn't it inherently harder to cool a single turbo'ing core the smaller the core is? Say a core is 1mm by 1mm, and generates 45W of heat in that area, then say it&#
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by delish 7y ago
If "waste" is "many organizations making the same emoji," and if the alternative is a standards committee, I think standards committees are hit or miss. I'm fine with organizations doing it themselves.
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by delish 7y ago
> If someone has ingested alcohol and it's not yet metabolized I don't want them driving. It's irresponsible, full stop. Some would say we put discretion in the legal system to account for incomplete empirical knowledge.
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by delish 7y ago
GP said "x86 dominance" not Intel x86 dominance, for what it's worth. AMD64 is x86-64.
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by delish 7y ago
Not quite to disagree with your main point: > because it was just a supporting detail for the point they wanted to make anyway. The people who make arguments whose evidence is just a supporting detail for the point they wanted to make an
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by delish 7y ago
One of the debates I'm surprised to have with my friends is: some of them will parrot Gladwell-style advice (truisms that claim to come from science). I will say, "That didn't replicate." They'll say, "Well it&
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by delish 7y ago
I read the article once and thought, "So at Box a senior staff SWE is differentiated from a senior SWE by mentoring others, and in so doing, has a greater impact. And senior staff is still in the technical track, not the management tra
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by delish 7y ago
> How the title changed from meaning "Generic Staff Member" in the 90s to "Above Senior" today, I have no idea. Indeed. I'm also curious about the change in identification over time.
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by delish 7y ago
I have a leather wallet. What material should my wallet be made of? Apple's page says: Store your titanium Apple Card in a wallet, pocket, or bag made of soft materials. What is soft wallet material other than leather?
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by delish 7y ago
Agreeing with you: I'm only familiar with Idris insofar as I've watched talks on it, but my recollection is that its implementation inference is a search across pre-listed implementations. Edwin Brady says that that's surpris
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by delish 7y ago
I agree with the conclusion, that what we call homoiconicity is a scalar, not a boolean. And I agree both in this case and in general that people should talk about languages more directly (“the syntax is easy to parse”, “the semantics of th
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by delish 7y ago
"Hits" and "misses" should be thought of differently. Hits sell zillions and make people happy. Misses like the Apple Hi-Fi sell poorly because nobody wants them. So in the aggregate, there's far more good done when
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by delish 7y ago
For anyone else who was confused by: > A USB 3.0 capable USB-B plug was physically larger than a 2.0 plug and would not fit into a USB 2.0-only receptacle. recall that it's this USB-hubby one: https://www.amazon.com/
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by delish 7y ago
Indeed. I believe you can't post some/most emoji in hacker news. I'm glad hn disallows this. I don't have a source for it though. apparently some emoji are allowed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18
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by delish 7y ago
Where do you buy SD cards?

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