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by dguo 8y ago
The rule reminds me of the hiring mentality of "it's worse to make a bad hire than to filter out a good hire." There are so many books available to me that I do use Goodreads ratings as one heuristic for choosing what to read
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by dguo 8y ago
I purchased tickets on the AirAsia website recently, and I am confident that at least on Firefox, their date picker for the passenger's date of birth has an off by one bug. At least in my case, customer support was able to change the d
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by dguo 8y ago
You don't have to add a header image, but doing it no matter what seems to be the general thinking on Medium, presumably to get people's attention. See freeCodeCamp's guide on writing for them: https://medium.freec
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by dguo 8y ago
Even worse, the workaround of embedding a GitHub gist has a strange limitation of not being able to specify a particular file in the gist. So each code block needs to be a separate gist: https://stackoverflow.com/q/4080
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by dguo 8y ago
If you'd like to donate to the ACLU in a way that lets you easily change/cancel your donations, I recommend using Sublime Fund ( https://sublimefund.org/ ). Disclaimer that I am a founder. We deduct the cost of cred
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by dguo 8y ago
At this point, I use Docker for almost every project that I work on, and one of the reasons is that Docker allows me to create a separate environment for each project. I don't need to learn multiple version managers, and it works equal
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by dguo 8y ago
Seems like a good example of "concentrated benefits versus diffuse costs." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action
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Some places just accept credit card payments. Even with a ~3% surcharge for paying with a credit card, it can easily be worth it, depending on the particular sign up bonus.
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by dguo 8y ago
The story behind Bogle founding Vanguard is one of my favorite business stories and one of my favorite examples of contrarian thinking. https://www.inc.com/magazine/201210/eric-schurenberg/how-i-d... I don&#x
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by dguo 8y ago
I see a lot of mentions of Namecheap in these comments, but I recently discovered another option on tld-list[1]: Porkbun[2]. I don't need much out of a registrar, so price is the main consideration, and Porkbun's renewal prices ar
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by dguo 8y ago
I believe you're thinking of Uber: https://www.percona.com/live/plam16/sessions/relational-data...
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1. I'd use a library or framework that handles the interactive parts, which should make it fast to implement. We have tools to help make other tools. 2. A tool's popularity/usage could be a way to judge when it's worth t
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by dguo 8y ago
I did mention that it could output the equivalent command to teach the user what they can run in the future to bypass the interactive prompt. Point taken, but I don't think it should take that much effort to implement. Some CLI frame
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In the specific example given here of "dbconnect", I'd consider a different approach: incorporating the "how" knowledge into the CLI itself. For example, running the command without any arguments could trigger an in
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by dguo 8y ago
Sounds interesting. The description of WorryFree reminds me of Brave New World.
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by dguo 8y ago
I used Safari as my primary browser for about a year, mainly because it was easier on the battery. I gave up on it because: 1. I kept running into Safari-only issues on websites. The most memorable one was on the American Express website. I
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by dguo 8y ago
The site doesn't load for me, but a very similar project is Jasonette: https://jasonette.com/ "Native app over JSON markup"
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Nope, the prices are the same on both sites.
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by dguo 8y ago
I've been thinking about the more general problem of feature/solution discoverability lately. Sometimes people will stumble onto solutions, or someone they know will mention them, or they will actually be bothered enough to search
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by dguo 8y ago
For what it's worth (I know you specifically mentioned HN), Lobsters has tags. https://lobste.rs/
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by dguo 8y ago
Even if they haven't caused any obvious crisis, fake images do go viral. It's human nature to trust what you see, and it takes effort to maintain skepticism. Exhibit 1: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/f
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by dguo 8y ago
The Shirky Principle: "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky#Shirky_principle
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Just a heads up to any Helm employees, it looks like the website is running React in development mode. It should be easy to fix: https://reactjs.org/docs/optimizing-performance.html#use-the...
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You can do both! I always remap my caps lock to act as escape when tapped and control when held. I wrote a blog post on how to do it: https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-...
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It looks like he didn't, for the most part: https://github.com/rgrove/rawgit/blob/master/FAQ.md#can-i-do... "It's super nice of you to offer, but I don't need any donations at this ti
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by dguo 8y ago
At least for Urschel, he has a reputation for not being a big spender: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/03/nfls-john-urschel-lived-on-2... He didn't live on a modest $25,000 a year and drive a used car &quo
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by dguo 8y ago
Guido van Rossum actually considered removing lambdas in Python 3. See https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196 Though it didn't happen in the end: https://softwareengineering.stackexcha
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by dguo 8y ago
With the same appreciation, I maintain this website: https://www.jollycode.org/

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