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Show HN: World Flavor Atlas. Radzikowski and Chen's food embeddings in 3D(tomacco.github.io)
2 points by drinkcocacola 4mo ago|0 comments
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by drinkcocacola 1y ago
Java is an amazing language, but about 4 years ago I moved to Kotlin (back-end): It has all the powerful Java features but it is way simpler to write and also nullability is embedded in the language (no more @NonNull @NotNull Optional<T&
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by drinkcocacola 1y ago
I see a mismatch between the library API `filter` vs the supported operator `| SORT rating desc"`. You could use the API to your advantage by separating concerns: add a new `.sort("fieldName")` method. ``` const recentGoodMov
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by drinkcocacola 2y ago
It is indeed annoying. For Kotlin, its advantage is that it had the nullability concept from its inception. For Java, they need to make sure previous code behaviour does not change, meaning that they need to add an additional marker to the
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by drinkcocacola 4y ago
The first thing they taught me in programming in uni was: "Divide and conquer". It took me some time to truly understand what that meant in terms of programming. I remember that when starting a software project, I always started t
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by drinkcocacola 4y ago
I used to work for a mobile analytics company, and HLL made things SO much easier and fast that at the time we changed all our queries to be based on HLL. At the time, the ability of being able to sum uniques was like black magic, and still
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by drinkcocacola 5y ago
I'll strongly suggest changing the approach from character input to phonetic input like the stenotype machines. Creating a nice set of rules prioritising writing speed is of course no easy task, however I think it is the only viable wa
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by drinkcocacola 5y ago
I also feel this effort is completely pointless. Java for instance has 52 reserved words. 52!!! the complexity of programming does not lie in the meaning of just 52 english words. That's actually the easiest part. As you get better you
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by drinkcocacola 6y ago
If I were a mobile phone manufacturing company, I won't call 30% of European market a "tiny portion".
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by drinkcocacola 6y ago
17.7%* https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=pop+india+%2F+world+po... but still...
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by drinkcocacola 6y ago
Absolutely. Think about iOS or Android (native) development. Sure, the ecosystem is quite big, however you do not have the level of flexibility that the web has. You are limited not only in terms of languages, but also certain architectural
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by drinkcocacola 6y ago
Risk. Outsourcing all the manufacturing process has several a lot of uncertainty that they need to start figuring out. By the time they decide to manufacture their flagship chips, all the uncertainty will be already in the past lowering a l
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by drinkcocacola 6y ago
Absolutely agree. @bbobgravity is trying to create a sort of heuristic rule that simply does not work.
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by drinkcocacola 6y ago
I usually use mailinator.com for this purpose. In the past I found other similar services through Google search, but certainly didn't find yours. Probably working on your website SEO will increase your organic sign-ups. One thing I lov
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by drinkcocacola 6y ago
Absolutely, I know my odds of failing are above 95% but also know that the odds of learning and having fun is 100%
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Ask HN: I'm quitting my job, will create a game – any advice?
79 points by drinkcocacola 6y ago|114 comments
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by drinkcocacola 6y ago
Objective-C Block syntax. That made me a heavy user of http://fuckingblocksyntax.com
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by drinkcocacola 6y ago
"Moving the camera" vs "Dragging the document" Many years ago, when I was teachin my mother how to use the computer, I noticed something that I recalled the day Apple introduced the "Natural" Scroll thing. She
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by drinkcocacola 6y ago
The attention to detail is so high that the screenshots in the website are not even proportionally scaled. Just no.
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by drinkcocacola 6y ago
My mom is unable to pronounce "Netflix" correctly (Spanish is her mother language), she always said something like "nesflis". So yeah, years ago I bought nesflis.com for her.
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by drinkcocacola 6y ago
Well, I've been following numbers for the last two months in different countries from different sources. My initial best estimations were that the fatality rate was about 0.77% given the numbers in South Korea (high number of tests). O
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by drinkcocacola 7y ago
Safari because the integration with iCloud Keychain, Apple Pay, and its ability to show videos "Picture in Picture" in the Mac from sites such as YouTube. At work I use also Safari, but 40% of the time I use Chrome because the Saf
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by drinkcocacola 7y ago
Motivation is shit, discipline is the only thing that matters in this life. "discipline, sooner or later, will overcome intelligence" In my country (and actually, in many of western countries), kids are not congratulated because t
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Ask HN: I love my work. I want to quit
3 points by drinkcocacola 8y ago|6 comments