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901.
by dusted 4y ago
What even are financial wellness tools ?
902.
by dusted 4y ago
I've heard people referring to code as "codes" which seems silly to me for some reason.. I kind of dislike both terms, "codes" seems to refer to each individual statement in isolation, which makes zero sense at all.
903.
by dusted 4y ago
Fran has done a really valuable job in collecting, and digitizing many old films. Unfortunately, the youtube algorithm has required her to slaugther the audio on many of them due to copyright issues.
904.
by dusted 4y ago
My job title is [software] engineer, but I will proudly refer to myself as a programmer. I program computers. It is my perspective that engineering is formal training and application thereof, while programming is a more fluid and artful cra
905.
Ask HN: Europe: Are you preparing for electrical blackouts, how?
2 points by dusted 4y ago|0 comments
906.
by dusted 4y ago
that is so amazing! Next up it puts a skeleton in them and animate :o
907.
by dusted 4y ago
yea, we went from being burned by trying to optimize before we knew the problem, to being burned by not optimizing because we knew the problem but didn't optimize.
908.
by dusted 4y ago
In my experience, pretty close to constantly working on whatever has been prioritized from above and needing actively to push back and have exceptionally good arguments for improving things that are not in scope.
909.
by dusted 4y ago
> Computers are fast enough that it's worth not spending hours optimising for every allocation when you're displaying half a dozen strings on screen, And this attitude is what gives us such gems as the one mentioned in the OP a
910.
by dusted 4y ago
Certainly, I see I'm coming across as bashing the devs, that's not my intention.. It is my personal experience that cost of implementation is almost always the main restraint, it sounds rational when we put it this way.. Don'
911.
by dusted 4y ago
Having listened to the samples they provide, I'll argue that the lifespan is about 0 plays, they're basically DOA.
912.
by dusted 4y ago
I hope they open up the hardware so we can at least hack on the controller that we bought..
913.
by dusted 4y ago
Absolutely, from a local perspective, decisions (or lack thereof) in regards to performance and efficiency make perfect sense, they simply shift the cost to the customer.. Pay less for development at the cost of performance which the custom
914.
by dusted 4y ago
But it's so bad... It's so strictly in the "toy" category it's not even funny.. Somehow this fits well with teenageengineerings line of very overpriced products with a tremendously high focus on novelty and high mar
915.
by dusted 4y ago
This kind of idiocracy reminds me of the GTA json thing.. It's kind of hard to attribute these things to ignorance, but there's been a notable shift in perception among developers.. It used to always be about "tricking"
916.
by dusted 4y ago
Yeah, I remember the slight sadness I felt when I discovered that the "cool computer sound" was actually just from the hard-drive, and not radiating from the magic going on in the cyberspace inside the circuits ^_^
917.
by dusted 4y ago
yeah, and large arrays of disks spinning just gave this awe-inspiring choir, it felt like massive computation was going on.. even though the silly block of iron basically did nothing :D
918.
by dusted 4y ago
embrace and crush much ?
919.
by dusted 4y ago
I guess the Russians never really got over having to leave Bornholm, cue the bad excuses for having to get close to it again :P
920.
by dusted 4y ago
I've been called an excitable simpleton in many different ways, but this one is new ;) I read it the first time today, In my opinion it was a pleasurable read, well written, witty and, clearly demonstrating a certain idea.
921.
by dusted 4y ago
This is the first time I saw it, but to be honest, it was referenced by another article which I did read on HN, so it's possible that the author of that article previously found it via HN.
922.
Harrison Bergeron (1961)(archive.org)
240 points by dusted 4y ago|270 comments
923.
by dusted 4y ago
I recalled having a bit of an argument with IT at a previous position, I wanted netcat installed, they told me no, since they didn't have any good arguments they told me it hadn't been maintained, I told them it was because it was
924.
by dusted 4y ago
I don't even think we there need to be an excuse for the fact that there are less X in Y.. Maybe an explanation would suffice? My pov, not that it matters: I went to public school, roughly 50% of what looked superficially to be female
925.
by dusted 4y ago
Where I live, there is a mandatory yearly wage negotiation, I've heard that Canada is a first tier country and assume it has one as well. I'd most certainly take it up at that conversation, and argue as you do here, that you'
926.
by dusted 4y ago
I agree with the identification of these two attitudes, but I'd like to add they they are not mutually exclusive, or that one is strictly always more correct than the other. In a slightly different light, I'd call the first attitu
927.
by dusted 4y ago
Yea, I have some macros cysin and cycos that does that, I just call them cycles instead of turns, but it's the same idea.. ofc internally those are still stupid and just multiply by tau..
928.
by dusted 4y ago
I don't, not yet at least. Frameworks come and go. Specializing is commitment that things don't change, or at least that they change organically enough that your skills can be reapplied. I'm a software developer, I make compu
929.
by dusted 4y ago
I came here to write this.. Yeah, I'd have thought that dual-calculator thing was brilliant if I hadn't turned to RPN.
930.
by dusted 4y ago
"The current Craigslist site upholds its unmistakable '90s look and feel." <-- Text below screenshots of website that looks nothing like a 90s website :/

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