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by fergie 3y ago
I hesitate to admit this, since I have a 14 year old account- but this is the first I have ever heard of /lists. I can get to it by appending "/lists" to the url, but I can't see a "lists" link anywhere on
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by fergie 3y ago
At this point its a part of the HN lore...
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by fergie 3y ago
Buying a new bike today feels a bit like buying a Land Rover Defender in 2016. Or even a Seiko 5 today. Yes, its a new product, but its the technology of yesteryear. Its interesting to see the number of ~400cc 4-stroke "standard"
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by fergie 3y ago
I agree that as a programmer who frequently needs to search for long literal strings verbatim, Google has become notably less useful than it used to be. I wonder if there is now a gap in the market for some kind of "literal" searc
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by fergie 3y ago
In the United States, burning banknotes is prohibited under 18 U.S.C. § 333: Mutilation of national bank obligations.
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by fergie 3y ago
To be fair though- that guy definitely has a genuine interest in bikes, and the prices are way lower than for classic cars.
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by fergie 3y ago
Why is the recommended javascript way of doing it var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); rather than var fs = require('fs') // (or the appropriate ES6 incantation) ?
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by fergie 3y ago
I keep on trying to use IDEs and have gone through phases with one IDE or another, but in the end I just keep coming back to Emacs with a GNU Screen in another window.
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by fergie 3y ago
That was an interesting read, but why do Hermes (and React, React Native, etc) still use javascript as a compile target rather than Wasm?
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by fergie 3y ago
It would appear that I am one of the chosen!
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by fergie 3y ago
Can't everybody downvote comments?
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by fergie 3y ago
What is the significance of TreeSitter? Emacs has syntax highlighting already- so how is it an improvement?
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by fergie 3y ago
Mickey Peterson is doing gods work, but it would be great if this book-sized article could have a table of contents.
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by fergie 3y ago
Feels like crappy content marketing because it is cfappy content marketing. Sometimes I miss a downvote option on HN.
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by fergie 3y ago
I met her a few times at Opera in Oslo, and she was truly somebody who embodied the spirit of the utopian promise of the web. A smart and charming woman. Its weird- she suddenly popped into my head the other day having not thought about her
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by fergie 3y ago
"Visual Studio-ification": Any technology that requires Visual Studio to be productive. The classic example would be TypeScript, but you can clearly see nushell's overtures to VS in the linked article. A de facto requirement
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by fergie 3y ago
Nushell is part of the ongoing Visual Studio-ification of software engineering. TypeScript and Powershell are preferences, not standards. If you want to use them, great, but its wrong to say that these have evolved into defacto ways of doin
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by fergie 3y ago
Anecdotally, I am beginning to hear more and more about organisations moving away from high level cloud infrastructure (such as lambda and cloud gateway) and going back to plain old virtual servers (like EC2), or even on-prem. Often the cos
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by fergie 3y ago
Infrastructure state management is a massive opportunity, but I’m not sure that Terraform is the way forward (it should use an existing programming language, state should probably be in git, or even better it should be able to analyse state
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by fergie 3y ago
Wow. I have got to the place in my journey as a software developer that I can actually agree with this statement. Whilst I once dismissed Flash for being being "proprietary", I can now appreciate it as a great democratising force.
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Ukrainian fighters take to electric bikes in the war against Russia(washingtonpost.com)
9 points by fergie 3y ago|0 comments
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The Russian minister who fled the draft to drive trucks in the US(theguardian.com)
7 points by fergie 3y ago|0 comments
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by fergie 3y ago
Sad to see how few commenters here have actually read the article.
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You can sell the BitCoins you don't mine(bloomberg.com)
1 points by fergie 3y ago|1 comments
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by fergie 3y ago
Archive -> https://archive.ph/3h5ZD
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by fergie 3y ago
As a hiring manager, I would say that the job market is still pretty strong for any engineer who can do fizzbuzz on the spot. However, its now much tougher in the tech-adjacent fields such as graphic design, copywriting, and project managem
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by fergie 3y ago
I don't get it- why is this gibberish? (other than perhaps being counter-intuitive- you would expect low gravity to cause high sea level)
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by fergie 3y ago
Its easy to take the piss out of Vice, but the world would be a much poorer and less informed place without it.
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by fergie 3y ago
What does the "F" mean in the comments?
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by fergie 3y ago
"Pedestrian and cyclist fatalities recently hit their highest levels in 40 years" I wonder if the various self driving technologies have anything to do with this?

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