fergie

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   by fergie 2y ago

   Going to stick my neck out here. A lot of these "improvements" fall into the following 3 categories: 1) More complexity around issue tracking 2) More complexity around permissions 3) IDE-ness and general visual-studioification of
2. 212.▲
   by fergie 2y ago

   Reminds me of Glumlot
3. 213.▲
   by fergie 2y ago

   I agree- utterly insane. He should be using Emacs.
4. 214.▲
   by fergie 2y ago

   Done something similar. The root issue is that hosted search is much more expensive on AWS than you might expect.
5. 215.▲
   by fergie 2y ago

   This article is an expert-level primer on office politics in big tech masquerading as a primer on delivering software.
6. 216.▲
   by fergie 2y ago

   "Dumb"-smartwatches for kids allow the kid stay in touch and be located, without getting sucked into anything addictive. Quite popular in my 9 year old's class, where the kids are generally "free range" (Scandinavia
7. 217.▲
   by fergie 2y ago

   How scared should we be?
8. 218.▲
   by fergie 2y ago

   A well written article, but it could probably have been like 10% of the length.
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   by fergie 2y ago

   Is Factorio HNs favourite game or is it Civ V?
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    by fergie 2y ago

    For those who didn't read the whole article, the conclusion is -> " As it stands, as a first generation product that’s heavy, very expensive, and has a very underbaked OS and app ecosystem, I have a tough time recommending anyo
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    by fergie 2y ago

    Articles about airship dreambuilding have been a mainstay of HN and Reddit since the early days. The tech has always been super inspiring, yet "just around the corner". It would be almost sad to see them actually become a reality.
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    by fergie 2y ago

    Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems to add very little. Please correct me if I am missing something. 1) Struts are encouraging a coding style that restricts what you can do. This inflexibility is then negated by adding unsafe b
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    by fergie 2y ago

    Every tech company markets their magical glasses the wrong way: AR is a super exciting opportunity for people who spend their day looking at complicated stuff in real life- mechanics, plumbers, electricians, architects, builders, steel fabr
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    by fergie 2y ago

    Lots of good suggestions here, but I feel that on the rare occasions when you see 11-year olds actually making games, they are generally in Minecraft or Roblox.
15. 225.▲
    by fergie 2y ago

    Its almost as if some companies cough Elastic cough want the upsides of being open source without having to, you know, actually be open source.
16. 226.▲
    by fergie 2y ago

    But non-competes are still illegal i California?
17. 227.▲
    by fergie 2y ago

    Are you familiar with Software Carpentry? If so, what do you think about it? -> https://www.ub.uio.no/english/libraries/dsc/carpentry-uio/
18. 228.▲
    by fergie 2y ago

    * takes out soap box and stands on it * We should go back to uncompiled JavaScript code, our democracy depends on it.
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    by fergie 2y ago

    The article seems a little out of sync with the title.
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    by fergie 2y ago

    Ex-manager here as well. I have always been surprised at how many managers will jump at the opportunity to put pressure on employees, even when there is no real benefit to the manager themselves or the organisation.
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    by fergie 2y ago

    Some of us remember The Great AWS Outage of 2010.
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    by fergie 2y ago

    Its worth noting that NASA astronauts are gifted, but often more working class than equivalent organisations. I wonder if their humble social status (relatively speaking) makes it easier to coerce them into doing dangerous things?
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    by fergie 2y ago

    If I was rich, I would buy all the Teenage Engineering things.
24. 234.▲
    by fergie 2y ago

    Thats actually a really interesting take.
25. 235.▲
    by fergie 2y ago

    Maybe I am missing something but surely "over-labelling" when there is a significant risk of cross-contamination is, in fact, the most sensible approach?
26. 236.▲
    by fergie 2y ago

    I think that the background colour for anti-aliasing is called "matte" in designer-speak.
27. 237.▲
    by fergie 2y ago

    This is an actual thing that could work: AI's ability to "stem" voices and instruments is really impressive.
28. 238.▲
    by fergie 2y ago

    I'm surprised we don't see more of Big Clive on HN
29. 239.▲
    by fergie 2y ago

    We shouldn't internationally name and shame 17 year olds on HN.
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    by fergie 2y ago

    Yes, you are essentially restating my point.