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by gregjor 2y ago
Maybe I misunderstood your question. I think of a "visitor" as someone browsing a site anonymously. Unless/until they give contact information somehow -- a signup form, a chat request, etc. -- they remain anonymous so there&#
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The internet.
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A bittersweet post for the old programmers like me who have heard how we can't learn new things and how our dated skills make for a poor culture fit. I used Unix, vi, and mechanical keyboards forty years ago. Fad and fashion. I saw DHH
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At the core of etiquette lies consideration for others. Looking at your phone constantly while in a meeting tells everyone else that you think the meeting wastes your time, or that you can't pay attention. If you don't want to par
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by gregjor 2y ago
All visitors start out anonymous to you, so you identify potential leads by trying to engage them, getting their name and email or phone number. Usual techniques: invite to chat, request more information, request contact, sign up for newsle
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by gregjor 2y ago
I think you understand what I meant, but thanks for the lesson in rhetoric. I'll correct my statement to Musk confuses freedom of speech with freedom from penalties for his speech. Of course he narcissistically craves the attention and
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Musk confuses freedom of speech with freedom from consequences. In the USA the right to free speech prevents the government censoring or restraining what citizens say. It does not immunize against responsibility for what you say or write. A
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Arithmetic division as a service. Brilliant.
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I wasn’t going for the best possible security, just something better than leaving stuff in your room. The post I responded to wasn’t about securing stuff, but detecting when hotel staff had looked at it. I practically live in hotels, includ
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Maybe a bit behind the trend. AI is fast losing the cachet it had a year or two ago. Branding something as “AI” now has negative connotations. Show the utility, not just the buzzword.
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by gregjor 2y ago
tl;dr hotel rooms and safes aren’t secure. Going to all that trouble just to detect hotel security looked at your stuff doesn’t accomplish anything beyond fuel for a tweet. Put your stuff in your locked suitcase and leave that with the be
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by gregjor 2y ago
git diff already supports four diff algorithms. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff
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Congratulations on developing what looks like a significant project with some real challenges to solve. If only that effort went into something that wouldn’t make an already terrible experience worse, for both sides. Increasing the amount o
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+1 excellent book
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Relaxing kind of requires doing less , not switching to a different activity that requires significant effort. Instead of trying to cram in more thinking with newsletters and podcasts in your downtime intervals, try doing nothing . Or hav
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What about very small rocks? Steel doesn't float or "swim" either yet all modern ships are made of steel. As the article states, a platform floating on water could lift the stones. The principle is displacement, nothing to do
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My programming career dates back to the '70s, so I can tell you what programmers did back then from my experience: examined core dumps, inserted "print" statements, desk-checked (manually read through) code with a colleague.
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If you want to discuss engaging me for freelance work, contact my agency, 10X Management.
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Someone else floated this idea a while back. I think creating a marketplace or exchange for referrals misses the point of employee referrals, and devalues referrals in a way that will likely lead to employers eliminating referral preference
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Like you wrote, at the low end the distinction between hostel and bargain hotel blurs. The properties tag themselves as both types. I generally avoid the low-end properties but I’ve seen the problem you describe. I draw the line at shared b
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I think all of the above. I turn 64 this year, with 40+ years programming and system admin experience. Companies outside the world of software development and tech startups tend to have more older programmers. I worked a lot in enterprise l
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I have changed languages, tools, domains many times in my 40+ year career. Freelancing for the last 15 years I have to quickly jump into a code base and domain and deliver results. I started a long time ago with BASIC and FORTRAN, wrote a l
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by gregjor 2y ago
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: Safari. Tuesday and Thursday: Chrome. Saturday: Lynx. Sunday: Edge. I can’t enjoy Firefox, it exacerbates my seasonal affective disorder. I have a Google sheet tracking my daily browser on HN usage to my mood
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On a scale of 1 to 10? What kind of answer do you expect? Some people get jobs easily, others struggle to get an interview after a year. I don't think all of those experiences can get reduced to a single answer. Like everyone else your
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flame thrower or hydraulic press should make it tolerable. maybe boot it from linux on a usb stick so you can continue to use that.
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if statements in the code. do you need a “platform” for feature flags? if you have so many feature flags that you need complex management i think that indicates you need configuration/settings management.
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The human body doesn’t have a static number of “things.” Cells divide and die. Microorganisms come and go with each breath. How do you define “thing?” Do we have a finite number of thoughts at any time? A finite number of sensations? Of gut
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Lots of unknown unknowns. How would we know when we know everything there is to know? Saying something "seems to be of finite complexity," without evidence or attempt at proof, sounds profound but means nothing. Do you mean to imp
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Entry-level jobs have become scarce. Someone fresh out of bootcamp, or fresh from self-studying with or without LLMs, will try to get one of those entry-level jobs. You will compete with hundreds of thousands of people who have experience b
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I'll give some opinions you might not want to hear. Until you have experience, some designs actually implemented, and evidence that companies will pay for your work, you only have your own opinion about how much value you actually offe

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