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by gwking 4y ago
My guess is that they are growing pot, not just smoking it. These days you can smell the industrial marijuana warehouses from the freeway in Oakland, inside a car with the windows up.
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by gwking 4y ago
The emperor has no pants.
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by gwking 5y ago
In addition to finding a cool tutorial site, I have a less exciting recommendation: spend some time reading the reference documentation. This will give him a sense of the scope of the language, the difference between core language and libra
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by gwking 5y ago
I began using python during the python3.0 betas, and I watched the 2 vs 3 saga from the (unusual?) perspective of a v3 hobbyist with no back-compat requirements. What struck me as most significant was the opportunistic breakage of things no
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by gwking 5y ago
Xcode's faults preceded Swift by many years.
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by gwking 5y ago
FWIW every time I have ever flagged something on HN it’s been a fat finger mistake on mobile. Probably a drop in the bucket but worth considering that the signal is still polluted even with perfectly good faith user behavior.
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by gwking 5y ago
I haev this problem! For me it's a strip about 2 inches wide, down the middle, one pixel higher than the rest of the image. I am using an LG 5k monitor, and I have been unsure if it's a problem with the monitor or the machine. I&#
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by gwking 6y ago
Yesterday I googled "how to measure a chainsaw bar" and got targeted by a clothing company running a sale for tactical clothing, including what I can only describe as domestic terror outfits. It was striking to me to type in a sin
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by gwking 6y ago
These are interesting points. I'd like to hazard a guess that the leading contributor is cache-related. Just looking at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting suggests as much: "Not only do the
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by gwking 6y ago
A quick bit of feedback regarding your website: I was interested in reading the front page but ended up leaving because the “perfect for...” type and delete effect was causing the remainder of the page to jump up and down by one line every
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by gwking 6y ago
The book “Billion Dollar Spy” describes the CIA’s shredder in the Cold War era Moscow station as turning documents into powder.
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by gwking 6y ago
For myself the word that summarizes the best advice here so far is "introspection." A lot of people have mentioned burnout, work/play balance, languages, complexity of modern frameworks, and more. I think it's all constr
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by gwking 7y ago
I saw Alan Kay speak once, I think at lambda jam 2013. He made a comment that he’s still waiting for mainstream CPUs to allow us to fit an entire interpreter into on-core cache.
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by gwking 7y ago
The 'Influence' section of Scalia's wikipedia bio is interesting and relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Scalia#Influence > "Since his death in February of 2016, Scalia’s influence of
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by gwking 7y ago
My understanding is that GCP lags on developer trust, specifically when it comes to support. Several years ago I was excited about GCP, but have mostly lost interest after reading various stories about account lockouts here on HN.
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by gwking 7y ago
It may also have been rushed due to the ABI stability deadline. I'm speculating, but it is easy to imagine that the SwiftUI team saw the window for getting new language-level features closing. More generally, Apple's yearly splash
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by gwking 7y ago
My guess is that Bell Labs is in New Jersey.
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by gwking 7y ago
Personally I find light-on-dark to be much easier on my eyes over the course of the day, and especially at night. With light-on-dark, I can turn the screen brightness up higher without it hurting my eyes. Regarding the "dramatic new lo
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by gwking 8y ago
I just happened to be reflecting on the term "yak shaving" this morning. I saw Free Solo last week, and was motivated (by the funny scene of Honnold and Caldwell in the little hotel room) to start keeping a programming journal. Wr
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by gwking 8y ago
Do you use multiple iOS devices or perhaps Messages on Mac? This bug has been driving me crazy for the last year at least, and I've noticed that it happens more often when I'm using messages on the laptop and phone.
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by gwking 8y ago
I used to pay my very old landlord with personal checks for a chase account. At some point somebody, (I suspect the part time janitor) got my account number and tried to commit check fraud nearby. This was unsophisticated, an inkjet printer
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by gwking 8y ago
The other recurring example for me was OpenGL resources like textures (this was in ObjC). Again, it turned out not to work so while once I got into more complicated examples, because of ordering issues: my GLWindow instance would get deallo
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by gwking 9y ago
Recently I've started thinking about the importance of acknowledging multiple top-level goals. At times I've tried to describe my life goals as a dependency tree of priorities, but eventually decided that framing it as such, with
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by gwking 9y ago
> At some point, a satellite the size of Mars came crashing into the earth, so hard and so fast that about a third of the earth was blasted into space. It didn’t go far–the debris formed a ring around the earth, and gravity eventually co
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by gwking 9y ago
The divide trick is interesting; I've used it here and there over the years but never came to rely on it. Looks like the pattern became much more concise with Swift's tuple unpacking. For what it's worth, I settled on "t
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by gwking 9y ago
My impression is that VSCode is partly about promoting TypeScript, and for what it's worth it has more or less worked on me. Create a "x.ts" and type some stuff; you will see error messages immediately that are roughly as goo
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by gwking 10y ago
I went to this event two nights ago: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/experts-debate-solution-... One interesting comment during the debate was that many (liberal) journalists use Twitter as a side platform on which