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by habosa 6y ago
After a few pages the article gets past Greenwalds hatred for the NYT and eventually makes an interesting point (which I'll quote without further comment): "Beyond all this, what if he had used the word “retarded”? What would it m
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by habosa 6y ago
This is a really short timeline and a huge pain. I maintain 3 popular (thousands of github stars) Android libraries hosted on JCenter and published via Bintray. These libraries are stable and I update them only a few times a year. Now I hav
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by habosa 6y ago
The lack of search or pagination on the games list shocked me. I really have to scroll past every single Destiny pack to get down to NBA 2K1?
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by habosa 6y ago
Deloitte's habits of stealing tens of millions of dollars to deliver broken technology to the government are so deeply ingrained they couldn't even stop themselves from taking this critical assignment. People are going to die beca
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by habosa 6y ago
Anyone seeing this list as a list of investment opportunities should think twice. This is the list of companies that Big Money is betting heavily against. In 99% of cases you don't want to take the other side of the bet against these b
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by habosa 6y ago
Is it just me or is the involvement of VCs here really strange? If Robinhood was anything like a traditional broker (or bank/broker combination) Venture Capital firms would not have been anywhere on the list of places to get emergency
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by habosa 6y ago
I can't stand to see Look to Windward so close to Consider Phlebas! Agree with Excession at #1 though, what an incredible book.
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by habosa 6y ago
The Coravin is a really cool device. It allows you to take a single glass from a bottle and leave the rest of the bottle for months or years later. They’re expensive but often on sale for < $150 and worth considering if you’re a “one gla
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by habosa 6y ago
Since we’re talking about Xbox and cost here I have a question for the HN crowd. I’m always amazed that a $500 console can run games better than a $1500 PC. I know these consoles are sold at a loss, but how much? What are the components wor
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by habosa 6y ago
So is there a standard license people can use to prevent this? Something like "Apache 2.0 but the only thing you can't do is resell this service as a managed cloud product"? I think that would be valuable and the right choice
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by habosa 6y ago
This looks super cool! Obligatory WUPHF link: https://youtu.be/8wfG8ngFvPk?t=9
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by habosa 6y ago
No idea but if I ever wanted to pay a friend or a business in crypto, that's definitely the coin I'd use. Fast, well-known, and easy to buy and sell.
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by habosa 6y ago
Bitcoin has basically no adoption among people who use cryptocurrency for non-speculative purposes. Privacy-focused coins (Monero, etc) or coins with faster/better ledgers (Ethereum) are much more popular. There was a time when Bitcoin
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by habosa 6y ago
My opinion keeps changing on this one. Sometimes a non-author user will come by and say "this is happening to me too and here's some helpful logs". But other times a non-author user will just drive by and say "+1 any sol
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by habosa 6y ago
Hmmm there are two things here: 1) Marking inactive issues as stale and eventually closing them automatically. 2) Locking old closed issues so they don't get comments. Many bots do these things and do them badly. I maintain a bot that
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by habosa 6y ago
Yes I mean the process of reviewing a Pull Request, especially a complex one with multiple rounds of feedback. Some major issues, in my opinion: * The review is spread over 4 tabs, with "Conversation" being the default and &qu
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by habosa 6y ago
If I was working in a lab and my experiment turned a deep blue I'd say "cool!" and move on. I didn't know that discovering a new color was something meaningful. I wonder who told these scientists "stop what you&#x27
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by habosa 6y ago
Gradle was designed on such shaky foundations, namely Groovy. Let's make build files in an unpopular scripting language with limited tooling ... what could go wrong! I despise it. XML seemed bad when we had Maven but at least it was a
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by habosa 6y ago
It's pretty clear that we're in a period of relative stability. React and TypeScript have been the tools of choice for 2-3 years now. Webpack is the clear choice in bundler. Most people seem to be using the modern language feature
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by habosa 6y ago
For non-curvy design think "Pixelbook" which has two totally flat halves that come together with a cool hinge. Not saying that's where they're going, but that's a modern laptop design that reminds me more of an iPh
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by habosa 6y ago
I'm working on better code review for GitHub. If you're part of a small team that writes code on GitHub but isn't satisfied with their code review tools, send me an email: sam [at] habosa [dot] com We're in very early Al
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by habosa 6y ago
Yeah they're the closest I've seen! I don't think they're taking themselves seriously enough.
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by habosa 6y ago
Here's what I want: an always-on group audio chat app with: * A virtual 2D 'office' with positional audio * Super low latency (~10ms) * Minimal data/power/CPU usage This would simulate what it feels like
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by habosa 6y ago
While this doesn't sound like somewhere I'd want to work or how I'd run a company, I think they should be applauded for trying something different and succeeding. Seems like these ~25 people are happy with the arrangement and
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by habosa 6y ago
I only occasionally achieve this state but I find that it comes from high levels of comfort with the systems you're using. That's everything from the operating system to the programming language to your chosen editor/IDE. Whe
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by habosa 6y ago
I don't think there is one answer but there are a few things I have noticed in my short career so far: * I think an intermediate level of mastery is when you realize that a computer is a logic machine built to serve humans and it w
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by habosa 6y ago
The fine is certainly too small, but also shouldn't someone be criminally charged here? I feel like many laws were broken and they know exactly who did it.
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by habosa 6y ago
If GitHub isn't synonymous with open source, what is?
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by habosa 6y ago
84% of wealth in the stock market is in the hands of the top 10% Not sure about housing.
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by habosa 6y ago
Besides what many others have said, I'll add that many low-end Android phones are likely to kill your app when the user leaves it to go check their email. Which is fine, you can handle it, but many apps add a flow like this and aren&#x

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