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by harel 5y ago
I received a demo of a $250k SGI when I was about 14 (1990). It powered a military F16 flight simulator and the experience was nothing short of mind blowing. Those machines were tightly packed magic.
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by harel 5y ago
Maintaining test automation is equivalent to maintaining the code base. A dedicated qa team should be doing that as well as manual testing, infra tests, etc. We had a dedicated qa in a project, and when he was taken away twat automation pre
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by harel 5y ago
I think they were meant for dogs originally. One is a round plate with small white 'bone' cases concealing treats underneath. They need to remove the small bones to get to the treats with two difficulty settings - they cracked tha
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by harel 5y ago
We have a family of Crows who comes every morning, calls my wife, who gives them some treats and then go about their day. Sometimes they return at noon for lunch. We started leaving them puzzles to get to their food but they solved these pr
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by harel 5y ago
Homebrew is a mac thing. I know it exists on Linux but it's pointless and impractical to introduce another package management to an os that already has one built in. Tried it, and I will not repeat the experience. So I assume tea is
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by harel 5y ago
There are too many blockchains being developed. Which one are you referring to? (also help me understand what part?)
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by harel 5y ago
There is a lack of balance here. Yashg is not wrong in his assertions, and nor are you, that time will tell if the non-scammers are successful or not. I was laughing at the concept of bitcoin when it was mere cents to the coin and some pizz
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by harel 5y ago
I round down my years of commercial coding to 25. And I still enjoy it. I am now in a position to select projects based on interest in the problem, but I also value my time so there is no compromise on my fee. Code is a language and as such
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by harel 5y ago
Real or not, I owe Mavis my touch typing ability. It's kinda like the "are we in a simulation" argument - does it matter if we are, if we can touch type like Mavis Beacon?
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by harel 5y ago
Tell me about it. I missed the cutoff of embarrassment protection...
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by harel 5y ago
Personal observation on 2 projects. See above for details on another reply.
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by harel 5y ago
There are always scams of different flavours around - that doesn't stop anyone from picking one or another. The appearance of easy money attracts those who seek easy money.
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by harel 5y ago
My personal observation. A large proportion of credit card payment were fraud, or flagged as such. It was such a huge number (% wise) that I (thought I) understood why stripe pulled the rug out. And in another project I observed a very larg
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by harel 5y ago
To be honest, I thought your refusal was probably well justified considering the disproportionate levels of credit card fraud involved in anything to do with crypto. I'd love to see your end of year statistics now...
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by harel 5y ago
Just last year Stripe wouldn't even allow any crypto business to be their customers. You could not use Stripe if you business was crypto related. A client of mine had to switch implementation to checkout.com because of that. I wonder w
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by harel 5y ago
Everyone has a narrative, always. And to be fair, I cannot think of a 'story' where I can justify this invasion, but I do want some understanding because at the moment it's completely insane.
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by harel 5y ago
That is a great idea
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by harel 5y ago
Post it as a throwaway. I'm very interested in hearing the other side. After all, a coin has three sides...
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Ask HN: How can the tech community help during this crisis?
5 points by harel 5y ago|4 comments
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by harel 5y ago
My original VIC20 manuals were in French, and I didn't even know English at the time. Still managed to learn stuff from here and there. I can't imaging what I could have done if I had something like this 35 years ago... It's
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by harel 5y ago
Using them for everything and everywhere as a default option might have been a mistake. SPAs in general are not a mistake (but generalised headlines do bring in the clicks so there's that). As a user, when I'm using an "appli
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by harel 5y ago
Well, my journey ended here: https://lexoral.com/blog/svelte-firestore-binding/ and it would be interesting to hear about the whole cloud native serveless journey after you've had some good mileage on it. Le
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by harel 5y ago
Came here for "things I don't need Javascript for", from there flowed into Lexoral as a product (pretty cool) and then into the architecture behind it which was interesting. Nice ride.
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by harel 5y ago
It's the same in Hebrew; there is sea water and sweet water.
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by harel 5y ago
Hi Author :-) Please note that I am VERY much appreciating the application and effort, and this was not meant as criticism. I saw you mentioned you're not a Linux person which is cool - I get why the brew is there. It's just that
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by harel 5y ago
Yes, I can and will, but the point was "why homebrew for linux?". Later I read the author was just not familiar with the Linux ecosystem which pretty much answered my question.
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by harel 5y ago
This looks cool but HomeBrew for linux is a no go for me. Multiple system level package managers is asking for trouble.
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by harel 5y ago
My first impression upon opening this was about how fast and responsive this feels (chrome/linux)... Which actually now makes me more concerned that this experience is not consistent across users and platforms, because this leads to th
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by harel 5y ago
Careful what you wish for - it can, and probably will get worst. I still get cookie rage every time I have to deal with cookie popups. To put things in perspective, i recommend trying to run with a pihole plugged in your network. Even just
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by harel 5y ago
I ended up restoring and modding 2 Sinclairs just now (regular speccy and the plus version). I remember it was much easier to enter programs as a kid. Now my muscle memory in front of a keyboard is working against me. Fast typing is frowned

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