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by harryf 6y ago
I don’t know much about how Reddit mods and Admins are organised but I have been an active Reddit user for 15 years (which is scary to admit). What’s clear is these days the popular parts of Reddit are very much “controlled discourse” which
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by harryf 6y ago
I get where you're coming from - the post meanders around some topics every programmer has to learn by hard experience, such as the value of being able to reason about code / systems and the importance of data structures. That sa
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by harryf 6y ago
Fascinating use case. As I understand it (and I don’t understand much in this space) this would require an “Oracle” to provide someones state (dead or alive) thereby triggering the contract that releases whatever payload. Curious to see how
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by harryf 6y ago
Also sometimes it’s the process a team working on a design follows. Tried to illustrate this long ago about mobile hamburger menus https://medium.com/@hfuecks/so-we-went-with-a-hamburger-menu...
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by harryf 6y ago
To me the screwed up part is companies that sponsor this stuff like Red Bull. I was working right next to this tragic Base jump - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ueli_Gegenschatz - we used to eat lunch in the Sunrise Tow
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by harryf 6y ago
The endgame is like the burning of The Library of Alexandria. 2000 years from now scholars (assuming there are any) will talk of a "missing civilisation" that mysteriously left no cultural traces.
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by harryf 6y ago
The story line may be being twisted by CNN but the idea of a CEO blaming his staff is fundamentally wrong. The message should be “I created a culture which meant an intern could put the whole company at risk. This was my mistake”
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by harryf 6y ago
> What would be the first integration point you'd like to see? We've been discussing internally where to put our focus right now. Think the first thing would be just some way to share read-only via a URL with people that don&#x
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by harryf 6y ago
Very cool - dictation seems almost perfect. Some key things to get my to commit... - feeling very “locked in” already ... ability to export notes is important - search! With results ranked by a mix of most recent, most read ... relevancy al
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by harryf 6y ago
> Food experts have churned up palm fat in cow feed as a likely culprit. I think these type of stories are what journalists live for. "Did you see how I used 'churned up' in that sentence? Hahaha"
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by harryf 6y ago
https://old.reddit.com is still out there and everything seems to work
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by harryf 6y ago
You mean something like https://github.com/banjun/WSDL2Swift ?
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by harryf 6y ago
Ah yeah - NOT a pyramid scheme - multi pronged is what I meant
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by harryf 6y ago
There’s some cognitive bias in which we assume that when we regard some information as important, that anyone exposed to that information will fully absorb it. The reality is - while learning how to communicate well is hard, actually getti
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by harryf 6y ago
Perfect example was the youtube-dl. Making an app to download videos from YouTube is relatively trivial for most semi-experienced developers but that doesn't mean I want to invest the time doing it, plus the effort of keeping it up to
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by harryf 6y ago
> Duckduckgo is a competitor to Google. Its based on Yandex and Bing, two other competitors to Google. Interesting. Can you elaborate? Like is DuckDuckGo using some of Yandex’s open source? Or the Bing search API?
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by harryf 6y ago
I don't use the notifications - have them disabled. I just dip in when I have time and see what's happening. May not be the best strategy but works for me.
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by harryf 6y ago
I guess so but that it’s groups not 1-on-1 probably means people behave better. Also video is a higher barrier entry in terms of awkwardness etc
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by harryf 6y ago
It doesn’t it’s just that for me, living in Zürich Switzerland, it’s a type of conversation I would never get to hear / be part of
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by harryf 6y ago
First time I went on Clubhouse, first got in a room with some Silicon Valley types talking about how to grow your startup. I get enough of that content so left to explore further and found a room with some African Americans discussing the b
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by harryf 6y ago
I think the bit I was remembering was the Terminfo Case Study on page 149 of the Art of Unix Programming - https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.62... - read it a long time ago though and re-reading
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by harryf 6y ago
Agreed to I'll bite... > The intuition is that for datasets commonly and frequently joined on a known key, e.g., user events with user metadata on a user ID, we can write them in bucket files with records bucketed and sorted by that
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by harryf 6y ago
This really shouldn’t come as a surprise. The average mobile user will give you app less than 30 seconds of their attention after first install so you’d better deliver some kind of result in that time or they’re gone, probably for good. Als
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by harryf 6y ago
Very true! Aside from all other benefits, bringing the Dev team to meet customers is highly motivating to everyone, including the customer
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by harryf 6y ago
Having done all three roles either formally or informally (after 15 years development) the key thing a product manager has to do is follow Steve Blanks advice and get out of the building. OK not in times of COVID but there has to be someone
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by harryf 6y ago
I think you put that extremely well. One thing ... > until the concept of power itself is what is at stake You mean we need a reach a point where power is not needed? If so that’s a fascinating idea. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Given GME, WallStreetBets – are there any uncensorable social platforms?
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by harryf 6y ago
One thing I've seen smart developers do on multiple occasions is unknowingly throw out their ability to reason about their code while adding caching ( https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3512...
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by harryf 6y ago
We like to assume they are many orders of magnitude more intelligent than us. But it might be that the human brain represents the optimum size and capability possible for a living organism to sustain, based on requirements for energy consum
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by harryf 6y ago
You may be assuming too much of our great-grandchildren. Based on what we can see of mobile phones today, they will be having their attention spans minutely controlled at all times, and may not be thinking anything.

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