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by hashkb 7y ago
Because it's called "Finder" so it'd be weird if you were already in the right place. But seriously? You're right. Modern software is rushed out the door according to a marketing deadline. These kinds of details ne
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by hashkb 7y ago
This is throwing the baby out with the bath water. Let's redefine it so it's useful again and reform academia. I'm running into more and more people who use headlines like this to ride bikes with no helmets.
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by hashkb 7y ago
> top level await doesn't make async operations synchronous No, it just lets us write them like they look in synchronous languages. So we're jumping through even more hoops to avoid the realities of asynchronous JS. IMO it&#x27
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by hashkb 7y ago
It's not fair to put predators (and diseases) in the same bucket as deliberate abuse of a security vulnerability. Lions and plagues cannot be "good" or "bad". Only humans (and data) can be corrupt. Nature is the sys
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by hashkb 7y ago
I may not be the sharpest, but isn't top level await just shoehorning synchrony into a language that has been laughing at synchrony for decades?
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by hashkb 7y ago
That's a really cool idea! 100 integrations come immediately to mind. I think "without leaving the page" is a great hook, too.
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by hashkb 7y ago
It's very common to get (large) items via DHL from mainland China to SF in less than a week. The US simply doesn't manufacture the same set of items. Raising the cost to order items from China for political reasons will just hurt
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by hashkb 7y ago
> We've developed lots of tools of strategies so we don't have to rely on people getting it right every time. I think one of the points of the article is that this isn't (sufficiently) true; people will use tools incorrect
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by hashkb 7y ago
This project is dead, but writing a Babel transform using something like https://github.com/benjamn/recast is easy and fun!
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by hashkb 7y ago
It's tracking without consent, plain and simple. Forcing users to choose between HTML email and being tracked is nefarious. Users by default do not assume they're being tracked. Just like unsub, highly visible opt out of tracki
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by hashkb 7y ago
> nor did you choose to respond to the earlier reply you received HN's posting frequency limits made that choice for me. The system is unfortunately biased towards drive-by comments and against engaging with feedback on your own co
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by hashkb 7y ago
I hear you saying you don't believe social media is addictive. Will you please kindly open the "digital wellbeing" app (or whatever it's called on iOS) on your phone and share the number of hours you've used social
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by hashkb 7y ago
Let me start by saying that I am not running for elected office because it's a really hard job; even though I might believe I would do it with more integrity and rationality than the next person, I'm also smart enough to realize t
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by hashkb 7y ago
Cognizant pays them hourly; they are referred to as "contractors" multiple times in the article, while the word "salary" does not appear.
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by hashkb 7y ago
> We can blame Facebook, but the reality is no one has a good solution. We can take a step backwards and eliminate Facebook, Insta, etc from our societies and enact legislation that will govern the second generation of social networks.
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by hashkb 7y ago
They don't actually meet the legal requirements of contractors. In CA, anyway, they'd have to be full time employees since they do the same thing every day, full time, they are required to be on-prem during dictated hours, and th
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by hashkb 7y ago
> Facebook is enormously valuable. They made something like $15B in net income in the last four quarters. Their profit is not proof they are valuable, because they are willfully abdicating responsibility for the damage they cause, and, f
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by hashkb 7y ago
Crying that something is too abstract to settle is a problem, too. If someone is refusing to let you move past something you wish they'd just let go, it's possible they're right and you owe it to them to persuade them or use
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by hashkb 7y ago
Panels aren't innovative. On Linux we've had tiling window management with advanced organization for many years.
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by hashkb 7y ago
I'm a full time remote consultant. I've noticed anecdotally that over the last year 80% of my contacts have started muting their camera all the time. Some cite "bandwidth" or other silly excuses; most just say nothing. I
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by hashkb 7y ago
I backup to B2 using Restic. It dedupes while also storing each version with a tag. It's not as fancy as git with the diffs... but my home dir is full of git repos and they are backed up of course. You can mount your whole backup usin
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by hashkb 7y ago
I have been relied upon by management for quick fixes, breadth of familiarity with company systems, urgent code review of critical features nobody heard about until now, etc. * "hero" is a ridiculous word, we never feel like heroe
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by hashkb 7y ago
> DuckDuckGo provides better search results than Google. DDG is getting better at about the same rate that Google is stuffing new ads and sponsored content into results. It's not a stretch to say that I'm more productive with D
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by hashkb 7y ago
> Then there is also a problem of software preservation: How can people today or in the future interpret those WordPerfect or WordStar files from the 1980s, when the original software companies have stopped supporting them or gone out of
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by hashkb 7y ago
Capitalizing on social insecurity has always been good business. Take a look at fashion. Why should video games be exempt? This is a problem we need to fix in our societies, not by demonizing companies who take advantage of bugs in our b
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by hashkb 7y ago
One more perspective on a well-covered issue in our industry. The most success I've had of reaching leadership about it is http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html and, to a lesser extent, the many articles that
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by hashkb 8y ago
> There are good technical reasons why you would use Perforce or even Subversion days. Can you say more? What are some of those reasons? Or link to some data or examples?
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by hashkb 8y ago
I'm not sure the article supports its thesis with anything concrete. It's the author's opinion that submodules and some scripts are inadequate, but in my experience, a variety of reliable and flexible developer experiences ar
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by hashkb 8y ago
This is basically already the case. If you aren't experiencing it, you're a Ringo. Edit: or you work with a ton of Ringos.
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by hashkb 8y ago
Finally DropBox will offer a useful product.

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