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by herdcall 5y ago
That seems like a non sequitur ("The optimal level of alcohol intake for health and longevity is zero"). All I see in the article you referred (or the original article above) are several (valid) questions about the J shaped associ
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by herdcall 6y ago
There is, but that's more for academics and of less interest/relevance to practitioners in many cases.
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by herdcall 6y ago
It seems publishers have figured out that injecting identity/race into every single topic gets views these days. What is the benefit of analyzing increasing pedestrian deaths by race here?
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by herdcall 6y ago
> Those trolls are likely to migrate to Twitter now, as the Tesla Engagement Platform will be moderated. Says a lot about what Twitter has become.
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by herdcall 6y ago
Not sure how many devs code in a single language these days. I go back/forth between Go, Dart, and C++ every day, so using one IDE like VSCode (with the familiar features from extensions to shortcuts to snippets) is a big help.
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by herdcall 6y ago
CockroachDB was founded by ex-Google employees and is partly funded by Google Ventures, so I'd take this report with a pinch of salt. IMO GCP is good for PoC/personal projects due to their liberal free tier quotas, but I don'
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by herdcall 6y ago
May be, but those are few and far between. The full/coordinated effort is now on wiping out as much of the right leaning folks/orgs as possible, taking advantage of the uproar over the Jan 6 event.
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by herdcall 6y ago
What is happening to our country? Bans from social media, app stores, hosting platforms...now financial orgs. Is this what we want, extermination of the side we don't agree with? Punish without a trial or hearing the other side? One of
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Wall St. Banks Halt Political Donations After Capitol Riot: Live Updates(thecameroontoday.com)
6 points by herdcall 6y ago|4 comments
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by herdcall 6y ago
I doubt this. I'm on Parler and frequently see posts (I presume from left leaning folks) trashing the right side (e.g., Trump). Those posts are allowed with no issues. It is true that most opinions are right leaning (some viciously so)
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by herdcall 6y ago
Don't judge Parler with what you hear from the mainstream media. I'm on Parler and there a lot of intelligent conversations there that give you the other side, which is so hard to get otherwise (which is why I joined). Yes, I&#x27
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by herdcall 6y ago
I used to do all work on Fedora, dual booting to Windows for the Windows apps. WSL was OK when I tried long back, so hadn't bothered. But for the last few months I was forced to try WSL (now WSL2) again due to some Windows work, and ha
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by herdcall 6y ago
Actually, if your goal is to stay up-to-date on specific topics, tools like Discord and Slack are much better IMO because of the way they work to allow two-way communication. Even Reddit is offering a similar setup now. If you do want to co
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by herdcall 6y ago
True, but we (humans) are always aspiring to be better, even if things aren't broken per se. My point was that we don't always know what we can't do, so when do we stop trying? Then there's the fallacy of composition. Ea
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by herdcall 6y ago
Trouble is that we can't always tell what's in our control and what isn't. Who would've thought a thousand years ago that we could fly to the moon? I'm reminded here of the beautiful quote by Bernard Shaw: "The
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by herdcall 14y ago
All good, but the success of this method also depends on how well the interviewer interprets/evaluates the interview. Unfortunately, the danger here is that inexperienced/immature interviewers can easily discard good candidates this way. Th
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by herdcall 14y ago
Right. No real access to contacts, camera, files/database, accelerometer, GPS, etc. We tried in vain with application cache, offline storage, etc. but not seeing contacts/camera was a show-stopper. Even location isn't the same as native GPS
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by herdcall 14y ago
Actually, you can get started on Creative Cloud immediately (I did with CS6...just an online signup and confirmation through email), and in any case you can use the software for 30 days without a serial number. Not saying Adobe support is g
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by herdcall 14y ago
It's not whether they should be plain or colorful...it's whether the splashes jibe with the products (and their positioning) so the two look cohesive together. Adriana (Victoria's Secret) would make a lovely model, but I don't think she'd t
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by herdcall 14y ago
I hate the splashes...they look like kids' costumes: busy and over-saturated. Icons are boring and unimaginative too. Pity because I think Aobe did a great job with what matters, the UIs (pretty challenging if you think of how many products
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by herdcall 15y ago
No, this is like putting break-in detectors on front-doors in your community that you don't control.
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by herdcall 15y ago
The problem I see with this article is that it doesn't acknowledge you only need a handful of people to make the advances necessary to reach out to other civilizations. It does admit there will be variation, but talks about fundamentalists
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by herdcall 15y ago
The beauty of the capitalistic model is that it is self-correcting without needing intervention like bans and such. E.g., say one person dominates production to the point he makes everything and has no incentive to sell anything, then as fa
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by herdcall 15y ago
That FB responded 2 hours after the post here on HN speaks for itself. I had logged some bug reports the regular way, and FB got back after one year. Yes, one year.
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by herdcall 15y ago
If the nutrinos were from the same supernova, doesn't the fact that they arrived BEFORE the light still mean they traveled faster than light? Whether it should've been 4 years instead of 3 hours seems besides the point as far as the signifi
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by herdcall 15y ago
If you're writing in Java, use standard API like JPA instead of native (that's what we're using with our site). I've tested some sample code on Amazon Beanstalk, and the code (with JPA) WORKED WITHOUT A SINGLE ALTERATION. It's not 100% obvi
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by herdcall 15y ago
The problem is: in a fast-moving startup we rarely have the time/luxury to spend time on optimizing after the fact. IMO your choice will depend on how isolated the optimization task is and how long it will take. E.g., we're building a healt
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by herdcall 16y ago
I tend to agree with the author, but there are times comments are the only way to help the next guy looking at the code. Like when you're using workarounds. E.g., I was recently writing for a JPA entity on Google App Engine where I tried us
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by herdcall 16y ago
On first look UML looks like the "proper" way of building software, but it really isn't because software changes way too much while it's built. It's like planning out a road-trip to the minute - it won't hold up. Some compare UML to how arc
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by herdcall 16y ago
They should call it "reward," not "donate." These guys produced something valuable, we aren't giving them cash for nothing. I wish they lose the "donate" word in all situations like this (free software, etc.).

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