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by hliyan 5y ago
The first ten years of my career, I worked with distributed systems built on this stack: C++, Oracle, Unix (and to some extent, MFC and Qt). There were hundreds of instances of dozens of different type of processes (we would now call these
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by hliyan 5y ago
I wish more code was written like this: https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/blob/main/app/server...
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What happens when you type google.com into the browser and press enter?(github.com)
20 points by hliyan 5y ago|1 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
My theory: the larger your bookmark collection grows, the more indistinguishable it becomes from Google. It basically becomes a curated search index. The closest I have come to using bookmarks is through Firefox address bar suggestions from
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by hliyan 5y ago
I'm in a third world country and even I would contribute $10 a year. I already contribute to Wikipedia on occasion. Making it monthly feels like too much of an obligation.
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LG smart TV stops working till owner accepts updated terms of use(twitter.com)
9 points by hliyan 5y ago|3 comments
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DangerJS – automate common code review chores(danger.systems)
1 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
If it's the social aspect of drinking you're after, try diluting significantly. No one is going to measure the units you've consumed. Load up on (non-sugary) chasers, or alternate between non-alcoholic drinks and low-alcoholi
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by hliyan 5y ago
I'm not familiar with Thich Nhat Hanh, but I've been following Mingyur Rinpoche quite a bit. He has an entire YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaNO09cPS6c
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Textfiles.com(textfiles.com)
3 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
I found the development environment extremely elegant, in the true sense of the word: it takes away everything superfluous until only the necessary remains.
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by hliyan 5y ago
Quite coincidentally, I found an example of just the type of experience I prefer in a neighboring HN post (SPADE): https://asciinema.org/a/bG7PPKj0AaJq087ZNPxSZwcCl
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by hliyan 5y ago
Is it too late to create a version of the web that is just plain text (no markup)? After 25 years on the web, I'm starting to feel format fatigue so much that I actually cherish reading man pages and internet RFCs on the terminal (and
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by hliyan 5y ago
It is believed that the mystery eruption of 1808 originated in the same area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1808_mystery_eruption
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SQLMap: Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool(github.com)
2 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
The author appears to be still at it, seemingly unrepentant and followed by a hundred thousand people: https://twitter.com/theSamParr/status/1476732367805067272
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Are cylindrical reflector telescopes with software focus correction possible?
2 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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Zooming in on Jupiter and Saturn in Daylight(youtube.com)
4 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
Surprised that much of Europe is green, considering that a lot of their forests have been cut down for centuries.
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by hliyan 5y ago
> Finding the time to properly conceptualise and deeply think about what I’m trying to learn has been challenging This reminds me of something that happened to me 20 years ago, and cemented my view that teaching should be bottom-up: wait
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HTTP Toolkit(httptoolkit.tech)
538 points by hliyan 5y ago|124 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
The condition between those two things is an "AND" not an "OR".
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by hliyan 5y ago
Using Google to augment memory is fine for both engineers and doctors. Using it to replace comprehension is acceptable for neither. If a doctor administered insulin to a diabetic without any understanding of the pancreas or the body's
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React costs companies a lot of money(poub330.medium.com)
12 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
For a moment, the catchy trade name and the mention of 3D printing made me worry that this was a startup. Thankfully, Exit International is a non-profit [1]. Imagine if this had been a commercial endeavor: what would one have to resort to,
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Web Clipper: save anything on the web to anywhere(github.com)
42 points by hliyan 5y ago|8 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
I'm seeing this belief more and more among engineers these days. It's not even an admission of ignorance, but an explicit position they hold. "You don't need to know the chemical composition of the patty to flip burgers,
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by hliyan 5y ago
As recently as the mid-2000's, my personal computer had virtually nothing in terms of development setup, except for a terminal and an IDE. Even our files were stored remotely (although within a local datacenter, not on the Internet) an
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by hliyan 5y ago
If you calculate the size difference between JSON and a corresponding well-structured HTML/XML (i.e. without unnecessary nested divs), you will find that the extra network overhead is negligible. Modern SPAs still require network calls
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by hliyan 5y ago
What if we simply move the JSON -> HTML translation layer from the client, to a layer just before egress from the server? Maybe we provide two output options for each endpoint: /foo/1/bar (HTML by default) and /foo&#x

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