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by hnzix 9y ago
>dubstep (which originally spun off from dub) "Dub"step is something of a misnomer and did not spin off from dub. It evolved out of 2-step garage as part of the UK Hardcore Continuum[0], which began in the second summer of lo
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...and that is the story of why I quit graphic design to program CRUD webapps for boring enterprise customers. Now moving towards part-time consulting and setting up some passive income streams to try and create the space to work on my crea
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Apparently trading your body for sex is somehow metaphysically different to trading your body for labor.
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A deep learning model that converts hand-drawn web mockups into HTML(github.com)
4 points by hnzix 9y ago|1 comments
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> TDD…) are a direct consequence of that lack of static checking. Static checking gives you basic unit testing. TDD is far more expansive than unit testing. Static checking is not going to integration test your app for you.
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> Why so much faith in non profits? Perverse incentives. If a company's profit is linked to higher incarceration, they are incentivized to make the problem worse, not better. This doesn't make all non-profits magical paragons
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My approach to learned helplessness is to still assist the person but don't give them the final answers or do it for them. Instead, ask them leading questions. "Why do you think foo is failing? What happens when you add some debug
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Does this mean I'm allowed to use <tables> again without being crucified?
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I used to get annoyed in these situations but now I think it's a good thing. If the interview is that fucking horrid, the company culture is almost certainly going to suck. Thanks shitty interviewer for saving me from your shitty compa
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> It was hard for me to believe at first Nina Teicholz has a lot to say about the garbage state of nutritional science, the AHA and just how much expensive taxpayer-funded research has been buried over the past 50 years. [0] https:&#x
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I'm curious, what are the benefits if any of configuring Deis on K8s on AWS instead of just Heroku Private Spaces, for standard CRUD apps without huge scale?
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Tangentially, this is an exceptionally lucid and well-written press release. I haven't worked in media for years but it's head and shoulders above the copypasta I used to get.
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YC startup Neema creating crypto legal tender for Marshall Islands(pr.blonde20.com)
2 points by hnzix 9y ago|1 comments
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I loathe slot machines and casinos, but recently started trading crypto. I feel a wonderful rush when I take in profits, and a wrench when I take losses. Oh dear, I'm gambling and enjoying it.
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Well, if you're guessing people's personality you also have to factor in their star sign and the shape of their skull.
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I played it on an XT with CGA, no Hercules and 512kb RAM. It looked really crispy and was in stark black and white.
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Master Emacs in one year(github.com)
17 points by hnzix 9y ago|5 comments
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I've added citations to my parent comment. It's being rolled out further in Guizhou. I think it's a novel way to combat corruption, but the potential for overall social control is chilling. "Sorry, Mobike does not rent t
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All of this cloud data will eventually be funneled into your social credit score ("Sesame Credit"). This is already happening. Chinese individuals are being ostracized from personal and professional relations because of their scor
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Adding a JIRA Kanban board has hugely improved my team's daily standups. Workflow goes: Backlog ⮕ Prioritized Backlog ⮕ Doing ⮕ Ready For QA ⮕ Doing QA ⮕ Ready For Release ⮕ Done, and there's a quick filter for each team member th
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>I'm curious - what were the devs doing with their time, if feature improvements were constantly being vetoed? Yeah it was a really weird culture, there was definitely some quiet time where I would propose a product improvement bu
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I've worked 36 hours straight in the days before I knew better. And I got off lightly compared to my friends the game industry.
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a delicate balance of avoiding work that will harm you and encouraging work that will help you Yes this swings both ways. I worked at a startup where every feature improvement was shouted down as a waste of opportunity cost. They found a
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I worked at failed SaaS startup where the pointy haired boss insisted we use Java because there was lots of grads who knew it. At some point it took forever to wade through the boilerplate (and questionable grad code) to add a feature. This
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I was two cohorts later and Quark just got killed by PageMaker then Freehand which got killed by InDesign and Illustrator. But I also learnt Authorware that got killed by Director that got killed by Flash. Then I learnt Hotdog, Dreamweaver,
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Bash and zsh also have vim mode. The bash mode is more like vi though.
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> stoop to learning gimp? Gimp is to Photoshop as Nano is to Emacs.
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It's Hacker News, someone is always going to be "well I could write this myself in 20 minutes and print it out why would anyone pay money for it." I don't think those are the people from whom to take pricing advice.
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> you have to wonder what the myth of child sacrifices in the brazen bull really means. The stories of sacrifice to Moloch are supported by archeological finds of child remains around Carthage. https://www.theguardian.com&#x
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> the ratio of "interactive experiences" to intrusive ads What is the ratio of poo HTML websites to awesome ones? Probably worse :) Anyway I don't care about ratio, I care about the best examples - and I really haven&#x2

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