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by huma 2y ago
What was the app about?
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by huma 2y ago
Thankfully, most of us quit writing centuries in Roman numerals, it's about time we quit centuries as well :) Sadly, however, the regnal numbers continue to persist
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by huma 4y ago
TypeScript feels like it's trying hard to become Java Enterprise level of complexity :)
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by huma 4y ago
Not for being Russians, but for active participation in censorship by tweaking their news aggregation to show only hand picked government approved sources
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by huma 4y ago
> Generally, the major foot-gun that got a lot of places in trouble was the premature move to microservices, architectures that relied on distributed computing, and messaging-heavy designs. Finally, someone said it
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by huma 5y ago
The first time, a while ago, when I tried Ruby, coming from Java, it was pure joy of freedom :) I really liked the duck typing approach and the dynamic feel of the language. It's rather sad to see static "Java" creeping into
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by huma 5y ago
I don't, but I really appreciate those brave souls who try. A new, refreshing, honest search, like once Google was, is long overdue.
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by huma 5y ago
> the rest of the gender system makes no sense, like a car is "she" but the plane is "he" -- so no one bothers with it It's actually pretty straightforward. Generally, nouns ending with an "a" are femin
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by huma 5y ago
When you live long enough it becomes evident that scale in tech is a pandemic. At a certain point greed inevitably takes over. I believe there's some kind of a threshold beyond which a company has no choice, but to turn evil.
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by huma 5y ago
This is what overengineering looks like
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by huma 5y ago
Yep, it's the dark pattern wording which really disappoints, the kind Mozilla is supposed to fight against. Like a good old friend that betrays you.
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by huma 6y ago
A bit of history on the matter. https://web.archive.org/web/20130116102852/http://hueniverse...
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by huma 6y ago
I wish Dropbox had a lite version which could just sync my files without having to install over 100 MB of useless bloat
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by huma 10y ago
Not CS related, but I've found these courses to be of great value: - Sociology 150A (Robb Willer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edfKMAePWfE - Geography C110 (Richard Walker) https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by huma 13y ago
Konstantin Haase of Sinatra/Ruby fame is based in Berlin and I would recommend him for a mentor. https://github.com/rkh
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by huma 13y ago
If you see two spaces, you can almost bet that the author is an American and over 40 years old :)
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by huma 13y ago
He's one of the gentlest people I know. If Woz is up in arms, something is really going on.
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by huma 13y ago
A package for Archlinux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tmate/
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Larry Ellison to Buy Island in Hawaii(online.wsj.com)
2 points by huma 14y ago|0 comments
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by huma 14y ago
I don't see what's the big fuss here. Maybe a few edgy comments, but nothing "painfully awry". I would say kudos to the organizers for their trust in their fellow citizens to speak out freely without censorship. Btw, her profile [1] on the
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by huma 14y ago
> At the present rate, the Darwinian revolution, at least in America, will take just as long. I would say that it's exclusively an American problem :) I get rather annoyed stumbling on the creationist articles. It's like reading on flat
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by huma 14y ago
Let me summarize this: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd051809s.gif :)
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by huma 14y ago
Can you reveal the traffic figures and your server spec?
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by huma 14y ago
It'd be nice to have a [PDF] tag in the link.
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by huma 14y ago
I like the current HN design. It's simple and elegant to my taste. I'm not a fan of eye candy (for the sake of it). Minimalist approach of HN is why I like it and what distinguishes it from others. In short, it's the focus on content, rathe
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by huma 16y ago
There's another site called "Exit Mundi" that has a lot of doomsday scenarios. In particular, the grey goo problem: http://www.exitmundi.nl/graygoo.htm
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Visually Inspect Ruby Object Models with DrX(rubyinside.com)
1 points by huma 16y ago|0 comments
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Twitterable Mandelbrot(heartmindcode.com)
2 points by huma 16y ago|0 comments
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by huma 17y ago
You may want to read the Sequel blog on comparison with ActiveRecord and the new Arel API: http://sequel.heroku.com/