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by janee 5y ago
Interesting piece, wonder if it's some ancient vendor lock-in agreement...can't imagine that, but guess it's possible. What would be interesting is a comparison of Taylor revenue from C602 service & repair vs McDonald&#x2
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by janee 6y ago
We had to move off Netlify because of CDN performance for users in Africa. Pretty niche requirement I know, but the TTFB was insane as it was serving traffic from Brazil at that time. This was around June 2020, if I recall so maybe things h
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by janee 6y ago
I think the cost of maintaining an upgrade path for libraries that doesn't piss off your users is non trivial compared to a service I agree you shift work to users, but at what cost? Either an angry or resentful user base or jumping th
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by janee 6y ago
Ironically... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horse_manure_crisis_of... Not saying cars are great, but it was seen as the solution to exactly this problem
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by janee 6y ago
I see text as read optimized, but write expensive and not well suited or efficient for lots of scenarios: - wood working, absolutely horrible to work from text, which I've done. - group ideation, as much as I love IM'ing, audio +
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by janee 6y ago
thanks for mentioning these. They're quite sad, but touching and for a lack of a better word very human. I can't help but read this and think about my own path in life and especially family.
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by janee 6y ago
In my experience the only thing it sometimes successfully incentivizes is getting preferential treatment at a bar/restaurant...not saying that's a good thing, just a personal observation
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by janee 6y ago
Makes me wonder about the effort put into the design of it's longevity. It must be an awesome feeling if you worked on it and so many years later there's still tangible value being extracted from it
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by janee 6y ago
> American citizens need to decide what they prioritize. Is it space exploration or is it a decent standard of living at home? It's not like we're going to wake up one day, realize everything's awesome and say "HEY LE
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by janee 6y ago
Whiteboard in kitchen...seems dumb but after putting it up I realized how many todos and ideas come to me in the kitchen
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by janee 6y ago
Makes sense. SaaS and desktop have subtle different needs that cause widely different problems to solve. The amount of effort I would fathom needed to maintain a single code base that's architected to do both would be exhausting. I&#x2
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by janee 6y ago
I'd say timing plays a huge role and can also be seen as luck. The market is sometimes just not ready for something and knowing if your timing is right isn't obvious, nor even possible to determine in most cases imo
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by janee 6y ago
yep exactly this. I found early on while having to work with perforce and using timelapse view (git blame but with a nice gui) that lots of intermediary commits like this generate enough noise to discourage even the most determined sleuth f
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by janee 6y ago
I would even take it a step further and allow maintainers the ability to cherry pick certain issues they'd like to put up for hacktober. I'd still keep the repo wide tag for opt-in, but also optionally provide issue level opt-in.
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by janee 6y ago
I dunno, I saw the title and scanned through...it just feels like click bait to me. I would love my peers to be more interested in history even if it's as trivial as being amazed by some fleeting vids of altered old footage, even if co
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by janee 6y ago
This seems like a cool tool, but if you're starting from scratch you can avoid breaking changes like this by using codegen tools that generate client code guaranteed to conform to what an API provides...and if it's a typed languag
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by janee 6y ago
Good example of why I really like HN. Quite keen to read up more on Feeny. Reading about anonymous contributions and selfless behavior like this is such a mood lifter when trawling through the day to day news and information floating around
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by janee 6y ago
Isn't TCP a good example of these two strategies, e.g. where imperfect natural evolution won over it's competitors which I would say is an example of what your describing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prot
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by janee 6y ago
I've witnessed this a few times. Usually because you actually passed the current hurdle, but the company got cold feet because the next step requires more effort from them and they can't make up their mind...eitherway as irritatin
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by janee 6y ago
Interesting approach using multiple locators, might use it in the future. Although in my limited experience I agree that the avg site which usually needs scraping keeps its "interface" mostly unchanged. I guess a lot of stuff I&#x
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by janee 6y ago
Haha awesome! Sounds like something you could print on a tshirt r/namemyvariable Hmm feels a bit weird, maybe r/namingvariables haha already think'n bout re-naming the naming sub lolz
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by janee 6y ago
yeah I ended up leaning towards something similar, but avoided the whole issue of naming the "thing" by instead naming it based on the class of events contained in the table...ended up calling it tracking_events, and making it ref
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by janee 6y ago
Does anyone know of a good site for these kind of questions other than the English stack exchange. I frequently run into programming related naming issues (who doesn't eh?). But I struggle to find accurate search terms to help answer t
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by janee 6y ago
Good luck now having to build and maintain software that needs to reliably and correctly update itself on +70K instances not under your control. That's not even taking into consideration the fact that you no longer quite know what&#x27
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by janee 6y ago
I'm not sure. I work in a small stable team and I had to do a tech due diligence report... it's really amazing being able to go two years into the past and pull the exact reasons why certain design decisions were made. Not all our
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by janee 6y ago
> And yet there are people who have built cabins in Alaska with nothing but some metal and a lot of ingenuity and muscle. You're forgetting time. Not sure if you've seen "Dick Proenneke in Alone in the Wilderness" ( h
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by janee 6y ago
Sounds lame but this story really touched me. I recently visited a family member who's nearing the end and it broke my heart to see them in that condition. I'm not sure what to take from this. But thank you for sharing it
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by janee 6y ago
Collaborative spreadsheets on your desktop using browser based native file system API. Basically google spreadsheets but not google and not spreadsheets in a webapp. Haven't done any coding on it, but have been mulling the design for s
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by janee 6y ago
Tbh I would suggest joining a company that's working on something that sounds interesting to you and has a strong sense of providing mentorship. Like you mention there aren't tuts on complex systems as a single thing. I'd say
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by janee 6y ago
I wonder how much design choice goes into the actual layout and controls being used on these, i.e. is it mostly physical hardware constraints that dictate the look or user interaction. Wondering because I see a lot of symmetry in the panels

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