jballanc

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by jballanc 8mo ago
Wait until you find out where "tty" comes from!
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by jballanc 8mo ago
When I was a young kid, my mother was a “stay at home mom”, which meant that she babysat the kids of 5 or 6 of the other families in our neighborhood where both parents worked. For me, it was a wonderful experience growing up having a ready
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by jballanc 8mo ago
Reporting blatant criminal violations is not the same thing as moderating otherwise-protected speech that could be construed as misleading, offensive, or objectionable in some other way.
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by jballanc 8mo ago
The problem with this is that section 230 was specifically created to promote editorializing. Before section 230, online platforms were loath to engage in any moderation because they feared that a hint of moderation would jump them over
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by jballanc 11mo ago
More like it's time for the pendulum to swing back... We had very decentralized "internet" with BBSes, AOL, Prodigy, etc. Then we centralized on AOL (ask anyone over 40 if they remember "AOL Keyword: ACME" plastered
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by jballanc 2y ago
Yeah, "foolish" maybe wasn't the right word. All metaphors fall short in some way (hence why they're metaphors). I just, knowing something of the history of that part of the world, like to use the opportunity to share th
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by jballanc 2y ago
Shoot, you're absolutely right! It's been a long while since I last re-read the article, and I had forgotten how "targeted" (for lack of a better term) it was at certain specific individuals.
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by jballanc 2y ago
It's a reference to Eric S. Raymond's famous article "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", where he compares the rather top-down, leader driven culture of Unix development to the free-for-all style of Linux. Of course, I alway
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by jballanc 2y ago
I can tell you the same thing I was told when I started my program: no thesis represents more than 1 year's worth of work. The reason it takes most Ph.D.s 5-10 years (8 in my case) to graduate is that you have to fail, and fail, and fa
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by jballanc 2y ago
And concrete dates back to (at least) Roman times
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by jballanc 2y ago
I'm no expert on Tor, but IIRC the story is precisely that spies operating from hostile territory would have a red target painted on them from using encrypted communications...unless a whole lot of people in that hostile territory we
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by jballanc 2y ago
Nice write-up, but no discussion of Ruby's Range class is complete without at least a mention of the venerable flip-flop! Can you predict the output of the following? (1..20).each do |i| puts i if i.odd?..i.prime? end
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by jballanc 2y ago
Without having read in-depth either original paper, it seems like the issue here is much simpler than reproduction (though reproduction is the gold standard as is totally under-appreciated these days). Rather, it seems the authors made a mu
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by jballanc 2y ago
It is extremely hard! Dealerships don't make most of their money (or any money, really) selling cars. They make their money from service, and selling info to 3rd parties (ever notice when you buy a new car, you will receive mail fr
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by jballanc 2y ago
I agree, and in fact I would consider working with junior developers a highlight of my day because there is an inherent virtue in the "beginners mind". And you're not wrong that juniors writing things that seem more complicat
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by jballanc 2y ago
In principal I agree, and it's not like I'm losing entire days to this sort of thing (well, once I did, but only once ), but there's a tricky interplay of experience + lingering imposter syndrome. I do a fair bit of jumping
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Ask HN: Has anyone else found it harder to review code recently?
28 points by jballanc 2y ago|40 comments
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by jballanc 2y ago
We're getting a factory seconds one for my son (he loves to tinker, so the fact that it'll need various upgrades is a feature, not a bug). If I were to get one for work, I'd likely start with Ubuntu, but I've really been
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by jballanc 2y ago
Yes! I don't currently have a Framework 13, but this is making it reeeallly hard to hold out any longer. Yes, upgrading parts instead of buying a whole new laptop is more economical, and more environmentally friendly, but I think the r
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by jballanc 2y ago
This is why one of my favorite series of questions to pull out during an interview are: What is your favorite programming language/library/technology? What do you hate about it? Anyone that jumps to answer the first but struggles
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by jballanc 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | US/Europe/Asia | Clojure/JS/DevOps We are a small, close-knit team of software craftspeople, spanning the range from mid-level to very senior (some of us have been writing code for 20+ years). We
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by jballanc 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | US/Europe/Asia | Clojure/JS/DevOps We are a small, close-knit team of software craftspeople, spanning the range from mid-level to very senior (some of us have been writing code for 20+ years). We
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by jballanc 3y ago
Getting Julia to statically compile is not even that hard anymore. I think people are merely turned off by the lack of a (consistent, well supported) story around distributing Julia apps as single, statically-compiled binaries.
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by jballanc 3y ago
>None of those people noticed before the instruments registered a detection. IIRC, the reason no one noticed is that even the strongest gravitational waves are only going to "stretch" space by something less than the diameter o
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by jballanc 3y ago
Based on the fee being below 60th only, you can easily cross the GWB into Bronx without getting anywhere near the toll.
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by jballanc 3y ago
About time! NYC is easily the city most connected by public transit in the US. Manhattan doubly so. In fact, you can find relatively nice, reasonably discounted hotels in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood because it is a relative public
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Still Beating the Averages(gaiwan.co)
2 points by jballanc 4y ago|0 comments
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by jballanc 7y ago
I believe the idea was for this capability to go along with the ISS as a life-boat contingency. That is: shuttle is damaged on launch such that a safe return is no longer a sure thing, so the crew links up with the ISS, shuttle attempts a
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by jballanc 7y ago
Everyone's missing the more obvious (recent) massive rebranding: Comcast to Xfinity.
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by jballanc 7y ago
So, two quick points in response: 1. Yeah, I probably overstated the case. It's not as if it's impossible to move a gene somewhere else on a chromosome and have it function completely normally. As you point out, we do this all the

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