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   by jcheng 7y ago

   The stock market as a whole was up 10%.
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   by jcheng 7y ago

   The point of my comment wasn't to say "don't cache" but rather, don't expect that the OS is going to automatically do it for you (as would be the case on Windows and Mac).
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   by jcheng 7y ago

   I read this and thought, “surely there’s an OS-level DNS cache?” Apparently not on Linux! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11020027/dns-caching-in-...
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   by jcheng 7y ago

   For scale, the submarine is 2,200 tons total, so it’s a little over 3% overweight.
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   by jcheng 7y ago

   We were in WAY worse shape back then. IE6 was closed source, under-resourced (after they gained market dominance), and MS had every incentive to suppress the progress of web technologies once they ran the table. I’m not saying we shouldn’t
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   by jcheng 7y ago

   Huh, I’m wrong. Apparently variable fonts were added to OpenType only recently: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_fonts (I think the features I was thinking of were ligatures and lowercase numbers)
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   by jcheng 7y ago

   As I understand it, Type 1 multiple master was simply superseded by OpenType variable fonts back in the 90s, which is all that Google link is describing. As a user it was a relief to have, afaict, all of the features of Type 1 with all of t
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   by jcheng 7y ago

   If “burning a hole in my pocket” psychology is a struggle for you, a better banking overview screen will not set you free, but YNAB will: https://www.youneedabudget.com/ (Not affiliated, just a happy customer that finally b
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   by jcheng 7y ago

   Was this AngularJS (i.e. Angular 1) or Angular 2+? I could believe it either way, just curious.
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    I think all else being equal, yes? C# is very complicated and LINQ is an extremely complicated language feature, but if I need to express something that fits well with LINQ it’s stunningly clear. ES2017 has destructuring and async/awai
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    For the same algorithm implemented in both C and C++, I generally find the C++ easier to write and follow, yes. Am I weird?
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    That’s so interesting to me, I totally have had that experience specifically with Go! The lack of exceptions and genetics contribute greatly to Go’s simplicity but I have always felt like my code suffers for it. Do you find that your Go cod
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    But then surely the Lua code you write has to be more complex, harder to hold in your head, etc.?
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    I was surprised how little difference using a 60W instead of 87W charger mattered for MBP15, at least according to this article the actual power draw and recharge rate were pretty close: https://9to5mac.com/2018/09&#x2F
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    I assumed the reason the tool got axed was because in short order, Microsoft released its own desktop search, and then integrated it into Windows (Vista?); and Apple added Spotlight to OS X. In retrospect it’s a little surprising to me that
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    R, Matlab/Octave, Mathematica
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    > values can be inserted on different lists without new allocations Not multiple lists at the same time, surely...?
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    def b(x): return x + 1 vs x => x + 1
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    I think jdmichal’s point was that if you don’t own a property, you’ll lose money (in the form of increased rent) if the real estate market goes up. In effect, you are born with a short position on the market just by needing a place to live,
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    But in 2019 you need to compare Intel’s R&D with AMD + TSMC. What’s different this time is that Intel has lost its process node advantage.
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    When you take out a loan, it doesn't decrease your net worth, right? If I'm worth $X, then I take out a $1MM loan, at that moment I'm still worth approximately $X (because the $1MM the bank gave me and $1MM I owe the bank can
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    Lots of teams of regular-old software developers have done cool stuff over the years, but in this case, it happened to be a coddled genius. At least that is the story we've consistently been told over the years. https://en.w
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    > Now MG wants to get the cables produced as a legitimate security tool Can someone explain how these could be considered a "legitimate" security tool? What legitimate use would require the cable to look like a genuine Apple ca
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    At the time Gmail was introduced, it's hard to overstate how groundbreaking and influential it was. Totally raised the bar for web apps everywhere by making effective use of XHR, which at that time was hardly known even to web develope
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    Does "a publication like Forbes" even mean anything anymore? It's just a blogging platform these days, at least if you see the word "contributor". According to this there aren't even editors: https:/&#x2F
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    This is my understanding too, but judging from the comments in this thread, either a lot of developers aren't clear on the difference between CORS and CSRF or else they're referring to aspects of CORS I'm not familiar with.
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    Wirecutter has a section: https://thewirecutter.com/home-garden/gardening/
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    It's apparently a thing now: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233
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    by jcheng 7y ago

    I've enjoyed the Backblaze hard drive failure rate posts for years, but never realized they publish the underlying data! https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html (scroll down) It looks quite detailed
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    by jcheng 8y ago

    "a"+"b" != "b"+"a" already.