jchook

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by jchook 6y ago
Almost as if the corporations have a conflict of interest with their consumers.
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by jchook 6y ago
sitemap.xml can cause your search result to appear with sub-links. Keyword density (just the right amount) and total word count seem to have an effect and I’ve seen targeted landers work very well for specific search phrases. Backlinks will
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by jchook 6y ago
Wow legislating “your” Facebook page as though it’s property sounds like a slippery slope.
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by jchook 6y ago
I second this! Not math-focused, but you might love The Morning Paper: https://blog.acolyer.org/
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by jchook 6y ago
AFAIK even Chromium won't let you install an extension directly from a website. You must download it, keep it somewhere, turn on dev mode, and "load unpacked extension". It wont sync across browsers, etc. Compare this to Fire
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by jchook 6y ago
I find many developers have an aversion to directories containing many files, even if those files semantically “belong there“. I think our tools drive this aversion quite a bit.
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by jchook 6y ago
Surprisingly extensive article from Brave[1] from Aug 2018 -- two years ago! About redirect tracking, it says this: > Brave’s policy of disallowing any third party state by default makes it already more privacy-preserving than ITP 2.0 in
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by jchook 6y ago
Reading “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. He argues that this kind of “build it; they will come” aka “Just Do It” business process is a recipe for failure because you make a lot of untested assumptions about your market, and front-load a ton
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by jchook 6y ago
Gonna conjecture you submitted this link because of the discussion around Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24020899 Edit: Not trying to rag, just not
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I guess I'm mostly curious how they handle websocket load balancing.
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Surprised to see such low peak ops/sec on HAProxy
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by jchook 6y ago
All we wanted was tabs, but instead we got... tmux copy mode? Even though we already have to use tmux because... no tabs.
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by jchook 6y ago
Thanks! I'll check those out. I have the Kenesis Freestyle2 and I find it unusable without retraining much of my muscle memory. 1. The extra 2 columns of keys on the left edge somehow reliably disorients me. 2. the lack of an extra (po
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by jchook 6y ago
This is one of the two major issues I had with my last split keyboard. I also found that I orient myself by the edge of the keyboard, so an extra row of keys on the left side really throws me off. This keyboard seems to solve both of those
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by jchook 6y ago
Which cheap split keyboard do you use?
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by jchook 6y ago
What about a decentralized solution like PeerTube?
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Penrose Graphical Notation(en.wikipedia.org)
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The visualizations help a lot and allude to some kind of automated refactoring capability.
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Simulate Fire in Doom(gxding.com)
10 points by jchook 6y ago|1 comments
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Some good resources about DRY: > DRY is about knowledge. Code duplication is not the issue. https://verraes.net/2014/08/dry-is-about-knowledge/ > Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous
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Essays on programming I think about a lot(benkuhn.net)
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> ...the accuracy of "The Big Hack" (3rd citation) has been widely called into question. Certainly, but we don't need that one story, as we have plenty others... https://www.cnet.com/news/us-finds-huaw
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by jchook 6y ago
I definitely see some questionable privacy practices by Apple... - While "10x less", iPhone still sends your private information (such as location) to Apple on a regular basis[1]. - Apple encrypts iCloud backups with a key they
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by jchook 6y ago
In Chile they have 1 peso pieces so small and light you can blow them from your hand like fairy dust. The only stores that use them are big chains that operate on enormous economies of scale, e.g. Hiper Lider. When backpacking there (on ver
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by jchook 6y ago
> unicode does come with a lot of complexity in implementation As far as I know, ASCII is a proper subset of UTF-8. That makes implementation quite natural in most cases (e.g. string replacement). EDIT: Looks like Lucian built this site
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by jchook 6y ago
He even has emojis for the "avatar"...
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by jchook 6y ago
Imagine using your career position as a platform to argue that Black Americans should use “separate but equal” facilities in 2020. Should you get fired? Or is that free speech?
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by jchook 6y ago
Reminds me of the incredible Time on Unix[1] article. 1. https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2020/05/02/time-on-unix.h...
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by jchook 6y ago
If I understand it correctly, the Anderson et al study[1] basically said, “We looked at all (3?) noteworthy genetic features and they’re definitely naturally evolved and non-optimal for infecting humans.” This study seems to draw the exact
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by jchook 6y ago
Perhaps equally what you choose and choose not to watch

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