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by jholman 8y ago
I am confused by the world you live in. Yes, above a certain size, companies typically have some formal procedures. But typically those are a fig leaf. In many labour markets, there's a legal 90-day probation or equivalent. You bet y
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Is this the worst-written announcement ever, or am I going to lose my settings when FF goes to version 68?
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Wait, what? IIRC Stubby is a lockserver, used for two things: coordinated locks, and small coordinated data. You mean protobuff, don't you? Am I misremembering and/or wrong?
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by jholman 8y ago
I think JS is a great first language. In my experience as a teacher of programming, most students are not like me. Unlike me, nearly every student of my acquaintance is motivated by making things . It's easier in JS to make things
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Your point is that you don't know what an apology is.
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Of course it's about trade. This isn't about an argument between you and China, it's about US foreign policy toward China, vs Chinese foreign policy towards the US. The US has never cared about human rights violations as a
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by jholman 8y ago
God, this is great. My personal favourite bit is "I am tempted to go full Slav on Conor....". If there are any would-be impresarios or producers out there, I propose the following format for an adaptation of this that would permi
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by jholman 8y ago
I suspect that "knots" was supposed to be "noughts", a.k.a zeros. That is, the last few times the 100-point batsman was at bat, he got struck out without scoring any points. Is he washed up? I don't think it'
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by jholman 8y ago
As one of the FF faithful, I almost quit when downthemall stopped working. https://www.downthemall.net/
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Bookmarklet for fixed multiplier: javascript:void%20function(){document.querySelector(%22video%22).playbackRate=1.7}(); Bookmarklet for variable multiplier: javascript:void%20function(){document.querySelector(%22video%22).playbackRate=parse
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by jholman 8y ago
It continues to frustrate me that no one seems to have a better name for this process than "rasterization". It frustrates me because that word very clearly seems to say "turning non-raster data into rasters". This pro
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Yes, we know that, and I even said that in my comment, which I'm sure you read. But many things that were discussed in TFA are blocked on other things that were discussed, and yet still got hundreds of words of article space.
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You might similarly ask why app stores on iOS and Android are such a big deal, and why Steam is even a thing. It's because deployment is a harder problem than development (at least, it's harder for developers, because deployment i
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by jholman 8y ago
Okay, I've only done the over-breakfast skim of this, and I hate to be that guy who comments without having fully read TFA, but here I go anyway... I don't see any explicit mention of what I understand to be the killer feature: th
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by jholman 8y ago
Not the person you replied to, but I know well a person who * does zero exercise, other than a few short walks every workday * has done very little exercise at any time in the last 20+ years * is as sedentary as life allows him to be * can
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by jholman 8y ago
The blindness/sightedness phenomenon you're describing is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight . There's a controversial opposite, called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant
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by jholman 8y ago
"Guilty of losing patience" is nonsense. If you look at the process by which web standards advance, it requires that two or more vendors have created proof-of-concept implementations, before the standard can be standardized. Tha
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by jholman 8y ago
I'm currently using FF 61, I've been using FF for a decade, with no special configuration. I currently have over one thousand tabs open, no sweat. Of all the reasons to prefer Chrome to FF, I don't understand how performanc
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by jholman 8y ago
Just for completeness, the "VM"s in this article have nothing to do with containers. But of course we all read the article before commenting and we all know that, right? Without being an expert in virtualization or containerizati
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by jholman 8y ago
Sure, it's clear that all of the games that I and others mentioned were not created by TenCent. Again, that's something that takes about 1 minute to discover on Wikipedia. But you moved the goalposts. Nobody upthread asked if T
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by jholman 8y ago
It's not. But Tencent owns them. Seriously, go spend 15 minutes on wikipedia.
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Is it worse than calling your auto-resizing-sequence type "vector", even though a vector is properly a tuple of (arbitrary) fixed size, and is incomparable with another thing of any other size? (okay, I guess it might be worse tha
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by jholman 8y ago
Have you heard of League of Legends? Path of Exile? Clash of Clans? Gears of War? They entirely own one of those, and own significant shares in the others. Here, let me help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent
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by jholman 8y ago
A) First and foremost, yes, that's why. B) I think the assumption is that 100% of salespeople are motivated almost entirely by greed, whereas it's less clear that this is as simple with people in general.
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Is this an Apple problem? I've used a few different Linux distros over the decades, and all already had these improvements built into the default bashrc (well, maybe HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE could afford to be larger, but they'r
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by jholman 8y ago
> That's contrary to the old saying: a bad workman always blames his tools That is not what that means. If GP had said "I cannot write good code in Emacs", that'd be a poor craftsman blaming their tools. But saying &
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What makes you think that the HN poster has any affiliation with the project, or vice versa?
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I think Google's total cost is more than $100-200 billion. It's a bit hard to pin down what "total cost" means in this context, though. But their 2017 operating expenses were $82 billion. Each year is higher than the
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I think you're mistaken. I, like you, am riled up by people using puff words to inflate the apparent credibility of claims, often claims that have little or no basis for actual credibility. But I think that "statistically speaking
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by jholman 8y ago
It matters because you replied to a comment about Emotion saying "styled-components or death". If you wanted to compare it to something other than what the parent comment was talking about, maybe you should have made your own comm

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