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by jjice 2y ago
Smoking on the streets affects everyone else walking on the street. Drinking a cup of coffee on the street affects no one else. It seems like you may have been making a more general social commentary, but I think this is pretty separate, si
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by jjice 2y ago
I recall the hosts joking about this on Oxide and Friends, as they worked at Sun in the 90s up through the Sun acquisition. Some of their finds are hilarious. I think Brian had found a "Windows on MIPS" shirt at a thrift store?
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by jjice 2y ago
> Even at that level it's a lot of added code which means slower executable. Does it? Legitimate question. I would've assume that this could be almost entirely negligible depending on how the code is loaded into the runtime. If
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by jjice 2y ago
> I find it very unlikely that TurboTax is beloved enough to merit 4.8 stars. TurboTax is the most popular tax software in the US, and I imagine iOS is one of their larger platforms. I bet the majority of Americans who use it just punch
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by jjice 2y ago
I haven't been on an Amtrak in about six months, so it may have changed, but where were you boarding? Was it New York? Boarding in NY is slow and structured, but when I've boarded in Back Bay (Boston), Portland (Maine), and Provid
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by jjice 2y ago
Right, but it's not the main focus in the majority of games. In many games that do offer gyro support, it's usually able to be toggled off. It's not like the Wii where the core of the controllers was pointing them and swingin
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by jjice 2y ago
I personally don't have much faith that Nintendo will do that, _but_ I hope I'm wrong. That would be wonderful. Also just removing some of the lag from those games (and the Link's Awakening remake was pretty bad) would be a b
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My words definitely could've been better. I was referring to "portability" as the gimmick here since it's not the norm in the industry for primary console. Nintendo did handhelds for years, but that was also a secondary
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by jjice 2y ago
"Gimmicky" in the sense that they used movement controls and that's non-standard in the industry and went away mostly afterwards. I'm considering anything that isn't a traditional stationary control (keyboard + mous
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I think they're fine when mounted, but I use a the pro controller. Using them individually when you have people over sucks, but it's a neat way to turn one controller into two, so I can't throw too much hate. That's if w
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by jjice 2y ago
I’m glad to see Nintendo found a form factor that’s kind of gimmicky that actually worked. The Wii and Wii U were too gimmicky, but portability was a great choice. I’m also glad to see backwards compatibility. I’m excited to see what kind o
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by jjice 2y ago
I love a paper back, but man did I fall in love with ebooks in the last year and a half. I own a Kindle and a Kobo and it's just so incredible for traveling (instead of carrying two books in my backpack) and in bed (the screen backligh
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by jjice 2y ago
When I was in uni, I found that just having a boring cover letter drastically increased the odds of an interview (for internships and post grad work). I bet a lot of places just have a filter that adds you as a higher priority purely on the
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by jjice 2y ago
My personal favorites: - Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Martin Fowler) - early-mid 2000s and it stays valuable to this day. It's nice to have a formalized view of concepts you know in practice. - Clean Architecture (R
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by jjice 2y ago
I've used Firefox on desktop since 2019. It's upsetting how often (it's not every day, but more often than it should) a website just doesn't work because of the devs didn't test on Firefox at all. I even ran into th
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by jjice 2y ago
I'm a big fan of prefixed keys as well. If I could go back in time, I would've made my current company's API keys prefixed. Sometimes you'll chat with a customer and just notice the same isn't right and realize the
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by jjice 2y ago
This the reason I tend to not use a serverless solution in most cases. I want my code to be written and executed on my machine in a way that can at least kind of resemble the production execution environment. I want a binary that gets run a
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by jjice 2y ago
Fully solo can be a lot of fun sometimes, but a good team that complements each other makes the days so much more enjoyable. I've worked on many projects where I could almost completely ignore our front end because we had great front e
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by jjice 2y ago
Big plus to this one. I carry a 15” from Amazon for something absurd like $80 whenever I’m working while visiting family. Doubling your screen real estate in the go is a massive win.
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by jjice 2y ago
Eli Bendersky just has a nice hodgepodge of different things. You can tell when he dives into something new when you see a small series pop up. https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
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by jjice 2y ago
Oh wow this is on the dot - this is something my sister has spoken to. The switch from phonics to (some other way of teaching reading by essentially guessing based on word shape that I can't recall the name of). It seems similar to com
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by jjice 2y ago
Huh, I always get a kick of finding out I’ve been spelling something wrong for a while haha. I appreciate the correction.
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by jjice 2y ago
> Parents that believe it is solely the school/teacher's job to educate their child. My sister works with kids on their speech at a school and she's said that it's _bad_ how many children can't read or tell you w
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by jjice 2y ago
I've been so picky over the years and tried so many different services, but I always ended up back in a spreadsheets. Infinite configurability, but more manual. That said, I found a middle ground about six months ago. The spreadsheet
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by jjice 2y ago
Real name for LinkedIn, GitHub, and my website. Everything else is a nonsense name, often varying. Varying mostly because it's fun to have a goofy name on a platform (like mine here on HN). Years and years ago, I used my real name on R
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by jjice 2y ago
Wake up, start the coffee maker, brush my teeth, use the restroom, and then enjoy my coffee til 9 where I start my remote day. I wake up at 8 and start work at 9. I used to have desires for an extensive, productive morning routine, but now
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by jjice 2y ago
Interested in weighing frequency. I was recently eating in a caloric surplus to aid in muscle gain and I didn't weigh myself super frequently, but as I'm coming up on a cut that'll be a bit harder for me, I'm interested
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by jjice 2y ago
+2 for ripgrep. Modern PCRE regex with lighting speed. I run into so many issues trying to adapt the regex in my head (usually PCRE) into the older grep and egrep style.
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by jjice 2y ago
I'm happy with my software career at the moment and I think I'm on a pretty good "auto-pilot" for progressing. I want to focus on my physical health this year. I'm about six months in of consistent weight training a
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by jjice 2y ago
Good error reporting gets really tricky with generated parsers. That said, it can be a nice time saver for smaller things like DSLs and languages early on. Even then, yacc and bison are pretty solid overall. I believe Postgres still uses a

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