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by jkaptur 6y ago
It will be interesting to see to what extent work travel is sort of a prisoner's dilemma: if we all just stay home, then, as you say, everything ticks along better and cheaper, but if it benefits someone to "defect" and tra
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by jkaptur 6y ago
In case someone isn't aware, Designing Data-Intensive Applications is a very good introduction to distributed databases, even if it doesn't specialize in them.
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I built a (diff) app that doesn't, but I have no idea how to promote that without making people even more suspicious.
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I’ve been working on a codebase like this, and my major complaint is that I’ll see a deeply-nested test and have to scroll waaaaay up to understand the context. I prefer ‘foo_bar_baz’, ‘foo_bar_qux’ to foo <snip 1000 lines&
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Show HN: I made a demo of my keyboard layout(jkaptur.com)
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I was curious, so I looked it up: "There are no formal education or experience requirements for this position." https://a127-jobs.nyc.gov/psc/nycjobs/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HR... It doesn&#x2
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Where can I read more about the "decrease quite a bit"? People have been predicting that for centuries (Malthus, etc.) and they've all been spectacularly wrong so far.
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That’s an interesting idea - you could even imagine an “Electron without the networking” so you wouldn’t have to take the whole computer offline.
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My diff tool, diff.so, is a web app, but it doesn’t send the text to the server (unless you publish). I wish there were a technical mechanism that could guarantee and enforce that, and certify it to users.
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There were documented procedures: > The Fund Sighting Manual explains that, in order to suppress payment of a principal amount, “ALL of the below field[s] must be set to the wash account: FRONT[;] FUND[; and] PRINCIPAL” and checklists: &
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by jkaptur 6y ago
The binary distinction between "cost centers" and "profit centers" has always seemed arbitrary to me (especially since, as an engineer, I've been in both without my work being substantially different). To be frank,
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What if there are recursive function calls?
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Couldn't you say this about virtually any hardware improvement?
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I agree with everything you’ve said, but I want to push back on the (non-load-bearing) “few have much energy for fighting the idea that literature should be studied for it’s own sake.” It seems to me that lots of people have endless energy
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No... I’d reread.
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I really enjoyed The Hacker and the State by Ben Buchanan. It explores why various nations pursue cyber operations the way they do.
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Everett Shinn: From Street Scenes to Stage and Screen(artoutthewazoo.wordpress.com)
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I think design thinking is one of the ideas that has won. My observations (n=small) are that people no longer blame themselves for not understanding complicated user experiences - they correctly blame the technology (and technologists) invo
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by jkaptur 6y ago
> ... running breweries and hydroponic farms, with no desire to ever again touch a compiler, let alone get back into the fray. Reiterating the point of the article: it doesn't need to be this way . Whether tech is your passion, you
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by jkaptur 6y ago
> I can set my own alarms, thank you. And not only that, but a specialized user interface is often preferable to voice even when the assistant passes the Turing test. There's a reason that people use apps to get food delivery rather
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by jkaptur 6y ago
JIRA! I suppose that's why they call it "organized crime".
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You could get a keyboard that supports QMK, then set up the shortcuts at the keyboard level, rather than the OS.
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I mean, if you define "whatever Ruby and Python do" to be intuitive, then, sure, every other language is going to have "a long list of weird footguns". JS has many quirks, but I like that the numeric representation is ex
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by jkaptur 6y ago
Interesting - I view it the opposite way. In JavaScript, you need to know the details of exactly one numeric type: the regular, standard IEEE 754 float that's used by Java, Python, C++ (generally), and every other programming language
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by jkaptur 6y ago
"All parties are fairly equally corrupt" is a personal political view. Anyway, it's not a series, but I bet you and OP would enjoy The Irishman.
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Wait, politics ruins stories, but you like House of Cards?
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Does using the .to TLD really imply that the request has to make a hop through Tonga? I'm not a DNS expert, but that doesn't sound right. (I ask as the owner of a .so site...)
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by jkaptur 6y ago
I don't quite follow what you mean by "Brideshead Revisited hangover" - from Wikipedia, it seems like it roughly means "nostalgia for the age of English aristocracy"?
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Memoization? Or dynamic programming? The latter is a funny story: > ... Thus, I thought dynamic programming was a good name. It was something not even a Congressman could object to. So I used it as an umbrella for my activities. http:&#
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by jkaptur 6y ago
Is there a name for the opposite effect? If not, I propose the "Sinclair Effect" after "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." You open the newspaper t

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