jkaptur

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   by jkaptur 5y ago

   Are you able to provide an example query?
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   by jkaptur 5y ago

   It's great to see "I'm still exploring X" called out as a standup antipattern. I've heard and (hi Zach!) said this many times. ... But I've generally heard it most frequently from the tech lead and/or mana
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   by jkaptur 5y ago

   Thanks for explaining this. I feel like I have a better understanding.
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   by jkaptur 5y ago

   > That's when they realise that most people want to talk about what they ate for breakfast… This is said pejoratively, but people want to talk about these things because it allows for a two-sided conversation, rather than a unasked-
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   by jkaptur 5y ago

   I evacuated from Superior today and am grateful to be safe. It’s amazing how quickly the situation developed. If you’re reading this, I’d encourage you to look around and think about what you’d take and where you’d go if you had to leave r
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   by jkaptur 5y ago

   How else would you implement Newton’s method? ;)
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   by jkaptur 5y ago

   I think the (unstated) expectation with code navigation tools is that they are best-effort. Beyond your example, plenty of languages allow exotic and dynamic runtime behavior - eval(..)ing user/network input, monkeypatching, etc. - tha
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   by jkaptur 5y ago

   For those not in the know, I think "where would one ever find that" is a joke about https://press.stripe.com/
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   by jkaptur 5y ago

   Enviably close to Tahoe, too.
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    I did this many years ago. It wasn't production code and I was prioritizing expediency. The class had rather complicated equals() semantics, I wanted "set" and "map" data structures, and I knew there would never be
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    That's a really good point. I wonder if folks would intuitively get it if you provided little data visualization (visible on hover or whatever). Like: Result 1: (4.5 ) Result 2: (5.0 ) edit: HN stripped out the unicode characters :(. I
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    Not to mention being accessible to people using wheelchairs.
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    It seems like that should be true, but my observation is that HN causes similar stress in people. For example, "I'm so stressed out by all these new frameworks" is a frequent comment on HN. That's FOMO, that's keepi
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    What, is that a major thing?
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    > Building engineers ensure everything is to code. Architects fret about whether it looks and feels right. The idea that architects don't worry about building code is absolutely incorrect on a project of any scale. Prima donna &quot
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    I’m a huge fan of projects like this (and Haxe) that compile to readable code in the target language. I think they should be a standard tool that people reach for whenever they’re writing logic (as opposed to plumbing). I think they’re chal
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    I've been noticing the framing "imagine if the roles had been reversed... the reaction would be totally different!" more and more, especially around contentious issues. I've never found it compelling. The argument seems
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    I love my keyboard setup! I made a little demo so you can see if you like it too: http://jkaptur.com/layout/
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    Is there a machine-readable spec for JPEGs? Did it find interesting bugs and oversights?
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    Yeah, "always use UTC" is overrated. It's useful for things that have happened , but quickly becomes unintuitive for things that will happen - including birthdays, meetings, ...
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    I wonder why there aren't more modular analytics systems out there. For example, I'd be interested in a client library that did all the useragent parsing, event batching, etc. and required me to write my own server-side logic.
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    Some platforms do this. My understanding is that they're especially motivated by the fact that many people don't really distinguish between mybank.com/changepassword and mybank.attacker.com/changepassword. However, it re
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    Why is Greenidge bringing a natural gas power plant online to do cryptocurrency mining? https://greenidgellc.com/blockchain
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    Oh wow, my first job in the industry was building something very much like this! It was actually quite powerful: the UI and simulation were done by Microsoft Project ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    I agree with you personally. For me , it's easy to gather my thoughts into sentences and paragraphs, and I'd rather learn Markdown and Hugo (or LaTeX!) than edit a video. But that isn't some kind of law of nature - it isn&#x
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    I recommend reading about the internals of CodeMirror and ProseMirror: e.g. https://codemirror.net/1/story.html .
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    I'm reminded of Amazing Military Infographics [0], particularly one of the kickers: "The United States Military is operating at a conceptual level beyond every other school of thought except perhaps academic philosophy, because it
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    How would the browser know if the image changed?
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    Drop Alt for daily use, BM43A for fun. I can never go back to a keyboard without something as flexible as QMK. I wrote a bit about why I love it so much: https://jkaptur.com/layout/ .
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    by jkaptur 5y ago

    The other famous quote in this regard is "It never gets easier, you just go faster."