jkoudys

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by jkoudys 7y ago
Because I'd be there on business? You seem weirdly upset that I'd want to see my family after work.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Interesting -- I'll look into that for NYC. I'm CTO at a startup based in Toronto, but we have a tiny space in Manhattan so it's pretty easy for me to schedule some business there and have my family tag along.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
What's definitely not the answer is leaving valuable real estate empty. I'm out of town a couple weekends a month, and travel to visit the wife's family overseas for around a month every year. No way to do short term rentals
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Yeah those cleaning fees are bullshit. I don't want to see the prices of only one item on a list shown on the map, I want to see how much it actually costs to stay there. tbf you'll see this on a lot of hotel bookings too. We just
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by jkoudys 7y ago
That's great for the people who have an easy time affording their units and can pay a premium for the peace and quiet. I bought in a building that banned airbnb 2 weeks after my purchase. We go away often on weekends or for a 1-month s
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by jkoudys 7y ago
If it were simply ancient, that'd be one thing, but it's a weird hybrid of es3 with _some_ es5 features, and some es6 ones that often don't work the same. e.g. it has `const`, but no `let`, and it's not even block scoped
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I've been hit by this at least a half dozen times over my career. Apps scripts are probably the latest one causing me pain. I love being able to integrate with docs & sheets, but man if that ecma version isn't ancient af.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I frequently run across libs that are more complicated to configure and call than implementing the features myself. I'll often roll my own simply because the lib (even if it's really popular) takes more time to use than that &quot
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I much prefer regular meetups if you're looking to branch out and meet new devs. The hackathon style of coding isn't really all that practical - even if you work at a mismanaged company that's constantly in "crunch time&
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by jkoudys 7y ago
What you're missing is covered in the article: the purpose of testing is to improve the product, not accurately document all the problems with one iteration of it. Better to test with 3 sessions of 5 users, than 1 session of 15.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Not really. A => B doesn't imply that not-A => not-B. Total number of jobs or time spent in the labour market is one thing, but ultimately what we care about is efficiently creating utility. If I need to spend 5h working to get e
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Yeah, it's not saying "your Yg^V2jw,C~8fpVnq doesn't matter", just your "Pa$$Word". Don't be a human being who tries to remember these things. A password manager also protects you against phishing attacks,
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Security theatre, plain and simple. The harder something feels to guess to the human brain, the more secure it is.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
BBSes made such a difference in my childhood. I think my parents wished I was chasing a hoop down the street with a stick, playing stickball, or some other confused memory they had of their own childhood that was probably just an episode of
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by jkoudys 7y ago
It's a bit like winning a game of chess by angering your opponent to the point where they have a heart attack and die.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Some are good, but that Lupin guy... geez. I'd like to think I'm a lot less elitist than I was when I was so (I assume) young, but he comes across a bit "racisist" himself.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I'm making a trello card with a "reach goal" of saving things in 8.4 bits right now.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
As a Canadian, it's crazy that anyone could think of the Democrats as far left. Our Conservative party stopped fighting against gay marriage before the Democrats did.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
This is a comments section. If you want citations, read articles. It's impolite to demand someone here be held to that standard. We know from context that these are opinions, and everyone has the opportunity to provide citations if the
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Right on. I've seen an incredible amount of misunderstanding, unusual for hackernews, in these comments. If FOX news runs front-page mugshots non stop every time an immigrant commits a crime, that shows a massive bias and leads its rea
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by jkoudys 7y ago
The drive to dilute the term is putting a lot of energy into making fighting fake news more difficult. There can be more than one bad thing happening in the world, but lumping them all together is just an excuse not to do anything about any
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by jkoudys 7y ago
It seems like even personally identifying as conservative or liberal is a fairly new (last 30 years) change. Time was it meant "stay the course" vs "shake things up", which are reasonable things the change your mind abou
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Sure, and while biased reporting can certainly promote an incorrect worldview, it doesn't quite meet the standard of being "fake". The game is much more about outright fabricated stories that gain credibility. There can be mo
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by jkoudys 7y ago
You wouldn't, but many do. That's exactly the problem - borders are always going to be a legal grey area, so many will focus on crossing the border illegally, even if they make an asylum claim after they arrive.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I'd say it's symptoms vs cause. America has grown increasingly xenophobic, and as a result you have a POTUS with a base that rallies around him more when he fear-mongers in direct contradiction to easily verified data. Things defi
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Sure, but the choice to include them in that set is what's in question. Someone who crosses the border and makes an asylum claim may have technically made an illegal entry, but their status is under review to determine if they're
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by jkoudys 7y ago
and if you're only looking at the people around you in your own country, that can undersell their influence even more. The entirety of India runs on WhatsApp these days. I was in Cartagena earlier this year, and even their taxi cab dis
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I did service work at a big corp for years, and we would've loved to take a problem like yours. I'd always want the tickets that came in with some interesting, visible pattern and a client who's already done some analysis. Mu
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Or five nines in hex.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I agree with all of that, but still have fear about how unhinged the us could become in that scenario. No matter how unhealthy, uneducated, disrespectful of the judiciary & rule of law, and xenophobic the population grows, the governmen

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