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by jmiserez 5y ago
Once the hard requirement on speed impacts the quality of results it no longer helps me as a user. I'd rather have the sites invest their time in good content and wait a few seconds rather than get fast but low quality SEO-ed results.
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by jmiserez 5y ago
There are better options than SMTP. Basically any message-oriented middleware / message queuing service can provide this. It's great for both sides, maintenance/outages can happen independently, as long as the queue stays onl
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by jmiserez 5y ago
Nope, see https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mighty and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26957215
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by jmiserez 5y ago
Or just hop on a car train (while staying in your car). It's super relaxing e.g through a tunnel, you just drive on and then off. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_shuttle_train for some examples.
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by jmiserez 5y ago
I know it's not the same, but technically you could do that with every format: just ship a JPEG decoder and detect if the input is a JPEG. The other way round would be much cooler, i.e. if each JPEG XL file also was a valid JPEG.
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by jmiserez 5y ago
My first ever job (in high school) was manually counting mosquito larvae in water samples for our local department of agriculture. IIRC the aforementioned technique doesn't really work for that, instead they collected samples regularly
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by jmiserez 5y ago
HN discussion (307 points, 5 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27317946
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by jmiserez 5y ago
Quoting dang: > On HN, downvoting for disagreement has always been fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314 Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20258525
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by jmiserez 5y ago
Anyone remember Experts-Exchange? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experts_Exchange ) I remember answering questions on there before StackOverflow existed. The mix of volunteers answering and paying users feeling entitled
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by jmiserez 6y ago
(2017), not (2020), see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15772065
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by jmiserez 6y ago
A classic one is chmod 777 for "fixing" Linux issues. Especially once you couldn't just login as root anymore in many distros.
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by jmiserez 6y ago
I like the idea, and "actionable paid insights into the future of this tool we depend on" might be a good sell. But maybe don't make it a subscription, one off payments can be easier to get approval for even if they occur eve
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by jmiserez 6y ago
Interesting points, and I have to say they do ring true. The type system is definitely limited and if you compare it to Haskell I understand 100% why you'd be frustrated. And the docs are overly verbose while simultaneously not being d
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by jmiserez 6y ago
> deeply unpleasant to use, such a profoundly nightmarish vampire of morality, so utterly and irredeemably cruel in it's ability to strip all joy out of the art of software development... Oh my... As a Java developer, I'm curi
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by jmiserez 6y ago
> Security static analysis on the other hand is pretty overrated most of the time unless you work really hard to make it fit in your context. I think the "unless" part is key here. If used correctly, it's crazy what these
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by jmiserez 6y ago
Cyclomatic complexity IMHO isn't a good metric for code complexity as understood by humans, but sometimes it can be insightful especially when it's unexpected. My favorite static analysis issues are the ones that flip-flop between
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by jmiserez 6y ago
No, you are both correct. You are talking about the SSPL, the parent poster you are replying to is talking about the Elastic License which does in fact prevent you from modifying the code and running it in production: See 2.2 Restrictions:
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by jmiserez 6y ago
I don't think lying has much of an effect, the main thing that counts for "potential future" is being alive / able to "live". IIRC the metric is routinely used when evaluating new treatments, measuring their as
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by jmiserez 6y ago
There is no need for magical thinking, but you do need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Many countries view it as a much simpler problem of optimizing their society as a whole: 1. There are N doctors & medical supplie
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by jmiserez 6y ago
For one, minimizing disability-adjusted life years lost. Of course it's not perfect and making this the the only criterium would be morally wrong, but it's definitely more fair than going by bank accounts. Quote ( https:/&#
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by jmiserez 6y ago
Depends on the bulbs. Our Philips Hue bulbs (ZigBee) work perfectly fine. None of the issues you or the OP describes are an issue: they continue to work as regular bulbs if the hub fails, can be paired via Bluetooth app without proximity to
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by jmiserez 6y ago
If you spam me with SMS or on WhatsApp for sales, I'll just block it and not buy anything. Not sure how others would react, but to me it's just as intrusive as a phone call. Unfortunately, I'm sure in 5 years no one will care
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by jmiserez 6y ago
Actually the functions are always shown in the user's language. The formulas are translated even for files created in other languages, which makes it a lot easier for beginners.
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by jmiserez 6y ago
I'm not sure that's the case, rather I think that companies pay to have their apps featured on the remote, not the other way round.
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by jmiserez 6y ago
Just FYI the remote app is baked into iOS. Whenever there's text input on the AppleTV the iPhone will show a notification in the drawer that can be used for text input. It's very convenient and works well.
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by jmiserez 6y ago
Yes, and my 2019 model recently started showing this: > Support for the Ambient mode Headlines Service is scheduled to end on September 30, 2020. We thank you for using the service and we look forward to providing an improved alternative
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by jmiserez 6y ago
Unfortunately no, it can be a problem even for past dates. The new java.time and old java.util.TimeZone APIs use different offsets for dates < 1990, which resulted in a difference of 6 minutes and 32 seconds for my dates. I filed a bug (
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by jmiserez 6y ago
If Flash was rendered natively in the browser, sandboxed and across different browsers, and with high enough performance/low enough battery impact, it would have stayed. There were efforts similar to PDF.js to run Flash content using J
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by jmiserez 6y ago
It's called binaural sound, and can be played back on any headphones.
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by jmiserez 6y ago
You probably pressed the power button twice on accident while declining the call. That activates Apple Pay, but would be unrelated to any calls.

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