johnthuss

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by johnthuss 4y ago
Let's see... stay at Twitter and work in person 80 hours a week on software to try to avoid going bankrupt, OR find a new fully remote job with more reasonable expectations. Hard choice.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
I don't blame him for trying to rein in costs, but man, it would be hard to work under these conditions. Why would anyone stay?
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by johnthuss 4y ago
Here's the tweet: 12 years ago, Twitter’s office used a Mac Mini to tunnel into the servers. One day, an IT guy found it in the closet. “Anyone know who owns this?” “Unplug it. Someone will show up.” Everyone lost access to servers. Hu
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"There were many unpopular parenting rules I followed as a young mother. But my No. 1 was: Don’t do anything for your kids that they can do for themselves."
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"81% of U.S. adults say they believe in God" This seems like a more natural way of framing the data than this headline.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
Wouldn't it be reasonable to make the vulnerable version(s) unavailable? Then the consumers will be forced to choose a patched version.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
It seems like this "feature" would greatly constrain the evolution of the API if they have to preserve the shortest version of each option to avoid breaking clients. It would mean "git commit --am" always means "ame
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by johnthuss 4y ago
Youtube Music (which replaced Google Play Music) allows you upload your own library of songs. The app UI makes it fairly difficult to find them and play them, but it does work. If you can tolerate the app's UI, that's one way to g
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by johnthuss 4y ago
This looks really great, but it’s hard to find a situation where I would want to use this rather than the native apps, with the exception on Find My.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
Sweet! I’ve been wanting this for a long time.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
I got burned like this hot cake.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
An after-market car horn claims to be almost twice as loud as the loudest recorded sound in human history: the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
For professional purposes, you might not need to know more (except SQL perhaps). But I would encourage you to also learn a statically typed language, like Swift or Kotlin or Go.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
The watermelon smashing was quite memorable. I don't think I've ever seen anything else quite like it.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
It's been nice to see Aurora getting Postgres updates faster now. That was a real downer for a while. They were always several major versions behind for the last few years.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=4xbbpH-20ak
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"By using PET scans, the presence of tau and amyloid in the participants' brains could be visualized." This is good, but still makes me queasy. Would you really want to know ahead of time? On a related note, maybe dogs can pr
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by johnthuss 4y ago
Apple is already doing search on a huge scale and will continue doing it -- that's what the "Siri Suggested website" is that shows up when you type in Safari's search bar, on both iOS and the Mac. It's under the rad
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by johnthuss 4y ago
I've tried both sides of the "id" naming issue when designing databases and I can say from experience that using plain "id" as a column name is not a good idea.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"As long as we pointlessly rename a bunch of stuff, we can create as much work for ourselves as we like, as well as for those who consume our APIs." Whee! This is a fun article.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
My best advice is to tell her to read HN every day. :-)
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by johnthuss 4y ago
WOW. This is fantastic. Works for me in desktop Safari! My only recommendation would be to use more broken HTML, but that would probably be a pain to maintain.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
The pushback against remote work is definitely accelerating, with productivity metrics showing large decreases. It's interesting how productivity seemed to rise when remote work started in 2020 and now seems to be lagging.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
Great work by the Citrus/Postgres teams here! The last several versions of Postgres have all had killer features.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"With Xcode 14, any app that relied on bitcode is no longer stripping binary symbols from their production app." This is a thoroughly researched article that clearly shows the cause and provides a solution. I hope the developers o
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by johnthuss 4y ago
I, for one, welcome our new flying taxi overlords.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
The pushback against remote work is definitely accelerating, with productivity metrics showing large decreases. It's interesting how productivity seemed to rise when remote work started in 2020 and now seems to be lagging.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
The pushback against remote work is definitely accelerating, with productivity metrics showing large decreases. It's interesting how productivity seemed to rise when remote work started in 2020 and now seems to be lagging.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
“the default will be to look at verified. You can still look at unverified, just as in your gmail or whatever, you can still look at the probable spam folder” I get why he wanted to change the way verified works now. That’s how he will bloc
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by johnthuss 4y ago
This is a great encouragement for developers to not undervalue the usefulness of their apps. Most software is free (ad supported) that should be paid for directly instead.

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