jonnytran

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by jonnytran 7y ago
Hi, I basically agree. But can you expand on this? What exactly do you (or anyone reading this) see as such a problem with regard to interviewing? Especially, anything you see that's gotten worse.
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by jonnytran 7y ago
We need Time Capsule. Period. It was discontinued in 2018. [1] I am still so sad about this. 1: https://www.macworld.com/article/3269361/apple-discontinues-...
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by jonnytran 7y ago
Can you explain how this is so much different in terms of performance? Since users doesn't have direct access to the prototypes, they're not doing arbitrary manipulation or creating long chains of them.
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by jonnytran 7y ago
That's a cool little app. But at some point, I became very wary of running free, closed-source binaries from the Internet. What do you think about this one?
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by jonnytran 7y ago
Dropbox is one. It always prompts me for my password whenever it launches. I always cancel. It works perfectly without it.
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by jonnytran 7y ago
The setting name is: network.security.esni.enabled
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by jonnytran 7y ago
That's a cool feature. I'd like to see this in other languages and become the norm.
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by jonnytran 7y ago
A better example of a complicated type that no one ever loads into their short term memory is the type of a parsed JSON object from an API response. No one ever bothers to figure out or reason about the type. They have documentation or an
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by jonnytran 7y ago
Yes, it's this flexibility that allows you to experiment. Static typing proponents often say, since a type-error means that the code doesn't make sense, why would you ever want to run code that doesn't typecheck? But I find
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by jonnytran 7y ago
This is a straw man argument. Sure, if your types are simple like int, string, or float, you might as well write them down rather than keep them in your head. They double as documentation. However, the other cases are where it matters. 1
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by jonnytran 7y ago
If you admit that tests are necessary in statically typed languages (which I agree with), then why does having to write tests in dynamic languages make them harder to use? Presumably, you were going to write them in the statically typed la
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by jonnytran 7y ago
I feel the same. However, as an avid Signal user, I feel I must warn you of a huge issue in the Signal iOS client that has been open for years -- it doesn't support backup or transferring your messages to a new phone. https:/&
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by jonnytran 7y ago
The recent thread titled "The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)" is also relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167686
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by jonnytran 7y ago
That's in macOS System Preferences. I use it all the time. Go to Trackpad / More Gestures and check "Swipe between pages". You can also control how many fingers you want to use. I set it to three fingers so that it d
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by jonnytran 7y ago
> I’m absolutely certain that Chrome would have preferred fixing the API if that was at all possible rather than replacing it with a new one. This is such bullshit. Even if this were true, they could have replaced it with an API that di
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by jonnytran 8y ago
But it's the same old hardware in the clearance section of their website. We want an updated version of the iPhone SE, the so-called SE2, with new internals. Not to mention, some promise that iOS updates will continue to be supported
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by jonnytran 8y ago
How do you know they got the message? There has been no indication of any major phone company making a phone in this form factor that even comes close. If there were, I'd love to know about it. I switched from Android to iOS just for
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by jonnytran 8y ago
Why has the title and link of this post changed? It used to link here: https://myaccount.google.com/purchases The title used to be, "Google reads your Gmail and scrapes your purchases". It also was #1 on the front
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by jonnytran 8y ago
There was a whole thread on this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18054574
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by jonnytran 8y ago
Relevant xkcd: Customer Rewards https://xkcd.com/2006/ But we need another one where they use the data to exploit you.
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by jonnytran 8y ago
You realize that "flix" is a synonym for "movies", right? Have you heard of a chick flick? That's why "Netflix" makes so much sense. So you're basically calling a podcasting app "pod-movies&qu
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by jonnytran 8y ago
> He pointed out that Twitter was basically a better RSS feed, since it could show you what people thought about an article in addition to the article itself. It allowed you to follow people and not just channels. This is why I absolutel
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by jonnytran 8y ago
I also have fond memories of India Garden with their half-price menu after 11pm. Sad to hear they closed.
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by jonnytran 8y ago
Agreed. Discontinuing the Air seems much more likely. This is so aggravating to me. Air + retina display would have been the perfect laptop for years now, but they simply refused to make it. I hate many of the changes Apple has been mak
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by jonnytran 8y ago
How did you find this? I looked all over but was unable to find it after declining and going the the plaintext site. I would love the text-only site... if it worked.
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by jonnytran 8y ago
Does anyone have suggestions for alternatives to FileZilla, both for Windows and for Mac, that I can recommend to non-technical friends. In other words, something with a GUI. Basically, when pointing out security problems, I find that peop
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by jonnytran 8y ago
"You actually have genes that dictate whether you’re a morning person or an evening person." The workplace constantly discriminates against night owls. How long will it take for cultures to finally catch up in this respect?
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by jonnytran 8y ago
I don't understand why everyone is so down on this. I see this as a big win for average non-techie computer users in terms of privacy. Unlike many of us here, they're not going to take the time to set up a resolver or even click
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by jonnytran 8y ago
Makes you wonder why there isn't something like Rack or WSGI for front-end components. If there was one interface that all frameworks adhered to, you could, in theory, use components written in one framework from within another framew
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by jonnytran 8y ago
Yes, no one takes the time to research. Most popular does not equate to good. I took the time to do the research back in 2013 and found that Ember basically solves all the problems OP talks about. Tom Dale, one of the creators of Ember, b

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