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by jorams 8y ago
> I wonder where the door handles are located in the majority of cars in Holland. The hinged end, just like yours.
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by jorams 8y ago
The idea of "stacked diffs" looks like a good one, but this article doesn't do a great job of presenting them. It's way too long for the actual claims it makes. It combines two things: Working on a single branch and revi
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by jorams 8y ago
Your screenshot only displays today, while the discussion is from yesterday. If you scroll down to yesterday, it's in the top 10, the top 20 and the top 50%.
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by jorams 8y ago
Ctrl + D works just fine without readline as well, so you don't even need that conclusion.
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by jorams 8y ago
> Now you can quit Postgres by simply typing quit or exit. Previously you had to use Ctrl + D or \q While this is good to help out beginners a bit, people should really learn Ctrl + D. It works practically everywhere and saves tons of ti
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by jorams 8y ago
This help center entry[1] suggests it's a combination of their own crawlers and Bing. [1]: https://help.qwant.com/help/overview/how-does-qwant-index-th...
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by jorams 8y ago
> Not requiring explicit parameters for things like domain, etc in this day and age is just ridiculous. While I agree with the sentiment, domain is probably the worst possible example, because it defaults to the most specific possible co
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by jorams 8y ago
Slightly off-topic, but: > For clarity, we will use the term “guild” to represent a collection of users and channels — they are called “servers” in the client. The term “server” will instead be used here to describe our backend infrastru
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by jorams 8y ago
> setting the size of pencil is completely unintuitive - I usually click in what appears to be input field, only to discover it is not (but instead some meter that sets size to some huge number) It actually is an input field, but it can
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by jorams 8y ago
That syntax is displayed lower down, under "quoted identifier". I think this is an area that "would need more explanation than there is room for". There's also the fact that |white space symbol| and white\ space\ sy
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by jorams 8y ago
I looked at that, which is why I mentioned it "doesn't seem maintained". Issues there are old and not getting responses and the last commit is from a year ago.
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by jorams 8y ago
This is not particularly accurate, and doesn't seem maintained. Just looking at the start of the first column, Common Lisp, for a bit: - "command line program" is empty, but should contain sbcl --eval '(+ 1 1)&#x27
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by jorams 8y ago
Backblaze's technology is not that revolutionary. AWS is an order of magnitude more expensive because they want to, not because they need to be.
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by jorams 8y ago
Honestly, the region shouldn't matter. If you want you could add a little notice that it's English-only for now, but there's absolutely no reason to limit this to a particular country. It's a totally free service and it
735.
by jorams 8y ago
> It seems every "how to do Slack right" post emphasizes that you shouldn't use Slack as a chat service. I think these posts tend to emphasize that you should use Slack more like IRC. IRC is generally treated as asynchrono
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by jorams 8y ago
It's really not. YAML is a superset of JSON, but you wouldn't call a YAML document a JSON document. The set of all colors is a superset of the set containing only orange, but calling every color orange makes no sense.
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by jorams 8y ago
You can open it in a private browsing window. It only requires login if you were previously logged in to a Google account, and that login has expired. Incredibly annoying.
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by jorams 8y ago
The key part I quoted was > google gets praised None of the things you list are things Google is praised for.
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by jorams 8y ago
> google gets praised for blatantly awful abuses of power Do you have some examples of that? The first things that come to mind are AMP and related announcements, which were not received particularly positively here on HN.
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by jorams 8y ago
The weird part is that they were actually profitable before they started taking funding. [1][2] [1]: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-... [2]: https://a16z.com/2012/07&#x
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by jorams 8y ago
I believe you're misreading the numbers. They're the "elapsed time in millis", so lower is better. The only result better than c itself seems to be luajit, which is quite impressive. I wonder how it achieves that.
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by jorams 8y ago
I don't understand your argument. When GP says "local students always accept that the rich get to set them.", they are saying US students accepted the fact that the rich got to set the rules. That seems, to me, the opposite o
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by jorams 8y ago
Most of it is not too bad, just a little slow, and it has some nice features. The UX of the main menu, however, is terrible. Scrolling through it is incredibly slow because the submenus are synchronously expanding while scrolling, and I&#x2
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by jorams 8y ago
In a multi-threaded program, the threads share memory. Currently the application server is running in multiple processes, each of which contains a full copy of the core application.
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by jorams 9y ago
This is a great development, but I'll have to wait and see how reliable it actually is. I've had a few droplets running with them over the years, and that has been rock solid (years of uptime on one droplet, no problems whatsoever
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by jorams 9y ago
That's covered by "all things equal". The argument against placing braces on their own line is that this: if (a) { print(a) } conveys exactly as much information as this: if (a) { print(
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by jorams 9y ago
This[1] talk linked in the article mentions that it is happening, and that the name check is mostly useless because you can often just change the name attached to the frequent flyer number. Of course, things may have changed, but they proba
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by jorams 9y ago
Something about the Makefile in your post is a bit weird though: You only declare "test" as a PHONY target, but every other target in the file is just as PHONY. And since you don't even explain that line, it could be a bit co
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by jorams 9y ago
Can you explain in which direction something better should go? The AST is very much at a higher level than how the vast majority of programming is done, which is by manipulating the text that later gets parsed into an AST. I'm having t
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by jorams 9y ago
> has trained people to expect that they can be sloppy and inconsistent and enter their email address as 'johndoe' or 'john.doe' Has it? In my experience, even if people know dots and the part after the + don't

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