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by jordwest 5y ago
> They just don't have a place to talk about them out loud. With modern design, people get confused all the time whether something is clickable. Seen that happen so many times I lost count. The average user assumes it’s their own in
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by jordwest 5y ago
I believe it's a result of social media that has (falsely) taught us that anger and resentment are valuable contributions to society. Anger and resentment are highly charged emotions, and so they make people click, like, retweet and su
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by jordwest 5y ago
Agreed, but for me there have been a few more reasons than boredom. Broadly I see 3 reasons I’ve procrastinated in the past. 1. I’m bored, and not learning anything new, just doing the same thing over and over. 2. I don’t see where this is
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by jordwest 5y ago
> From what I've read, the frequency of the grid is closely monitored at all times, and a lot of effort goes into keeping it at or near the target. Can confirm, did some work in a power station. The frequency is displayed in very la
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by jordwest 5y ago
While I think there’s value in tooling that tidies these things up automatically, I agree that enforcing CI rules around these is a waste of time. I think so many engineers have been burned by bad code that we now instinctively latch onto a
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by jordwest 6y ago
Have you tried Rooibos? I find it just as good as black tea, great with a dash of milk and none of the caffeine.
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by jordwest 6y ago
Never heard of Dosh, but my guess based on your description is the harvesting of CC info. If they have access to your statements, they have info on your spending habits in general. Plenty of companies would pay good money for that data (ano
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by jordwest 6y ago
You might like justfiles[1]. They’re designed pretty much on this philosophy. `just` doesn’t have the ubiquitous availability of `make`, but I’ve found it’s much more user friendly for this use case, especially with the documentation featur
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by jordwest 6y ago
Oh yes! These are amazing. Took me a while to understand what they do, but now the simplest way I think of it is that they're powerful enough to let you build your own async/await (though you don't need to - async await compu
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by jordwest 6y ago
I haven't tried Fable 3 yet, but I can speak to Fable 2 (F#) vs ReScript/ReasonML (OCaml). F# was heavily inspired by OCaml, it was originally intended as "What would OCaml look like running on .NET?" so the languages th
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by jordwest 6y ago
Agreed, I think the web was simply first in being a highly versatile, capable, and relatively cheap to develop with cross platform UI toolkit. I’m much more optimistic about the future of native apps, the best ideas from the web are already
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by jordwest 6y ago
Possibly somewhat, but I think more often its that reducing complexity isn’t valued in many organisations. It’s usually faster to apply a patch over solution than to go and reduce complexity in the existing system. Also the larger the syste
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by jordwest 6y ago
Yeah I'd agree that for most startups a monolith makes more sense. It's usually easier to add microservices later if they're needed than to go the other way. Your point about the Go binary reminds me of a related problem. W
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by jordwest 6y ago
In general I agree, but I think microservices applied in the right context can be useful. For example, say you have a system that manages bookings for a really popular musical act and frequently crashes with load when tickets go on sale. In
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by jordwest 6y ago
> However, the state of the entangled systems is prepared before the systems are separated from one another Isn’t the state still a probabilistic one at that point though? As in it’s not until it’s observed later that both particles inst
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by jordwest 6y ago
For sure, the data is a big problem. But I think to compare with your Venus example - that’s an area where there’d probably be hundreds of astrophysicists around the world who’d jump at the chance to work on that publicly. With this phenome
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by jordwest 6y ago
Absolutely, David Fravor’s (the pilot who actually chased the thing) interview with Joe Rogan[1] was one of the most compelling eyewitness accounts I’ve seen, and with that the associated video has a lot more context. If these things really
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by jordwest 6y ago
It’s unfortunate that this topic has such stigma around it that many researchers are afraid to study it for fear it’ll delegitimise them or ruin their career. You may be surprised at how many people you know have had experiences of their ow
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by jordwest 6y ago
> even for a civilization at the end of the technology development tree. How do we know what the end of the technology development tree looks like? There are just so many mysteries that remain within our current understanding of science,
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by jordwest 6y ago
I think WebAssembly will (eventually) be that language. Write in any language, but compile to one target that runs on any device. The bigger challenge is the integration with the host OS - we need a common set of OS calls that can be made a
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by jordwest 6y ago
I'm glad to hear it's helped you :) > Willpower and personal responsibility are great, but better yet is not even having to try. I think as humans we overestimate just how much power we have over our minds. Especially up agains
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by jordwest 6y ago
I don't work on algorithm-driven platforms, but I built a tool [1] to help deal with them. I'm very glad to see this reaching the mainstream. Like most people in the tech industry with some understanding of how these things work,
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by jordwest 6y ago
You can have it both ways. I wrote about this when I worked full-time remote a few years back [1]. It's a very different scenario when you think of it as working anywhere instead of working from home. I think post-COVID we're goin
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by jordwest 6y ago
I'm pretty excited to see where the new .NET MAUI [1] goes. It's still in development, but it seems like it could be a great contender for fully cross-platform native UIs. Paired with F# the proposed Elm-like model-view-update sty
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by jordwest 6y ago
> The distinction is largely moot unless we discover a way to pierce the veil. Buddhists might tell you we've already discovered a way to pierce the veil ("enlightenment"). Recently I saw a video of Shinzen Young [0] descr
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by jordwest 6y ago
Wow. As soon as I gave it my location it plotted my favourite local return hike, very cool!
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by jordwest 6y ago
My understanding is that JIRA was originally built as an on-premises solution, so request latency wasn't an issue. Then they moved everything to a cloud hosted solution, but the assumption of requests being effectively zero latency was
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by jordwest 6y ago
I'm not a big fan of Gantt charts because they force things into a timeline, and tend to imply an order that things should be done (even when two tasks are unrelated). I've found Gantt charts also to be a lot more rigid and less f
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by jordwest 6y ago
Hi HN, this is a side project I've been quietly working on in bits and pieces over the past 9 months for my own use. It's (yet another) project management tool built out of frustration with JIRA. When planning out engineering proj
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Show HN: Plan/manage complex projects as a graph of dependencies(twigtask.com)
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