jph

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   by jph 7y ago

   Yes in a way; we work with both bash and zsh, and have a similar repos for config files. We are experiencing many developers switching from bash to zsh because of the recent macOS Catalina OS upgrade, and we want to show how bash and zsh ca
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   by jph 7y ago

   Fully agree. In fact, we use these XDG helper functions. data_home() { printf %s\\n "${XDG_DATA_HOME:=$HOME/.local/share}" ; } cache_home() { printf %s\\n "${XDG_CACHE_HOME:=$HOME/.cache}" ; }
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   by jph 7y ago

   This repo README may be helpful to people who are new to Z shell, and want to know the load order, and what's good to put in each file. I'm the repo maintainer and I welcome constructive feedback.
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   Show HN: Z shell configuration, zsh startup files, when they load, what they do(github.com)

   85 points by jph 7y ago|22 comments
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   by jph 7y ago

   If you're in software development, especially on a development team, these ideas about nonviolent communication (NVC) may be able to help you and your team. The approach is: observe facts -> note feelings -> uncover desires ->
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   by jph 7y ago

   IMHO this concept is better solved by using semantics, such as types, keyword parameters, interfaces, traits, etc: copy(source: ReadOnlyFile, destination: WriteOnlyFile) These all help make the code more semantic, more testable, an
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   by jph 7y ago

   This is excellent! Congratulations to the Purism Librem team for having a privacy vision and all the follow-through to create the phone. I'm buying one. If you ever ask yourself "what can I do to improve privacy?" then consid
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   by jph 7y ago

   You can add your social network ideas, and also see similar ideas and opinions, in a repo that I maintain: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/social_network_plan Social networks are challenging to create and mainta
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   by jph 7y ago

   Lyme has a great young hacker: there's a kid who got Lyme, and she learned how to build an app, connect doctors, start a foundation, and create a self-reporting network of hikers, campers, and outdoors people. Very inspiring! https:&#
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    by jph 7y ago

    Architecture decision records (ADR) are an excellent way to show managers that work is proceeding, and that research is necessary, structured, timeboxed, and transparent. https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architect
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    by jph 7y ago

    Thanks for helping! I just added more to the report above-- the problem looks to be upstream, and due to a domain name error.
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    Ask HN: is the California state park website leading to malware?

    4 points by jph 7y ago|5 comments
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    by jph 7y ago

    Archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20190725120100/https://nesslabs....
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    by jph 7y ago

    Kudos to the Go team for their process on this. IMHO it's worth reading Russ Cox's explanation of the problem area, including examples, and comparisons to other languages e.g. Rust and Swift. https://go.googlesource.com
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    Show HN: Thought leadership writing tips for creators and editors(github.com)

    2 points by jph 7y ago|0 comments
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    by jph 7y ago

    Collecting info to help spur ideas among developers and designers. I'd like to hear about your perspectives; reach me at joel@joelparkerhenderson.com.
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    by jph 7y ago

    Added to a collection of social network plan ideas: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/social_network_plan
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    by jph 7y ago

    Thanks! Say more? What you write, I can add and adjust.
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    Show HN: OODA loop notes on strategy, tactics, planning, and paradigms(github.com)

    3 points by jph 7y ago|2 comments
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    Show HN: Git alias for summary and commit counts per author and per week

    1 points by jph 7y ago|0 comments
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    by jph 7y ago

    Adding these insights to this intro to queueing theory for developers: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing_theory
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    by jph 7y ago

    Suppose you're Jony Ive, and you've designed so much for Apple-- computers, fonts, even Apple Park-- what would entice you to leave? I speculate his reason must be to design something massively popular, that so many people in the
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    by jph 7y ago

    Great article! I'm adding it to the queueing theory intro repo: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing_theory
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    by jph 7y ago

    Nice! Can you say more about how you're able to do the Rust aspects of code gen and checks?
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    Show HN: `file-size` script to report *nix apparent file size in bytes(github.com)

    1 points by jph 7y ago|0 comments
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    by jph 7y ago

    (Edited-- I was reading the original paper, which showed good results for TypeScript; the new paper linked above refutes that result. My mistake. Thanks to the posters who corrected me!) The winners in this paper are Clojure, Haskell, Scala
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    by jph 7y ago

    Take my money! :) Your project is great, and I especially love that you're doing this for privacy reasons on the device, instead of in the cloud. Congratulations on launching. Wishlist: add LinkedIn, because about half of my contacts a
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    by jph 7y ago

    More productive Git is faster & easier with good git aliases. These help novices and experts alike. I maintain a large free list of Git aliases, and community feedback is always welcome. https://github.com/gitalias
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    by jph 7y ago

    OKRs are excellent-- I manage a repo about OKRs where you can see examples and contribute ides. The article author is exactly right: use OKRs to drive your weekly team meetings. https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/ob
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    by jph 7y ago

    Yes you're exactly right about escaping. Orthogonal to escaping, the choice is what characters to use for unit separator and record separator. If the data are for machines only, then for me the choice of characters doesn't matter.