jteppinette

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   by jteppinette 5y ago

   I like this font.
2. 32.▲
   by jteppinette 5y ago

   How do you parametrize things like dynamic joins, where clauses, field selections, or aggregations without string manipulation or gross duplication?
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   Show HN: Rebalance My Portfolio(rebalance-my-portfolio.com)

   3 points by jteppinette 6y ago|1 comments
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   by jteppinette 6y ago

   I wrote this tool after spending too much time crunching numbers whenever I needed to add new funds to my investment portfolio. ELI5: Rebalancing an investment portfolio allows the owner to “buy low and sell high” and is a proven method to
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   by jteppinette 6y ago

   Happy to see a few Austrian school economists in the example data!
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   by jteppinette 7y ago

   Thanks for the clarification!
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   by jteppinette 7y ago

   The riot features page makes it seem very "built-in" ( https://about.riot.im/features#voice-video ).
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   by jteppinette 7y ago

   I was told that Matrix/Riot is a good alternative to Jitsi (can share a meeting URL and offers E2EE). Does anyone have a data point here?
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   by jteppinette 7y ago

   “Now, with our new service mesh—that only took a few months to roll out—a failure in our hello-fresh-left-pad microservice can be withstood with only a few hours of downtime” /s - Don’t go work for HelloFresh unless you hate your night
10. 40.▲
    by jteppinette 7y ago

    This ^ it is always helpful to see who is doing the lobbying.
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    Stakeholder: “so you are saying that after a user is denied access they can still access the resources?” Dev: “yes, but only for 15 minutes. Also, it makes our system more simple and decreases database calls, increase performance, ...” Stak
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    this is the intro plot to a bad 90's movie about how an evil programmer amassed enough wealth to take over the world
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    While reading the article, I found myself just playing with the top bar. This is a decently common pattern that I always find distracting.
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    This was my immediate reaction. Haven't there been a lot of articles about the millennial rush to the city?
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    I use dash to keep all of the reference material for libraries and programming languages I use stored locally. It has cut my searches down to almost nothing. IMO, it is better to use the reference material, because it forces you to understa
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    Maybe I am strange lol
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    Life, liberty, and property [ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-political/ ]
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    @rhacker I don't think its a human right to have clothes though. I don't think anyone should be able to steal your clothes, but I don't think anyone should have to give you clothes either..
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    > be the difference causing someone to lose a house, not get a job, not find legal help, be unaware of a disaster All of these problems can be solved without the internet. Also, access to the internet does not absolutely solve these prob
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    > Human rights aren't things people must do, they're things governments must allow the people to do. I agree with you. I think people should be allowed to access the internet. That is different from forcing the government to gi
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    > They are stating a widely held belief that many people agree with. Your reference material has a section titled Critiques of the human right to Internet access . > If that's the case then ALL human rights are "quite weak&
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    Do you not think there were trials before the invention of electricity?
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    "We believe that everyone should have access to the internet."
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    > We believe that Internet access is a human right. I disagree with this. This doesn't event make sense [EDIT: to me]. The internet is simply a very large network of private systems. You don't have a right to access this networ
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    I like all the XSS attack tests in the demo.
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    One of the most painful parts of my career was writing a multi-tenant SAML authentication service in Golang (~3 years ago). experiencing painful flash backs
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    IMO, they probably failed way before 100x expected usage. It was probably before 10x expected usage. This isn’t crazy. This is a problem that happens for a lot of teams dealing with scale. You engineer for 1x (checking off requirements) and
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    This article comes across as being really fake. You can clearly tell that the goal is to to drive additional traffic to their v1.0001 instead of actually diving into what they did wrong. Were they really investigating an entire new DB and u
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    Yeah, I commented on the PR as such.
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    by jteppinette 7y ago

    I actually read this as outside .