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by jwalton 8y ago
In Canada, you wouldn't be able to work as a software engineer without signing a contract with such a clause. Investors like these clauses because they don't want some employee saying "Well, this part of the product I wrote
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Why Are Weakmaps in JavaScript Not Enumerable?(thedreaming.org)
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Fight Club
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It's worth $250M now, but if he's been stealing from his customers, it could have been worth a lot less than that when he stole it. He might have even "borrowed" some to cover some minor emergency, then bought back in w
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by jwalton 8y ago
This car checks all the boxes for me - I want a hatchback, I want AWD, I want all electric, and I want something with the range to get me to the ski hill and back. But I'm in the middle of trying to remove Google services from as much
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by jwalton 8y ago
This car checks all the boxes for me - I want a hatchback, I want AWD, I want all electric, and I want something with the range to get me to the ski hill and back. But I'm in the middle of trying to remove Google services from as much
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by jwalton 8y ago
Similar idea here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19216077
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by jwalton 8y ago
These sorts of vehicles are road legal here in Ontario under a pilot program: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/vehicles/low-speed-vehicles... But I haven't seen much adoption. You're only allowed to dri
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by jwalton 8y ago
Washington state appears to not be such a state: https://www.minimum-wage.org/washington/tipped-employee-mini...
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Possibly you are unaware that some Internet users do not reside in the US?
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Yes, exactly; just like breaking up Bell in the 80s.
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A very similar bug that we run into sometimes: https://npm.community/t/npm-install-or-npm-update-turns-a-bu...
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I suspect if you scattered 400 cars around the city, randomly parked in the middle of streets and sidewalks, the city would have some unkind words for you, too.
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by jwalton 8y ago
Saying "We don't want to outlaw encryption, we only want to outlaw strong encryption," is a bit like saying "We don't want to outlaw pregnancy, we only want to outlaw being more than 90% pregnant."
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I'd just like to point out, for folks who are thinking of trying this at home, that in addition to killing iPhones, helium has been known to kill people: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/inhaling-gas-f
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by jwalton 8y ago
Light travels roughly 300 billion m/s, so at 10 trillion fps, light moves about 3cm.
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This is a library that I've used before to handle some complicated animation: https://github.com/joshwcomeau/react-flip-move No longer actively maintained, though, so you might want to check out https:/&#x2F
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How to Listen to Someone You Disagree With(urbanconfessional.org)
1 points by jwalton 8y ago|0 comments
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I'm a developer. I just bought a 2018 MBP. I seriously thought about jumping ship to Linux. If I'd known about this, I would have.
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I suspect the simulation hypothesis is false. It relies on the premise that computers will get faster and faster until eventually we are simulating universes, but I suspect this will not be the case; we have been running into physical boun
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> measurably worse in terms of features I suppose that depends on whether you think of privacy as a feature or not.
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And they break your guitar: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo#
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Do you seriously not know how many spark plugs are in your car? It's the same as the number of cylinders. How could you not know that? They absolutely should care. They should be aware that when they store things in "the cloud&
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by jwalton 8y ago
> digging a moat of proprietary tooling You mean, like disabling XMPP and IRC integrations? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/09/slack_cuts_ties_to_...
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by jwalton 8y ago
I have a 15" 2018 MBP, with 32g of RAM. And, while I don't care for the touchbar or the feels-like-I'm-typing-on-a-hollow-piece-of-wood keyboard, I also haven't had any kernel panics or crackly speakers or any other pro
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by jwalton 8y ago
> When did MacBooks became famous for "bad solder joints"? There has been more[1] than one[2] case where GPUs in MBPs stopped working because of bad solder joints. And ifixit has a guide about how to fix your mac by putting it
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by jwalton 8y ago
> However, combinations where the ring finger is up while its neighbors are down is physiologically problematic. Really? Why?
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by jwalton 8y ago
(This is a bit of an oversimplification, but...) uBlock Origin is already the fork of uBlock from when uBlock sold out.
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I'm on a mid-2012 with a failing battery, some keys don't work unless - shall we say - you push them with conviction, and just a few weeks ago it had a bit of a tumble and the LCD panel is now cracked. I'm debating whether I
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by jwalton 8y ago
That's an interesting comment. I bought my first MBP in mid-2012 (and, it's my current mac, although I just dropped it and cracked the LCD screen, so this discussion is suddenly very relevant to me) and I found, especially when o

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