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Ask HN: What Atom editor packages do you use?
1 points by jxf 10y ago|0 comments
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by jxf 10y ago
> I'm baffled as to why there isn't a graph that covers more than a six-month span when the thesis spans years. There is. This one covers the last three years for the first half of each year: https://cdn-images-1.med
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Notes on distributed systems from Kyle Kingsbury (aphyr)(github.com)
34 points by jxf 11y ago|1 comments
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by jxf 11y ago
Certainly, but the point here is that it suppresses some opinions much more effectively than others. If your opinion is already popular, you don't have to be brave: you know it's out there. If your opinion is unpopular, knowing so
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by jxf 11y ago
But it took years for leaded gasoline, asbestos, and freon to be replaced. And that only happened because they were made illegal or regulated out of certain uses, not because a better alternative existed that the market preferred. This is a
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by jxf 11y ago
He's also pretty favorable about Postgresql: https://aphyr.com/posts/282-call-me-maybe-postgres
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by jxf 11y ago
> It's one of the most primitive instructions, why shouldn't it be available when needed? I see what you're saying, though I don't find this a compelling argument. By this logic, why not allow direct register access i
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by jxf 11y ago
It's not that cut and dried. The kind of people who like fiber are upper-middle-class folks and technologists with disposable incomes, both of which are great for the tax rolls. Their presence is worth far, far more than $10k/hous
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The business strategy drawing Walt Disney gave to investors (1957)(hbr.org)
9 points by jxf 11y ago|4 comments
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by jxf 11y ago
> please write out all acronyms the first time you use them Like any other writing, it's just about knowing your audience. I mean, are you really going to write "HN (Hacker News)", "YC (Y Combinator)", "HTTP
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by jxf 11y ago
This is a great announcement. Preemptible VMs are a great strategy if: * you don't care too much about when a workload finishes * it can be chunked into small units of interruptible work * the cost of resuming interrupted
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by jxf 11y ago
Why do you think that the presence of a correlation would be uncomfortable?
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by jxf 11y ago
> And is it really plausible that more men are disabled today compared to 15 years ago? Yes, that seems plausible to me. For example, there have been a number of combat operations the intervening 15 years; if someone left the military du
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by jxf 11y ago
At many regional airports, it's either free for small planes or very cheap. For example, my airport of Charlottesville, VA charges nothing for planes under 7,000 lb ("LNDG FEE ONLY FOR ACFT OVER 7000 LBS."): http:/&#x2F
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by jxf 12y ago
Ah, that explains it! Thanks.
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by jxf 12y ago
That's from my command prompt that I wrote -- the arrows are just Unicode characters. You can see it here if you like: https://github.com/fj/dotfiles/blob/master/home/.config/shel... Edit
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by jxf 12y ago
Question: How do I actually run Kyle's tests to see this for myself? (Not that I don't believe him, I just want to play around a bit.) When I run `lein install` and then `lein test`, I get: ╰─▶ ψ lein test Exception in t
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by jxf 12y ago
That island of safety is a rapidly shrinking one. Jepsen covers more ground with each new post from Kyle. :)
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by jxf 12y ago
The most interesting lessons from the Jepsen series: * You should never trust, and always verify, the claims made by database manufacturers. * Especially when those claims relate to data integrity. * Super-especially when every safety level
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by jxf 12y ago
HTTP already handles this just fine if you have sensitive forms: your form can include a one-time token which your server validates. If the token has already been used, you don't process the second request. What we definitely shouldn&#
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Solving the Cheryl's Birthday Problem with Prolog(jxf.me)
31 points by jxf 12y ago|1 comments
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by jxf 12y ago
This looks really interesting. You basically trade the ability to have diffs (nearly meaningless on binary files anyway) for representing large files as their SHA-256 equivalent values on a remote server. What will be interesting is to see
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by jxf 12y ago
> For example I thought it was weird [...] that someone would make her drink hot wine. Hot wine is very much a thing (and it's delicious)! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulled_wine
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by jxf 12y ago
I only have one VPN, GoldenFrog's VyprVPN service. Sorry, I didn't intend to suggest that I was running multiple VPNs. I haven't experimented extensively with things, but usually setting my exit server to a random country on
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by jxf 12y ago
I've been using Google Flights since the middle of last year and love it. However, as a frequent traveler for business/conferences, I think there are some things people should be aware of: * Google's data seems to be not as f
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Magic: the Gathering is Turing-complete(toothycat.net)
1 points by jxf 12y ago|1 comments
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by jxf 12y ago
Don't read Hacker News when you're working on things. Especially not the comments. (Except maybe for this article.)
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by jxf 12y ago
That's an uncharitable thing to say. Dismissing someone's entire argument because of a single word rather than considering the point at hand not only misses the forest for the trees, but also fails a pretty basic test of being a r
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by jxf 12y ago
This was a fantastic article -- examples were concise and clear, and everything was well-written. Tangentially, I'd love to know the best way to create the visuals for this kind of content. I assume no one's writing all those SVGs
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Linus on Witcher 2 Bug: “Sorry we broke this, will be fixed”(github.com)
4 points by jxf 12y ago|1 comments

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