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Phrenology(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by karagenit 4y ago|0 comments
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by karagenit 4y ago
I feel you. Still, there are legitimate uses for robocalls. My doctor’s office uses robocalls for lab test results, so that patients can get their lab results as soon as the lab tech puts it in the computer instead of having to wait for a p
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Lessons starting a $500M and a $5M company in 5 years(siliconvict.com)
3 points by karagenit 4y ago|0 comments
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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company(sahillavingia.com)
3 points by karagenit 4y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: People who write a blog for fun, who do you have review your articles?
6 points by karagenit 4y ago|6 comments
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by karagenit 4y ago
I think it’s just 60 days from when they decided to start implementing the policy (july 12)
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Doing A/B testing with Apache httpd (2014)(julien.danjou.info)
3 points by karagenit 4y ago|0 comments
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Delayed Messages on iOS(caleb.software)
214 points by karagenit 4y ago|146 comments
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Are You a Product or Feature?(yannickoswald.com)
1 points by karagenit 4y ago|0 comments
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by karagenit 4y ago
I mean, photosynthesis is only about 1% efficient in the real world, whereas modern solar panels (the ones you can buy, not the ones in a research lab) are already at about 15%. I think there’s plenty of room for improvement in the efficien
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by karagenit 4y ago
I dunno, we understand the underlying mechanism of blood pretty well, but we’re still a long way off from being able to (economically) synthesize blood for transfusion.
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by karagenit 4y ago
> Purdue (#20) Ah, you fell for the trap. Notice how the course description you link is hosted on purdueglobal.edu? Purdue Global (formerly Kaplan) is totally unrelated to the main campus. Basically they took a garbage online college and
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by karagenit 5y ago
I don’t really get the author’s argument. A lot of it seems very “slippery slope” to me. The government already can (and does) restrict what people can and cannot buy. The idea of limiting spending on certain things (like gas) is interestin
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by karagenit 5y ago
Thought the same thing when I read the article. We aren't alone - if you Google "borderline personality disorder" it says "Very common" [0]. Same for Bipolar, though DID (which the article also mentions) is "Ra
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by karagenit 5y ago
Probably because the article addresses this. > For employees unable to do deliveries, there are other programs in place to work with service employees and businesses
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by karagenit 5y ago
I don't know much about academia, but is that really a fair assessment of the Linux foundation? Most charities are considered "good" if they spend less than 25% of revenue on admin overhead, and the article says the Linux fo
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by karagenit 5y ago
The Smithsonian has about a hundred objects listed with "gold lacquer repair", most items have a date and location listed which goes back to 16th century Japan [0]. To be fair, I suppose these repairs could have been done on old o
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by karagenit 5y ago
> n.b.: bye Let's code golf this and see how short we can get it :)
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Blind Men and an Elephant(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by karagenit 5y ago|0 comments
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by karagenit 5y ago
Could just be a numbers game, e.g. the US has built about 10,000 M1 Abrams tanks in the last 40 years but only about 1,000 F-15s in the same time period.
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by karagenit 5y ago
I guess it's named after the French writer of the same name [1], hence the French pronunciation. I agree though, if I told my friend "hey check out that new tool called soup-oh" they definitely wouldn't know how to spel
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Big-O Was a Lie(calebwrites.substack.com)
1 points by karagenit 5y ago|4 comments
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A Flood of Stupid LinkedIn Emoji-Polls(calebwrites.substack.com)
1 points by karagenit 5y ago|0 comments
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by karagenit 5y ago
Yeah, I was a little surprised too - I think because there were two constructors the compiler couldn't be certain whether an instance of the class did or didn't have the field initialized?
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by karagenit 5y ago
Agreed, it would be nice if our linter supported a rule for this sort of thing (maybe something like this exists already)? Right now it's just a judgement call and people make mistakes :)
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by karagenit 5y ago
Oh, absolutely! The problem was that different parameters were added at different times (by different developers), and they weren't careful enough to realize they were doing it incorrectly. Thanks for reading!
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by karagenit 5y ago
I hear what you're saying. In this specific case, we had a default success message string that would normally be displayed if a custom message wasn't provided, so it would've been fine. In general, however, we like to avoid a
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by karagenit 5y ago
Absolutely, there are definitely many ways this could've been prevented (such as the builder pattern you mentioned). I guess the point of the article is to show that many bugs I've encountered aren't due to a bad initial desi
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Danger: Overloaded Constructors Ahead(calebwrites.substack.com)
13 points by karagenit 5y ago|16 comments
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by karagenit 5y ago
This actually isn't the first time I've heard of this being suggested. A post with more details of how this could be implemented got pretty popular on here about a year and a half ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/

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