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by ken 7y ago
Re #1: I've bought electronics like this on eBay for 1/3 the price of a new one. The box looks like someone tried to play hockey with it but the item inside is perfectly fine. If electronics can survive, clothing and other items
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by ken 7y ago
Besides the political slant, they appear to claim it isn’t brutalist because it has no visible connectors or internals ... and then show photos of allegedly brutalist architecture with no visible connectors or internals.
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by ken 7y ago
Not really. I see them as a necessary evil. Everyone else has one and expects me to be able to get around, so I have one too. If public transit were decent, I wouldn’t own a car.
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by ken 7y ago
Everybody evaluates new programming languages relative to the previous programming languages they've used. In fact, you can usually tell what language(s) a person comes from by their complaints about the new one they have to use. >
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by ken 7y ago
Is it? One of my professors kept a table, for a few decades, of his students’ “intended major”, “actual major”, and “job”, and found essentially no correlation among any of these. I’m certainly not doing anything for work that one might g
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by ken 7y ago
It sucks but it also seems no worse than 100 other startups that close up shop every month, or big company cloud services that get disscontinued. The user data in this case just happened to be stored on little plastic discs rather than AWS
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by ken 7y ago
How many organizations need primarily computer work, though? All of the orgs I work with need either to buy specific items, or people with specific trade skills, not more software. People on HN like to say "Software is eating the worl
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by ken 7y ago
This is a joke site, right? > Blue is a very calming color and can actually slow your metabolism (notice how there's little to no food brands that use blue in their branding). Best Foods / Hellman's, Kraft, Barilla, Spam,
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by ken 7y ago
In the past, a social platform was replaced by another one that did basically the same thing but better, in the eyes of users. Today, we're seeing real issues with social media, but there's no viable platform which fixes the prob
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by ken 7y ago
YouTube is definitely doing this. If you watch a video without being signed in, it now displays a popover ( over the video) that says "You're signed out of YouTube. Sign in to like videos, comment, and subscribe. [GOT IT]&quot
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by ken 7y ago
It's possible to migrate software without driving off all your users. It's soft , after all. When the 8-bit wave crested, that didn't mean Apple was done as a company. Why do we accept that such a short-lived company (less
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by ken 7y ago
StackOverflow? LinkedIn? Is any website with user accounts "social media"?
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by ken 7y ago
The layperson used to use WordPerfect 5, a non-WYSIWYG word processor which required typing 'codes' using modified function keys to change styles. It came with keyboard templates so you could remember which key did what. IRC and
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by ken 7y ago
I once took some small but substantial pieces of code I'd written in Java, ported it to Lisp, and counted the grouping characters in each. Java had fewer parens , but many more grouping characters {}[]() overall. I think it was in t
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by ken 7y ago
> Project Mission: 'People are local experts on the small slice of the city they interact with daily -- the one left turn lane that always backs up or a certain set of poorly timed walk signals' 100% of the intersections I see
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by ken 7y ago
This is pretty cool! One thing that bothers me about every traffic simulation I've ever seen, though: all of the vehicles and pedestrians here seem to be obeying the law. That's just not realistic -- especially on Mercer, which i
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by ken 7y ago
> That's what tooltips are for. Harder on mobile, but there's no excuse for web developers who don't include them. I consider tooltips to be the Norman Doors of software. Users can't figure it out? Slap more words o
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by ken 7y ago
You can always customize it. Professionals paint their tools all the time, since you don't want someone taking your drill home from the job site. Every Genie lift rental has the rental company logo bigger and brighter than the Genie
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by ken 7y ago
Why would Undo be any harder to add post-hoc than any other feature? Encapsulate each action, codify its opposite, and push it onto the undo stack.
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by ken 7y ago
> all those options in a configuration panel I think this is the classic example of "things programmers think users want but don't". There's a literal translation from if-statements -> command-line flags -> che
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by ken 7y ago
On the flip side, it's the only offering from Apple that offers what everyone else does. Nobody is complaining that Apple offers a $6K tower. They're complaining that Apple doesn't offer any towers less than $6K. I could pu
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by ken 7y ago
I’m amazed to hear this from programmers. You can learn this for free, anywhere, at any time. I’m no longer in software and when I want to upgrade my skills, I’m doing it on my own time and my own dime. Often doubly so if I have to take t
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by ken 7y ago
I'm not sure what the Language Squint Test is supposed to tell me here. I can clearly see the structure of the Lisp code, too. It's only half as long as the Java one, which is great for reading. A single character can completel
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by ken 7y ago
I've never heard the IKEA metaphor before but it makes sense to me. There's really only one way to put any two pieces together. If they forgot to ship the right bolts, you're SOL. Lisp is like a wood and metal shop. It may
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by ken 7y ago
That keyboard shortcut brings it up, unless you've already brought it up on a different workspace, in which case that shortcut does nothing (until you find the previous workspace where it was brought up, and dismiss it there). I had no
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by ken 7y ago
That still seems much harder to me. Instead of just adding "PERF" to my commit messages, and later grepping for "PERF", I have to pull up a separate window each time, and remember that performance changes are indicated
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by ken 7y ago
Last I heard (years ago), some Lisp implementations had tried using arrays for non-branching cons chains, but found that performance wasn't actually better than actual conses in general.
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by ken 7y ago
As someone who uses no online video streaming services, I’m surprised that the number of (old) movies available to stream is so high .
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by ken 7y ago
Yes, we were taught SI in middle school (and I think even a little in elementary school) -- for a country which would be all SI by the time we graduated. So that was basically the worst of all possible outcomes.
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by ken 7y ago
> The fact that different professions earn different amounts of money is, in fact, an indicator that the higher paying professions have a shortage of people able to perform the work. In some cases, of course, that's because there&#x

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