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by ken 6y ago
Is that a serious offer? It's been a couple years but I'm sure with a little practice I could get up to speed again, and (like half the country) I do happen to find myself out of a job right now.
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by ken 6y ago
For one person working 8 hours a day, that's roughly one line of assembly language per minute. If you know assembly language, and you know the algorithms you're implementing, that doesn't seem especially fast.
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by ken 6y ago
One thing I never see in these analyses is ease of setting up a server. Back when I was in college and got my first computer, I could install a simple web server, drop any file in its folder, and view that file in my web browser. If it wa
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by ken 6y ago
I would not withhold blood from anyone who needs it, no matter how much of a jerk they are, but I am leaning towards the (admittedly unpopular) belief that members of society should have an obligation to donate at least a minimal amount on
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by ken 6y ago
After death, isn't consent (in terms of donation-to-the-state) the default? If I buy a house and then die without having written a will ("opting out"), the government can indeed take it. Yes, in that case they would normally
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by ken 6y ago
> We are not property of the State therefore, society has no claim on it. If we are property of the State then... You're trying to force this into a "We {are|aren't} property of the state". Both sound completely wro
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by ken 6y ago
These reports only say "motor vehicle fatalities", not whether the drivers are the ones at risk. In my experience, there are a lot more pedestrians blindly walking or running across the roads in the past couple months. The drop
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by ken 6y ago
It's a shame for the people who need transplants, but reducing accidents is overall an improvement. Fewer people are dying overall. If we were approaching this from the opposite direction, nobody would suggest that increasing the num
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by ken 6y ago
Speeds are definitely up. There's a "30 mph" road near me with a stretch that's as long and straight and remote as any highway, and even the cops are driving >50mph there now. Normally it's packed (it connects
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by ken 6y ago
That's the opposite of the rule for CJK characters, right? For those, symbolically-same characters get the same codepoint regardless of semantics (language) or shape (glyph).
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by ken 6y ago
"You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out." -- jwz, 1999 Create that tax incentive, and 99% of publishers will slap the "op
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by ken 6y ago
From their FAQ: "All major religions and belief systems are open to the principles of organ donation" ... "We've worked with faith leaders and communities to build trust, raise awareness, explore questions around organ a
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by ken 6y ago
That's a weird analogy. TSA "opt out" is basically impossible. Have you ever tried it? It's not shame. The agents simply don't allow you to. Changing your organ donation status is not just possible, but easy. I
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by ken 6y ago
BBC summary of Monday's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216852
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by ken 6y ago
There’s an alternate universe where no assholes are allowed to progress, and someone is saying “If we let people be assholes, think of what great things they could accomplish”. And another (like the Evil Star Trek universe) where everyone
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by ken 6y ago
I'd be curious to see "junk mail" in these charts as a category of print advertising. In my experience, that's always been by far the biggest category. You can come to some mistaken conclusions when you ignore the elep
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by ken 6y ago
> A software developer will care more about maintainability and end-user experience than a scientific coder, who will likely prize flexibility and control instead. Importantly, this means that programming patterns and norms that work for
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by ken 6y ago
I have my Firefox "Language and Appearance" language set to "English (United States)". I'm not sure why this setting even exists, because the operating system also has a language setting, which I've also set t
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by ken 6y ago
That's because, for better or worse, there's usually no visible difference between a question asking "How do I do X?" from a kid at home making something for fun, and the same question from a professional on a mission-cr
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by ken 6y ago
Calling the unemployment office right now is virtually impossible. Conventional wisdom these days is that if you want to collect unemployment, you need to make filing a claim your full-time job. You start calling at 7am when they open, and
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by ken 6y ago
There are auto-updaters for desktop software, too.
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by ken 6y ago
I was excited to see how this worked, so I visited the page, clicked around to see what it did, disconnected from my network, and tried opening the page again in a new window. I got the usual browser error page: "You Are Not Connected
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by ken 6y ago
How do you have more "control over your software" with a web app? With a native app, I can do virtually anything. With a web app, I can really only do what (Google ∩ Apple ∩ Microsoft)'s web browser teams decided to priorit
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by ken 6y ago
That sounds awesome. Maybe not as a 'prompt' (those are awful, and don't scale), but some mechanism for requiring the user to confirm their intent to allow it. Web browsers are the first real application sandbox that most pe
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by ken 6y ago
Not just smaller file size. Drastically smaller file size. I've never been on a network so fast that I couldn't appreciate a 97% savings in bandwidth usage. A sufficiently large quantitative change becomes a qualitative one.
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by ken 6y ago
Or directly from 1991's "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic".
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by ken 6y ago
Xcode isn't just an editor. AppCode doesn't provide its own compiler and stdlib.
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by ken 6y ago
Where? Here's the transcript of the initial announcement [1]. No mention of open source that I see. Dr. Dobb's had an article in 2014 [2] which said "Swift is proprietary and closed: It is entirely controlled by Apple and t
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by ken 6y ago
2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23053773
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by ken 6y ago
For all the airtime this gets online, I've literally never been asked this question, or any variant of it.

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