kryptonomist

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by kryptonomist 5y ago
Someone told that Idiocracy was actually a documentary.
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by kryptonomist 5y ago
To get an easy boot of nostalgia, once can listen to early 90s hard drive sound as well. I got one recently starting a classic Mac. Very nice feeling.
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by kryptonomist 5y ago
Beautiful, thanks. Happy Christmas!
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by kryptonomist 5y ago
Interview of the 555 creator, which I find fascinating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3vpu67uu28
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by kryptonomist 5y ago
https://seekingalpha.com/
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by kryptonomist 5y ago
A winery could assign a token to each physical bottle, and lets its customers freely buy (winery is involved) and then exchange their tokens based on the supposed bottle value ups and downs (winery is not involved any more). Then, from time
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Collapse of international mobility a key factor behind wages growth(twitter.com)
80 points by kryptonomist 5y ago|63 comments
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by kryptonomist 5y ago
"The collapse of international mobility and therefore immmigration is a key factor behind wages growth acceleration in advanced economies."
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by kryptonomist 5y ago
To me, the greatest advantage of Go is the build time, which is almost instant. So you get the joy of programming like in Python/Js, being able to test very quickly your code, without having to deal with stupid errors coming from type
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by kryptonomist 5y ago
And he died at 78 in his bed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Denard
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by kryptonomist 5y ago
Another fun fact, “That Man From Rio” (1964) had a "major influence" on “Indiana Jones” for Steven Spielberg, according to: https://variety.com/2021/film/opinion/jean-paul-belmondo-dea...
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by kryptonomist 5y ago
Almost anywhere in France, except in big cities. Pros: -you get a free healthcare coverage. -cost of life is reasonable (again, outside of big cities where accomodation is expensive). -internet connection is good and cheap. -you will enjoy
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Neutral Switzerland plans to buy dozens of US F-35 fighter jets(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by kryptonomist 5y ago|1 comments
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by kryptonomist 5y ago
"Switzerland has chosen Lockheed Martin's F-35A Lightning II as its next-generation fighter jet, the government said on Wednesday, angering opponents who have pledged a new referendum to overturn what they dubbed an unnecessary &q
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by kryptonomist 5y ago
Backend: I would stick with Python, but modernized with some bit of dataclass and typings. A very tempting alternative is Golang, where it's fast build time and light syntax makes it a good candidate for prototyping. Also, I know many
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If women are paid less for the same work, why don't employers hire just women?(economics.stackexchange.com)
2 points by kryptonomist 6y ago|0 comments
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by kryptonomist 6y ago
Exactly. It was a bit discussed on HN a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23027207
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Row scrolling for parallax effects in Street Fighters 2(sf2platinum.wordpress.com)
64 points by kryptonomist 6y ago|7 comments
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by kryptonomist 7y ago
After more than 10 years using those ORMs at work, in DotNet/Java worlds, my current opinion on that topic: -the only project where ORM was worth was a simple backend admin project with many tables and very little load: ORM avoids havi
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by kryptonomist 7y ago
And Bill Gates wrote the first code of the FAT system during a 5-day stay in a Albuquerque Hilton hotel.
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by kryptonomist 7y ago
I am not an economist, but in this world of negative interest-rates (now common in Europe), another reason for cashless is to prevent people from keeping cash at home, behavior that make sense when the bank is making you pay for having a po
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by kryptonomist 7y ago
One use case where I found OO particularly unsuitable is applications that rely heavily on events. Trying to understand what's happening is hard, when any call to your object structure can trigger changes at any level of your hierarchy