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by kweingar 4y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I was not aware of this connection. It is a shame - some of their software is really good.
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by kweingar 4y ago
Some feedback on the UX: on mobile, if you select an antipattern to read about, once you reach the bottom you have to scroll up to select the next one. It gets a bit tedious when you want to read about all six antipatterns.
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by kweingar 4y ago
My former employer is always hiring junior developers, but a degree is required. There were a few hundred new dev hires over this summer. I left the company to take an L3 position at Google, where I will be starting shortly.
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by kweingar 4y ago
Most computer scientists I know barely care about anything graphical or user-facing. I don’t think this is a huge tragedy to them, at least when compared to software developers.
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by kweingar 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this paper! I have always struggled to express exactly what my issue is with certain software patents. With this paper I now have the vocabulary (and examples) to explain what I mean to someone outside the industry.
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by kweingar 4y ago
A brief description of the error, an error code, and (depending on context) instructions on how to get help is much nicer than “something went wrong.” Even something simple like “the request timed out” helps the user troubleshoot and rules
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by kweingar 4y ago
Keep in mind that all three of these companies provide support primarily to customers who have paid them. If you are on the phone with Apple about being locked out of an account, you have likely spent at least several hundred dollars buying
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by kweingar 4y ago
Why not go it alone, or with a small team? Then you can keep every dollar of value you create, minus overhead
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by kweingar 4y ago
I guess in a pedantic sense, all possible paths “exist.”
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by kweingar 4y ago
I see your point, but helping people at the scene of an accident is not incompatible with bad views on social issues. Almost all of the heroes of the Titanic, or the Allied soldiers in WWII, would share all of these views. Many of the first
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by kweingar 4y ago
It is very difficult to evaluate a programming language without seeing any code written in it.
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by kweingar 4y ago
> That's completely different to whether the source to an application is available and whether you can distribute modified versions of that source. That’s fair. My point was that the obligations of open source developers/mainta
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by kweingar 4y ago
These “extra duties” aren’t implied by open source, they’re implied by common decency. An open source developer does have a duty to not mislead their users or publish malware.
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by kweingar 4y ago
On constitutional issues, the Supreme Court is absolutely a second version of Congress, except they're unelected and mostly choose their successors. It is a side-channel for lawyers and activists on all sides of the political spectrum
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by kweingar 4y ago
> E.g. The CCP recently declared that Hong Kong was never a colony of the UK, but "under ruling of a colonial government" [1] I don’t really understand the strenuous objection to this. This seems less like “1984-style rewriting
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by kweingar 4y ago
If the code is nontrivial, then yes, it is a violation. To be in compliance, you need to write your own code. If I am writing a novel and I copy a section verbatim from another novel, I am infringing on the other novelist's copyright,
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by kweingar 4y ago
> [The “!” operator] is similar to Rust's `.unwrap()` but even more invisible. I had this thought too when reading Hare examples. When looking at a line like this: fmt::println("Hello World!")!; I notice that the pu
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by kweingar 4y ago
A lot of people here are making arguments about the nature of science and consensus, but I suspect that for many, this is not a sincerely/consistently held belief. For example, if the headline were instead “Twitter bans misleading ads
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by kweingar 4y ago
I wouldn't manually write documents in groff these days, but I have found that it can still be useful for automatically generated PDF reports/documents. Groff is lightweight and already installed on most Linux systems, and the bui
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by kweingar 5y ago
> Bitcoin is also a collectable, with a fixed number of them (21 million) out there to collect. Bitcoin is fungible, unlike collectibles. There is no value to holding one bitcoin vs another, if "different bitcoins" even makes s
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by kweingar 5y ago
I don't understand the logic of claiming that something isn't a bubble because other some other class of assets is even more volatile. Was the housing bubble a lousy one just because home prices didn't go up 100% per year? &g
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by kweingar 5y ago
When you make universal rules and then carve out narrow exceptions for particular enemies, it completely kills any credibility that you’re adhering to principles. You can be up front with your intentions and say “you may wish death upon sta
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by kweingar 5y ago
To shamelessly steal a comment from the user president: Would you be okay with media censoring content that opposed the Japanese internment because it was wartime during WW2?
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by kweingar 5y ago
> If the search engine returns lies it's completely failed If I search for Time Cube, should a search engine refuse to show me a link to its webpage?
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by kweingar 5y ago
I think there is a conflation of literal fake news and propaganda. Propaganda can be subtle and not involve outright lies. A lot of propaganda consists of unsubstantiated rumors or speculation. Sometimes it is helpful to read unsubstantiate
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by kweingar 5y ago
This seems like an obvious solution to a geography-based ban. They'll have to use a VPN, but lots of people have learned to do this to watch region-locked media. I wonder whether they'll be caught. Seems like it would be a prett
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by kweingar 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you&#x
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by kweingar 5y ago
Sanctions vs invasion is a false dichotomy. It presumes that either of those things will cause better outcomes than not doing them, and that these are the only two things that could be done. The burden is on supporters of war/sanction
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by kweingar 5y ago
Until very recently, rhetoric about sanctions was masked in polite fictions like "this is meant to target corrupt leaders" and "we fully support the people of the country in the struggle against their authoritarian leader,&qu
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by kweingar 5y ago
This is fun because American ideology makes this question tautological. Any answer that could possibly be given will be invalid, because we wouldn't have invaded them if they were really a democracy. Also I don't imagine that de

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