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by lhnz 4y ago
How does this compare to Mighty ( https://mightyapp.com )?
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by lhnz 4y ago
"How would you feel about extracting this into a separate function? It might be better because the logic seems quite self-contained, and we can then apply the extra business logic immediately after this with a few if-elses." I try
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by lhnz 4y ago
> Maybe there’s a way to restore the Web of old. Maybe search engines should also be able to link towards old cached content, internet archive style. Even if we can't rejuvenate the old internet without creating new economic
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by lhnz 4y ago
The author certainly knows how to use the middle finger.
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by lhnz 4y ago
Yes, this is really incredible, and not just in a showy way. This website has a warmth and function that make you feel connected to his journey. Lovely idea, perfect execution.
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by lhnz 4y ago
I think "what if it changes?" can also be used to argue for more concrete, simpler code that is less DRY and therefore can be rewritten or deleted with greater ease. I wouldn't refer to overly generic code as easier to change
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by lhnz 4y ago
Yes, based on this, it is possible that the quality of conversation could get worse.
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by lhnz 5y ago
It's not surprising if you think the non-mainstream intellectual community is large enough to contain excellent writers that were currently under-utilized and under-financed. Excellent writers could have been ignored by the mainstream
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by lhnz 5y ago
Yes, it's very well-executed. I took a step back while writing my comment and realised that it must seem kind of like random success to some people. I don't think it is at all. Other startups tried to create "blog platforms&q
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by lhnz 5y ago
Many writers like them because they seem to have made both costly and cheap signals to show that they are on the side of writers: (1) they say they are "anti-censorship" and won't evict writers from their "private platfo
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by lhnz 5y ago
His point is that a tall and assertive woman would be less likely to be made CEO than her male contemporary.
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by lhnz 5y ago
Oh interesting. I'd heard about Google's code review culture and thought there was lots of other written content, too.
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by lhnz 5y ago
It's interesting that Google was not higher for communication. Aren't they known as the big tech company with the "writing culture"? I guess 'communication' means something different here.
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by lhnz 5y ago
Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/what-hacker-news-s... Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/what-hacker-n...
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by lhnz 5y ago
I do it a few times a year because many open-source softwares have glaring bugs. This is true in the JS/TS world, at least. I don't know how you can avoid doing it at all, unless you're just messily working around issues in y
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by lhnz 5y ago
I'm trying to respond seriously and you're being quite irritating. Decisions to go to war aren't only taken by people that directly put their lives at risk. This has never been the case and it wouldn't be a good idea if
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by lhnz 5y ago
You don't see anything different between the extent of Russia's military action between now and in 2014?
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by lhnz 5y ago
They are generally further away and less western. Also, the countries involved are less powerful -- I suspect that if China were to attack another country, there would be similar hysteria because people apppreciate that they could be danger
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by lhnz 5y ago
Of course not; I don't want to die! But I don't agree that it should only be people that go to war that should discuss or decide whether we should go to war. If that were the case, it would be soldiers themselves that voted to tak
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by lhnz 5y ago
There is truth to this but I worry that we're the frog being slowly boiled alive, and that we're acting amorally because of our fear of the consequences of standing up to him.
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by lhnz 5y ago
The question is: will sanctions stop Putin from conquering Ukraine? If not, then I don't think you can say we're doing anything to help them. I'm not saying that Kasparov is necessarily correct in his thinking. The military o
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by lhnz 5y ago
Unfortunately, I agree. We are standing by as a bully dominates another country, its culture and people. It's understandable why we'd do this, as they are a nuclear power. But what signal does it send Moscow and the world and wher
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by lhnz 5y ago
To be fair, as we are aiming to become better software engineers, on every PR we make, we should be aiming to decrease our bug rate, and increase our speed, testing, robustness, performance and the overall expressiveness. Why don't you
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by lhnz 5y ago
Yeah, your point about needing to own the entire stack in this case makes perfect sense, and to be honest, I didn't qualify what I said well at all at the time. When I left the interview I had that sense of "damn, why did I say so
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by lhnz 5y ago
This brings back memories. I once failed an interview because an interviewer asked me how a certain API could be implemented and I suggested that you could send a body with a GET request. My thinking at the time was that, even though unusua
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by lhnz 5y ago
I agree that you can't discern the difference between the appearance of impropriety and literal impropriety and shouldn't try to. My point is that the existence of fines and non-stop training courses drilling in the correct messag
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by lhnz 5y ago
No doubt widespread and certainly not a good idea for oversight, however, the insinuation that all usage was due to employees wanting to avoid oversight isn't correct. Particularly during the pandemic, employees were forced into commun
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by lhnz 5y ago
Shouldn't an age change require a check by a human against their passport / identity documents anyway?
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by lhnz 5y ago
The sane option would be to use a codemod to rewrite your code to not need bespoke tooling configurations. You are locking yourself into legacy tooling.
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Making technology choices(sebinsua.com)
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