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by maxaf 10y ago
Every time I've had a fraudulent charge on my account, I've contested it and had the money returned to me. I can only assume that in some cases the bank simply bites the bullet and writes this off as a cost of doing business. Ther
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by maxaf 10y ago
This can't possibly be legal or even technically feasible. The victim can call her bank and report a fraudulent transaction, which pits the bank against a warrantless seizure that's impossible to defend in court. Surely banks can
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by maxaf 10y ago
Zero student debt, one kid, and I'll never own real estate, as I've explained in prior HN comments, i.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11495713 I can barely afford to live in the US because I live in a pret
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by maxaf 10y ago
I'm upper middle class, and I can already barely afford to live in this country. What we need isn't more taxes but a more judicious use of taxes that are already being levied. An effective and workable UBI scheme would replace all
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by maxaf 10y ago
For many people Scala offers the same concurrency model in the form of actors without having to change runtimes/ecosystems. Go seems to have been too little too late for too few people; released a few years before Scala reached maturit
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by maxaf 10y ago
IMHO it's a weird cross between Python and C.
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by maxaf 10y ago
Considering the limited time you have available, I would suggest learning Rust as a means of getting more bang for your buck. Go offers very little over other similar languages, whereas Rust will yield copious food for thought and will chan
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by maxaf 10y ago
Canary - https://canary.is/ - the home security camera comes equipped with sensors that are capable of measuring air quality. I reckon this will be a big deal for a lot of people, although right now most don't even kno
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by maxaf 10y ago
My childhood was anything but nirvana. I'll spare you the sob story about growing up in 1990s Russia because it's unoriginal and water under the bridge. It's also irrelevant to this thread because I read The Guide as an adult
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by maxaf 10y ago
My personal impression is that a reader steeped in soul-crushing dysfunction in his or her daily life will enjoy The Guide with gusto not achievable by those whose lives resemble nirvana.
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by maxaf 10y ago
FileVault on Macs and OpenBSD's softraid(4) on non-Macs. Almost every OS these days has some support for full-disk encryption. Not using it is irresponsible.
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by maxaf 10y ago
Start with https://scratch.mit.edu/ , which is both simple enough for a kid to grasp, relatable enough due to the whole game/interactive graphics angle, and "real" enough to teach some general programming conc
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by maxaf 10y ago
Is this a position you've explicitly applied for? Unsolicited letter bearing a job offer with dollar amount included sounds illegitimate to say the least.
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by maxaf 10y ago
s/accident/crash/g
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Ask HN: My wife is learning to program. Would you read her blog about this?
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by maxaf 10y ago
Oh, bother! I totally forgot that when I lived in Israel, floors in my apartment building were numbered the same as in Argentina. :)
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by maxaf 10y ago
There are some much nicer and more fun, also arguably less destructive, pranking options: - text-to-speech output based on a definitive history of elevators - same for an exhaustive safety lecture that'll probably horrify some guests -
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by maxaf 10y ago
Just another symptom of ad hoc constraint enforcement that can't happen in a language without a type system.
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by maxaf 10y ago
Well, now it has to happen just for comedic value.
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by maxaf 10y ago
Ha! I did something similar to track time in JIRA's work logs. Changing a branch == context switch => new work log boundary. Those were fun times.
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by maxaf 10y ago
I used Irssi back when it first came out; it blew BitchX, ircII and even LiCe out of the water. Unfortunately, IRC isn't widely used in commercial contexts. Most of us are stuck using moronic graphical chat UIs. Shout out to HipChat, y
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by maxaf 10y ago
JIRA needs a solid CLI tool. I wrote something like this at one of my past companies that has gone batshit crazy about agile. The process weighed so heavily on me that I felt the need to automate it via JIRA's REST API, which yielded (
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by maxaf 10y ago
I want a really great text-only profiler for the JVM. Something like YourKit or JProfiler, but either entirely CLI-based, or with a built-in REPL that would let me run commands against the profiler, or with a very keyboard-friendly curses U
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by maxaf 10y ago
As @elcapitan said, licensing is the same as for software. Fonts are intellectual property (IP), just like most other intangible products of R&D. It is too bad, of course, and my usual opinion about IP applies. However, we don't li
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by maxaf 10y ago
He he, no, they aren't. The difference is that in public there's much room for opportunistic, untargeted data collection, which is a lot more creepy under the right (wrong?) circumstances than targeted or random surveillance over
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by maxaf 10y ago
It's one of those rare situations when programmers can benefit from the development of a product meant to please an entirely orthogonal audience: uber-picky finance professionals who stare at screens all day. Life is fascinating, isn&#
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by maxaf 10y ago
I've considered doing just that, but it wouldn't be the right thing to do. I don't want to make money using something that technically isn't mine to use.
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by maxaf 10y ago
It's a time sink because I can never settle on one I like. See my other comment in this thread about searching for that perfect Bloomberg terminal font replacement.
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by maxaf 10y ago
Thank you for this page! It's such a ridiculous time sink though. But thank you anyway.
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by maxaf 10y ago
When I worked at Bloomberg, the origins of that font weren't a mystery. I used it on my company-issued Mac and loved it. Whatever they paid for it, the price was definitely worth it. I don't suppose I'll ever find a suitable

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