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811.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
I have no context on this, but just reading that sentence, why wouldn't a budget cut raise response times? Is there context that suggests they're lying?
812.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
> SoHo was looted two days in a row . Where were the NYPD? Local news reporting tries to explain what's going on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJGT06zIUiY&t=2m01s "What you've been seeing is basic
813.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
The fact that it's JSON rather than a nice little window isn't the main issue. That's not great UI, but it's not the biggest pain point of the UX. For comparison, Sublime uses JSON settings too, but it doesn't requi
814.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
It seems to have been specifically designed for developers who enjoy a difficult UX because anything not up to that standard that is childish to them, which in my experience is the same thing Linux tools optimize for. I guess Windows has be
815.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
It wouldn't be his first time, if people remember the Puerto Rico incident 3 years ago.
816.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Could you explain what's so good about the Windows Terminal? I've tried it multiple times and been disgusted every time. The grayscale smoothing looks ugly as hell, the font is large as if I'm elderly, you can't even rig
817.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
I'm not sure openly calling out other countries like this is really new. See for instance [1]: > By 1987, the Soviets began to sour on the campaign as Moscow’s scientific establishment rebuked it. Secretary of State George P. Shultz
818.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
That pull would be there regardless though.
819.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
The one linked in the article? https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/11/e1500679
820.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Arch comes with a desktop? :-) (Which desktop are you talking about?)
821.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Yes, and this agrees with my point that it probably cannot be done "easily".
822.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Oh right, it does feel that way. Somehow the package manager didn't come to my mind when I said that :-) anything else you've noticed?
823.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
I love Arch compared to Ubuntu, but I haven't noticed a speed difference. What kinds of things do you see a difference in?
824.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
> I know not every employee is able to do that but I'm guessing that at Facebook the vast majority could switch job fairly easily. Switch easily even right now ? I imagine they'd lose something in the process...
825.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Ahh, thanks! So if I understand correctly, it's because its stable isotopes can only be produced in high quantities through fission rather than fusion (otherwise they get destroyed in the same processes).
826.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
For those wondering: 0.6 grams of lithium out of 45 grams for an 18650 battery, or about 1.3% by weight.
827.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Sort of off-topic, but why is sodium more abundant than lithium?
828.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Oh come on. Ten is terrible because someone might be reading out an alphanumeric string? You can say that about other stuff already on that list. What if they're just reading out names? Then Charlie and Mike will be confusing. What if
829.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Alex?
830.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
What I don't really like about the list is that if you don't know the list (which many people don't) then some of them are such unintuitive examples that they will catch a decent number of people off-guard and force you t
831.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
This is gold: I remember once complaining to a friend at Google about some nasty trick their corp dev people had pulled on a YC startup. "What happened to Don't be Evil?" I asked. "I don't think corp dev got th
832.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
I don't think it does? They mention "credit" at least 4 times in the article ("copy" comes up 3 times) and they're very clear that the issue is credit ("The announcement was especially bad given how little
833.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
I'm confused, in what way did he screw up? It seems like he went along with Microsoft's alternative despite the red flags and Microsoft still didn't treat him well. Are you saying if he'd refused and waited, he'
834.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
I'm guessing you haven't read his post on this, because he's indeed not upset about the copying, but about the credit: https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/
835.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
> I would argue developers in the UK and Canada are underpaid. What about non-software engineers?
836.
Microsoft copied new Windows Package Manager from rival AppGet, claims developer(theverge.com)
98 points by mehrdadn 6y ago|32 comments
837.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
One of the weirdest things I've seen is a PDF where the text is complete gibberish if you copy paste, but perfect if you export it to HTML or Word in Acrobat. Never figured out how or why that might happen.
838.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
I wonder if encoding the query params with some dumb encoding (maybe a custom variant of base64?) and forcing decoding at every usage site would make it inconvenient enough to cause programmers to use the session values instead?
839.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Given you mention OpenSSL is currently terrible at verifying "real" certificates: why doesn't e.g. Google just throw a bit of money at them and fix their bugs when they're clearly so well-known? It seems like such an o
840.
by mehrdadn 6y ago
Is that a cURL bug?

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