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by news_to_me 6y ago
I think you're right, but I get the feeling that companies will still come out ahead in the end — and employees will be stuck with some amount of loss.
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by news_to_me 6y ago
Totally agree — I was trying to frame my comment in the terms of the GP. For better or worse, managers are often forced to think in terms of time rather than output, and I wanted to respond on that level. For jobs where time spent correlate
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by news_to_me 6y ago
Hopefully we can get some legislation to correct for this. It seems like the sort of thing the labor market should balance out eventually, but... the labor market is pretty irrational all over the place, so I wouldn't trust it.
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by news_to_me 6y ago
> But I still see the need for brick and mortar work for certain....job types Maybe you wanted to say "certain people"? Working from home is definitely more difficult for some people's work style than others, plus a ton of
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by news_to_me 6y ago
Congrats to José and the team! Elixir was a wonderful discovery for me a year or two ago — it's the closest I've found to my "ideal" language. You can tell, from the documentation and by using the language, how much thou
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Brutalist Real-Time Text Chat(brutal.chat)
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by news_to_me 6y ago
I didn't know any computer graphics or linear algebra beforehand. I bought a copy of this book[0], which is a bit dated, but goes through the basics really well. I also got a lot out of this lecture series[1]. I ended up doing a lot mo
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by news_to_me 6y ago
This looks really cool! Earlier this year I built a software rasterizer from scratch, and it was one of the most fun/challenging projects I've done. I learned a ton about efficient memory layout, and the linear-algebra concepts be
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by news_to_me 6y ago
I'm curious, what role did Common Lisp play in the original version of your trading system?
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by news_to_me 6y ago
I think there's two issues here that are often wrapped up together: 1. what is the status of my task, and 2. did the computer get stuck If we could be sure the computer wouldn't get stuck (which is just a bug), then progress bars
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by news_to_me 6y ago
Yeah, I think I remember those! If it were me, I would turn the segmented bar into a checklist, since you can add a description and I think it looks nicer. But the approach was a good one imo.
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by news_to_me 6y ago
A progress bar is only appropriate to show one metric changing between two known points over time. - A progress bar should not measure multiple tasks, unless each task is of the same type (e.g. converting a batch of files, _not_ system boot
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by news_to_me 6y ago
Yeah, you might be right about that. Still, that's not using a progress bar correctly if it's measuring multiple tasks — they should be measured individually, with spinners or a segmented progress bar.
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by news_to_me 6y ago
This seems a little funny to me, since the purpose of the spinner is so that you know the computer isn't caught in a loop — it's "busy". It's true, though, that the computer could still be stuck even though it updat
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by news_to_me 6y ago
A progress bar should not indicate progress over multiple tasks — a segmented progress bar is better, or a series of spinners, or just a single spinner for the whole set. A progress bar should measure exactly one metric, where the total is
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by news_to_me 6y ago
A progress bar is a chart, nothing more, nothing less. And as any data scientist will tell you, charts without labels are bad charts. A progress bar should measure exactly one dimension, where a total is known, and a label should show what
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by news_to_me 6y ago
If you can find a physical copy of Vol I-III on eBay or elsewhere, I highly recommend it. It's much easier to flip through (even though it's a big tome) than searching through PDFs in my experience.
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by news_to_me 6y ago
I routinely search "site:preserve.mactech.com $query" — there's a lot of interesting and helpful tech tips there.
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by news_to_me 6y ago
This is awesome! I've also been doing development on an old Mac 512k (upgraded to 2MB). It's pretty wild and super fun. Until recently I was using Think C, which was great, but recently I've switched to Think Pascal. It'
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by news_to_me 6y ago
Sad to hear this. I rode the Empire Builder from Chicago to Seattle in 2013 with all my things after college — it was a big moment for me and that line will always be special to me.
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by news_to_me 6y ago
Seeing a lot of negativity here re: "Dropbox should just sync files." Personally I'm stoked about Dropbox branching out to help with more aspects of digital organization, and I think they're well-positioned to do it. All
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by news_to_me 6y ago
I don't think Seattle's CHOP (née CHAZ) is very relevant here — it was a protest occupation, more in common with Occupy Wall Street than a serious attempt of any kind of secession. (Of course, participants' own ideas for what
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by news_to_me 6y ago
Just downloaded this, looking forward to fitting it into my workflow! It's a bit of a bummer that it only really supports landscape mode, though — I strongly prefer portrait mode when working on the iPad. What was the design decision t
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by news_to_me 6y ago
Great explanation — although only a week or so ago I wouldn't have understood a lot of it. Knowing how transistors work helps a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXvAlwMAxiA
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by news_to_me 6y ago
> the system process was free to clean up the heap and manipulate your pointers b/c your app would only yield at specific points where you aren't holding onto a dereferenced handle. True, but it was also your job as a developer
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by news_to_me 6y ago
Evil people are allowed to have communities. In an evil community, it's probably the "good" user who is usually a troll, so it makes sense for them to be unwelcome. What's interesting about Reddit is, to what extent is a
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by news_to_me 6y ago
If you like single-blade disposable razors, you'll love a safety razor ;)
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by news_to_me 6y ago
Those are grain silos, apparently: > Satellite images comparing the area before and after the explosion show the complete destruction of Beirut's port. The grain silos that were next to the site of the explosion are still partially
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by news_to_me 6y ago
What's unethical about distributing abandonware? I don't see any harm in finding use of something that would otherwise be wasted.
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by news_to_me 6y ago
https://macgui.com/ has a lot that neither of those do. Plus the 512k blog is honestly invaluable.

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