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by nickm12 8y ago
An exception to this is the "boomerang" engineer, who leaves the company as a senior software engineer and is hired back as a principal/staff engineer. At my company, there is a belief that it's easier to become a princi
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Agreed. I think the article is wrong to imply that the type adds no value. Even if you have typechecking, the names of variables help you understand code. Also, why should we compare variables to pets versus the many other things in our l
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by nickm12 8y ago
I think this topic is an interesting one and I'd love to read about from someone who could speak authoritatively about industry trends. But trying to do the same by reading Google Trends tea leaves is just awful.
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YouTube has RSS for channels: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6224202?hl=en RSS for Twitter sounds good. I don't have a Twitter account and used to follow a bunch of accounts via RSS but they shut t
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It doesn't involve any loss of data, but it could degrade your data safety. If you cancel your subscription, your quota is reduced and, if you're now over quota your desktop client stops syncing. It may also prevent Camera Uploads
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> This is more a fan-fiction homage from a fanboy than a collection of realistic opportunities for Apple. Well said.
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I just bought two 2015 refurbs on Amazon. They actually came in very good shape and are working well. In addition to the better keyboard and ports, the 2015 MacBook Pro also has a straightforward way to update the storage. I just increased
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"JSONFeed has come up before on HN and the same kind of 'why do you think it's better because it's JSON' questions came up." If JSONFeed has practical improvements over RSS/Atom, they've done a terrib
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This reminds me of the time back in 1997 when WIRED offered suggestions to save a dying Apple [0]. First suggestion? "Admit it. You're out of the hardware game." [0] https://www.wired.com/1997/06/ap
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Also, even if the domain registration is $10/yr, it totally neglects hosting costs. The cost of dev license versus domain registration is a ridiculous factor when deciding a product strategy for your startup (either way).
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This is so true. I was fortunate to learn about the technique described in the article when I learned to drive in high school and have used it for the past 25 years. However, I've completely failed to ever convince anyone else that thi
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This is a awesome joke. Thanks for the laugh.
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> Additionally, the audio industry has a different obsolescence timeline than computer equipment This I have studio headphones I bought in 1995 that I still use nearly daily (albeit not with my phone). I've replaced the earpads on t
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by nickm12 8y ago
Good riddance. As a user, I hate annotations. I'm sure there are good uses, but in the use cases I see them, they're just use for spamming or distracting from the video. Still, I see lots of new videos with annotations. Is it real
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by nickm12 8y ago
You're really in favor of Apple controlling what software can and cannot be run on your computers for convenience sake? Android allows multiple app stores and multiple browser engines and it hasn't caused the problem you fear at a
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by nickm12 8y ago
Setting aside the question of the impact of prices completely, the fact that Apple controls the sites that apps can link to should be abhorrent to anyone. At one point, they even tried to control what programming languages were used to writ
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by nickm12 8y ago
Though I haven't programmed in it beyond toy problems, Rust is exciting because it actually has an answer to the question of "why would you use this instead of C/C++ for systems programming?" and the answer is memory saf
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by nickm12 8y ago
The 'nickel and diming' is definitely there, but also straight up price increase. Twelve years ago, when I was a student, I was able to buy an iBook G4 at what seemed like a very reasonable price for what you got. Now it feels lik
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by nickm12 8y ago
I'm not sure how accurate this is, but one thing I have read is that ancient writing was in some ways used as an aid to memory, rather than a means of communication. Imagine you have your cultural sagas and songs that are memorized and
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The language tells you a great deal about whether the tool will fit in with your other tools in just a word or two. "command-line" here tells you a bunch as well, but there are command-line tools that require a runtime env that y
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by nickm12 8y ago
I use Arq to back up to Dropbox because I have the space there. It works fine, but the main annoyance is that you have to remember to use Selective Sync to not sync your backup folder to any of your desktop computers linked to Dropbox.
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by nickm12 8y ago
I'll be that guy and say that I don't like sub-pixel anti-aliasing—I find the color fringes distracting. I turn it off wherever possible. That said, people seem to like it so it's a shame the option is going away.
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I think you're mistaken on both counts. The first answer is what I call the "commonsense interpretation" and it is incorrect about what python's for/else does.
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https://twitpic.com/4a52sh A survey on this feature was done at Pycon 2011. Maybe things have changed since then, but at the time, most people didn't understand what for/else did. I think it's a bad construct
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This is a different thing, though. In the case of Robert Hall, the NYT had written the obituary ahead of time, as is typical practice, but the passing was not even noted.
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This is fascinating. I've never seen an obituary published so long after someone's death before.
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These are really interesting examples. In Python, the HTTP client in the standard lib is pretty crappy compared to requests, which is the defacto standard. Likewise, the CSV library in the Python stdlib is not very good, but can't im
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I've got to admire the graciousness in this response. It's making the point that mraleph's “Maybe you don’t need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS” article completely neglected code maintainability as a factor, but it does so
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I cancelled my New York Times digital subscription this year. It required a phone call and talking to two individuals. Of course I couldn't do it the very first time I tried because I wasn't in a position to make a phone call at
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Rust needs unsafe to be Rust. It's reasonable to expect (safe) Rust to become more expressive over time so that more things can be written in safe Rust (or written more conveniently) but expecting the escape hatch to go away entirely i

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