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by nindalf 3y ago
In July 2023 the crates.io team started asking for feedback around changing their policy around name squatting - https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/318791-t-crat...
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by nindalf 3y ago
There was a conscious decision to avoid providing a vast standard library because those inevitably become outdated with time. Building a standard library is relatively easy, maintaining for decades is hard. But it’s a trade off because ther
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by nindalf 3y ago
The same developer who worked on bundler also worked on the initial version of cargo. That’s why they’re similar. And at that time, it was a good idea. Ruby was popular and bundler + gem ecosystem was a big reason for its popularity. No one
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by nindalf 3y ago
Hilarious.
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by nindalf 3y ago
I subscribed for a few months last year and enjoyed it. I liked it enough that I’m subscribing for a life time now. There’s a few different learning styles out there, but personally for me, I learn best while doing projects. That’s why this
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by nindalf 3y ago
I read Wikipedia a lot too as a kid. I think it was because it loaded quicker than other websites while not using much of the data cap.
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by nindalf 3y ago
If we never try then we’ll never know.
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by nindalf 3y ago
Previous Israeli PMs involved in wars have all retired within two years or so. That’s what makes this conspiracy theory hard to believe. It would mean Netanyahu, the consummate politician thought “yeah, my future success depends on tanking
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by nindalf 3y ago
One key for all tokens or one key per token? If it’s the latter a simple XOR would do because it would be the equivalent of a one time pad.
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by nindalf 3y ago
Good for you for only thinking about your experience. If only everyone would be similarly narrow-minded, then X could truly thrive.
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You can’t just say you’re profitable. You need to declare it.
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by nindalf 3y ago
They have a pathological fear of government overreach. An identity card issued by the government would lead to a slippery slope of something, not sure what. HN is fertile ground for such paranoia, so no doubt someone will explain exactly wh
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by nindalf 3y ago
I’m up front about that. Regardless, my experience here was similar to my previous round of interviews where I successfully interviewed at Meta. That went well despite not having a CS degree or a well known company on my resume.
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by nindalf 3y ago
I’m a UK based software developer without a CS degree. I wrote about my experience interviewing at various software companies (including Google) in 2021 - https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/tech-interview/ . I also tal
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by nindalf 3y ago
> Article 9 Constitution of India: Persons voluntarily acquiring citizenship of a foreign State not to be citizens. No person shall be a citizen of India by virtue of article 5, or be deemed to be a citizen of India by virtue of article
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by nindalf 3y ago
Yeah, Google making searches faster in the 2000s meant they need more data centers, not fewer.
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by nindalf 3y ago
It wasn’t the first time it happened or noticed, but it’s the first time we know of that someone wrote a paper about it. The Gutenberg press in the 14th century could have saved a lot of time spent copying books by hand. It did, but also tr
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by nindalf 3y ago
Yes, not ideal. But we can’t know what would have happened if they had chosen a different language in 2007. Did they have the option of an efficient, well supported language that continues to be used in 2023? Maybe Java, although Java langu
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by nindalf 3y ago
This isn’t a new idea. In 1865 the economist William Stanley Jevons pointed out that increasing the efficiency of machines that burned coal would lead to more coal being burned, not less. Making something more efficient makes it cheaper, un
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by nindalf 3y ago
> What about OCI holders? Seems like you’re the one not in the know. The OCI is merely a visa.
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by nindalf 3y ago
Rails was a great choice for Shopify, GitHub and Stripe, no doubt. No one is questioning that. GP’s sarcastic “rails doesn’t scale” implies that it would also be a great choice for people starting afresh in 2023. The reply asks for a compar
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by nindalf 3y ago
Ran faster on your machine than what? Mojo was only runnable locally starting 2 days ago, so it doesn't sound like you compared it with Mojo.
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by nindalf 3y ago
Completely agree. They did the best with the data they had. I’m glad they didn’t fudge it upwards earlier. If anything, this gives me more confidence in the ONS because they did the right things. I know unsophisticated people only look at t
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by nindalf 3y ago
It’s such a bizarre reason. “One person using something rubbed me the wrong way so I decided not to use it”. Did the person extrapolate to an entire community from a sample size of 1?
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by nindalf 3y ago
What I find most impressive is improving performance while other developers continue to land new features in the same code base.
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Hitler was a vegetarian. Think about that for a while.
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by nindalf 3y ago
I got the list from 50 things that made the modern economy . Maybe you’d learn something by listening to the episode on passports - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p052spyb > Before WWI there were no passports and
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by nindalf 3y ago
You missed the reference about the Romans not doing much. Just pointing it out in case anyone reports the comment that says “oh shut up!” https://youtu.be/Qc7HmhrgTuQ
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Respectfully, you don’t know what you’re talking about if you think GPS “isn’t impactful enough”. Don’t fall into the trap of reacting with “meh” to everything. Maybe you just don’t know? Maybe you don’t realise how much modern life depends
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by nindalf 3y ago
Apart from the aqueduct, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, public baths and public order - the Romans didn’t really do much at all.

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