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by nohuck13 3y ago
"This is true even in places where the speed limit is 85 mph, and the slower end of the flow of traffic is 95 mph." Where do you drive where the speed limit is 85 mph?
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by nohuck13 3y ago
He is citing Harvard University Extension School on his LinkedIn. He says he regretted implying that he dropped out of Harvard College.
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by nohuck13 3y ago
"To get a sense of the language the practitioners use, and how they reason about things." Isn't the article assuming you already are a practitioner?
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by nohuck13 3y ago
Nope, at least not as a standard. The original DOM spec is dated 1 October 1998. https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/
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by nohuck13 3y ago
What do you see as the irony?
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by nohuck13 3y ago
If they can come up with the money then who cares? It would be a much better case for regulating if there were some external payer.
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by nohuck13 3y ago
"Add to that the automatic CAPTCHA-hellban you get if you use "site:" in anything more than a tiny amount" Source? This would be worrisome.
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by nohuck13 3y ago
No, an externality is when the transaction leaks costs/benefits into the wider society, outside of what's priced in.
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by nohuck13 3y ago
"The positive externalities far outweigh the negative ones. Society can't function without cheap energy." I mean, nitpick I guess? but cheap energy isn't a positive externality of the energy industry, it's the produ
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Elon Musk Appoints Linda Yaccarino as Twitter's New Chief(nytimes.com)
2 points by nohuck13 3y ago|0 comments
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by nohuck13 3y ago
Some adverbs not ending in "-ly" are always, soon, today, ever, yet. "The Python interpreter has a number of functions and types built into it that are always available." [1] "Long option values can be split across
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by nohuck13 4y ago
Blackburnian warbler in Cornwall: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-twitchers-floc...
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by nohuck13 4y ago
>This strange set of circumstances raises at least three broad questions ... >- Why wasn't the degree granted?" According to [1] "in 1968, he defended his PhD thesis on "Computational Complexity and Program Structu
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by nohuck13 4y ago
Do 40% of software engineers work fully remotely now?
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by nohuck13 4y ago
"Real" is a term of art for something inflation-adjusted, as opposed to nominal. That's it. Scare quotes and metaphysical discussion of realness are inferring deeper meaning that isn't there. Of course you can have exp
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by nohuck13 4y ago
On Android, Settings > Accessibility > Force Enable Zoom overrides this (h/t someone HN when I complained about this too).
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by nohuck13 4y ago
"This government surveillance has had a measurable chilling effect on Wikipedia users, with research documenting a drop in traffic to Wikipedia articles on sensitive topics, following public revelations about the NSA’s mass surveillanc
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by nohuck13 4y ago
How do you rate a good software developer with a bad one? Software development is a but different than most professions. Counting completed Jira tickets solves for the wrong thing as developers are forced to game the ticket system rather
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by nohuck13 4y ago
> It is in fact that simple. Why?
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by nohuck13 4y ago
Wow, checked that link an hour ago and almost everything was in stock then.
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by nohuck13 4y ago
Are your sure your anecdote confirms this? The higher cognitive function that leads you to read books about quitting could be exactly the mechanism the GP describes. If books can help you quit, less bookish people will quit less, all else e
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by nohuck13 4y ago
> I'm just gonna occupy memory that will be more useful for work or life. Well said, though presumably if your work was _BBC Tokyo correspondent_, that would be a weird argument.
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by nohuck13 4y ago
Design pattern spaghetti is absolutely a thing. I feel like self-contained, self-describing, potentially self-validating data types like in the parent comment would tend to be complexity-reducing as long as they don't mix in control fl
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by nohuck13 4y ago
It could also be inexperience. If your experience is limited to academic projects, grinding leetcode, even competitive programming, you've done things where first one is nearly always optimal. Once you are on a team optimizing for cont
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by nohuck13 4y ago
Put another way, the feature is an asset, the code is a liability.
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The Dystopia We Fear Is Keeping Us from the Utopia We Deserve(nytimes.com)
2 points by nohuck13 4y ago|0 comments
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by nohuck13 4y ago
The name Santa Claus evolved from Nick's Dutch nickname, Sinter Klaas, a shortened form of Sint Nikolaas (Dutch for Saint Nicholas) https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/christmas/santa-claus#si...
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by nohuck13 4y ago
No-Limit Hold'em and Pot-Limit Omaha
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by nohuck13 4y ago
Scotland occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
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by nohuck13 4y ago
No, it's just wrong to say they're completely different metrics. The Venn diagram between the economic activity measured by GNI (national income) and the economic activity measured by GDP is almost a circle. US GDP in 2021 was $23

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