osrec

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   by osrec 4y ago

   Strangely, I just finished watching Moneyball about a minute ago, open HN, and see this quote from the film! That was an unbelievable coincidence!
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   by osrec 4y ago

   I feel things work most intuitively if the undo/redo functions simply navigate the history, but do not themselves form part of the history.
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   Twitter to ban unlabelled parody accounts(bbc.com)

   64 points by osrec 4y ago|166 comments
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   by osrec 4y ago

   Okay, but how would they live "on" cows? Just ride on a cow's back? It may be more bothersome to the cow than a few flies!
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   by osrec 4y ago

   It doesn't have a low value, but it itself is decreasing, thereby referring to money's third derivative.
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   by osrec 4y ago

   And it may also make the blue ticks meaningless, if just anyone can pay and get them.
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   by osrec 4y ago

   I would keep it simple on the tech side, and would probably stick with an SQL DB, along with a solid full text indexing service running separately for search. From a UI perspective, I would probably also improve the way threads are shown, a
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   by osrec 4y ago

   In case you ever wish to change the operating conditions/environment/hardware in the future. Having a consistent operating environment is a big win, in my opinion.
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   by osrec 4y ago

   For me, it tends to happen more when I'm fully rested. My body feels like a well oiled machine, and my emotions seem fairly muted. It's a state of just "doing", with a sense of peace (neither especially happy, nor sad).
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    by osrec 4y ago

    The same reason why people care about likes on Facebook or karma on HN. Internet points mean very little, until you get enough that you start floating to the top of popularity rankings, at which point they suddenly become indirectly monetiz
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    by osrec 4y ago

    What about Yoda driving a go-kart is even remotely offensive?! A client being offended at something like that is a bit of a red flag for me...
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    by osrec 4y ago

    Are you agreeing or disagreeing with the OP?!
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    by osrec 4y ago

    Well, this is HN, afterall :p
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    by osrec 4y ago

    I'll give them another try. I was just frustrated when I used them last.
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    by osrec 4y ago

    I would happily use Firefox, however it lacks good developer tools - it's almost impossible to identify JS memory leaks using the FF dev tools. I also find FF more resource hungry than Chrome (and Chrome is pretty heavy on resources to
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    by osrec 4y ago

    What were their tech issues?
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    by osrec 4y ago

    And is probably as applicable to a geeky subset of 21st century children.
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    by osrec 4y ago

    Interesting story: my parents had a fashion business in Yorkshire, and one of their regular customers asked them to produce a t-shirt with the words "I jumped the strid" on it. We had no idea what the words meant. Turns out, in Yo
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    by osrec 4y ago

    I'm reminded of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/DunderMifflin/comments/29v0e2/the_d...
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    by osrec 4y ago

    I guess then in your opinion what the Nazis did was fair game, and they should not have had to pay reparations either? What, in your opinion, is the cutoff point in time, where sins are universally absolved? Edit: It's clearly a subjec
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    by osrec 4y ago

    Your comment is somewhat meaningless in the context. But yes, in general, I believe that if you commit or benefit from atrocities, you should be held accountable. Even if it was your grandfather that murdered people and you inherit the weal
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    by osrec 4y ago

    Quite true, not sure why you're down-voted. Colonial empires managed to get away extremely lightly, with respect to putting right their wrongs. Compare that to Nazi Germany, where reparations were paid in significant quantities, and ki
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    by osrec 4y ago

    Given that Visa does around 1,700 TPS, I imagine it's probably lower than that.
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    by osrec 4y ago

    For anyone looking to get a better handle on the numbers, INR 10 cr is approximately GBP 1 million.
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    by osrec 4y ago

    Regarding PWAs accessing native features, I personally believe they should be able to, but only if explicitly installed and granted permission. I don't see why they shouldn't if I explicitly want to give them permission.
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    by osrec 4y ago

    Thanks for saying this, as I know a lot of people on HN have very negative feelings towards this trend. Personally, I feel the browser is a great way to stop reinventing the wheel, and the APIs abstract away a lot of the heavy lifting. They
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    by osrec 4y ago

    Why is that a problem?
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    by osrec 4y ago

    Yeah, I'm aware - wrote an article about this very thing a few years ago. But they also u-turned pretty spectacularly and halted the progress of PWAs for a long time, and still continue to do so. Their supporters claim security/pr
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    by osrec 4y ago

    And all Apple users will claim it to be the best thing since sliced bread: "it's amazing - you don't need to install anything - just go on the website and the app is ready to go, while being perfectly sandboxed within the con
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    by osrec 4y ago

    Overselling seems to be a feature of a lot of Musk's ventures. Another example is the level of autonomy in the Tesla.