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by osteele 9y ago
I wonder whether the idea of “waste” is triggered by different things for different people, and evokes a moral response.
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According to https://sweetpricing.com/blog/2017/02/average-app-file-size/ , the average iOS app file size is 38MB. It's much higher for more highly downloaded (and feature-rich) apps; it's proba
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by osteele 9y ago
In 2002, the Laszlo Presentation Server compiled XML with embedded JavaScript to swf (Flash) byte code. [A later version also compiled to HTML. Performant cross-browser dynamic HTML was daunting in 2002.] We considered HTML's “View Sou
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Consumer Reports buys cars anonymously to avoid just this class of issues. I don’t know which other reviewers do this – it’s obviously more effort and expense than testing a car that the manufacturer gifted or lent you, or even that they kn
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A Follow-Up to the Olin / Stanford Startup Density Comparison(blog.ledwards.com)
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by osteele 9y ago
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are the “Ivy League” companies. They are high ROI, you will work with a selective group of peers, these peers will remain an important part of your network after you “graduate”, and putting Appl
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by osteele 9y ago
>> We don't send any personally identifiable information to Google. > Yes, you do PII is a term of the art which the GP is using in its standard sense and you are not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona
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by osteele 9y ago
A couple of “small world” connections: 1. SK8 was implemented in Macintosh Common Lisp (MCL), which was a product of Coral Software in Cambridge, MA. This was one of the justifications for Apple's acquisition of Coral in 1988. Coral be
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by osteele 9y ago
I've encountered this with human agents too, especially when cancelling an account or declining an upsell. The most effective humans are good at making you think you're cancelling the account, before they even get to “connect you
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"It's actually quite terrifying that people would advocate for taking up to 90% of someone's income." Interestingly, the top U.S. tax rate from 1951–1963 was >90%, and it was >50% during the half-century from 1932–
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by osteele 9y ago
Officials in Canada said in early August that they were “aware of unusual symptoms affecting Canadian and US diplomatic personnel and their families in Havana,” a spokesperson for Global Affairs Canada told the AP. – https://qz.c
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Here's a video of the Laszlo Webtop Calendar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97KLyHzpkro , from 2008. This was written in a hybrid of XML and our own dialect of JavaScript, that compiled either to Flash byte code, or to
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by osteele 9y ago
"First see a medical doctor and rule out an physical / medical problems. Once you rule that out then see a therapist. Talk it out with a professional." – this. Reasons: (1) If there's an organic cause, it may be symptoma
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Burger King has launched its own cryptocurrency in Russia called ‘WhopperCoin’(cnbc.com)
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An unlikely hurricane hero takes over chaotic Texas storm shelter(reuters.com)
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by osteele 9y ago
That was definitely the intention. It was intended as a systems and application programming language for the Newton. The original Apple implementation compiled to native ARM code. The runtime was intended to be competitive with C, but by th
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by osteele 9y ago
Not copy – symbolic link. Then there’s just the one source file. Not that I would want this in my project. But as a hack, it’s even better than it first sounds.
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by osteele 9y ago
This could be the first half of a good article. It's a list of things the author cares about that variously: aren't (yet) possible, aren't a good idea, nobody cares enough to make happen, or (maybe) indicate a market force fa
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by osteele 9y ago
HN discussion of deletion event: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14998429
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by osteele 9y ago
I started guitar in my mid forties. Four years later, I've reached the point where (some) non-musicians are envious, and actual musicians categorize my sounds as “music” more often than not. There's lot of great advice on this thr
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by osteele 9y ago
My “learn go” project was a Jekyll clone with fast build times https://github.com/osteele/gojekyll It uses liquid for templating, and emulates a few plugins. It currently works on some sites, not others – YMMV.
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by osteele 9y ago
Maybe. Or maybe (many) poor people are acting rationally given their economic circumstances. See ["Reframing the Debate about Payday Lending"]( http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2015/10/reframi.
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by osteele 9y ago
I hope we're in a world where that can happen. At the least, we probably need “upload video to archive.org” mobile apps to make this as useful to journalists in the field as YouTube currently is. If the Archive grows as a journalistic
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by osteele 9y ago
One issue with YouTube is archival status. Another is provenance. At some point it will be as easy to create fake videos as to create fake text. It is unrealistic to expect people who aren't information literate about text will be lite
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Joint US/USSR SETI Conference in the midst of the Cold War(haypopup.com)
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See [YAGNI]( http://wiki.c2.com/?YouArentGonnaNeedIt ). A helpful (to me) metaphor is that you're paying for an option. (In the finance sense, not the type system sense.) Sometimes it's worth buying an option, somet
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You can also use a different function for temporary debug prints, and a git pre-commit hook that fails if this function is invoked. Pros: Easier to insure that your collaborators follow process; your CI server can run it too. Con: This does
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by osteele 9y ago
I generate answers to secret questions, and store them in my password manager. They're specific to the account – “mother's maiden name” at Site A is not the same as “mother's maiden name” at Site B. If you do this, use a pass
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On the plus side: The web site not only has a text size selector – there also is a “Text Only” link that does exactly what it says, and reveals a “Colour Scheme” menu: Black on white, black on cream, white on blue, yellow on black. Some d
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That's what kept me from looking at the language for the last five years. I finally broke down and wrote my first Go program. Yeah, the errors (and lack of generics) are annoying, but it gets enough else right – tooling, runtime speed,

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