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by ovao 8y ago
Five lines of CSS isn’t an extraordinary amount of development effort.
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by ovao 8y ago
It’s worth pointing out that some (many?) animals are in zoos because — for one reason or another — circumstances are such that they are otherwise incapable of surving in the wild. You’re right that enclosure size is mostly determined by bu
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by ovao 8y ago
> really love your guys styling. Agreed. A fresh twist on the typical drop shadows.
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by ovao 8y ago
Pointers, conceptually speaking, are not hard. Pointers, in practice, are hard. Even C-family compilers cannot safely reason about them in many (most) cases.
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by ovao 8y ago
My experience has been the same, so it’s hard to understand where shawn is coming from. There have been impressively few breaking changes to the Go standard library since 1.0. Even when bringing in a number of third-party packages, the only
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by ovao 8y ago
Which is a problem for developers who simply want to write code without having to reason about whether it’s safe to dereference something, and without having to worry about a simple oversight resulting in the programmatic equivalent of summ
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by ovao 8y ago
Just a teaser trailer with some presumably pre-rendered land flyby. Really just an announcement that it’s in the works, and that it features...land.
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by ovao 8y ago
I find it unlikely that the average HN member does not understand that earning money is a better financial decision than spending it on highly-depreciable luxury items (because such insights are entirely obvious), which is why comments like
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by ovao 8y ago
The median household income in the U.S. was $57,617 in 2016. The average transaction price for a new car in the U.S. was estimated at $36,270 in January '18. So, for new car purchases at least, American buyers spend more than half the
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by ovao 8y ago
While it would seem convenient to simply switch operating systems from the popular, widespread options to...whatever i3wm is, practically speaking that is seldom possible.
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by ovao 8y ago
It’s relatively easy to split the difference in California as well. I live in L.A. and have done short weekend+ vacations to San Diego, Palm Springs and Malibu. Book a hotel room, drive 60-90 minutes and you’re winding up, essentially, in f
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by ovao 8y ago
Whether you agree with him or not, he made several arguments for disconnected menu bars. What are your arguments for having menu bars on windows?
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by ovao 8y ago
Allegedly. I personally find the story somewhat unconvincing, but there may be some precedence here that gives the account more credence.
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by ovao 8y ago
While chi is ‘just a router’ (and an exceptionally good one at that), it also includes a number of particularly useful middleware.
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by ovao 8y ago
How do you know?
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by ovao 8y ago
I think you're arguing that without good compiler authors, a typical application developer would be inherently unproductive. Which is true — compilers are necessary tools, and it's necessary that they be good. But what I was sugge
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by ovao 8y ago
Generally speaking, by the time consumers notice (or not notice, as the case may be), they've already purchased the machine. So it's largely irrelevant.
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by ovao 8y ago
The question becomes: to what extent does acumen for writing a compiler overlap with the acumen for writing reliable code productively? I think, generally speaking, the overlap in a Venn diagram of that would actually be relatively small.
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by ovao 8y ago
That’s a given. But I think we have to split the difference on this one and argue that these practices are deeply anti-consumer. If a contract is, in essence, an agreement that one party is free to do effectively anything, and that the ot
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by ovao 8y ago
I’m a little troubled that consumers would have an expectation that they may have to rely on that as a result of arbitrary rate increases. Do the vast majority of consumers know about those opportunities? I’m definitely for consumers being
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by ovao 8y ago
While true that Tesla is attempting novel things — and sometimes falling short of success — there is nothing particularly novel about a car fire. They aren't particularly widespread, but neither are they incredibly rare. I think withou
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by ovao 8y ago
While you cannot reference an undefined variable in Go, you can still dereference nil pointers and invoke other operations that result in a panic (some of the standard library functions can panic).
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by ovao 8y ago
That sounds kinda nice to me, actually. If I see someone going through a turnstile and their birthday is announced, I can shoot them a smile and a nice “hey, happy birthday”. Little things to invite positive personal interactions between st
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by ovao 8y ago
That's not an accurate summary of the reasoning. It's not just the complexity it adds to the compiler, but to the type system in general, and to the complexity it may bring to user code. The Go team is not against adding generics,
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by ovao 8y ago
A typical Subway has a lower staff count than most fast food joints, I think. At most times, when I worked at one, we needed fewer than three heads on the line.
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by ovao 8y ago
This is a somewhat common technique used in, for example, beverage dispensers. Food-grade anti-microbial coatings are available and apparently quite useful.
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by ovao 8y ago
I agree they tend to look awful in the display case, but I've actually been fairly happy with their bakery items. It's possible all they really need to do is spritz the muffins with water every so often to make them appear more mo
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by ovao 8y ago
That’s a poor generalization. A company, as a legal entity, is incapable of caring. But a company, as an organization comprised of people, can . At Facebook’s scale, it would be very difficult for their employees to care particularly for a
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by ovao 8y ago
That’s something I hadn’t really considered. The link could very well be that simple.
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by ovao 8y ago
The technical and legal sides to this discussion are interesting, but I think they're really secondary to the moral side. I think we can both pretty easily agree that paywalls suck. They're a short-term solution to a problem whose

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