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by phgn 5y ago
BTW, the described organisation does not hire "Scala Engineers", but Software Engineers. Scala is just a useful tool.
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by phgn 5y ago
I worked at Databricks in the past and Scala is just a way to get things done there. Honestly, for me writing code day-to-day wasn't that different from Java once you understand how to structure your classes. Handling nullables with ty
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by phgn 5y ago
Isn't it a little suspicious that they claim more of their existing vaccine will protect that well against the new variant? I don't want to question the rigour of their scientific testing, but it might be good to have independent
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by phgn 5y ago
Related to the original discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387264 , why is this post falling off the HN front page? It has almost the same number of votes and comments as https://news.ycombinator
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by phgn 5y ago
Do they not have original content? I'm always frustrated when I click too fast and land on geeksforgeeks.org, because their code examples are so low quality and without explanations. I didn't notice SO being this bad.
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by phgn 5y ago
Seems like the new Classifications feature uses GPT-3 text completion, and their similarity search model under the hood [0]: "The endpoint first searches over the labeled examples to select the ones most relevant for the particular que
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by phgn 5y ago
Same. Mentally I thought this was a "buymeacoffee" donation link, and just left the page confused.
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by phgn 5y ago
Well, this was terrifying for someone not usually exposed to things like that. It's scary how you can slowly loose perspective in life (the only thing that can help you out of the addiction). > Given the impersonal nature of our han
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by phgn 5y ago
My personal gripes with RSS: * No pagination, and in practice it's very inconsistent how many recent posts are included. This makes the feeds only useful for new things, not as an archive. * I don't actually want the full post con
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The Weird Thing About Today's Internet (2017)(theatlantic.com)
2 points by phgn 5y ago|0 comments
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by phgn 5y ago
This looks awesome, if a bit too similar to Stardew Valley for me (the fighting & town people). I hope Eric lands on something that works. He spent 4 years alone on the previous game [0] - imagine how lonely & isolated that can get.
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by phgn 5y ago
True, with more personal discipline you can probably make Facebook work for personal connections - as a few people commented about here. I just dislike that it's so easy to get into all the other crap. It's the same for me on Twit
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Climbing the wrong hill in your career (2009)(cdixon.org)
2 points by phgn 5y ago|0 comments
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by phgn 5y ago
What happens when the people you manually re-followed share content you dislike? What I'd use Facebook for is keeping up with friends - for that it doesn't have to be the largest social network around. It would probably be better
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by phgn 5y ago
That's what I meant by "it has gotten too big for its original purpose" - keeping up with friends is what Facebook was built for, and it's great at that. It's awesome if your network is still like that. For me, it b
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by phgn 5y ago
They should have understood their core ambition / pain point themselves earlier, and structured the product and strategy based on it. If many people clearly have this problem and it has not been addressed, that's their differentia
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The Work Required to Have an Opinion(fs.blog)
1 points by phgn 5y ago|0 comments
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by phgn 5y ago
It's baffling to me that people still use the main Facebook app. It has gotten too big for its original purpose. I suppose if you curate your friends carefully and only share personal things it can be useful - but that's not the t
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by phgn 5y ago
Interesting idea! There are so many great posts that otherwise get lost in the noise. What is your main motivation for building IndieFeeds? To get more activity onto the site, have you thought about including HN upvote counts & comments
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by phgn 5y ago
Interesting, do you see your RSS reader or the search as the main product? Have you thought about getting RSS feeds e.g. from the Common Crawl [0]? Social media attention is highly asymmetric, but I'm not sure what else to use as filte
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by phgn 5y ago
I want to get away from social media noise while keeping the good recommendations you get sometimes. I'm experimenting with this blog search just to see if social comments are useful outside of the original platform. I'm glad you
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by phgn 5y ago
Hey HN! Sometimes I come across a gold mine of a blog, and don't know where to start reading. I wonder how many such blog posts I never hear about. Everyone has too much to read - but it's about things you don't want to miss,
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Show HN: A search engine for forgotten blog posts(lindylearn.io)
11 points by phgn 5y ago|6 comments
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Relax for the Same Result (2015)(sive.rs)
2 points by phgn 5y ago|0 comments
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by phgn 5y ago
Or lying awake from a mosquito you can just hear, but not see. I thought about the laser approach so many times already, incredible that some people actually implemented it.
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by phgn 5y ago
Yep, there are lots of small services that don't seem production ready in the source code. Though admittedly we don't know which of those are deprecated.
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by phgn 5y ago
It is really fun to go through the source code. You'll find interesting architecture diagrams, documentation etc. It's like joining a new job and being amazed how a service you actually use was build. Everyone interested, just dow
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Handling Flaky Unit Tests in Java(eng.uber.com)
2 points by phgn 5y ago|0 comments
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Stop Reading News (2013)(fs.blog)
171 points by phgn 5y ago|108 comments
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by phgn 5y ago
The idea behind reading older books is that they're already proven to be useful - it's a filter for you to spend less time on useless information. It's generally called the "Lindy effect"

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