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The author wrote a book, for which RST is undoubtedly the better choice. ("I wrote a book in Markdown" would be a surprising headline!) But it's overkill for light documentation. Just look at their first example of embedding
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“Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it” - Jonathan Swift
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As other commenters and TFA have pointed out, that “just” is doing a lot of heavy lifting
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There is a certain point where UX responsiveness has a huge impact on how the product gets used. I hate Jira with a burning passion simply because it is slow where I live (in China, with a VPN). Even minor interactions, like clicking on a t
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Why would Spotify care about what’s fair?
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Back in 2011, I wasted an entire afternoon on some string handling code that was behaving very strangely (I don’t remember exactly what the code was). It wasn’t until I loaded the content into a hex editor that I learned about U+00A0, the n
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Indeed. As an American, I found The Rest Is History’s four part series on the American war for independence particularly enlightening.
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Years ago I built a slippy map (google maps-style) tile server for non-image data. One of the use cases was to be able to quickly sample elevation data at an arbitrary lat/lng in a few milliseconds. The data set is so large that you ob
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I want to do this too, but what’s your threat model around losing access to your domain name? To maintain a Gmail account, you need to: 1. Do nothing 2. Don’t be unlucky To maintain a domain name, you need to: 1. Keep a functioning credit c
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Well, you can continue to make fun of her because, fortunately, this has turned out to be basically nothing (for Japan, anyway).
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This is a developer flex if I ever heard one
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My friends and I used Hamachi in the early 2000s to play StarCraft and other games over the internet without involving online services. Worked great. I’ve got a soft spot for it.
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In the US at least, most housing-related problems are political, no? There was an article here in the last week talking about manufactured housing in particular and all the regulations that make it infeasible.
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I’ll echo what others are saying about four days preventing burnout and leaving mental space for other activities. Just for last year, I went back to five days to get something out the door. Being there every day with my team was nice, and
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This fact is one of the most pleasant surprises I’ve had during this AI wave. Finally, a concrete reason to care about your docs and your code quality.
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Cursor is an IDE. You can use its powerful (but occasionally wrong) autocomplete, and start asking it to do small coding tasks using the Ctrl+L side window.
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We use kustomize because we have four environments that run basically the same stuff (dev with k3s, test, and two cloud regions). If we didn’t use kustomize, we’d be forced to reinvent it to avoid duplicating so much yaml.
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Tab autocomplete in Cursor is surprisingly good at guessing what I want to log when I type slog.Info. I’m enjoying that time save. I agree with K&R about debuggers: when writing services that you need to debug in prod, you live and die
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Didn’t we do that in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis? Remember NINJA loans?
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I used it for about six weeks in the spring, at which point I tried cursor and found out that it was far better for my use case (backend Go): better and faster autocomplete that can work across files, less buggy UI, and it actually follows
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You’re right, and good on you for paying attention to the human/business context behind the code.
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This is what I don’t understand either. /user/123/orders How is this fundamentally different than requesting /user/123 and assuming there’s a link called “orders” in the response body?
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This is true, but isn’t this quite far away from the normal understanding of API, which is an interface consumed by a program? Isn’t this the P in Application Programming Interface? If it’s a human at the helm, it’s called a User Interface.
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It's about agent-based developer tooling. Since there's so much experimentation going on and no clear winner yet (and there probably won't be for a while), I'm wondering how folks have been able to collaborate on their t
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Ask HN: How should a team collaborate on their AI agent tooling?
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Seems plausible. If anyone else is curious about the history here, I found [1]: > The original computer terminals and microcomputers for which WordStar was developed, many running the CP/M operating system, did not have function key
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by physicles 1y ago
Wow, in 7 years of daily Linux use, I somehow never thought of doing this. Thank you. ~/.bashrc: stty intr ^x ~/.inputrc (at the end): "\C-v": "" # Unbind Ctrl-V ~/.config/terminator&
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If you’re writing a client, I could see this being a problem. If you’re writing a server, I believe the rule is that any once valid input must stay valid forever, so you just never delete fields. The main benefit of DisallowUnknownFields is
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1.x and 2.x are, which is why 3.x reinvents the product around standard tech (true SQL, Apache Arrow). It's hard to ask customers to bet on a database when, to name one reason, its query language has already changed twice.
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It’s far easier to pay lip service to the document while doing whatever you want. This is common with authoritarian regimes. From the PRC’s constitution: > Citizens of the People’s Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press,

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