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by rablackburn 4y ago
A very similar experience here (although not to quite the same level of success!). Even for simpler problems the ability to just sit with it for a few hours/days dramatically increases your ability to write quality solutions. Good code
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by rablackburn 4y ago
As a user: I don’t think I’ve ever seen installing a PWA as an option. I’ve never been prompted (though I suppose some of those “use our app!” pop ups could be trying to install a pwa, but I think they always take me to the App Store). As t
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by rablackburn 4y ago
> There will be be people who believe in these dogmatically to the point they won't employ anyone who says different (it becomes an interview question). Though when you’re lucky enough to be in a tight labor market it sure is a conv
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by rablackburn 4y ago
I’d recommend reading this[1] (fantastic) article that came out a few years ago. It’s exactly the kind of guide you’re looking for. [1] https://peterxjang.com/blog/modern-javascript-explained-for-... Some notes of thin
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by rablackburn 4y ago
The hardwood floors sound nice, but as far as I’m aware plastic plumbing is much more preferable over copper. Need to fix a leak in a copper pipe? Get ready to weld and bend pipes. Need to fix a plastic pipe? Unscrew that section, and screw
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by rablackburn 4y ago
> one huge difference was a majority of tech companies back then were not profitable and never would be, banking on "page views" as the golden metric which to rate a company something something "monthly active users".
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by rablackburn 4y ago
That use case was what got me to pre-order one over a year ago (currently in-transit, any day now!). Replace my bulky, awful complex-provided fob with a dolphin with attitude? Yes please.
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by rablackburn 4y ago
The entire site is weirdly mobile (or perhaps just mobile Safari) unfriendly. The home page also has some issues with elements clipping/overlaying and not registering clicks. I say weirdly unfriendly because the graphic design is very
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by rablackburn 5y ago
> Much less coherent, to me, but you'll get different results every time you try I suppose! Give the mechanical Turk a few minutes to find your post and tweak the response to that specific prompt ;)
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by rablackburn 5y ago
My bet would be something like: "haha, yeah it's ridiculous, right?" IME it's sadly common for an organisation to have a Problem, for everyone to acknowledge there is a Problem, for someone to even come up with a roadmap
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by rablackburn 5y ago
I’ll be honest and admit my own bias to cheaper, self-managed tooling. I’ll admit that RDS definitely meets the criteria of simple. From what I understand RDS works great and you’re happy to pay what feels like the tiny cost…right up until
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by rablackburn 5y ago
I loved this article, despite the negativity. A discussion that keeps recurring on HN is how you can get a lot done with simple, boring solutions. This is a perfect example of that in practice. What’s the simplest thing that’ll work? Do tha
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by rablackburn 5y ago
I think there’s a few of us who have already memorised the number so we’re ready on Monday…
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by rablackburn 5y ago
> But, separate ablation study found that if you just drop confidence bit altogether and allow RNN to compute some more every time (e.g., always perform 4 computations on single input for 1 output), you get same or better results without
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by rablackburn 5y ago
Call it the uncanny valley, but I find this mildly disturbing… and absolutely fascinating.
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by rablackburn 5y ago
Indeed. Or one that doesn’t show progress at all, it just cycles through tips / puns
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by rablackburn 5y ago
Yes, but the book has a legal authority backing it up saying that its entries are property rights to the listed address. Buying an NFT just to have an NFT is like paying for an entry in a book with no further meaning. You just get to say th
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by rablackburn 5y ago
Here’s a fun little story that’s stuck with me for years because it demonstrates this in a very hacker way. (Forgive the lack of specificities, I tell this as a parable) A fancy new office tower was opening downtown. Around this time, offic
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by rablackburn 5y ago
I’m from the same world as you and here’s how I understood this: Any function that’s not pure should be a ~class~ component. ie, when you have a bunch of functions that operate on the same kind of struct/set of state, and in fact you w
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by rablackburn 5y ago
> It also leaks the usage to jquery, … This is the first time I’ve read someone refer to loading jquery as a data leak. Ideally they shouldn’t be using jquery, or just shipping it with the app/self-hosting. But for the general case,
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by rablackburn 5y ago
> any argument predicated on "preserving the character" is disingenuous at best and racist at worst Calling NIMBYism's "preserving the character" argument disingenuous is probably going too far. That really is th
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by rablackburn 5y ago
Yeah, from what I understand this is exactly how the separation of judicial and legislative powers is _meant_ to work. The court's power is to interpret what is written. The legislature's power is to write the words. If the legisl
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by rablackburn 5y ago
What is effective policing meant to look like in circumstances like this? This is an unarguably large amount of people practicing civil disobedience. How many police does Ottawa have on hand to deal with it? All the tactics I can think of t
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by rablackburn 5y ago
> I think it's a bit more complex than that. Because we can always go one level deeper... When I ask people why they dislike Musk, the answer I get is usually not for some bleak, reasoned belief but because of his internet persona.
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by rablackburn 5y ago
You’re definitely not alone in enjoying seeing something like this. I would probably hate being on the receiving end personally, but I’m glad that this kind of sheer passion for quality exists in the world.
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by rablackburn 5y ago
Bit of a meta comment but: I love the author's rewriting of javascript into "human-readable" code[1], while retaining the same visual style as code written in an editor. It feels like an excellent way of representing what is
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by rablackburn 5y ago
I love some of the stuff you can do with 3D on the web…but the majority of web traffic now is mobile, and I’ve never had a mobile that handles it well. I don’t use the latest flagship, but I’m usually on one from ~3 years earlier; there are
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by rablackburn 5y ago
I had this on my machine the other day (while developing with Plotly in webGL mode). A proper restart fixed it. Happened after installing some system updates, so if you’re on a Ubuntu (or downstream) distro maybe give that a shot. I think s
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by rablackburn 5y ago
I’m guessing if they don’t receive a narrative from you they infer that you probably didn’t write the actual assignment.
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by rablackburn 5y ago
It’s the perfect connection test. 9 times out of 10 if you can’t connect to hn the problem is you, not them. Probably even 99/100

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