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by rectang 2y ago
> This isn't a "conservative win". It's a win for America. So saith conservatives about conservative wins and liberals about liberal wins. > The fact that WaPo and other mainstream outlets are trying to spin thi
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by rectang 2y ago
Even so, the difference between some tests and no tests is vast. It's worth keeping CI/CD "propped up" just to detect syntax/compilation errors if nothing else. (And then those of us who care at least have the
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by rectang 2y ago
I don’t have aphantasia, but I do think in an audible stream of words. This has led to an odd quirk in my experience as a software developer: I hate keywords or variable names that don’t have an obvious pronunciation, like “fn”. They inter
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by rectang 2y ago
I resubmitted this link, originally submitted by user bgc at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40738713 , because it’s a big deal being reported everywhere and this remains the best article I’ve seen.
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CDK Global cyberattack impacts US car dealerships(bleepingcomputer.com)
6 points by rectang 2y ago|3 comments
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by rectang 2y ago
The contribution of the Chomsky hierarchy to computer science is highly significant. It had a big personal impact when I was learning about compilers and parsing. Any remembrance is going to keep getting flagged off of HN because of his oth
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by rectang 2y ago
I'm willing to sign up for some cheap subscriptions through Apple that I'd be unlikely to make directly because I don't have the energy to scrutinize individual vendors regarding hidden charges, dark patterns, data collection
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by rectang 2y ago
https://fortune.com/2023/03/23/states-with-lowest-highest-ta... Essentially, California has a more progressive tax system than Texas.
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by rectang 2y ago
It was hard to get your blog discovered 15 years ago, too. Recall "blogrolls", where blogs would link to other blogs — networking to securing such links would be the analogue to making yourself visible on social media today. I wo
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by rectang 3y ago
To clarify: I had read that passage, and I was definitely aware that the name could be interpreted as a reference. Trademark conflicts in open store sometimes start that way. For example, “CouchBase” was a reference to “CouchDB” — it was or
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by rectang 3y ago
Whether or not there are "legal issues" with "Purl" being confusingly similar to "Perl" would be up the judgement of a court, should it come to that. Mostly, when there are other open source projects whose name
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by rectang 3y ago
I'm referring to Perl, which is another product in the same market (unixy command line applications) and has the same pronunciation. https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search/likelihood-confusion > Trademar
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by rectang 3y ago
> I appreciate any feedback! Please don't use a name which is confusingly similar to an existing product (i.e. infringes on someone else's trademark). Open source communities have enough to deal with already without having t
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by rectang 3y ago
Exactly. I felt intense revulsion reading GP’s comment. Collaborating in a team where there’s zero concern for people’s life circumstances is a no-go. It’s impossible to maintain work-life balance when life can’t even be acknowledged.
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by rectang 3y ago
Word Up video (with Levar Burton!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantupsA
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by rectang 3y ago
Businesses are collective entities. They enjoy efficiencies of scale when crafting legal strategies and negotiating with workers. Workers should enjoy collective rights similar to business owners.
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by rectang 3y ago
Germane quote from a document referenced in the article: > “Contemporary fights about labor are also inherently fights about constitutional law—about the rights to which citizens and residents are entitled, about governmental powers and
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by rectang 3y ago
Why would people pay attention even if long-term thinking is taught? Only chumps think about the long-term interest of the company . Your long-term interest as an individual is in extracting as much money from short-term bonuses as pos
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A South Carolina lawmaker is suing Instagram after his son died by suicide(cnn.com)
76 points by rectang 3y ago|126 comments
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by rectang 3y ago
As the previous commenter indicated, scale — it’s not physically possible for a human to read that many books. Even the most dedicated readers will only read a few thousand books in their lifetime. https://www.mentalfloss.com&#x
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Creators of AI-generated George Carlin special sued by late comedian's estate(theverge.com)
29 points by rectang 3y ago|9 comments
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by rectang 3y ago
Kudos for taking that on!
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by rectang 3y ago
The big change between the subscriptions of yore, e.g. magazine subscriptions in the days before the internet, and the subscriptions of today, is that payments used to be push and now they are pull. The magazine used to have to beg and ple
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by rectang 3y ago
> Why? That's much worse. Congratulations, HNer — you're more tech savvy than my mom. Perhaps you're volunteering to help vulnerable seniors like her navigate the Hobbesian nightmare of subscriptions? I applaud your init
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by rectang 3y ago
My tech-hating mom is currently spending hours, maybe even days setting up billpay through her bank so she doesn't have to give companies her credit card info for subscriptions. She's been burned too many times trying and failing
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by rectang 3y ago
Let's not pretend that the only people getting ripped off are those who are 100% irresponsible and entirely devoid of any redeeming financial virtue.
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by rectang 3y ago
> Unpay for it. This is the utility of credit cards. That's a facile answer. You're extremely well educated on this matter and know full well the downsides of "unpaying". EDIT: see sibling comment from "notaust
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by rectang 3y ago
The rapacious corporations agree with you — no matter how deceptive or even illegal their practices are, no matter how much R&D money is brought to bear in designing innovative user interfaces and bureaucratic frameworks which systemati
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by rectang 3y ago
The sharp ramp up of US oil production happened under the "all of the above" energy policy of Obama, who famously opposed that burning and bombing. Energy independence is vastly preferable to waging war, and may be worth making so
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by rectang 3y ago
Strong US domestic energy production disempowers petro-state dictatorships such as Russia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia etc. whose interests and values are not aligned with ours.

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