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by ryangittins 6y ago
Looks like HN has hugged this one to death. https://web.archive.org/web/20200907174629/https://mywiki.wo...
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by ryangittins 6y ago
On mornings when I'm feeling particularly lazy in the office, I'll do :later 8h and commit the code before heading home. ;)
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by ryangittins 7y ago
The problem with your argument is that indistinguishable doesn't mean the equal. I'm not saying there is no difference between adjacent colors. I'm saying that the difference is indistinguishable. A lot of indistinguishabl
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by ryangittins 7y ago
I don't follow. Two given colors being indistinguishable doesn't imply that any two colors are indistinguishable.
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by ryangittins 7y ago
I'm curious—is there a point to giving two separate names to two colors which are indistinguishable from one another to the human eye? There are zero people in the world who can tell #FF4500 from #FF4501, so aren't they effectivel
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by ryangittins 7y ago
I actually had this same phenomenon with a desk that was shipped to me recently! The top came in its own box with a huge picture of a TV on it. At first I was really confused, but then I realized that while the huge picture was a TV, the
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by ryangittins 7y ago
> 50 applications submitted This is an enormous red flag to me. Submitting dozens of applications almost certainly means you're not putting the required thought and attention into each one. For any given job application, you shoul
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by ryangittins 7y ago
> You can mix and match perfectly fine. Thank you! This seems like one of those topics where people often feel the need to pick a side for some reason. I've often heard criticism to the effect of, "people only use ORMs because
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by ryangittins 9y ago
Nope, currently siftrss is geared totally toward filtering the content which exists in the feed already. The goal is to keep the tool good at doing that one thing. That is a neat idea, though!
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by ryangittins 9y ago
Cool indeed! As for Medium feeds, it's all about whether or not you can find a pattern in the data to exploit. For instance, maybe links for comments contain "/c/" whereas links for posts contain "/p&#x2F
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by ryangittins 9y ago
I did see that a while back—I'm actually a Feedly user myself! I haven't looked at their implementation much, but I imagine it only works on Feedly itself whereas siftrss is meant to be totally agnostic to what reader you use. Th
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by ryangittins 9y ago
> No filtering. Shameless(-ish) plug for my project, siftrss: https://siftrss.com/ You add a source feed, include/exclude items by keyword or regex match, and get a new filtered feed to subscribe to. Because it pro
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by ryangittins 9y ago
Even if they did this in all Starbucks locations, I can't see it really making any money. Ten seconds on a laptop CPU rounds to zero. Coinhive has just never made any sense to me in practice. Maybe 5+ years ago, but not today.
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by ryangittins 9y ago
Oh geez, that's nuts. That's like asking, "Why do I need to put my valuables in a safe if I have a lock on my front door?"
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by ryangittins 9y ago
I am also in whole-hearted agreement with Linus, here. In fact, I ran into this just recently. I discovered one of our systems at work actually stored encrypted passwords rather than just hashed ones, and decrypted it for validation.
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by ryangittins 9y ago
Yes, fair enough—I guess it's more about the low effort on both sides of the equation. I suppose I do value articles which make it easy for me to quickly digest more complex ideas, but this this in particular is just... almost the bat
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by ryangittins 9y ago
I'm really disappointed at how Buzzfeed-esque this piece is and (even more so) how it could reach the front page of HN. I'd like to think that easily-digestible, low-effort articles don't have a place in this community, but
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by ryangittins 9y ago
I use this trick when I want to buy something online which I don't absolutely need. I'll add it to a wish list on Amazon (or even put it in my cart) and then leave the site. When I come back a few days or weeks later, I often fi
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by ryangittins 9y ago
Wow, this is a blast from the past. The website looks largely unchanged from when I first visited. I think it was featured by Attack of the Show on G4TV.
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by ryangittins 9y ago
I agree whole-heartedly. I'm far from proficient, but my vim skills did increase dramatically when I just started using it. A lot of that was driven by getting a Digital Ocean droplet and not having many other choices. I could'
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by ryangittins 9y ago
Yes and no. I say yes because C and C++ both have likely() and unlikely() functions (well, technically It's part of a compiler extension rather than the language), which you wrap around the condition inside your if() statement like
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by ryangittins 9y ago
Hey, thanks a lot for the feedback! I appreciate it. You actually can explore a whole year at a time by selecting "-All-" for the month. Originally I had the ability to do the same with year, but it was painfully slow even with
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Show HN: SnooBooks – Dive Deep into Reddit's Favorite Books(snoobooks.com)
3 points by ryangittins 9y ago|3 comments
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by ryangittins 9y ago
In general, I'm a big fan. I probably go back and forth between sitting and standing every three hours or so. I don't think I have worse concentration while standing unless I've been standing for awhile and my feet are sta
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by ryangittins 9y ago
I think s/he's writing from the perspective of what is and you're writing from the perspective of what should be . You can both be right.
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by ryangittins 9y ago
Given the attention to detail they've displayed with other aspects of the show, I'm almost certain this was an intentional joke.
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by ryangittins 10y ago
I'm a little ignorant on this subject so please forgive me, but does the measurement of productivity account for advances in technology? With modern software I can produce the output of hundreds of people from the 1960s orders of magni
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by ryangittins 10y ago
Hey, I really enjoyed your pitch on Shark Tank! I'm glad to see your company is doing well.
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by ryangittins 10y ago
Hey, everybody! I threw together siftrss over the last week to scratch my own itch. My girlfriend works in a specialized field for which there are seldom job opportunities. I monitor RSS feeds for her, but many don't let me restrict
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Show HN: Siftrss – Apply simple filters to your RSS feeds(siftrss.com)
1 points by ryangittins 10y ago|1 comments

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