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by seer 7y ago
CGP gray's videos on YouTube are maybe the most concise and fun to watch materials I've seen on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25qzDhGLx8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY
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by seer 7y ago
There's some really exciting research going on around ageing (and cancer as they are quite related) recently. I'm someone very far outside the field, but as far as I can tell we're starting to understand cancer (and ageing) o
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by seer 7y ago
That is indeed the case, and this is what Kafka calls unlimited retention topics. This however hampers schema evolution significantly as you're not allowed to make backwards incompatible changes. Or rather if you allow those changes, e
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by seer 7y ago
I don't really understand why anybody would _not_ use a seatbelt in general. Sadly I have seen a number of people use "alarm silencers" basically just an end cap to fool the automated system that the seatbelt has been engaged
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by seer 7y ago
A way to deal with it that I've seen to work with Kafka is to make your messages not last very long (say about a week) and make them explicitly idempotent. So an "old" message being run would not affect the app negatively. An
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by seer 7y ago
I have definitely noticed this in myself and others - after coming out of an intense “in the zone” coding session I’m definitely more cranky and impulsive. While this is strictly anecdotal, I do believe there is a tight correlation with foc
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by seer 7y ago
Humans are basically bags of mostly water, and water is not god to radio signals. Have seen the exact same problem in rooms that are far away from the router. Massive difference if any of my body parts is in the way of the signal
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by seer 7y ago
How interesting! I've been wanting to use fp-ts for a while now. How did you manage to convince your team to give it a go. It's certainly very different than other orthodox approaches to React (or TS for that matter)? Have you had
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by seer 7y ago
While that is all true, at least to me it sounds like the old explanation of why Communism failed - "It was indeed superior, but all the world had to agree so for it to work". Say one country develops this utopia where everyone do
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by seer 7y ago
I used to be the same - 10+ years of waring contacts, I could pop them in and out of an eye without thinking about it in seconds. But then when I got older I started getting more eye infections and each time you can’t really use contacts as
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by seer 7y ago
Recently they’ve introduced Berglas which has been quite nice in handling secrets. You can store things in env variables as just secret names and it “transforms” them transparently for you into real secrets at runtime. And you can keep your
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by seer 7y ago
I know that HN’s libertarian views often conflict with the top down EU bureaucracy. But when I heard about GDPR here in europe I thought to myself - that looks very close to what all those people have been wishing for - and its actually her
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by seer 7y ago
I have a feeling a lot of art projects in history have been described as “at best useless, and at worst harmful“. For example leonardo da vinci’s bicycle. Even if that is true, here or in the other art projects, the purpose is to evoke some
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by seer 7y ago
I believe that the Rich Hickey’s mantra “simple is better than easy” applies very well to UIs. A lot of the times UIs try to hide complexity by making it “easy” to do common tasks, but the underlying complexity is still there and rears its
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by seer 7y ago
Is this specific for drives? I thought the whole European single market thing was to prevent taxing of stuff bought inside the single market? (serious question)
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by seer 7y ago
Interesting how typescript plays into this - I mean back in the wild old days of plain old JS I would be totally fine with putting a JSON.parse here and there, especially on the hot path. But now with static types - this would totally wreck
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by seer 7y ago
I’v noticed this pattern with people in way more situations than just team member - manager. Spouses, friends, colleagues etc are prone to just “suggest reading a book” to solve an inter-personal problem. And I’ve never seen this work in th
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by seer 7y ago
I’m no expert but doing polar landing would involve a plane change maneuver after you arrive in moon orbit (or some clever orbital mechanics to minimize delta-v losses and somehow do it in a single burn (both capture and plane change). Apar
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Travel Is No Cure for the Mind(medium.com)
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by seer 7y ago
Its not really a good analogy. If you get mugged you are coerced to give your wallet, on pain of _much_ greater punishment, usually the greatest there is - death. If your company’s data is cryptolocked, you are coerced to give money on pain
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by seer 7y ago
I would think that this comment could have been made in any point in history and a lot of people would agree. I just watched a documentary on Henry Ford - in his time making cars was a “solved” problem - you’d have various highly trained an
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by seer 7y ago
From being involved with non-anecdotal data sets on the subject I can say its actually the other way around. With those little tidbits of virtue signaling that you choose to put in the resume usually give the opportunity for the reviewer to
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by seer 7y ago
Never been to SF (or US for that matter) so genuinely interested if this is a factor - from all the biographies I’ve read and looking from the sidelines it seems to me - novel people + capital + entrepreneurship + technical expertise (post
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by seer 7y ago
I wonder if part of the success of silicon valley can be attributed to this? In most other places you can spend your time doing interesting things all day long and never get bored. Whereas in SV you just start a business? How many people wo
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by seer 7y ago
Well one doesn’t have to play _all_ the games out there right :) I used to stay on top of new games and at least try all the top grossers, but as time went on I started playing fewer and fewer ones because of a lot of factors. Less time in
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by seer 7y ago
Designing a bug free software to meet requirements that are ever-changing is hardly a solved problem. If you specify a system correctly upfront it is indeed possible to make something very very reliable. But a big part of building nowadays
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by seer 7y ago
Html validation is actually quite powerful and can help with most "quality of life" validations. You know the "this field is required" or "this field needs to be a number" kind of thing. Even more, html validat
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by seer 7y ago
The euro sure has its problems with the uneven power distributions of its users, but wouldn’t you call the same for the us dollar or the yuan for that matter? I’m sure there would chinese be provinces that tolerate their underperforming nei
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by seer 7y ago
Perhaps, its all a trade off. Maybe you lucked out with your governments. Having your own currency is a tool that _can_ be used wisely to great effect. It’s just that the modern world is filled with examples of the opposite. And it has been
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by seer 7y ago
I would call the euro a smashing success to be honest. Small countries, especially the ones that came out of the old ussr, seem to be very susceptible to their leaders playing with the currency to further their immediate goals, to the detri

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