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by sk2020 6y ago
I’m sure somebody has, but how would you find them? There is a network effect here. I wouldn’t mind spending the $10/month to host, but nobody would look at it. Google is basically worthless for finding anything outside of popular site
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by sk2020 6y ago
https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks There are a few tests which have Julia and Nim implementations. It would be nice if the benchmarks game maintainer would include some more languages, like Nim, Crystal, and Zig. Thi
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by sk2020 6y ago
I miss when ZH was an investment blog.
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by sk2020 6y ago
>protagonist is a crime fighting hero with a funny hat >protagonist is an inbred imbecile These are not very similar.
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by sk2020 6y ago
Can you make a movie stereotyping and disparaging The protected class Cohen belongs to? Of course not. In many countries, doing so is actually a crime. That’s what’s so objectionable to me.
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by sk2020 6y ago
It thoroughly amuses me that the pinnacle of Sacha Baron Cohen’s career is “pretending” to be an idiot. What a dubious honor.
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by sk2020 6y ago
I appreciate RSS for that reason. Information is opt-in.
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by sk2020 6y ago
Case in point, in his book Red Notice, Bill Browder says pretty candidly that he was a poor student, but he was admitted to Stanford because his Grandfather was Chairman of the US Communist Party back in the day. More recently there has bee
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by sk2020 6y ago
The ranking algorithms are just leaking. I’ve noticed an innocuous post today only a minute old already downvoted. “RMS” and “nutcase” were in the post, but not in a derogatory context. Sub-120 second action is an improbable level of attent
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by sk2020 6y ago
Your budget is your priorities.
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by sk2020 6y ago
Institutions of learning becoming subordinate to a faith-based ideology might be worth reacting to. Lysenkoism probably shouldn’t be repeated.
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by sk2020 6y ago
EFF takes up these causes sometimes, right? This notice is hollow sabre-rattling, so I wouldn’t worry too much. What can RIAA do if somebody forks the project and hosts it in the Lithuania? Not much. Yell into a pillow, maybe.
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by sk2020 6y ago
If Mozilla shut its doors for good and Firefox became abandonware, would not all the donations and volunteer labor look for another browser project, perhaps one with a more principled stance on user privacy? Would that not be a good thing?
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by sk2020 6y ago
Was JuliaCon 2020 remote? That probably has more to do with it. I can’t possibly imagine there are 40X more active users in one year. The niche it serves isn’t particularly large, either.
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by sk2020 6y ago
Of course they hire non-PEs. You can’t get a license without years (at least 4) of experience first. Most consultancies I know of would not hire anyone who couldn’t pass the FE, though.
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by sk2020 6y ago
Being 13x faster is not a compelling enough reason to use Node, in my opinion.
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by sk2020 6y ago
The source data shows decline in absolute numbers for pushes. 1432 last quarter, 19073 at peak Q3 2015. It seems to flatten out in 2018 and stays in the 1500-3000 range.
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by sk2020 6y ago
If you can do both, I highly recommend it. Programming abilities can multiply your productivity in another field several times.
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by sk2020 6y ago
When I say “engineer” in disciplines other than software, I mean somebody with a professional license. You can only get that by passing exams and having a combination of experience, education and recommendations to pass a state board. It’s
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by sk2020 6y ago
That only indicates downloads, though. One user might download many times for various reasons (containers come to mind). Does the Julia compiler have telemetry like .NET core that monitors it’s users? I would also be quite shocked if whoeve
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by sk2020 6y ago
I’ve thought for a while that it would be fun to research which users post the most with respect to which subject. I think if you had a time series of HN hot topics and a graph of evangelists, then maybe some interesting patterns would appe
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by sk2020 6y ago
According to githut, usage is declining. I wouldn’t read too much into it, but it is one empirical measure. https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2020/3 I assume the marketing is to try and r
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by sk2020 6y ago
Collecting disability doesn’t necessarily mean you’re incapacitated or can’t work at all. Depression is a common disability, for example. It’s very common for veterans who served more than 4 years to get some amount of disability if they ar
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by sk2020 6y ago
He sounds like a grifter. Why not release this super-dooper Python interpreter under a proprietary license? Just have people pay $1000 for it. If it works, then it’s a steal for people who use Python for business. “Well, you have to take me
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by sk2020 6y ago
Construction and trades takes that approach. It’s a mixed bag. I would say implicit job insecurity removes a lot of potentially good employees from the applicant pool. People who value stability and support families tend to be reliable, and
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by sk2020 6y ago
Is there a reason to suspect Brian Acton’s motives? I’m always skeptical of celebrity-hackers, but I don’t know why I should be worried about Acton in particular.
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by sk2020 6y ago
I’d say that’s poor workmanship rather than flooding as defined by NFIP. Sloping an addition away from a structure is pretty basic. The contractor might be bonded, but you don’t own the property, so I wouldn’t say there’s much recourse for
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by sk2020 6y ago
There are probably several other monetization strategies in play, unless a tiger (Jason Citron) can change his stripes https://archive.org/details/OpenfeintComplaint Generally, any highly polished service with glowing
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by sk2020 6y ago
Mumble is fine if you can give up the video portion. My work uses Zoom, but, frankly a conference call would always suffice. I’m very skeptical of the value-add of video in meetings.
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by sk2020 6y ago
msc.fema.gov/nfhl It’s pretty trivial to find if a property is in a floodplain. A mortgage is such a significant financial burden that I would hope most people would thoroughly research a property before signing a contract. However, ma

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