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IBM’s Old Playbook(stratechery.com)
2 points by snth 5y ago|0 comments
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by snth 5y ago
Wow this article wastes a lot of words before getting to the point. And when it gets there, the conclusion isn't very interesting.
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by snth 5y ago
You might be interested in this blog post: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
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by snth 5y ago
"Don't repeat things that were already communicated": This sounds good, but it takes several repetitions for information to sink in with everyone everywhere I've worked. I don't know a way around this.
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by snth 5y ago
I think getting your name and work out in the world with open source work is a career _advancing_ move.
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by snth 5y ago
I like the idea of this, and I'm sure you save a lot of money, but the downside is this: I want to do some one-off job I haven't done before. It'll be difficult, because I will be trying it for the first time. Do I really w
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by snth 5y ago
I really like the sentiment, if not some of the specific examples given. An example of my own: I went through several grocery-store-bought hair clippers before getting some "pro" clippers: Oster Classic 76. They work better, the
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by snth 5y ago
And you can find stuff like "Nuclear Grade Duct Tape": https://www.mcmaster.com/fastening-tape/nuclear-grade-duct-t...
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by snth 5y ago
https://danluu.com/
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Worse Is Better(dreamsongs.com)
1 points by snth 5y ago|0 comments
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by snth 6y ago
I wish we could treat services as black boxes like this, but who can run services these days without keeping on top of dependency, security, and platform updates? The inevitable deprecation of some of these means surgery will soon be requi
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by snth 6y ago
Bah. People have to ignore security professionals all the time, because all too often, security professionals don't care if any software gets shipped.
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by snth 6y ago
This is the reverse of the characterization of the two languages I usually see. I usually see "Go is easy to learn and use" and "Rust is hard to learn but has performance advantages". I often see comments about how you
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Flynt: Convert old Python string formatting to f-strings(github.com)
79 points by snth 6y ago|39 comments
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by snth 6y ago
But doesn't that seem like a strategy for indulging in confirmation bias?
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by snth 6y ago
Why?
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by snth 6y ago
Do you not think ICBMs are a current threat?
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by snth 6y ago
Surely defense against one vector is progress.
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by snth 6y ago
This is a classic false dilemma, and usually, in my opinion, an attempt at manipulation.
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Fish vs. Zsh vs. Bash and Why You Should Switch to Fish(medium.com)
7 points by snth 6y ago|2 comments
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by snth 6y ago
You can install and manage more than one version of Python with pyenv.
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by snth 6y ago
Don't people who take Vitamin D supplements _also_ care more about their health though?
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Covid-19 Projections (US)(covid19.healthdata.org)
4 points by snth 7y ago|0 comments
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by snth 7y ago
I'm dying to switch to a good Linux laptop. Any suggestions for one that could replace my MacBook pro? Every previous time I've done this, I've been disappointed with something basic: wifi, battery management, video card sup
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by snth 7y ago
I've never heard of a negative stereotype about Kyle in America either.
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From Python to Go to Rust: an opinionated journey (2018)(tech.allo-media.net)
114 points by snth 7y ago|70 comments
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by snth 9y ago
Then please link to some of these articles. You are doing what you are complaining about: merely asserting.
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by snth 9y ago
By "disallow", I'm talking about the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics ... and most people's willingness to support these guidelines
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by snth 9y ago
Hacker News is a high quality forum because it disallows political discussion. Maybe someone could build a forum that enforces civil discussion on political issues, either with automated or manual moderation, but Hacker News' moderat
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by snth 11y ago
Circa was great. It was exactly what I wanted. I suspect it failed because, as is snuck into a middle paragraph, "... Circa never turned itself into a business." All of the other complaints in this article were positives (or at

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