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by stakkur 6y ago
I used WordPress for many years. Recently, I experimented a lot with Jekyll, Hugo and Pelican, and settled on Hugo, hosted on a regular web host. I move files via sftp and a script. Right now I'm wiring it up to Emacs. But I'm not
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by stakkur 6y ago
Some days, I miss telnet-ing into BBSes.
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by stakkur 6y ago
Having worked many years with globally distributed teams, especially offshored IT in India, I'd say...LOL.
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by stakkur 6y ago
Without risking some random Intel lawyer reprisal, it was often worse than that. At one point, Intel had the 'ranking and rating' that was once used at Microsoft. I think this is called 'forced ranking' today. My god.
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by stakkur 6y ago
Many years ago, I worked at Intel. Layoffs/restructuring/reorging were...common. Often affecting thousands of people. It's brutal.
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by stakkur 6y ago
Surely this is their hosting provider getting hacked, not the 'site'?
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by stakkur 6y ago
def mom(believe_hallmark = False, mom_exists = False, mom_cares = False): if (believe_hallmark == True and mom_exists == True and mom_cares == True): print('Call Mom') else: print('Nah') m
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by stakkur 6y ago
The content matters. The tool doesn't. Based on painful firsthand experience, don't waste much time optimizing for the 'best' way to share. Just create, share, adjust. You can always switch to another 'tool'--t
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by stakkur 6y ago
Because: 1. Companies have no incentive or competitive advantage to do so 2. Salary is a negotiation, and you don't hand the person you're negotiating with information 3. Companies can control pay variations amongst current and fu
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by stakkur 6y ago
I got my first 'email' address in the mid-80s, on CompuServe. I remember this era. I wish I could transport all my younger friends to those days. They seemed more...humane, and mysterious. There was an optimism and exhilaration ab
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by stakkur 7y ago
1. Create (anything), and share it with the world. 2. See what happens. 3. Reflect on any feedback you receive. 4. Adjust. 5. Do it again, over and over.
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by stakkur 7y ago
Using a git GUI is a less 'technical' option, but no matter who the target audience, there'll be some learning involved. One 'non-code' example: document editors (e.g., Microsoft Word) have a version of this in trac
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Ask HN: Why don't more people use Pelican over Jekyll?
2 points by stakkur 7y ago|0 comments
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by stakkur 7y ago
* Offline. * Open source. * No telemetry sent. * One-time fee, no 'subscription'. * Linux-compatible.
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by stakkur 7y ago
I started using Emacs in earnest a few years ago, especially Org-Mode. At first, I tried every customization I came across and loaded up my init file with all the cool mods. But when things went wrong, I had no clue how to fix them. So afte
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What's the best laptop of the past several years for development?
1 points by stakkur 7y ago|3 comments
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by stakkur 7y ago
It's awesome that you suggested Matrix to a user named Neo.
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by stakkur 7y ago
I could've told you, Vincent. This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
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by stakkur 7y ago
How would it be possible to quantify data from the future, exactly? Or is it necessary to say 'this doesn't include unknown data from the future'?
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by stakkur 7y ago
>>Contrasting the victim counts literally implies the comparison this article warns against The title is a comparison of the counts of cases and deaths, not the severity or impact of the illness. It's...data. And by the way, thos
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by stakkur 7y ago
What specifically is misleading or not factual about it? It's comparing number of cases and deaths, not the virus itself.
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by stakkur 7y ago
"The growing number of lab-confirmed cases in the U.S. at this point still pales in comparison to the seasonal flu, which kills an estimated 12,000 to 61,000 people per year and affects between 9 million and 45 million people in the co
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Number of coronavirus cases and deaths in US pale in comparison to seasonal flu(abcnews.go.com)
2 points by stakkur 7y ago|8 comments
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Ask HN: What home office computing setup do you have?
4 points by stakkur 7y ago|7 comments
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by stakkur 7y ago
https://www.coronatracker.com/analytics/
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Current analytics for COVID-19/Coronavirus(coronatracker.com)
1 points by stakkur 7y ago|0 comments
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by stakkur 7y ago
[EDIT] I greatly misjudged this audience. Fear is everywhere, but (at least) so is data. WHO 10 March report: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
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by stakkur 7y ago
I've always found https://www.bankrate.com/ useful.
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by stakkur 7y ago
The solution is discipline. And you will never, ever find it outside you or get it from another person. Keep the $100, and invest it in a kettlebell.
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by stakkur 7y ago
One spreadsheet with two worksheets and two python scripts seems fairly simple to me. No third party, no feeds, no sharing data, nothing. And it just works.

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