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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I was once assigned a task that had been estimated at 8 hours of development time, but only required the modification of a single line of code. I finished it in 5 minutes. My boss asked what happened, I told him, and he told me to revert th
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
> Every time I hear people saying how much they prefer the git command line is because they never seriously tried to leverage the git features of their IDE. I think this statement is much more powerful in reverse. People who prefer the g
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I think the biggest problem with Markdown is that the spec is ambiguous and there’s no clearly prevailing standard. Jeff Atwood tried to fix this, but the creator of Markdown does not seem keen to cooperate with any attempts to standardize
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I have two thoughts after reading your description of the turbulence. One is that, flight attendants develop reflexes in response to turbulence, so for it to send 2 of them to the floor it must have been some extremely intense and sudden tu
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
This is only my experience, but personally I haven’t really found anyone who fits this “politically fractured and agitated” description in the real world. People in person don’t really seem to care as much and are generally somewhat moderat
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I won’t dispute that PHP is an objectively terribly-designed language and has many fundamental and unfixable flaws throughout its implementations and throughout the language itself. I’ll also agree that the popularity argument is completely
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I find it seriously scary how 23andMe markets itself. Externally, they're a family company helping you understand your family history and equipping you to anticipate health problems so you can prepare for them. Internally, in presentat
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I know meta comments are frowned upon here, but why is the “or:” in headlines (borrowed from Dr. Strangelove I presume) so popular among programmers? I see it done again at least once a week. Is it just because the movie is popular among pr
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
If my experience throughout grade school is an accurate reflection of US schools at large, nearly every upper-middle and above kid has a parent or tutor doing (or proofing) their homework for them. The poor kids (myself included) don't
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
This topic is always a great opportunity to share stories about what childhood was like just a few decades ago, so I'll share mine. When I was 5-10, a typical day for me was spent alone or with friends outside, from sun up to down, wit
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
With Netflix, there doesn’t seem to be any amount of seeing something and not clicking on it that ever gets the system to stop showing it to me. Every time I log in, there’s a big wall of 20 posters I’ve seen a thousand times and never clic
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
If all the questions were relevant and had objective solutions, they would be put into a lot of situations where they have no justifiable reason to reject somebody that they would prefer to discriminate against.
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I've found that usually when people say they're "passionate" about something, what they're really saying is that they have a deep yearning for the high social status they would attain if they were great at or well-k
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
Optimistic visions of how government services should work need to take into account the dysfunctional and extraordinarily inefficient nature of the system you're plugging those responsibilities into. If you have the State of California
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
Now I and other non-mathematicians can look into Euler's totient function and RSA, and learn more. Thanks for answering. So is there really never a proof in pure mathematics with more obvious or immediate near-term applications? Are th
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
> This is a huge deal, if true. What's the potential benefit to humanity that could come about if this is true, without any other dependencies, over the next 30 years?
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I used to know someone who worked for one of the companies behind those "We'll Fix Your Credit Score, Call Us" and "We'll Buy Your House, Call Us" signs on the side of street intersections (among other things),
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I laughed too hard at this. Reminds me of that famous Jim Reekes story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5d151lqJsA#t=2m4s Do you happen to remember what the copy was on that page? I'm sure it had to be something bette
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Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you've used in the last week?
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
> Personally, I think we'd all be a lot better off if we adopted open and polyamorous relationships in a large way. How is this different from being single? And what indication do you have that this would be a good idea? Anecdotal I
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
Comparisons in Google Trends are extremely easy to manipulate (or just interpret wrong). The ".js" you added to Vue is killing its results, and the generic term "react" is propping that one up. https://trends.
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
> There are plenty of benefits to a service like this Are they greater than the benefits of simply never tweeting at all?
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
Really interesting content but this site has one of the most aggressive, unpredictable and annoying slide-down headers I've ever seen. Displaying written content on the web should be so simple, yet all the content producers have invent
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
Probably not the best example. Maybe you're talking about a different kind of shirt, but I tried Amazon's brand of collared long-sleeve button-up shirts and found the quality so low that I'd consider them unwearable. The mate
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
> If you’re not using chat, and someone is hoping for a response faster than email, they’re likely to interrupt you in a way that’s far more disruptive than chat, like walking up in person or calling on the phone. If they have to physica
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
So, Googling "they're all from turnip town" led me to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuKvUf7cr0s And I still don't know what it means to be from turnip town. That video has 300 views and is one of
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
Oh yeah, insurance and financial products in general are just silent murderers of people's finances. Families get wrecked financially for generations to pay for this stuff and they don't even realize it's happening. And in or
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
This doesn't surprise me at all and it's because of hidden costs incurred by the driver, combined with an implicit bidding system that drives down wages. Hidden costs: 1. Vehicle wear and tear (cars cost you money when you drive t
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
Tell that to the white and asian males who get rejected on the basis of their race and gender despite having worked their entire lives to be the most qualified and technically adept candidate. I'm pretty sure impostor syndrome is a pro
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by throwaway0255 9y ago
People outside of tech think there's this silent discrimination and hostility against women and minorities, but it's the complete opposite. If you could choose your race and gender going into these interviews, you would be a compl

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