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by tompark 1y ago
I agree that a debugger is a great tool; in particular, knowing how to set conditional breakpoints and how to read a stack trace allows you to do things that are nearly impossible in other ways. I can give a example story below, but first:
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by tompark 2y ago
I too have been on Mac for over 20 yrs, but day-jobs are sometimes on Windows. Currently I work in Ubuntu under Windows on a Lenovo X1 Carbon. I feel the same about moving away from Mac. Apple's hardware planned obsolescence/depre
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by tompark 2y ago
Oh it's nice to see productivity ones. I mostly use bookmarklets on my phone to fix annoyances bc on a desktop browser you can just open the js console or inspector. I beefed up the 'kill sticky' one < https://ne
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How Software Engineers Actually Use AI(wired.com)
6 points by tompark 2y ago|2 comments
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by tompark 2y ago
The temptation to use IDE-based AI is too great, so the industry is just going to to it, and we're just going to have to live with it. It's unfortunate. Most devs who like AI-coding seem to think AI code-completion is more effici
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by tompark 2y ago
> Even if you are being nicer, or happier, or trying to be helpful - large changes in behavior make everyone think you were lying to them throughout your time, that you were not being authentic. Uhhh, so, for example, if you were kinda
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by tompark 2y ago
Looks just like a capsule hotel. $700/mo is roughly $23/nt, about the same price as a basic capsule. This past week I just happened to spend 5 consecutive nights in a capsule hotel in Yokohama, and 2 nights in a goshiwon[1] in Seo
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by tompark 2y ago
When I tried to preorder an iPhone they eliminated the option to pick it up from the store. An employee told me they didn't want hordes of people picking up preorders on the same day. I don't know if that's the reason but it
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Strategies to Beat the AI Bots(ft.com)
1 points by tompark 2y ago|0 comments
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The Fujifilm X100V Went Viral Two Years Ago. You Still Can't Buy One(bloomberg.com)
1 points by tompark 2y ago|0 comments
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by tompark 2y ago
Yes, please don't misunderstand, I agree with you on both points, with regard to both outsourcing and full-time employees. And everyone on this thread is basically saying the same thing. My point about the way most dev shops currently
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by tompark 2y ago
Yup, I haven't replied to the email and wasn't going to. I was just wondering if there is a scenario where the arrangement is legit, or alternatively, if there's a particularly interesting scam going on here. > If one per
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by tompark 2y ago
OK, to clarify: 1. Most dev shops work in a similar way : During my career I have worked as a middle manager at multiple companies where I was on the other side of the table. That is, I outsourced projects to dev shops. All of them would b
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Ask HN: Going to tech interviews for a 3rd party shop?
6 points by tompark 2y ago|13 comments
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Microsoft's new Fluent illustrations are more 3D, brings skeuomorphism back(theverge.com)
3 points by tompark 2y ago|0 comments
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by tompark 2y ago
Fwiw, you can cheat on mobile Safari by scrolling in reader mode, which doesn't reset the timer.
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by tompark 2y ago
Would you recommend any of these as "must try"? (I'm going to be in Yokohama in October for the YIS centennial anniversary.)
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by tompark 2y ago
Nice. Consider showing the number of HN comments, linked to the HN item?
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by tompark 2y ago
Vega/Vega-lite has a python interface called Altair. I haven't used Altair but I wanted something higher level than D3 (which I've used but it feels fairly low level) so I went through the learning curve for Vega.js, and it c
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by tompark 2y ago
I have a lifetime membership to Mechanic's Library so I recognized the stairway and re-read the article to confirm which office building he was talking about. I get what you mean about old buildings in SF (living in a drafty victorian
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by tompark 2y ago
https://archive.ph/MvPbo
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Are video games coming for the novel?(ft.com)
1 points by tompark 2y ago|1 comments
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Neopets' nostalgic revival tripled users in six months(theguardian.com)
3 points by tompark 2y ago|0 comments
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Netflix acquires AI-powered language learning startup THINKIN(techstartups.com)
1 points by tompark 3y ago|0 comments
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by tompark 3y ago
This one works: https://techstartups.com/2024/03/27/netflix-acquires-ai-powe...
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by tompark 3y ago
Oh I forgot to mention the Einstein joke! Since I read the books, I could figure it out, but that was unexpected. I suspect that it was setting up for a dark forest punchline in season 2. In fact, it seems like they rearranged the expositio
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by tompark 3y ago
SPOILERS BELOW Overall I agree, it's pretty good. I may need to watch the 8 episodes again, because I was distracted by comparing it against the book and the Tencent/Chinese adaptation. Some scenes which I could tell were suppos
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by tompark 3y ago
Did anyone notice at around T+30:16 the cargo door was almost shut when it looked like it popped out of place. Then the view suddenly switched to an external camera. Am I wrong?
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by tompark 3y ago
i get the same message, but if you log into twitter then it says the stream will begin at 5:52am PDT
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by tompark 3y ago
> Whenever I try and do these things myself it works for a few weeks, and then I go back to old habits. I’m done trying the same thing over and over, and then failing. Every time I fail like this, it's because I tried to do too mu

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