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by trinovantes 6y ago
Loss aversion bias I'd love to one day leave my tiny hometown in Canada and get exposed to foreign cultures (primarily interested in US/Japan/Germany). However, I find it hard to stomach tossing out the ~$10k worth of crap th
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by trinovantes 6y ago
Currently, I'm mostly writing 2d/3d graphics code (C++) I did briefly write some Haskell/Erlang in my undergrad programming language theory course and carried some of the functional paradigms into my professional career thoug
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by trinovantes 6y ago
From my experience: 1. Don't try to be clever. Unless there's a really good tangible tradeoff, do things the boring way. Ideally try to avoid language-specific features just to save a few keystrokes 2. Write as much stateless code
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by trinovantes 6y ago
It would be pretty ironic to see Reddit follow in Digg's footsteps and kill itself with their new redesign
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by trinovantes 6y ago
Back in my undergrad software testing course, we were taught test coverage in the context of a control flow graph. I think most coverage measurements (at least in the GitHub projects where I've seen a coverage badge) only refer to stat
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by trinovantes 6y ago
Drawing tablets also have pen pressure and tilt detection to simulate a real paintbrush. They also need thicker screens to handle constant pen strokes whereas a regular tablet is mostly used by fingers. Wacom and Huion are pretty much the o
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by trinovantes 6y ago
I'm curious what's the typical salary for devs at Japanese startups. I'm assuming it should at least be higher than megacorps which, from what I understand, are more traditional and based on years spent at the company. I also
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by trinovantes 6y ago
Maybe the line should be drawn at problems that are formally proved to be unsolvable? Retrying network calls is essentially a real world approximation to the Two Generals Problem [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T
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by trinovantes 6y ago
This discussion thread was a good read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24541964
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by trinovantes 6y ago
Thanks, I have not heard of AWS Lambda before. I was able to find some case studies on Amazon's website [1] describing practical uses in production. It seems the most common uses are processing user uploaded images/videos. I can d
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by trinovantes 6y ago
Can someone give some concrete example uses of why I would want to use workers in production? From what I understand, it works like a middleware/caching layer but without database access. Is the potential cost savings worth the develop
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by trinovantes 6y ago
Ever since I've installed WSL a few months ago, I've stopped booting into my Linux partition out of laziness. Last week I booted into Linux to access an old project and the UX felt like an uncanny valley. I suspect it might be due
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by trinovantes 6y ago
GPT3 has some impressive results with generated code [1]. I don't think it's production ready but it seems to have potential to one day replace a room of frontend devs with just 1 dev to clean up the code. [1] https://t
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by trinovantes 6y ago
Most custom email domain hosts should have an option to allow you to catch all emails *@example.com (e.g. Protonmail has this option for paid plans [1]) I have heard some people say this attracts a lot of spam since you'll receive emai
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by trinovantes 6y ago
I wonder if there's any sites that makes these comparisons e.g. I specify my home country then it lists popular products I can cheaper from elsewhere including cost of travel
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by trinovantes 6y ago
I'm curious if there's any big businesses using these platforms or do they all use in-house solutions? For example, if nvidia used one of these platforms for their 3000s launch store, would they have better or worse performance. C
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by trinovantes 6y ago
Reminds me of when Homebrew's creator can't get past Apple's interview process [1] [1] https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
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by trinovantes 6y ago
The contributor would need to either: - Agree to a Contributor License Agreement that grants the project owner an irrevocable world-wide commercial license (probably missing a few adjectives but you get the idea) - Transfer the copyright -
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by trinovantes 6y ago
A simple solution would be creating an issue template [1] that just prefills the issue with a line like "I will pay $X for this feature via Paypal" [1] https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/gith
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by trinovantes 6y ago
Even with all these Electron alternatives over the years, I always end up going back to Electron for my projects. My main problem with these alternatives is that they rarely mention what tradeoffs they're making to achieve the their pe
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by trinovantes 6y ago
This is under the assumption that the voters will have an informed opinion on the issues. With how much the internet have created echo chambers, I highly doubt this will be possible. In reality, I think the results will be determined by whi
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by trinovantes 6y ago
I wish Twitch offered a reasonably priced plan to skip all ads like YouTube. Right now I see an ad every time I hop to a new channel regardless of when I last saw an ad.
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by trinovantes 6y ago
Bing just feels like an inferior product even when they offer a monetary incentive for using them. I tried setting Bing as my default search engine for a month earlier this year and half the time I had to go back to Google. Here's an e
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by trinovantes 6y ago
For quick whiteboard diagrams, you can probably make do with any <$100 drawing tablet off Amazon. I personally use Wacom Intuos which is a bit pricer but have features for my digital art hobby (pen pressure and onboard buttons). Disclaim
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by trinovantes 7y ago
This is the kind of documentation I wish every language/framework provided. Every time I try to learn a new language/framework, I just see code fragments with no idea how to organize them coherently. This month I'm working on
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by trinovantes 13y ago
I remember back in my first year engineering physics midterm, it was 13 multiple choice questions and each question had a "there is not enough information given" option. I guess that's why everyone at my school calls it the r
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by trinovantes 14y ago
I enjoyed the original Japanese films more than the manga. Despite the mediocre acting, the movie was much better than the anime.
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by trinovantes 14y ago
As a 2nd year undergrad, I wish he taught my first year linear algebra course. I remember just scrambling to keep up with the prof writing the notes on the board. For my final I just crammed the steps (without knowing why they work or why w
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Dropbox Experimental Android build offers up to 5gb Free Storage(forums.dropbox.com)
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