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by uncomputation 4y ago
You don’t think the ability for a set of mutually exclusive flags to introduce illegal states (a disabled, yet visible object) into a program is a code smell? I think the array approach is far more elegant, if implemented properly (concurre
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Came here to say just this, this ranks higher than anything on the front page currently and is not very old. Usually HN algorithm allows a slow fall for high vote posts like this. This one’s quick descent right off the top 100 seems human-m
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Meh, this is a lot of words to say nothing really, a sponsored article for A16Z. The core “problems” of the internet business are still up in the air: ads vs payments. The author mentions she prefers her own curated “search engine” company
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by uncomputation 4y ago
https://archive.ph/35keH
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Microsoft Doubles Salary Budget to Retain Staff as Cost of Living Rises(bloomberg.com)
56 points by uncomputation 4y ago|11 comments
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Why do you say Coinbase is good for cold storage? It’s not custodied so in the event they went bankrupt/sanctions compliance/TOS violation, they could lock you out forever. A hardware wallet is good for cold storage. Coinbase is a
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by uncomputation 4y ago
The issue isn’t that modern banks all do this. It’s that crypto was supposed to be different, a response to the financial crisis where people were affected that didn’t even gamble on housing, a way to truly own and prove your money is your
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by uncomputation 4y ago
> You've obviously never driven with someone from an older generation. Lol dude, your dad is not representative of an entire generation.
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by uncomputation 4y ago
With JavaScript, these kinds of optimizations in an engine make sense due to the web being limited by it and thus speed is a huge factor. With Python, however, if a Python web framework is “too” slow, I would honestly say the problem is usi
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by uncomputation 4y ago
One lesson from Web 2.0 that needs to be heeded here: MAU matters. If you give someone in a poor country $30 just for signing up, of course they’re gonna take it. But the value in the bitcoin network is continued use. If every one claims th
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Hard to think of a more opposite intended use case than the one Satoshi imagined than this: a custodial, government-subsidized, completely identified (not pseudonymous) payment app which does not allow you to run verification of the network
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by uncomputation 4y ago
> the potential it brings for disparate, and disagreeing people to work together to accomplish shared goals / public goods Do you have examples of crypto allowing disagreeing parties to work together? Preemptively, I don’t think thi
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Thanks, yeah this is actually related to/the first step in a similar idea I had for a CSS SAT solver which generates a set of minimal CSS rules.
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Yes, this one million times over. I have went from home-rolled React to Jekyll to Gatsby to Hugo and now seriously considering just doing my own HTML/CSS. Practically, I have rarely run into the issues other markup languages and SSGs a
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Almost none of these are "professional" or the sort of corporate double speak the author wants to convey. In fact, I find a lot of the "alternatives" more passive aggressive and rude than the original intentions! Instead
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Despicable on all levels. Not only was there nothing resembling an offer even made, much less a "contract" signed, Jump also very well knows that 50k for a domain like that is a steal and are more than happy to try and pry it from
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by uncomputation 4y ago
Very true; yet they are also famously materialistic and capitalistic (see the many film commentaries on capitalism out of South Korea). I wonder if these surgeries are by Western or Korean beauty standards. That is, are people largely tryin
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by uncomputation 4y ago
> Programmers will purposely subtly sabotage key utility functions, methods, or systems to prevent their bonus competitors This seems like a potentially self-destructive way to accomplish this. Not sure what company he is referring to, b
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by uncomputation 4y ago
I find these subtle, yet extremely intense neuroses we see so often in Western cultures fascinating. The patient remarks on one TikTok video in particular that seemingly tormented him. I had never once thought a few inches height difference
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by uncomputation 4y ago
> I'm positive linguists aren't happy with English becoming the global language either Nit: Linguists do not hold prescriptive opinions about the "quality" of languages. They analyze languages to form descriptive theo
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by uncomputation 4y ago
The “invisible stack frame” idea is genius and so elegant. I’m currently working on a file parser in Rust and have run into this issue several times now, especially when I really want to avoid heap allocation (say the references to the file
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Nintendo ‘Mario Movie’ Leaks: DMCA Used to Suppress Spoiler Discussion(torrentfreak.com)
37 points by uncomputation 4y ago|1 comments
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Twitter overcounted its users over the past 3 years by as much as 1.9M(techcrunch.com)
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by uncomputation 4y ago
There is none, or at least no more than any other site. In fact, Twitter moderation is leagues better than old forum style moderation (dang is an exception :)). I waited for years post-2016 to see any real evidence of the “fake” news that i
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by uncomputation 4y ago
> DK doesn't mean no correlation, it means inverse correlation Both are wrong. DK effect describes a weak positive correlation, but weaker than we intuitively expect. The top quartile still estimates their ability better than the bo
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by uncomputation 4y ago
I generally avoid even talking about him due to his rapid followers but uh… yes, Elon Musk’s father is “so rich we couldn’t close our safe” and it’s hilarious you chose him - of all people - to argue against privilege instead of Bill Gates,
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by uncomputation 4y ago
I think you’re over-exaggerating about the “insane advancements in recent years that would blow his mind.” There was a recent overview of different MEV preventive measures [0] which came to the conclusion that there is currently no silver b
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by uncomputation 5y ago
I disagree. I think it’s a good reminder that if we do not regulate labor, businesses like Amazon will grow more and more nefarious. They already confiscate phones, have a built-in PIP revolving door, use their own employees to vouch for th
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by uncomputation 5y ago
Say you’re a father. You need to support your family, and there’s an Amazon Fulfillment Center in town. It pays a whole dollar an hour better than the local fruit packing warehouse, which is a huge difference. Amazon is providing me a valua
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by uncomputation 5y ago
Distractions like discussing “freedom” or “accessibility”? > I don't think you're allowed to use company time to organize. I don't think its unreasonable to make people work when they're on the clock and remove distra

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