wayfarer2s

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by wayfarer2s 3y ago
It's very different from what the article is concluding. Knuth's outcome was a "good life", not a "great life".
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by wayfarer2s 3y ago
The premise doesn't hold up when you think about it. If to be great is to be good repeatably, then what does it mean to be great repeatably? Is that also great or do we need a new word? Producing good work consistently means you are go
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by wayfarer2s 4y ago
Isn’t cache invalidation the hardest part of the feed? Once a user with millions of followers tweets, doesn’t that essentially invalidate millions of caches? That doesn’t sound like a trivial problem.
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by wayfarer2s 4y ago
WhatsApp and twitter’s latency calculations are on different things. Twitter’s latency stems from calculating what tweets should show on a given request. Even if you try to show tweets from 1 minute ago, it’s hard to cache that stuff using
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by wayfarer2s 5y ago
I think affordable was implied by "state". > This stuff is staggeringly, mind-wreckingly expensive for people who aren't in tech, and yet functionally required because of the structures we have allowed to be built. Society
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by wayfarer2s 7y ago
> I'm graduating with my master's in CS now and still haven't been taught in class many of the things I had to figure out to make what I wanted to make. Maybe the fact that you figured it out is an indication that it doesn
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by wayfarer2s 7y ago
I'm surprised the author's takeaway from the Joyce quote was disillusionment. He's actually quite close to the secret sauce. I don't think writing more code and ending up with less code are at odds. In fact, I think you
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by wayfarer2s 8y ago
I think I get it, but I'd suggest sticking with the same example when explaining the confrontational aspect of it. When you switch contexts it makes it hard to imagine the inverse. If you don't mind, can you explain the confrontat
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by wayfarer2s 8y ago
> Depriving people of their livelihood for expressing political views is absolutely a free speech issue. I don't think free speech is the issue here. There's a difference between expressing your views on your own time and invol
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by wayfarer2s 8y ago
Audio books help a lot. It makes reading a more passive activity that you can do while doing other things that are less taxing on the mind. If you have a long commute and you can knock off quite a few books just going back and forth to work
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by wayfarer2s 9y ago
> valid certificate trusted by a fake CA I don't think that's possible. A fake CA can't issue out valid certificates because you wouldn't trust their certs to begin with -- it's all about trust and if you know th
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by wayfarer2s 9y ago
> Something that was previously complicated enough to consider a product may now be trivial enough to become a feature. Mp3 players for example.
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by wayfarer2s 9y ago
I was thinking the same thing about those sortBy code snippets. I use shorthand for lambdas all the time because the individual item names are implied by the collection.
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by wayfarer2s 9y ago
> when you actually want to know when the component was put into the DOM You can use componentDidMount for that and its semantics are still the same.
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by wayfarer2s 10y ago
Oh that sucks..How about "yarnish"? It's available on npm, sticks to your roots, and you can play on varnish if you like. Or you can always go the thesaurus route and use fleece, wool, cotton fiber, flaxen thread...
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by wayfarer2s 10y ago
Another pro for wireless is that you get more space inside the phone, which means more room for chips, batteries, etc. And you have to consider things like headphone jack make it harder for your phone to be waterproof since that's one
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by wayfarer2s 10y ago
Honestly I'm glad they're moving towards wireless. I replace way more headphones than I care to admit just from them wearing out with normal use. It's usually just the wire itself that is worn out, the earpieces are almost al
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by wayfarer2s 10y ago
It might look more familiar, but it's not better than JSX. It gets really tedious to write the pure JavaScript versions of components especially when specifying lots of attributes and nested components. It's also hard to follow. E
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by wayfarer2s 10y ago
That's an easy one, just have to restate it differently and it works: (not dead) == alive. So, is there any evidence that you are alive? Well, yes, there is. Unfortunately, proving that you are "not (not Satoshi)", doesn&#x27
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by wayfarer2s 11y ago
That seems like it would take longer than just manually labeling the things to begin with, especially with edge cases (what happens when there are 2 items in the picture? how do you handle mislabeling?).
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by wayfarer2s 11y ago
I think you are right in that other inputs are needed to decipher meaning. Humans for example tend to have quite a lot of different sources of input -- as when we are children and learning new words we have the spelling (visual), how it sou
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by wayfarer2s 11y ago
Actually no, in most professional leagues the rookie of the year/season award is handed out to the best rookie whether that rookie performed below, above, or at the same level as their more experienced peers. They are graded only again
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by wayfarer2s 12y ago
Competition is a tricky concept. If there is competition, that can be seen as verification of the concept, but at the same time it offers valid counterpoints. If there is no competition, it might be because the idea is so hard that nobody e
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by wayfarer2s 12y ago
An initial config object would probably be ideal, and then you could have the chaining to supplement those values. You could have the initial method take in the config and use the values in that in place of the defaults. So textures.cir
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by wayfarer2s 12y ago
A bus station is also where a bus starts. Ditto for trains and train stations. ;)
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Is Postgres NoSQL Better Than MongoDB?(aptuz.com)
2 points by wayfarer2s 12y ago|1 comments
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Introduction to Facebook's Flux architecture(ryanclark.me)
267 points by wayfarer2s 12y ago|73 comments
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by wayfarer2s 12y ago
It sounds like you lack confidence. Which is not a "bad" thing. It's a completely understandable state to be in. You could probably do well with having a buddy or partner who supports your projects and builds up your confiden
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by wayfarer2s 12y ago
Well, since it was pg's idea, I'd guess "hacker" would slant more towards MIT-style hacks than anything to do with the valley. I think the lack of Vint Cerf stories has more to do with the temporal nature of news than an