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by wyclif 3y ago
That's all good advice. You should definitely not read programming books like normal books. But I'll extend it somewhat: ~ Yes, always do all the exercises. It's important how you do them. No copypasting. Enter all the code
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Chinese national arrested and charged with stealing AI trade secrets from Google(npr.org)
2 points by wyclif 3y ago|0 comments
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Leaving LinkedIn(corecursive.com)
473 points by wyclif 3y ago|314 comments
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by wyclif 3y ago
Grunge speak was conceived as a hoax.
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by wyclif 3y ago
You mean in Gmail addresses or in search?
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by wyclif 3y ago
Perfectly legit and wise use of time on a buyer's down time after dinner. I wouldn't mind spending the time on this over the course of a week if, at the end of the week, I wound up with the car of my choice at a fair price. I thin
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by wyclif 3y ago
Good salespeople excel at character judgement. They were confident that you are not the type that steals cars. But like the author says, by doing the entire transaction over email instead of in-person, you take a big part of their advantage
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by wyclif 3y ago
Thank God my cantankerous old uncle was the one who taught me how to buy a car and get the OTD price and then the best price, and not my parents. Basically, he taught me to just say 'no' to almost everything, and get up and walk o
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by wyclif 3y ago
I still use NetNewsWire.
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by wyclif 3y ago
Tumblr is pretty much a total shitshow at this point. I used to have an account there ages ago, but I haven't touched it in over a decade.
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BuzzFeed sells Complex as its digital empire shrinks and slashes 16% of staff(edition.cnn.com)
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by wyclif 3y ago
That brings back memories. I remember I had the original AWK book...it came with a 5.25" floppy disc with PolyAwk ("The Toolbox Language") inside.
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by wyclif 3y ago
Looks like whoever created the examples uses LunarVim.
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by wyclif 3y ago
What about Brave search? Does anyone know what they are doing behind the scenes? It's ad-free by default, and emphasizes privacy as a core feature.
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by wyclif 3y ago
It has nothing to do with hiring competent engineers. It has to do with Google's business not being incentivized to provide better search. Google's business is advertising, therefore you are the product.
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by wyclif 3y ago
Google could fix it tomorrow if they wanted to, but the fact is they don't because there's no incentive for their business, which is advertising. As Upton Sinclair once put it, "It is difficult to get a man to understand some
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by wyclif 3y ago
Okay, apparently he re-wrote some of the problems and did some prose edits. I'm still not sure why that makes the new edition "dumbed down."
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China Exerts Grip on Tech as Beijing Expands Economy Control(bloomberg.com)
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by wyclif 3y ago
Yes, for a second before it loaded, I really did think I was going to see some kind of psychedelic or 1970's retro fashion. Wasn't sure what that would be doing on HN, but there have been stranger things on the front page!
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by wyclif 3y ago
What do you mean that TPe3 is "dumbed down"? I didn't notice anything appreciably reduced in the content yet but then again I haven't gone through and compared both editions, so I was interested in your comment.
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by wyclif 3y ago
I also like PCC. What do you think the pros and cons are of PCC v. TP3e? They are really two different types of books in terms of pedagogy.
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by wyclif 3y ago
Easy way to tell which longtime SF residents have Stockholm Syndrome: they blame everything that is completely broken in the city on "right wing media."
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by wyclif 3y ago
Nobody gets excluded except for people with jobs. The people who are the cogs in the machines that keep some of your fave technology companies operating.
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by wyclif 3y ago
Or just no sidewalks. A company flew me to Dallas for a conference. Me and a colleague saw that the restaurant we wanted to go to was one block away, so no point in taking a taxi. Staff at the front desk looked at us like we were crazy. We
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by wyclif 3y ago
Looks like they're going to kill it later this month. Today when I tried to use the HTML version, a splash screen loaded that said this: Starting from February 2024, this version of Gmail (Basic HTML Gmail) will no longer be supported
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Judge rules against users suing Google and Apple over "annoying" search results(arstechnica.com)
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What the Hachette vs. Internet Archive Decision Means for Our Library(blog.archive.org)
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by wyclif 3y ago
Both Europe and Asia have their own problems with authoritarian, strongman-type fascists.
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by wyclif 3y ago
I used AltaVista.
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by wyclif 3y ago
Threads is Facebook. To me, the more interesting one to watch is Bluesky.

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