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by xmprt 3y ago
Conflict resolution logic is typically application specific so it would be hard to get something like this working in practice.
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by xmprt 3y ago
I think the parent commenter's answer was pretty valid. You have to vote with your wallet. Buying used will signal to the market that people don't want the crap that's being produced. Or, especially, given the generous return
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by xmprt 3y ago
To give a more realistic answer to this question, when I was writing an article about npm dependencies[1], I incidentally came upon a case where the developer of node-ipc released a malicious version of the package that affected computers i
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by xmprt 3y ago
How can you set an app to production without Google verification if you're not in a workspace. I'm guessing the answer is that there is no way.
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Who even uses is-odd and is-even?(preethamrn.com)
3 points by xmprt 3y ago|4 comments
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With a social network, steady and sustainable is usually not an option. If they don't have a strong launch when they remove the restrictions they'll fade into irrelevance within a few weeks. Threads had a surprisingly strong launc
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by xmprt 3y ago
Assuming they only got as far as their residency (and didn't end up as attending physician), it's possible that they didn't see themselves spending a full 7 years as a resident doctor (making under $100k/year working 80+
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by xmprt 3y ago
I don't know much about the PHP landscape but at least with Javascript it seems like trendy frameworks change every 5 years. JS -> JQuery -> AngularJS -> React -> Angular 2 -> React Hooks -> Next -> ... Feels like
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by xmprt 3y ago
Author here! When I first heard about this fun fact I was pretty surprised and expected the version number to be 100s of digits long by now given how old TeX is. But the history and reasoning behind this change (made in 1992) is pretty fasc
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Piver – The reason TeX is on version 3.141592653(preethamrn.com)
1 points by xmprt 3y ago|1 comments
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by xmprt 3y ago
Unlimited history is nice but I hate how history works out of the box. I might be doing something wrong but ctrl+h pops up a sidebar which shows every single website visited today in no discernible order. I've learned about ctrl+shift+
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by xmprt 3y ago
I think total number of commits is probably a good metric too. If the project only has 7 commits to begin with then it's unlikely to get any more updates after it's "done". But a 10 year old project with 1000 commits whe
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by xmprt 3y ago
As someone who migrated a somewhat old project to one which uses a newer framework, I agree with this. The amount of time I spent trying to figure out why and old module was broken before realizing that one of it's dependencies was usi
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by xmprt 3y ago
Step 0: Have a crappy ad ridden platform Step 1: Create an ad free "premium" experience for a price Step 2: Raise prices Step 3: Create a cheaper tier which is "ad supported"
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by xmprt 3y ago
IO game is a catch all term for these types of mechanically simple, multiplayer, web-based games . The name comes from the fact that many of these games are hosted on .io domains. Well known examples are agar.io and slither.io.
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by xmprt 3y ago
I guess it's hard to be a "NY Times bestselling author and keynote speaker" when you have to come up with all original ideas.
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by xmprt 3y ago
Noise cancelling headsets only help isolate yourself from the outside world and won't help to cancel noise for your audience. Good microphones are built to pick up every tiny sound around them including all the background noise - that&
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by xmprt 3y ago
This doesn't seem like tech-based enshittification. If anything, this is a low tech and super simple (albeit not as satisfying) solution to the problem of replacing pins. We need to stop using that word before it loses all meaning.
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by xmprt 3y ago
It's a shame that the recommended solution is using a C++ trick of templates that doesn't generalize well to other languages.
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by xmprt 3y ago
To be fair, holiday season is the busiest time for retail labor so it makes sense to keep employees around until after. Netflix (and other tech companies) usually don't get much work done during December so it makes the most sense for
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by xmprt 3y ago
Is it still true that nation states are at the forefront of innovation and the largest security threats? At least in the United States, I'd be surprised to learn that their best and brightest minds are working in three letter governmen
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by xmprt 3y ago
I think the reason that formal proofs haven't really caught on is because it's just adding more complexity and stuff to maintain. The list of things that need to be maintained just keeps growing: code, tests, deployment tooling, c
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by xmprt 3y ago
If Facebook showed illegal images on its platform and didn't do anything to counter that the I think most people would argue that it was Facebook's fault. Why is it so hard to imagine holding corporations to higher standards? And
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by xmprt 3y ago
People also need to learn that vertical doesn't mean high rise apartments. There's a big gap between single story detached houses and high rise apartments. Townhomes, condos, row houses, and so on can all fill that gap.
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by xmprt 3y ago
A shame that Reply All is no more but it had a great run while it lasted.
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by xmprt 3y ago
> maintaining security is expensive This might be somewhat true (it's certainly more expensive than not having security) but when your entire business is around making assurances based on people's identities, you'd assume
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by xmprt 3y ago
Increased quality of life comes from new technological discoveries and abundant resources per capita. Increased fossil fuel usage is one way to achieve that but it's far from the only way. From a high level, if we increase investment o
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by xmprt 3y ago
> there's something to be said of an overall trend toward more consumption, less production I think this couldn't be further from the truth. You could argue that the production has been heavily centralized, but I think today mo
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by xmprt 3y ago
I had the same experience for the longest time until one day I'd have to "re-flog" my local git because I reset some commits that I shouldn't have. Turns out that flogging isn't a real thing in git let alone re-flog
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by xmprt 3y ago
To be fair, you're comparing 55 year olds with 65 year olds. Every 55 year old in tech I've spoken with is talking about retiring "soon" (although soon always ends up being 2 years later every time they mention it). Ever

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