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by yarper 11y ago
It's an unfortunate title for this post since unity is something altogether different for a lot of linux users see: https://unity.ubuntu.com/about/ Though there is a certain appreciable irony in having two totally
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by yarper 11y ago
Could you provide some examples of where you think goto is the preferred solution?
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by yarper 11y ago
I know, if it was 105 or 5 then maybe I'd be interested
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by yarper 11y ago
Is there a goto in there? Tut.
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by yarper 11y ago
What they're doing is something like branching off a very old version of master, making changes to file A then trying to merge into the latest version of master, which already has a load of changes to file A. They then resolve the conf
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by yarper 11y ago
We've got a guy in the office that merges the past over the present all the time. He's not quitting but I imagine if you were to try to break things this would be a good way to do it.
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by yarper 11y ago
I think the lack of training is probably worldwide. I'm in the UK and have seen it in most companies here (although can only provide anecdotal evidence). Training is expensive and increased productivity is hard to measure - coupled tog
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by yarper 11y ago
As a follow up if there are some cultural differences - whenever someone asks how you are here, you always say "not bad" or "fine" (even if you're on fire).
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by yarper 11y ago
I'm sure there's some startup that lets people enter this anonymously and the results are aggregated I'd always put happy face then quit. The social pressure to put happy faces must be immense. Also being English I suspect th
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by yarper 11y ago
Sorry didn't realise this didn't translate well. I was saying that unions are an important element in worker safety. Miners unions largely have to protect the miners themselves, but software is a discipline where we are much more
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by yarper 11y ago
This is not evidence that unions make labour more dangerous. The last paragraph even in your link is this; "Tougher enforcement of laws, with higher penalties, and stronger safety standards are essential. But unionized miners have the
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by yarper 11y ago
Aside from labour issues and collective bargaining over employees getting "shafted", unions are the first to pick up unsafe working practices. As software and tech in general ingrains itself into society the risk of deadly mistake
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by yarper 11y ago
For anyone that wants a bit information on what I mean, your average camera goes through a fair few stages of postprocessing to get from a sensor through to a human understandable image. I seriously doubt Nasa has got any of these wrong, bu
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by yarper 11y ago
Same here for #2
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Ask HN: Where can I find new horizons probe data
2 points by yarper 11y ago|1 comments
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by yarper 11y ago
I agree with this, I'd also like to add that discussions to the extent that Germany was or was not "destroyed" in WW2 and therefore did or did not "deserve" debt relief are horrifying. These threads seem to be a hot
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by yarper 11y ago
Were they a good employer? Sane codebase?
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by yarper 11y ago
It's a good idea but the whole document comes off as really patronising. I mean - do good engineering teams need to be told to write tests and code review each others work? Do good engineers need to be told that the customer pays their
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by yarper 11y ago
Every 10 years or so there's a discussion on if we've reached the point when programs can program other programs, or the WYSIWYG is so good anyone off the street can do it.. It never turns out to be the case. The problem is that s
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by yarper 11y ago
What Good is Green? The following things are green; trees grass moss apples ...
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by yarper 11y ago
Rather than seeing more GTK bindings or lookalikes I personally am waiting for something like WPF/XAML or JavaFx/FXML to turn up. Anyone seen any projects like this for rust?
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by yarper 11y ago
tl;dr they xor'd the files with 37 (ASCII '%')
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by yarper 11y ago
Wow! Is it like a dog-creche or do you let them kind of roam the office? Please be sure to post to the HN who's hiring when you're looking!
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by yarper 11y ago
This looks like such a good place to work. I love dogs and all doggie related things make me happy. No wonder you guys aren't having trouble getting customers.
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by yarper 11y ago
I wrote a simple one of these for rust using nickel.rs a while ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9519642
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by yarper 11y ago
I posted on HN a while ago saying that there was no chance of this happening. Obviously it did and I was wrong, but I still don't think it's a big win for the conservatives. Two or three things happened that undermined the competi
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by yarper 11y ago
This also happened in my constituency
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by yarper 11y ago
But.. isn't the dating game actually pretty saturated? OkCupid, Eharmony, tinder + a million other companies. OP mentions the startup was taking 25k/mo but needed funding to make a crack against big companies. Surely that was the
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Show HN: Nickel-bootstrap – websites in rust(github.com)
1 points by yarper 11y ago|0 comments
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by yarper 11y ago
Agreed - for example people with HPV are more likely to get cancer seemingly unlinked to their exposure to ionising radiation. I do however tend to agree with the author that cell-phones causing cancer is hokum.

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