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by yen223 3y ago
Does it boggle anyone else's mind that ChatGPT was released less than a year ago? It definitely feels like it was around lot longer than that.
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by yen223 3y ago
One of his kids is Li Haoyi. If you're into the Scala ecosystem, you might recognise that name.
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by yen223 3y ago
I think people who think software engineering isn't real engineering, will be shocked at how much "real" engineering is just people plugging numbers into software
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by yen223 3y ago
Can confirm. Here's the message I got: "This message contains a politically charged phrase that has been used in a divisive and contentious manner. It may not be suitable for a family-friendly event as it could potentially lead to
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by yen223 3y ago
I have used metaclasses one time in my career, to simplify the way we generated a schema, in a framework where things are defined using classes. I agree with you in that it's nice to know that metaclasses exist, and that you can potent
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by yen223 3y ago
we are all dang on this blessed day
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by yen223 3y ago
Companies have been slipping Airtags into people's bags. People didn't know about them, so they were okay with it. GDPR mandates that those Airtags must constantly beep, so that people know when they are being stalked. People now
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by yen223 3y ago
It's interesting to me how almost nobody uses the `<first letter><number of letters><last letter>` (i18n, a11y, etc) convention anymore. I guess ubiquitous autocomplete has made that convention redundant.
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by yen223 3y ago
The biggest benefit here is that it helps to filter out bad ideas. If you're struggling to come up with a good narrative for why the work is useful or compelling, there's a high chance that it's because the benefits are not a
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by yen223 3y ago
Yeah, something that grates my cheese is when falling home prices is portrayed as a bad thing that should be feared!
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by yen223 3y ago
You should see the dip in Facebook when they first IPO-ed. I don't think the first few days of IPO is indicative of long-term performance.
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by yen223 3y ago
There are no official Apple stores in Malaysia. But there are Apple "premium resellers" [1] who have shops that strongly resemble Apple stores. The ones in Malaysia are sanctioned by Apple, since they appear on Apple's own st
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Ask HN: What's Your Weirdest Achievement?
4 points by yen223 3y ago|3 comments
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by yen223 3y ago
I recently rewatched the original keynote where Steve Jobs first announced the iPhone. The thing that struck me was how wild the crowd went when he demoed pinch-to-zoom, something which we basically take for granted nowadays.
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by yen223 3y ago
1. Python was and still is popular 2. Docker solved a lot of problems related to Python's deployment story.
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by yen223 3y ago
Not very many people talking about NFTs nowadays, perhaps unsurprisingly
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by yen223 3y ago
Checks out in Mandarin, which is interesting, since Mandarin is the exception to almost all proposed alternatives in this thread
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by yen223 3y ago
For people reading this, just remember that people who prefer videos over prose aren't hanging out in a text-only forum like this. There's some self-selection happening here. You should not automatically assume that most people pr
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by yen223 3y ago
The funniest part about the phrase "don't reinvent the wheel" is just how often, like, actual wheels get reinvented. And for good reason - imagine sticking bicycle tyres on the landing gear of a 787 just to avoid "reinve
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by yen223 3y ago
I could play Wordle on NYT without a signup even now?
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by yen223 3y ago
"Ramblin' Man" is so good
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by yen223 3y ago
"It is fun" is a perfectly valid reason to do this.
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[Ask HN] How many submissions have you accidentally flagged?
64 points by yen223 3y ago|51 comments
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by yen223 3y ago
> Performative work includes “spending a lot of time in meetings where ‘teams present achievements’ rather than making decisions or addressing issues,” said Derek Laney, Slack’s “technology evangelist” for Asia-Pacific. This...does not f
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by yen223 3y ago
Docs, tutorials, and other educational resources for learning how to write native macOS applications is pretty limited. I can understand why a lot of devs choose to go for Electron instead.
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by yen223 3y ago
Automatically keeping packages up-to-date used to be good advice, but now the ROI for exploiting automatically-updated libraries is high enough that I don't think it's true anymore. This is more true once you factor in the non-sec
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by yen223 3y ago
I am pleasantly surprised by the variety of responses here. I'm really glad I asked the question
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Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?
377 points by yen223 3y ago|669 comments
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by yen223 3y ago
Maybe we interpreted the article differently, but I understood this point as favouring a few "big" classes/interfaces/functions, as opposed to a lot of "small" classes.
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by yen223 3y ago
I broadly agree with all the points here. I guess the author reasons about code the same way I do, which is interesting. The exception is the bit about vertical space - we effectively have infinite vertical space and limited horizontal spac

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