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by yen223 4y ago
Can somewhat concur, I follow around 80 accounts, and most of my feed aren't spam - at least, not obviously spam. I don't follow political or crypto accounts. I did notice crypto-inclined people (Elon Musk!) do attract a significa
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by yen223 4y ago
It's a tough choice between TypeScript and Kotlin for me. They have the right amount of type-safety vs flexibility for me, and they have very productive ecosystems that makes building stuff a breeze. I especially love Jetpack Compose.
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by yen223 4y ago
"after being an Android user the last 12yrs" This is probably the reason why. It's just a matter of familiarity.
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by yen223 4y ago
He also appears to have lucked out a little with the "No major country will withdraw from the EU" bet. His deadline was Jan 1, 2020, but the UK withdrew on Jan 31, 2020.
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by yen223 4y ago
It isn't anything like Tailwind, and nothing in the docs suggest they are positioning themselves as a Tailwind alternative.
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by yen223 4y ago
Can't wait for social engineering to work on automated systems
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by yen223 4y ago
The only ones that stand out in my mind are the Cloudflare post-mortems: https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/postmortem/ They are impressive both in the depth at which they talk about the issue, and also in the speed
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by yen223 4y ago
If the language has a massive productivity edge over other languages, the language would effectively spawn their own large corporate sponsors, by ensuring companies that use the language make boatloads more money than their competitors. Tha
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by yen223 4y ago
I have no idea how someone who isn't a web developer is supposed to know 1) what a PWA is, and 2) how to install and use a PWA. It feels like what QR codes were like 10 years ago
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by yen223 4y ago
> "In the very old days Phar Lap made a compiler" Having heard of the racehorse and not the company, this sentence tripped me up a bit
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by yen223 4y ago
The big reveal was that most things changed. I only noticed the photos fading out the first time around.
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by yen223 4y ago
But then why can we flag posts from the front page?
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by yen223 4y ago
What is the purpose of this comment? Heck, what is the purpose of my comment?
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The overlap between "people who know what's happening" and "people who post on HN" is not always as high as one might hope.
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by yen223 4y ago
I really hope y'all are aware that URLs generally aren't treated as secret, but authenticated session state should be treated as secret.
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by yen223 4y ago
I recall reading this somewhere else, but I for the life of me can't find the source. Do you happen to know where I can read more about this?
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by yen223 4y ago
> *Depends where you are but certainly true in California Fun fact: here in Australia, married couples file tax returns individually. There's not really a notion of a "joint tax return" here.
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by yen223 4y ago
I have encountered a lot of linear algebra textbooks that use 1-indexing to describe matrices and matrix operations.
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by yen223 4y ago
If TailwindCSS counts as a language, then TailwindCSS's docs are some of the best I've used. It's arguably the best way to learn not just Tailwind, but CSS itself. Otherwise, the Rust book is also up there.
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by yen223 4y ago
Javascript having both `null` and `undefined` doesn't seem so crazy now
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by yen223 4y ago
Currently working on an Angular codebase. The use of rxjs everywhere is, in my opinion, one of the many things holding Angular back
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by yen223 4y ago
I suspect more people would rather have their email leaked than to have to deal with 3 factor auth
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On the flip side, C# introduced the `dynamic` type
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Because a poorly-documented product that does something, is much better than a well-documented product that does nothing. Engineers have to decide where to spend their time, and taking time away from feature development when your early-stag
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by yen223 4y ago
I think two things are true 1. There's a hard limit to the rate of computation you can do within a single instance. Anything beyond that will require distribution, and you as an engineer have to be able to handle that. 2. That limit is
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by yen223 4y ago
Looks at the 100-line SQL query that joins across 10 tables with 7 different WITH clauses and several random COALESCE statements sprinkled in to make the query work Yup, so easy to audit.
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by yen223 4y ago
Perhaps there are time zone differences, but it's not 2023 yet where I am =)
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by yen223 4y ago
Nowadays, regulations goes both ways. Data sovereignty regulations and GDPR-like laws can mandate that data must get hard-deleted.
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by yen223 4y ago
Also in Postgres, you cannot have a foreign key constraint that references a view, not even a materialised view. I'm with the author on this one. Any soft delete logic does have a tendency to bleed into other systems and make your syst
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by yen223 4y ago
"Don't optimise prematurely" is not great advice, because it's tautological. "Premature" optimisation is obviously bad, otherwise it wouldn't be "premature"! The hard part is knowing when an opti

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