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by yodon 2y ago
Marc is likely a controversial character, which leads to people disagreeing about comments. Lots of conflicting up votes and down votes is a signal HN uses to detect disagreement. The HN algorithm is designed to promote good discussions, ex
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by yodon 2y ago
On my phone I can't tell the difference between "basic" and "scale up", other than pricing (which is a big difference)
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by yodon 2y ago
Your desktop detection is needlessly aggressive. Anything much less than a full width window fails to launch, even though the site seems to work fine after launch with narrower windows.
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by yodon 3y ago
The sample wikis look very impressive!
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by yodon 3y ago
The name "Ballmer Peak" is a Physics nerd pun. In atomic physics, "Balmer peaks" (with one L) are real physical phenomena, referring to peaks in the emission spectrum of hydrogen (named after the 19th century scientist J
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by yodon 3y ago
In Microsoft culture, the "Ballmer peak" at least used to refer not to BAC, as this article implies, but to the point where MSFT stock prices stopped climbing (under Gates' leadership) and collapsed before flatlining (under B
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by yodon 3y ago
>sorry for the mistake You were asking the original question. It's reasonable to ask a question and not know the answer. We can, however, expect better of those who write in with answers.
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by yodon 3y ago
It's amazing how uninformed the comments are on the .NET ecosystem as of the time of this comment. The OP states this is intended as an update to a 2016 question, but the responses are largely stuck pre-2016, full of nonsense complaint
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by yodon 3y ago
>I was indeed being sarcastic You might want to take this as an opportunity to re-read Poe's law[0]. It does in fact always apply on the internet. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by yodon 3y ago
Are there any advantages that could come from encouraging a tool like this to emit both SQL and strongly-typed classes representing the data in say TypeScript and C#?
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by yodon 3y ago
>The commies have flagged both threads. It's far more likely people who dislike name-calling and poor quality confrontational comments flagged the threads. Everything about HN's karma and moderation is designed to encourage hig
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by yodon 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39840286
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by yodon 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39840447
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by yodon 3y ago
>implicit async/await I keep suspecting C# will be the place where we see this, but probably not for another couple years.
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by yodon 3y ago
Is NaCl still a thing? Genuine question as I've not heard it mentioned in years. [edit added] For those, like me, who thought this was using Google's NaCl (sandboxed C++), it's actually using Daniel Bernstein's NaCl (cr
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by yodon 3y ago
Perhaps see [0] or some of the references it contains [0] https://cgl.ethz.ch/Downloads/Publications/Dissertations/Ber...
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by yodon 3y ago
The corneal bump on the front of the eye plays a major role in the accuracy with which we can determine whether someone is looking at our face, hands, body, etc., even from a considerable distance. The shape of your eye isn't a sphere,
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by yodon 3y ago
Tech and science use K for thousand and M for million. Using K and MM in finance reduces the odds of an incorrect interpretation of a single M.
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by yodon 3y ago
>Anything will blow off the charts if you have the wrong scale. >I feel like the responses to my comment do not understand what a scale is or what it means for something to go off it. Readers understand the comment and understand what
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by yodon 3y ago
>check facts vs. hysteria Would love to. Have a citation to guide in that process?
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by yodon 3y ago
>my first email address was ihnp4!chinet!ka9dgx For those not familiar with bangs (exclamation points) in email addresses, there was a time when you had to include routing information in the address so your server would know how to find
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by yodon 3y ago
My first online post was in the 1980's, long before web browsers, on a mailing list called RISKS. I ended up meeting congressional staffers, Richard Stallman, and a host of other amazing characters as a result of posting on that list.
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by yodon 3y ago
>Restaurant delivery service has been around for decades but it’s never had such a high overhead as it does today. Delivery used to be primarily (not exclusively, but primarily) pizza. Pizza is a special, nearly optimal case for delivery
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by yodon 3y ago
>Possible that eventually EV's will be lighter than gas cars as well. The energy density of gasoline is about 100x the energy density of batteries. Batteries can have other advantages but it's pure fantasy to think batteries wi
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by yodon 3y ago
>and nothing happens when I submit the request. :( The site is likely overloaded by interest from HN readers. Trying again in 48 hours will likely give more performant responses.
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by yodon 3y ago
There are plenty of data brokers who will sell your personal location data, independent of your vehicle, obtained from the apps on your phone.
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by yodon 3y ago
>Hey I'm trying here it takes time to build something as large as this solo. No one is objecting to the time it takes to build something. They are objecting to what is starting to feel to them like spam marketing. HN will be far mor
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by yodon 3y ago
That's a MUCH better link. The data in it makes clear what we are seeing is a flight to quality. The top ranked, best known Cal State schools saw enrollment grow. The lesser known and lower ranked Cal State schools saw enrollment fall.
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by yodon 3y ago
Listening to family members who grew up at Los Alamos during the period of the film talk about it, the film captures exactly what Los Alamos really looked like and felt like.
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by yodon 3y ago
The roof in an airplane bathroom is lower and curved because that is the shape of the airplane.

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