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by zachsnow 9y ago
They meant ctrl-a and ctrl-e.
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by zachsnow 9y ago
Absolutely; I've also worked with screws that were, as far I as I could understand, purposely made of less rugged metal to ensure that when they were tightened against the object they were meant to fasten (made of plastic), they would
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by zachsnow 9y ago
Snowboards? In what way? (Genuinely curious what you mean, been snowboarding for 24 years and can't guess, but of course I'm right handed!)
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by zachsnow 9y ago
Stripping a torx or "star drive" screw takes real effort; switching over was the best thing that ever happened to my mediocre carpentry and framing work.
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by zachsnow 9y ago
I imagine the idea was that, despite there being so much "car culture" around Japanese cars, many within the culture aren't aware of these things. I certainly had never heard of JIS screws, and I have worked on the odd Japa
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by zachsnow 9y ago
It's a multi-paragraph description of a video that takes longer (and is far more boring) to read than watch. And there are choppy gifs illustrating the paragraphs narrating the video. I don't understand why this is being done. Pre
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by zachsnow 9y ago
This person said only that there is a lot to do, not that it is complicated.
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by zachsnow 9y ago
This is a sweet and considerate approach that many pet owners would do well to emulate. Thanks for sharing.
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by zachsnow 9y ago
"Self: the power of simplicity" really lives up to its name!
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by zachsnow 9y ago
Olin Shivers's work on various control flow analyses, in particular the paper "CFA2: a context-free approach to control-flow analysis", is a really cool static analysis via abstract interpretation. Matt Might had a bunch of p
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by zachsnow 9y ago
I'm 5' 9" and I notice that, in a group in which I'm the shortest person, I am less likely to be addressed or listened to than in one in which I'm average or the tallest.
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by zachsnow 9y ago
Policy is programming, against the fuzzy computer that is the human CPU.
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by zachsnow 9y ago
My favorite quote from an investor what he had learned in 35 years of investing? "It doesn't fucking matter what I think." If the market likes it, that's what matters. "Maybe I'm not the market."
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by zachsnow 9y ago
While I absolutely agree re: distance, I think that another reason "20 years ago" resonates is that many of use were younger 20 years ago. And it sure was easier to make friends as a kid.
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by zachsnow 9y ago
Your wealthy friend could also loan you 1M for a bank statement. There must be trust of some kind, no?
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by zachsnow 9y ago
I wonder if the subway actually increases the perceived friendliness? Everyone that has driven a car has likely experienced road rage in one form or another.
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by zachsnow 9y ago
But people like making money. It's not as if most people would say "aha! If I take a low paying job for the rest of my life I'll never have to pay off this debt completely!" Some might I suppose.
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by zachsnow 9y ago
In my experience building the product for my company, FareHarbor, what you describe -- steady growth driven by ever-improving software and hard-working sales -- is more familiar. (This is in the SaaS / SMB world). We launched with just
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by zachsnow 9y ago
Re: naming tables, older versions of Django require (not sure about the latest) you to name your app in each model (via Meta) if you've broken your models into several modules within an app; maybe they are trying to speak to that?
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by zachsnow 9y ago
"Tooltips aren't always used." Some people have implemented icons poorly, so we shouldn't use icons, isn't a compelling argument. Those people might implement anything badly, for instance choosing bad text in a te
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by zachsnow 9y ago
I have no idea, but profitable companies use it regularly. The larger question is whether enough smaller, profitable companies exist to backstop losses from larger, (unprofitable) companies abandoning ship to continue their growth.
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by zachsnow 9y ago
Agreed (coming from a similar spot it sounds like, in my case daily operations tools for SMBs): build a good product, and a sales team to sell it. Then sell it, all day, every day. Just make sure the product can back up sales!
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by zachsnow 10y ago
Maybe they just feel bad when they are going to sleep.
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by zachsnow 10y ago
This sounds great for N >> 1 ISPs. But most of us have N > 1 (and N <= 2) from which to choose.
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by zachsnow 10y ago
> go after normal business hours Realistically you will be asked to work after normal business hours now and then (and, in our industry, many times a year), so you'd think they wouldn't mind scheduling the one interview you&#
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by zachsnow 10y ago
There's a restaurant in my neighborhood that does this (no tips, built into the price) and I really appreciate it. It's so much "easier" that I'm more inclined to drop in.
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by zachsnow 10y ago
I have tried to set the things that I care about in my life up such that failures are interesting. What I mean is the places that I focus most of my time (my company, writing software, surfing) are those in which failures (ideally) imply l
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by zachsnow 10y ago
Django for work, a variety of (popular) tools for random projects.
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by zachsnow 10y ago
Historically "fonts" have been set by the author, not the reader. While I appreciate that this is no longer necessary, it seems reasonable that authors still want to choose it for reasons of presentation. Of course it's easy
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by zachsnow 10y ago
10. Run the engineering side of a company that I cofounded. I work on fun problems, help real people run their businesses (which ended up being more important to me than I expected), and keep track of the so-called work/life balance.

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