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khy

613karma·54submissions·February 22, 2010
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Nobody goes there anymore, its too crowded.
4d ago·view thread
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That sun is very similar to the one from the background of this other top HN post about the OS museum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195009 …
2mo ago·view thread
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Could this open Cantor Fitzgerald up to class action law suits from consumers who ultimately paid the refunded tariffs?
5mo ago·view thread
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I would say in this case it makes it enigmatic.
7mo ago·view thread
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Tailwind Plus is great - I love the lifetime access, but I always wondered how sustainable that model was. Even without AI, how many of those memberships could they sell?
7mo ago·view thread
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I've been using Claude Code in their iOS app (on a Pro account). I just point it at my GitHub repo, and tell it to work on one of the issues I created. It required very little setup beyond what I…
7mo ago·view thread
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> Any consolidation like this seems like a negative for consumers. I tend to see much more discussion about how the main downside is for sellers of content. Why is this bad for consumers?
8mo ago·view thread
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Watterson serves as one of the symbols of an era when selling out was considered a great sin. It makes me laugh how thoroughly that idea - that selling out is bad - has been defeated. That being said,…
8mo ago·view thread
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The Simpsons went more meta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qh1JlNaOxo
9mo ago·view thread
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> back when “Carlhuda” was a super-prolific author of Ruby libraries, including most of the work to modularize Rails for version 3 Wow, hadn't thought about that in a while. For a laugh, go ba…
10mo ago·view thread
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All The Simpsons episodes are on my YouTube TV DVR, along with a lot of the shows my kids like (although really what they care about is a couple channels on YouTube proper), so even before this I was …
11mo ago·view thread
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A little thing that doesn't help the situation is when legitimate emails link you to domains that aren't obviously controlled by the company. For example, yesterday at work I got an onboardi…
11mo ago·view thread
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It's kind of an expression of the success of an abstraction. If an abstraction is good (hx-get="/clicked"), it feels local. If an abstraction is bad (id="d1"), it's …
1y ago·view thread
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So a site just needs to generate enough content until its under that threshold?
1y ago·view thread
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Good bit of trivia: > In 2006, The Walt Disney Company acquired the trademark of Oswald (with NBCUniversal effectively trading Oswald for the services of Al Michaels as play-by-play announcer on NB…
1y ago·view thread
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I get the sense that a lot of science in the 19th century was done by the idle rich.
1y ago·view thread
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Just came across this, which I enjoyed: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/wes-anderson-difficulty-working... …
1y ago·view thread
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A Wonder just opened near my house, and the "different restaurants" seem to really be just different sections of a large menu with distinct branding. I.e., there is a single physical kitchen…
1y ago·view thread
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Scala has a library called Slick which takes a similar approach: https://scala-slick.org The DSL is nice for simple querying and for composing queries based upon user input. But, for anyth…
1y ago·view thread
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I think every project passes a threshold after which the time invested will only be considered worthwhile if you ship it. Before this threshold, you're learning new technologies, trying new techn…
1y ago·view thread
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Seems more like professional jargon to me.
2y ago·view thread
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TIL that Norway had a Merovingian period
2y ago·view thread
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Working on Jira is just that rewarding.
3y ago·view thread
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I'm sure his publicists do. Is he going to spend the next 120 years buying media coverage of his metabolic age?
3y ago·view thread
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"John Smith is buttering his toast with a spoon, much to the bemusement of our waitress Jane at the All Day Diner on the outskirts of Duluth Minnesota..."
3y ago·view thread
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I think Instagram in particularly is bad in this regard. It seemingly becomes convinced that I care deeply about the subject of any post that I even momentarily linger on.
3y ago·view thread
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Didn't Chernow say that at the time that Hamilton and Burr dueled, that dueling wasn't really a thing anyone did?
3y ago·view thread
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I was doing something with hpricot at one of my first jobs when he disappeared. I went to the docs page (was it on Github at the time?), and then a couple minutes later I went back to check something …
4y ago·view thread
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I had a car that had a single physical input: a dial that you could press. The dial would move the focus around the screen, and you'd press the dial to click. This was, in my opinion, a far super…
4y ago·view thread