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admay··on Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language
I'd like to just add a +1 to this. I had a tough time finding some good code examples and would love to see a small example of code in the readme. Something beyond a hello world, preferably but that's just me
admay··on Ask HN: How do you protect your parents from tech scammers?
My dad is good with computers and has a great online-bullshit radar. My mom and aunt are god awful though. My aunt fell for a 'virus scan' scam recently and the fallout was kind of rough to deal with. Full backup of photos & docs, new passwords, and a full factory reset of the computer. Not a fun weekend for her.

My rules for them: 1. If someone calls you from the bank, hang up and call them back from their phone number listed on their website. 2. If a pop-up comes up warning for viruses, call me immediately. 3. If a pop-up comes up warning about governments coming for you, call me immediately. 4. No one on Earth is going to try to give you money for free online.

I've had to answer plenty of calls about online bullshit, but I prefer that than having to try to deal with the Bank after they get scammed.

admay··on GitHub and US Government Developers
And misleading
admay··on Ask HN: How to ask in StackOverflow and get answers?
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
admay··on Malloy Hoverbike Worlds first flying motorcycle
$89,9080 donated so far. Impressive.
admay··on Ask HN: What are the things you've purchased that you're most glad about?
My book bags. I put a lot of though and time into finding the perfect setup. I have one that I use for daily commuting and hiking. I have another that I use as a shooting range bag and weekend/short trip bag. Both fit my needs perfectly and help to keep me organized without making me overthink what I'm doing with my stuff.
admay··on Deadly shootings are on the rise again in the U.S., CDC data show
What does that say about all of the additional gun restrictions and laws passed recently?
admay··on Ask HN: What's likely to suck in any development job?
In the same sense, some projects never end because your PO/manager won't let you finish them. I've had a handful of projects that were supposed to make it at least to MVP phase that were just killed at the 60-70% mark.
admay··on Ask HN: What would you do to make $2000 in 2018?
QA testing is a pretty low barrier to entry gig. It's not exactly exciting work but it'll pay 50k+ per year and is a full time job usually (so benefits). The job will vary depending on where you go though. Some places will just need people to click around an app, other places will require some scripting/basic programming skills. It's just about finding the right company
admay··on Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
So the criteria for this to work is that a word needs to be all of the following;

1. A proper noun representing a place (Buffalo, NY) 2. A verb (to buffalo, to bully or harass) 3. A noun whose plural is the same as it's singular (a buffalo, many buffalo)

Badger almost works but it's plural is badgers.

Moose almost works but moose isn't a verb.

admay··on Stacksort – Searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them (2013)
Click the button and PRAY this thing doesn't load any sketchy code
admay··on We’re the Organizers of the Google Walkout. Here Are Our Demands
Here's an idea, if you don't like working for Google, don't work for Google!
admay··on Show HN: Vue Dark Mode – A Minimalist Dark Design System for Vue.js
The orange is yellow. Great color pallet though, it's really easy on the eyes for the most part.

I'm not that into frontend dev, I mostly stick with backend and devops so for me, when I need to make a front end without a ton of bells and whistles, this kind of stuff saves my no-css-skills-on-my-resume butt!

admay··on Tim Berners-Lee says tech giants may have to be split up
Your suggestion that large companies ought to be "bound by law" implies regulations by the government. Whether or not that is your intention is still up in the air. However, if the government owns the regulation then they get to set the standards of what a big company is on a per criteria basis.

If the government is being attacked by a specific 'group', the government will then have the power to impose specific, targeted regulations on that group's web presence. Without the legislation, this is a matter of freedom of speech and is quickly resolved by the first amendment. It would be incredibly difficult to fight that off.

However, with legislation in place that affords the government the power to impose such regulations, they can quickly and most importantly (read terrifyingly) silence people on the web.

admay··on Ask HN: Is there a space in the tech scene for the not numerically-inclined?
Check out UI/UX design and development. Web development in particular. It isn't quite mathematically charged like data science is but it's a great way to build tools to visualize data!
admay··on How to Search Google for Information That 96% of People Don’t Know About
If you're going to change the title, it should be, "How to leverage the Google search DSL"
admay··on Why hackernews have a so shitty login page
Who cares?
admay··on Ask HN: What's the black bar at the top or HN right now?
Maybe Paul Allen?
admay··on Ask HN: What's the black bar at the top or HN right now?
Apparently, the element appears when someone notable has passed away

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14119021

admay··on Ask HN: What's the black bar at the top or HN right now?
It's a td element with a bg color of #000000. Inside of it is an image tag of height 5 and width 0. The image source is "s.gif".
admay··on RawGit is now in a sunset phase and will soon shut down
"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain"
admay··on Ask HN: Who's using Clojure, and to do what?
I'm using it at work for front end work, GraphQL services, and cron jobs.

It's a great set up with GraphQL specifically since Walmart just release Lacinia and Alumbra/Claro are coming into play as more mature libraries.

With the way that it's going at work lately, we're going to be using Clojure much more in the future!

admay··on I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40 per hour
According to the DMV site, you dont. https://dmv.ny.gov/driver-license/prove-identity-age-permitl...