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cachvico··on Freelancer.com has ruined my life
Having automated tests written mean that future changes that break the existing code will cause the test to fail - that's the advantage.
cachvico··on Web frameworks are transforming from runtime libraries into optimizing compilers
What a terrible title. A "web framework" conventionally is the runtime library, e.g. React, or Ruby on Rails.

The optimizing compilers are part of the "build tools" or "build chain" or "make system". They weren't ever runtime libraries (except in isolated examples), and the general patterns have been around since the 70s.

Yes, it's good to learn how a compiler works.

cachvico··on Web frameworks are transforming from runtime libraries into optimizing compilers
You'd be surprised how often WebGL comes into play, take those silky smooth animations for example...

or, you know, Google Maps.

cachvico··on Is Amazon's cloud service too big to fail?
Then all that's needed to repair is a few cables.
cachvico··on Show HN: Quantra.io, a quantitative finance API made with Quantlib
copy-paste to website :)
cachvico··on Creating a Computer Science Canon (2003) [pdf]
1- https://teachyourselfcs.com/

2- http://mfleck.cs.illinois.edu/building-blocks/

cachvico··on CockroachDB 1.0
Reddit, we did it again.
cachvico··on Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X – Part 2
https://xkcd.com/1015/
cachvico··on Lessons Learned from “On Writing Well”
There's an amusing number of simple grammatical mistakes in this article.. ("english", "It is unnecessary words that don’t add meaning but complex sentence constructions.", "Write about “grass” except when (my insert) it has another color than green", "Avoid semicolons except when (my insert) you want the reader to make a pause", ...)
cachvico··on Why does Google Play need constant GPS?
Seems to be Android's answer to iOS lock-screen app suggestions (since iOS 8; 2014) - https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/03/apple-delivers-location-ba... ?
cachvico··on MIT scientists find weird quantum effects over hundreds of miles
Thankfully!
cachvico··on Facebook's Filter Bubble Is Getting Worse
I think this is being a bit sensationalist. I often see articles posted by friends, and under the article there are automatic suggestions of further articles that counter the article in question. E.g. a link to an article about a UFO might have under it an auto-suggested link to an article on Snopes about how the UFO sighting was a hoax.
cachvico··on Why do they love electric cars in Norway?
It's still not accurate. The article states they love electric cars in Oslo (30% adoption), but in Tromsø adoption is more muted because of the range problem. "Norway" would be the most representative title.
cachvico··on Nikola Motor Company
TIL about the high efficiency truck revolution
cachvico··on Show HN: Subasub – Learn Languages with Translated Subtitles
Upvote/downvote buttons!
cachvico··on X.Org Might Lose Its Domain Name
...but it does say something about the organization of the organization.
cachvico··on Show HN: Something pointless I made
Great soundtrack!
cachvico··on f.lux for iOS is no longer available
That's the point - you don't have to carry a piece of plastic around with you.

Also the effect appears gradually.

cachvico··on Polyglot Program (1991)
lol that's so random :-)
cachvico··on Polyglot Program (1991)
How did you find this, who's behind it? It's genius but searching back from 'mauke polyglot' I can find nothing about it!
cachvico··on CloudKit JS
iTunes is a specific Apple service, not a platform upon which 3rd party services run. It's one thing to run a product; it's another to run a platform. As a provisioner of PaaS, Apple are not seen as proven.

As for AWS, they're almost ubiquitous. Half the world seems to run on AWS. Regions go down time to time, but half the point of AWS is that it's a distributed architecture that allows apps running on that platform to stay up - usually. Extreme examples (such as dependent PaaS Heroku being taken down) are the edge cases that make it to the press.

cachvico··on Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React
Send them an email...
cachvico··on How do you like my new personal page?
Use a black dropshadow, to aid in contrast, on any white text over the keyboard photo.
cachvico··on I Read All the W3C Specs
The web blows my mind. It's a distributed OS, specified by the W3C, and implemented by the community. Amazing how far it's come - let's face it, we've put a heck of a lot of effort into v8, Node, Json, ...

Thank you Tim :)

cachvico··on RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready
Thank you for the comment. I was wondering if something along the lines of http://blog.labix.org/2012/08/22/multi-doc-transactions-for-... would be feasible.
cachvico··on Chelsea Manning is tweeting from prison
I think the important part is that she has a Twitter account, and is using it.
cachvico··on RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready
Any thoughts about multi-doc transactions?
cachvico··on RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready
Thank you Slava. Put all these numbers on the front of your webpage :)
cachvico··on RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready
Can you give a ballpark on how many nodes Rethink can scale up to, and any future roadmap in that direction?

Thank you for the fantastic product, by the way! :)

cachvico··on Chelsea Manning is tweeting from prison
Second that - what's wrong with the title? It's descriptive, neutral, factual.
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