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curiousGambler··on How Restaurants Got So Loud
Libraries find their roots in academic institutions, a context in which they are absolutely intended to be a place of study, not just a repository of books.
curiousGambler··on Learn new technology through writing a tutorial about it
I disagree... 1000s of tutorials explaining how to do things incorrectly just leads to thousands of crappy productions deployments.

I’d rather say, “no tutorial? Ok, to the docs like the old days,” than be misled by a shitty tutorial.

curiousGambler··on Everyone Wants to Go Home During Extra Innings, Maybe Even the Umps
Yeah it's definitely odd, and rationally makes zero sense as you've pointed out, but feelings are weird, especially feelings of nostalgia and tradition.
curiousGambler··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
No opportunities for US based footie fans?
curiousGambler··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
Does Discord have any remote software engineering opportunities, or is everything on-site?
curiousGambler··on A picture got my PostgreSQL database to start mining Monero
Any idea how they did it? Stenography or just catting things together like this example?
curiousGambler··on Spotify Form F-1
Care to elaborate?

Edit: Cuz steaming? lol

curiousGambler··on How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves (2009)
Bagel, lox, cucumber and cream cheese has become my new favorite thing lately (bonus points for a squeeze of lemon, capers or some red onion if those things are to be found).

However, I of course have no bagels or bagel accessories on the one day I read about mathematically correct bagels :(

So yeah, added to my grocery list too!

curiousGambler··on Rust in 2018: easier to use
I get the impression Go runs the microservice space. It's built for it and is incredibly fast despite the GC. I don't see Rust claiming that position anytime soon.
curiousGambler··on Rust in 2018: easier to use
Why anyone would name anything "clippy" again is beyond me.
curiousGambler··on The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons and Dragons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editions_of_Dungeons_%26_Drago...
curiousGambler··on Is Amazon getting too big?
Or they're hiring them all so they all have conflicts of interest when the antitrust shit hits the fan and they end up in court.
curiousGambler··on Thanks to Venmo, We Now All Know How Cheap Our Friends Are
My friend groups use it for dinner etc. despite most places being able to split checks because it's easier for us to figure it out amongst ourselves than burden some waitress with splitting it (even if their software makes it easy, they still have to take four cards and run them all and return them to their proper owners and such).
curiousGambler··on Life Is About to Get Harder for Websites Without HTTPS
Really? Interesting... can you elaborate/provide some reading?

I'm a software engineer with a smidge of basic networking experience so not completely clueless, but definitely inexperienced with DOCSIS and this sort of residential networking stuff.

curiousGambler··on Horcrux: A Password Manager for Paranoids
Out of curiosity, why is an AJAX post of JSON with credentials embedded bad practice?
curiousGambler··on Switching to the Mutt Email Client
This is one of two honest answers to this question, thank you.

(The other is "I'm old enough to have been using text email since before graphical email clients were a thing and don't want to change.")

curiousGambler··on Automattic is closing its San Francisco office as most employees work remotely
hehe my monitor is totally a reason I go into the office
curiousGambler··on Reign of the $100 graphing calculator is ending
should've used version control \s

(truly sorry for your loss!)

curiousGambler··on Juice may taste good, but unlike the fruit, it’s not healthy
Out of curiosity, what was the reason for the partial fast? And how did it affect you?

+1 on the giant salad for minimal calories! If you don't use traditional, calorie packed dressings you can really fill up on a small amount of calories since lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers are such low calorie foods.

curiousGambler··on The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy
> You’re lucky I wrote it.

I read this, and was like "screw that, I'm not going to read it," and then was like, well let's see, and after reading, wish I had stuck with my initial gut instinct to close that tab. smh.

curiousGambler··on Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and am coming to the conclusion that it's similar to dead-weight loss in a taxation scenario. As a society we've accepted the "lower efficiency" and deadweight loss of rejecting {thing}ism because we don't want any one {thing} to get wrongly persecuted only on the basis of it being such a {thing}.
curiousGambler··on Why Fruits and Veggies Are So Cheap in Chinatown
That and economies of scale forcing the small farm's prices higher.

I do wonder how often small farms hide price discrimination behind "economies of scale" though.

curiousGambler··on Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
I was at ng-conf a couple weeks ago. Talking to the Firebase guy at their booth, he goes "You should talk to the RethinkDB guys, it's the same thing but open source." I got a kick out of it.
curiousGambler··on The Collatz Conjecture in PostgreSQL
Interesting! As an American I'd never heard that name for it. Usually it's called Collatz conjecture or the hailstone numbers in my experience.

All those names and more are included on the Wikipedia page it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture

curiousGambler··on Agile is Dead
Yes! Agile with a small 'a' is something I talk about at work too often. I don't want to be "Agile" but rather "agile" as in the definition of the word, "able to move quickly and easily."
curiousGambler··on Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor crash
I don't think we'll care quite so much that a 20 minute drive is now 25 minutes when we have wifi and sitting in the car is basically like sitting in our living room. Driving slow is only tedious when you're doing it, not when you're able to get work done or be entertained throughout.
curiousGambler··on Show HN: GitHub project structure visualizer
To be fair, I don't think the point of gource is to be "useful" so much as "cool and interesting"
curiousGambler··on Show HN: GitHub project structure visualizer
In the same vein, gource is pretty cool. It shows the same sort of graph, but animated as it changes over time. So you can watch the project develop, and even see who was working on which files at which time. It's great to put up on a screen during launch celebrations or whatever.

http://gource.io/

curiousGambler··on The Unsuitability of English (2015)
"I'm not an expert, just a speculating Internet guy who has read (and listened to) relevant information from time to time"

On the topic of languages, I wonder if the Germans have a word for this yet... If so, English speakers should totally import it as they did Shadenfreude.

curiousGambler··on The Neuroscience of Wine
I joke with my roommate that I should buy stock in that winery. I almost always have a bottle of their Carmenere on hand. I was also pleasantly surprised by the juicy fruitiness of their Pinot Noir, but haven't found it since!

One note though- they run $10-15 where I'm at- which makes sense given the conversion between USD and GBP. I'm pretty sure the user asking is from the US. So a bit more expensive than they're hoping for. Edit: Those taxes are crazy btw, I think in my state it's 5% on wine.

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