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flatbon Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way?

        "Our code is self-documenting. If you need documentation then the code isn't written well enough"

        -Assholes who don't know what it is like to work with mature code bases.

    - People who don't know how to write clean code

- People who think that not only they figured out what 'clean code' even means, but that everyone else will agree, thus single-handedly ending some 50+ years of heated industry-wide debate, numerous billion-dollar attempts by some of the most talented people in the world, and troves of 8-dimensional mental gymnastics about design patterns by way of a $21 ebook, a code review and some blog posts

flatbon Anatomy of a Killing

I think they mention they located the mountains not from the ridge outline, but from a tip-off they received about where it all happened, and then they corroborated that tip against the ridge outline, building placement, roads, etc.

> After a tip off from a Cameroonian source, we found an exact match for that ridge line on Google Earth

flatbon Building your own deep learning computer is 10x cheaper than AWS

Can anybody fill me in on why people these days are spending almost the same money for a last-gen, medium-high end, 12 core, 24 thread CPU and a motherboard? What features would an almost $400 motherboard have that could justify that price?

flatbon Life in the Spanish city that banned cars

It's all the same debate, really. After all is said and done, rights function to entitle you to things or acts. The blurry line that I believe you might be talking about has a very specific name, but recent social and public discourse make a lot of people nowadays automatically cringe at it's sight (wrongly, IMO) without seriously hearing out or considering it's merits. I'm talking about the word "privilege".

flatbon Molecule produced during fasting has anti-aging effect on vascular system

I'm no expert, and I might be wrong, but generally I would argue against extracting conclusions (even layman conclusions) from two studies of a different species (!) with a sample size of 2 (!!!)

flatbon Huawei caught cheating performance test for new phones

The photos are neither low-quality nor highly-compressed. I personally can't tell much of a difference 95% of the time and I'm a technical person. Here´s a comparison and a closeup, left image is the original, right one compressed with the Unlimited Storage setting:

full picture https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2016-01-01-1451631423-7665...

cropped detail https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2016-01-01-1451631515-2060...

Also, I believe Photos storage is unlimited even in Original quality if you own a Pixel phone, which may or not may be the case, but still.