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jrhurst··on Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch
I know the first pull request I'm going to do for this one. Chicken and Egg goes on indefinitely.
jrhurst··on Apple Avoids Amazon’s Beauty Contest, Searches Secretly for New Campus
Bezos is a smart dude. Small jabs at Amazon doesn't have a significant effect on the business. It adds credibility to the paper.
jrhurst··on Show HN: A raytracer to shade topographic maps in R
The 2.8 update looks promising. Though I actually don't know if will actually be better
jrhurst··on Valve Talk at Harvard CS50 Course – Portal Problems
I find that to be case in SaaS. Better is the enemy of good enough.
jrhurst··on Rust in production at Figma
Oh that's good to hear. I tried `error-chain` and dropped it when it broke `#serde(flatten)` for me. I'll keep any eye on Failure.
jrhurst··on YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating
I have a feeling that people who make misterbowlfingers argument would say that your analogy is also valid.
jrhurst··on YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels
Problem is medical claims are highly regulated in the West. So there is a likely legal liability for youtube in the US and in the UK. In fact, they might have already had pressure from regulators.
jrhurst··on Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck?
It's not really trolling in this case since they actually use and develop on the technology
jrhurst··on Fast, Safe, and Complete(ish) Web Service in Rust
Look into macros 1.1 to see how they're use for `#derived` they're not particularly super magical. Though unstable stuff rocket uses is a bit more magical.
jrhurst··on Rust 1.24
Thanks fafhrd!
jrhurst··on Rust 1.24
I tried Actix a while back and it was very intimidating compared to some other frameworks. I'd like to jump back into it at some point, but right now for my prototype I got lazy and went with Rocket.rs.

Any suggestions of Opensource projects that use Actix?

jrhurst··on HR has lost the trust of employees
Yeah. Maybe your union representative if you got one. Otherwise honestly. You're mostly out of luck and have almost no power again your employers.
jrhurst··on Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
It does look like IBM does own a p2p instant messaging patent[1]. So I think this checks out.

- https://www.google.ms/patents/US7675874

jrhurst··on Why Ageism Never Gets Old
>For a long period of time in the (not too distant) past, one of the the main purposes of a company was to pay employees.

I don't really disagree with your sentiment, but I don't think that statement has been ever true.

jrhurst··on Bootstrapping My Side Project to $6k/Month
Oh no it's clearly mutated into an MLM. I found it interesting how it turned into one last minute. In a lot of ways it is the logical next step for this kind of product.
jrhurst··on Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack
> The original purpose of the SSN was to enable the Social Security Board to maintain accurate records of the earnings of individuals who worked in jobs covered under the Social Security program. The card was never intended to serve as a personal identification document—that is, it does not establish that the person presenting the card is actually the person whose name and SSN appear on the card.

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/v69n2p55.html

So maybe there does need to be a federal or state identification method, but because we lack a legitimate method it should also be the responsibility of the individual to do due diligence that the person they're giving credit to is the person they say they are.

jrhurst··on A Lot of What You Know About North Korea Is Racist Nonsense
"U.S. propaganda can dismiss North Korea’s legitimate concerns so easily because of the underlying racist assumption that these are a bizarre and simple-minded people that believe in things like unicorns. This feeds off of and into orientalist logic that sees East Asians as a nearly subhuman “other” that can’t be reasoned with and so must be handled with force."

I don't particularly see this logic with Vietnamese, Chinese, South Koreans, Japan. At least in the particular context of military action. In fact, most of the articles I end up reading about Japanese, South Korean, or Chinese responses to what North Korea is doing at the current time.

That said, I think there is a big role of racism to play when North Korea is used as a fear tactic during political cycles locally. But maybe everything is just about America and I'm wrong here.

jrhurst··on Four Steps to Maintaining a Clean Git History
I don't think I'd ever done a full branch squash. However I have done small `rebase -i` squashes where I put together small commits that were related. At the point of where I am rebasing something into master I'd prefer fewer commits. However, it really adds no value to my git commit history other than it makes me feel better about it. I get no complaints from my coworkers in these scenarios.
jrhurst··on TypeScript at Slack
What sort of bugs did you find? Were you able create replicate the regression from a user endpoint?
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