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whatnotests··on Going for the 5 hour workday
Yeah mostly on HN while:

* Tests are running.

* long-running scripts are running.

* Code is compiling.

* Database is importing.

* Files are copying.

* etc

Thank goodness for this site and a few others.

whatnotests··on Ask HN: Do we limit a mind by teaching it how to think?
/r/tenguy
whatnotests··on Going for the 5 hour workday
/me looks at clock, laughs, gets back to work.
whatnotests··on Design I/O’s “Mimic” – Putting emotional machines within arm’s reach
Do we really want emotional machines?

I'd much rather have logical machines which can be understood.

whatnotests··on Ask HN: Tools that can notify us when our REST API call fails
StatusCake is nice. Also Zabbix.
whatnotests··on Gollvm from Google
Super great name!
whatnotests··on Nasa revives 'weird life forms' trapped inside crystals for 60,000 years
General Zod.
whatnotests··on Asm-Dom – WebAssembly Virtual DOM
I expect the performance here to be blazingly fast...is that an accurate assumption?
whatnotests··on Mono 5.0 Ships with Concurrent Garbage Collector
Mono got me out of a jam about 7-8 years ago.

Had a Gentoo server that needed a Perl application to fetch data from a MS SQL Server.

FreeTDS just would not compile, but Mono installed just fine.

I wrote Inline::MonoCS [0] and everything Just Worked.

[0] http://search.cpan.org/~johnd/Inline-MonoCS-1.000/lib/Inline...

whatnotests··on Ask HN: How did open source work before GitHub?
Before GitHub you had Google Code.

Before that was SourceForge.

whatnotests··on Ask HN: How do I write good job requirements?
Don't: write what the person should do every day/week/quarter.

Do: think what they must not do (b/c there would be problems if they did) and write what they should do instead.

whatnotests··on Court ruling nullifies US requirement that hobbyists register drones
I'm curious how this ruling will affect the consumer drone market in the US.
whatnotests··on America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient
The new ones seem...poofier...larger...maybe less dense?

Less mass per cubic meter?

whatnotests··on Oculus Research to Present Focal Surface Display Discovery at SIGGRAPH
Yes! Many people cannot use the VR Headsets unless they wear contacts, and even then it feels quite unnatural.
whatnotests··on Self-Hosted “SQL-Not-required” Data Analytics and BI Tool. Inspired by Looker
By using this the activerecord5-redshift-adapter gem [0], it may be possible.

[0] https://github.com/ConsultingMD/activerecord5-redshift-adapt...

whatnotests··on Google, Not the Government, Is Building the Future
And it's OK.

Only Soviets think the government should be all things to all people.

whatnotests··on Collection of photographs of WannaCry infections from around the world
The pregnancy test tho.

Good stuff.

whatnotests··on U.S. Senate staff can now use Signal
They should be banned from any and all encryption.

Who do they think they are?

What's good for the goose is good for the gander, as they say.

whatnotests··on React JS Code delivery
Google JavaScript cache busting.

Some tools, like Ruby on Rails will compute a unique signature as part of the file name for each file when you prepare for deployment to production. This helps ensure that every time you deploy new code, only the new version of everything will be linked to.

If you use WebPack it may help you out quite a bit. Take a look here https://medium.com/powerspace-engineering/how-to-cache-busti...

whatnotests··on US Government Fears Another Explosion Of The Ransomware Plague It Helped Create
Do you want insecure systems, massive fallout from leaked pwning tools and thieves taking the world prisoner? Because the NSA's strategy so far is how you get insecure systems, massive fallout from leaked pwning tools and thieves taking the world prisoner.

I wonder how the dialectic will play out in a worst-case scenario if we get to that point.

whatnotests··on How to Spot a Spook (1974)
I was looking for a list of those 26 indicators and found this article:

https://lunghu.wordpress.com/tag/yuri-trotov/

whatnotests··on Man to pay $300k in damages for hacking employer
That's like $2000/month for 7 years.

In cases like this, I would expect that $300K to drop later, or to be renegotiated at some point.

whatnotests··on Firefox 57: new Photon design screenshots
The design looks great - I look forward to other improvements to follow suit (performance, plugin architecture, security, etc).
whatnotests··on Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool
This sounds like something straight out of a James Bond movie.
whatnotests··on CockroachDB 1.0
/me forks the damned repo, renames it, wins the Internet.
whatnotests··on How Scratch teaches kids to follow the hacker ethic
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whatnotests··on Puerto Rico files for biggest ever U.S. local government bankruptcy
Define "promise" in this context though.

VCs invest in opportunity, not promises.

whatnotests··on What to Expect in CockroachDB 1.0
I came here to say "I hope with 1.0 we get a respectable name".
whatnotests··on N.S.A Halts Collection of Americans’ Emails About Foreign Targets
Sure they did.
whatnotests··on Ask HN: 2 international founders in sv for YC interview. Where can we crash?
There's a decent hostel in SF.
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