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Re:Ask HN: How big of a problem is fake news, what can we do? on Saturday December 21, 2019 @06:56AM (#21850874)
Improve practical and critical thinking skills.
Re:Outdoor Computing with a Deck Desk on Saturday December 21, 2019 @04:43AM (#21850549)
gotta admire the hack. I’m still waiting on e-paper screen laptops...
Re:The next professional network will not look like LinkedIn on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @12:44PM (#21764828)
It is clear to me that most people commenting here don’t understand or use LinkedIn effectively.

And the recruiter hate is also unjustified.

Re:I ditched macOS, Linux, and chose Windows for development work on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @12:30PM (#21764686)
Nope. He uses Some software available only on windows or MacOs for his podcasts.

I am also strongly considering to jump ship from Mac to windows now. However, I have some software licenses that won’t transfer so I’m waiting for the renewal periods to expire.

Re:Statically-typed error handling in Python using Mypy on Sunday December 08, 2019 @01:19PM (#21737243)
Why? Seems that it is a well proven language. Just like php, asp.net, and other languages people like to hate on.

Or rather, how would you define mission critical?

1tb is nothing these days. If you insist on cloud the hetzner could be best bang for buck. Otherwise a similar desktop system can be acquired for less than 1000 usd.

I’d start with solr or elasticsearch and a simple indexing script (home rolled python script).

Then you can use solr admin or something like Jupyter for iterative querying.

I’m not an expert on index tuning, but you might even be able to dump it all into postgres with json types.

Best of luck!

Re:New research: Dark Energy might not exist after all on Friday November 29, 2019 @03:14AM (#21662904)
So if the universe is flat does that make the earth flat as well? :-D
Re:German murderer wins 'right to be forgotten' on Thursday November 28, 2019 @04:14AM (#21655738)
Well let’s put the mans name here and references so that we don’t forget...
What is DECT?
Re:Ask HN: How do you prepare for technical interviews? on Saturday July 06, 2019 @02:33PM (#20371065)
Damnit. You got here first.

We do technical interviews but it is more of a conversation about an existing issue or problem in the company. We talk about it like the candidate is a consultant.

Our expectation is that they will ask questions for clarity, probe, and challenge any decisions or architectures chosen to date.

Then they offer an insight, opinion, or story as to how they have solved similar problems in the past.

Re:Ask HN: Which Bookmarking software do you use? on Thursday April 04, 2019 @07:59PM (#19578346)
Http://www.curabase.com
Re:Genderless Voice on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:59AM (#19368149)
Yeah. Ok. It’s just a dude with a voice changer. Give me female Australian accents any day. Pure sunshine even when Siri can’t get it right
Re:Ask HN: Self-hosted Helpdesk on Saturday December 29, 2018 @09:56AM (#18783842)
Currently using zammad in production. Works well for email, website live chat, sociable media integation support channels.

No push notifications (that I’m aware of) but email notifications work well

Re:Ask HN: What product started as an email list? on Saturday December 29, 2018 @09:55AM (#18783830)
Craigslist