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Re:What shall I teach my son? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:27PM (#50172933)
Some kids love learning at an early age. If not, it’s easy to find out. Don’t worry about teaching too soon.
Re:Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share on Sunday August 02, 2026 @06:35PM (#49149124)
We own a Model Y and now subscribe to FSD. The car is basically done and I sort of see why Tesla isn’t bothering
From the point of view of a developer looking to differentiate themselves. The instinct is to look for generalizations, abstractions, composability, but as Boris says, these just get subsumed into the latest model RL. So what expertise is left for the developer to invest in?
There’s really not much to specialize in and differentiate yourself. All this harness customization is fleeting. Remember prompt engineering?
Re:Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript Runtime and Ecosystem on Sunday July 12, 2026 @01:52PM (#48882999)
I was working on our ant build last night
It’s been my experience as of recently. I point it at an issue tracker and ask it to investigate, write a test to reproduce the problem and plan a fix together. There’s lots of hand holding from me but it saves me a lot of work and I’ve been surprised by its comfort with legacy code bases. For now I feel empowered, and I’m actually working more intensively, but I was wondering to myself if I’m going run out of work this year. Interestingly, our metrics show that output is slowed by increased workload on reviewers.
Also relied on government subsidies until recently.
I worked with XSLT almost from the beginning of my career and it was a blessing in disguise. Shoutout to Michael Kay.
Re:Writing Programs with Ncurses on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:31PM (#43498967)
I had a good experience with the Java Lanterna library

https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna

Re:Americans' Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:22AM (#28787514)
I read the comments first
Often, the clients of legacy code are old too, and are hard coded to access it.

I've done this, but on a private branch, with a single merge to trunk in the end. Starting with complex integration tests, new interfaces were gradually defined and made the code testable, giving me the needed confidence.

I’ve been using an air quality monitor and a few HEPA air purifiers around the house for years. It’s affordable and effective.
Re:Private firefighters go to work for California's wealthy on Monday October 28, 2019 @12:20PM (#21378311)
I don’t even read Bloomberg and NYT links anymore, just head straight to the discussion and see if this is something I need to get bothered about.
That’s an exaggeration. Oakland is actually a nice place.

My observation is that, in the eyes of progressives, working class folks and politicians, the city government and services are first a source of jobs, and services are secondary.

California protections against balance/surprise medical billing are not enforceable when an employee is covered by a "self-insured" or "self-funded" employer plan. California doesn't regulate that plan, and also cannot intervene in the billing between the provider, patient and insurance. Most medium to large employers are using such plans which means that employees are not protected from such billing.

http://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/110-health/60-resou...

"Does the New Law Apply to Everyone? The new law applies to people with health insurance policies or plans regulated by the California Department of Insurance or the California Department Managed Health Care that were issued, amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2017. It does not apply to Medi-Cal plans, Medicare plans or “self-insured plans.”"

These laws don't apply to employees covered by employer self-funded plans, which are predominant. California can't enforce them in most cases.
Re:Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration (2017) on Friday February 01, 2019 @12:14AM (#19051803)
Maybe the author of Socket.io and Zeit.co just happens to work on integration problems?
You should try it.

I switched interest based ads off on Google a few times, and also tried using YouTube while logged out. It’s pure trash.

When you opt out of interest based ads you actually opt in to their inventory of worst content imaginable. There’s no middle ground.

Re:Gerald M. Weinberg has died on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @10:39PM (#17721322)
His systems thinking book will stay with me forever. RIP Gerald.
Re:Microservices – Please, don’t on Saturday September 24, 2016 @09:02PM (#12573348)
I'm hopeful that some of this will fade once the Java 9 module system becomes available.
Re:Why Most Unit Testing is Waste (2014) [pdf] on Monday May 30, 2016 @01:40PM (#11802282)
If I write testable code, coverage comes naturally and I don't worry about it.

I do think it's misguided to focus on coverage.

To me unit testing is a development tool. I write my class inside a test suite and extract it when ready.

Re:Lyft Carpool: A New Way to Commute on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @02:50PM (#11383874)
I wanted to join their previous Line effort, but re-read my insurance policy and found it falls under prohibited commercial driving. The terms now encompass any participation in online ride-coordinating services. Government needs to step in because individually the insurers have no incentive to allow this.
Re:iOS 9.3 Preview on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @01:46PM (#10889420)
It's always at the "bottom", but the bottom changes, which requires changing the grip to reach the control, which triggers another rotation and so on.
Re:iOS 9.3 Preview on Monday January 11, 2016 @07:08PM (#10884649)
I guess any sort of trouble with the iPhone is an extremely minor thing in the grand scheme of things.

What to do about it? I can't presume to know what they tested and rejected, but screen orientation control needs to be independent of screen orientation.

Re:iOS 9.3 Preview on Monday January 11, 2016 @03:26PM (#10883198)
No, the point is precisely that the bottom of the screen also changes with the orientation.
Re:iOS 9.3 Preview on Monday January 11, 2016 @02:38PM (#10882745)
I wish something was done about rotation lock for reading in bed. Activating it from Control Center, which itself changes orientation, is maddening.
Re:Learn to play chess online on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @09:59AM (#10696679)
First time I tried chess on my phone. Fat finger is a usability problem with irreversible consequences. I had to abandon a game.

Maybe drag and drop is not the best interaction model here.

Re:Adblock Sold to Mystery Company on Friday October 02, 2015 @04:30PM (#10321111)
Ugh. There was a time AdBlock made pleas for donations for this mom and pop operation that won't sell out, and I donated.
Oakland police is severely understaffed, by about a half of what a city of this size would require.
Witnesses calling the police can't reliably locate the source of the gunfire. Wind, hills and buildings carry, echo and deflect the source beyond any hope. That's why a triangulating system like this is essential.

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