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Re:Find the oldest line in your repo on Thursday January 30, 2025 @04:50PM (#42882529)
I ran into that too. Turns out that you need to add in the path you want to search when invoking the command. If it's your current working directory, use `.`
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...

(I'm just going on Googling here, not an expert)

From reading that link, I think it works like this:

A hazard ratio of 1.0 means "no hazard, or no difference from the control".

A hazard ratio of 1.21 means "21% more hazardous than the control"

Re:The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (2020) on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:13PM (#32870707)
In C64 Basic, "$" declares that a variable is a string, like this:

``` A$ = "Hello World ```

So you say this as "A-string equals Hello World"

I still pronounce "$" as string however many years later

There are many people still living who were teachers and administrators at these schools.

If we believe that this was genocide (and I think it's pretty obvious that it was), then they should be held accountable for their crimes.

The fact that they haven't been speaks volumes.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2019) on Friday November 01, 2019 @05:38PM (#21423967)
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes -- I've been working remotely for > 5 years.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Javascript (Node, React, jQuery, Backbone, Meteor, and a wide range of other Javascript frameworks), Serverless, Erlang, LaTeX, AWS, Ansible.

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/scott-patten/

Email: [email protected]

I'm one of the founders of Leanpub (https://leanpub.com), and I'm looking for something new (don't worry, Leanpub is just fine). Leanpub is a well-loved, profitable company that has paid over $8 million in royalties to authors, and I was one of the people who built it from scratch.

At Leanpub I was responsible for the book generation engine, our Markdown parser, devops and infrastructure and the main Rails app. I jumped in on the React side of things when needed. I figured out requirements, talked to customers, did support and wrote documentation.

I have more than a decade of experience in software development with a wide variety of technologies. I'm interested in finding a position where I can have an impact on the company, learn constantly and be a part of a great team. I'm looking for a remote-first or extremely remote-friendly company.

Re:Primitive Technology: Adobe wall (dry stacked) [video] on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:38PM (#20901645)
I had wondered what happened to his videos, as I hadn't seen an update in my RSS feed for a while. Turns out he's just stopped updating his blog!

I've got some videos to catch up on :)

Another, more human, take on this from Barista Hustle:

https://baristahustle.com/blog/the-death-of-the-death-of-the...

TL;DR (I watched this a couple of months ago, so this is an attempt a remembering the thesis. I also don't know if I agree or not that this is a good future, but it is the future presented in the video) -- the robots are coming, which is going to give us push-button coffee. There will still be people there to give you a human experience, and they'll get to focus on that experience instead of being split between making coffee and talking to you.

Re:Fifty Fizzbuzzes on Thursday November 01, 2018 @12:18AM (#18351423)

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