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Now swap FBI with China and HN would be calling for a full on ban. When its America, its just “how is this interesting”
Re:How the “Mail & Guardian” got taken down on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:38AM (#21014685)
Load shedding

South Africa has had constant power outages

http://www.eskom.co.za/documents/LoadSheddingFAQ.pdf

Re:Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019? on Monday August 26, 2019 @02:01AM (#20797757)
nand2tetris
can you elaborate more on this or perhaps drop a link?

Ask HN: How would you represent Shakespeares 'To be or not to be' in code?

Just a fun question I'd like to see how you'd represent it :)I think '2be' cannot be a string though, as i think its an instance of somethingJust some background on the context:There are many "meanings" in Hamlet's speech and there are entire essays written on them and how they relate to the play as a whole. What I offer here are some generally accepted interpretations and observations of the...

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Re:Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk? on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:22PM (#16758642)
The C Programming Language
I recommend everyone to read the book Deep Work by Cal Newport
Re:Concussion doctor says he found CTE in living NFL player on Friday December 29, 2017 @03:39AM (#16028426)
If anyone is curious, this is the doctor played by will smith in the movie concusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io6hPdC41RM
Everybody seems to agree on this. But when we continue to ban drugs. Do the same people scream "prohibition does not work!"?
Re:Ask HN: Best books you read in 2017? on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:57AM (#15804926)
Deep Work by Cal Newport
I wish our neighbors well! its been a long time over due.I really hope it will be a peaceful transition, as SA has their own problems they need to deal with(cANCer)! We cannot have a refugee crisis and a civil war on our borders
Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:29AM (#15617056)
Do you know, that you CANNOT use any of your google accounts if you turn your cookies off? that is just grossly invasive
Valid points. He is a very capable programmer and the work is definitely not boring. His team mates think he threw his toys out the cot because he did not agree with using a particular technology going forward. So now instead of helping write the code, he chooses to do small tasks that he sits on for weeks and months. Really, this is also a failure on management. Managers should know how much work load he has and when he should realistically be able to finish it. But they haven't paid attention to that, so he gets to sit on these tasks for the longest time.

For example. He decided to build a date-picker from scratch for no apparent reason, when there are a trillion jquery, bootstrap date-pickers available. It took him 3 months just to do this, Now he has said he is gonna work on CSS clean up and re-styling all the validation errors, its been 3 weeks of him doing this.

He is the senior dev in his pod. So when theres demos, he's the one that talks and includes himself on features that they rolling out as a "team" effort when he hasn't written a single line of code on it.

Ask HN: What to do when a lazy programmer is ruining the teams motivation

Hi, So theres this programmer at work that hardly does any work at all. He spends most of his time surfing the net and watching videos. His attitude is affecting his teams motivation as they under pressure to deliver, and they end up doing most of the work while he surfs the net. The thing is. They extremely upset, but also feel like they cannot approach management and tell on him as they feel...

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I opened the site and thought "oh, I didn't know scump is also a coder" :D
Re:Tesla Model 3 Delivery Event Livestream on Saturday July 29, 2017 @12:28AM (#14879473)
What the hell? the tesla.com site is asking me to register and reserve a model 3 with my bank details to watch the live stream??
Re:153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack on Thursday July 20, 2017 @02:27AM (#14810412)
But also, a quick fix to this is to add a modifier that throws if m_owners[1] is already initialized
Re:Traders lost millions in ethereum crash on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:46AM (#14617413)
I actually don't see how its different. This was caused by an individual resulting in people losing money. The question then becomes how much lost money or WHO lost money is enough reason to pursue a hard fork?
Re:Google Jobs Search on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @03:10PM (#14597540)
most "good" points you mentioned there about recruiters code can replicate.

They do a lot of leg work for you

- simple stats and analysis

They have access to many openings that aren't public.

- This is just companies choosing their preferred recruiters in a fragmented industry. A solid platform would solve this

And they can convince good companies to create an opening for you if you would fit really well with the company

- I dont see code doing this. But how often does this happen though?

I get to send my resume to a few recruiters and they call me with all the openings that fit my skill set and i would be interested in.

- Not sure why you think this is exclusive to recruiters. Isnt this just another way of describing filters on a recruitment website?

.They make looking for a new position so much easier. Often they work in teams so you get multiple people doing this for you at the same time. Plus you build a relationship with them, their team, and the company so you with them better next time too.

- Its not hard to code something that can achieve this. Even saw a post here on HN about a site that can mass apply for jobs for you. Could make it a little more intelligent so it learns which jobs you prefer.

Re:Attempt to Reverse a $55 Million Ether Heist on Sunday June 18, 2017 @12:58PM (#14581579)
but the core difference here is there is no precedence set. Especially since classics core belief is immutable transactions. As long as the community has that integrity. Then its safe. but ultimately. It is a consensus based system. So its not to say its not impossible
Re:Attempt to Reverse a $55 Million Ether Heist on Sunday June 18, 2017 @08:22AM (#14580349)
It still and will always be. They have set a dangerous precedence. If another group of large developers decide to revert a certain transaction. They could. The one platform that still has its integrity is ethereum classic
Re:Attempt to Reverse a $55 Million Ether Heist on Sunday June 18, 2017 @06:45AM (#14580053)
Solidity is a contract-oriented, high-level language whose syntax is similar to that of JavaScript and it is designed to target the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).

http://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/

Re:Attempt to Reverse a $55 Million Ether Heist on Sunday June 18, 2017 @06:33AM (#14580002)
hmm true. Maybe smart contracts also need a good old fashioned terms & conditions signed. At least that protects against unknown bugs and exploits?

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