Viewing profile — handyman5

The His Dark Materials series. There were lots of pieces and ideas which I carry with me (particularly the bit with the harpies and what they come to value), but the circumstances …

Note that you can import _any_ data that's structured like a nested orderable hierarchy, it doesn't have to be a file that `ncdu` itself created. I've used this functionality to sc…

A couple of these questions would be at least yellow flags for me as an interviewer or hiring manager, as they indicate a strong bias for throwing away existing systems ("ignores t…

99 Percent Invisible did a whole show on this a while back: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/octothorpe/

Quantcast ( https://www.quantcast.com ) | Senior Software & Systems Engineers, Developer Tools | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time Developer Tools scales our developers' joy. …

What are you talking about? I consent to things for my children all the time. My son had elective surgery at ~18 months imposed on him without his consent, that would have been pot…

You are not controlling for the programmer's age as a variable. An equally valid explanation could be that newer programmers have less experience to draw from, where older programm…

Quantcast ( https://www.quantcast.com ) | Senior Software & Systems Engineers, Developer Tools | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time The Developer Tools team builds internal too…

With BetterTouchTool[1] you can both move and resize by combining keypresses with mouse movement; for example, I have it set so that holding Option will move a window along with my…

Is it sad that I recognized the comic from the context and the number in the link?

The first time I played through, I thought you could "Solve" only one need at a time. It made for a more interesting game and made the choices seem much more consequential.

> There is more to life than testable scientific understandings. I could love my mother or I could not love my mother. Can you test that? Because you can not test it, does it mean …

I won't lie, I work here; but I think a new, production-ready HDFS competitor is genuinely of general interest to the Hacker News community.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man ( http://amzn.to/2ZdEWA ) is the story of companies that do exactly this thing, on purpose, to use the oppressive debts of the poor countries to …