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Well you could have a negotiation like so: Recruiter: The offer is $100k. Me: I want 120k and WFH. Recruiter: I checked with the manager. The best we can do is either 120k but you …

Not sure if this is what GP meant, but one funny thing about carbon credits is that energy producers that produce no emissions but don't do carbon capture (e.g. solar farms) can ea…

Ticket is a class do ... end is how you create no-argument functions similar to () => { ... } in JavaScript. There's some technical nuance but that's the spirit of it. In Ruby you …

This is the first time I'm hearing this. Don't they both use ELF? Where can I read more on this?

My take: RecipeUI a Postman-like tool that offers convenient type safety and autocomplete on top of what Postman already does. What is Postman? It's a tool that allows you to confi…

My understanding is that this is true only if you distribute your executables which most people don't do for server-side code.

Or they could have saved themselves a CPU cycle every time they needed to index an array. Don't get me wrong, non-zero-cost abstractions are great when they improve developer ergon…

I have no experience with SKI calculus so I may be misinterpreting how to apply these functions. But it seems to me that the definition of F doesn't work quite right. After trying …

I made one a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30509847 I just filled in both the url and text fields and it just worked for me.

Hey HN, I found it painful to maintain huge bash scripts, so I wrote a library that makes it more natural to run subprocesses from Python so I could replace all my bash. It's heavi…

I don't believe you're correct that intellectual property has slowed down progress. Linux and the GNU project use copyright and they're doing well. Arguably better than the permiss…

On the other hand, if you're a startup founder with a brilliant new idea (say, some new way to synchronize audio across multiple speakers), why would you ever leave a cushy corpora…

Have you heard of the storyshots addon? I pretty much ignore its output but I've found it a useful sanity check to see that everything at least renders without errors without any a…