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> A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. > Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just po…

Hi, I'm Asian, graduated from a state school with a humanities degree, worked my way from tech support at a tiny startup into engineering, and now (several jobs later) work as a so…

I grew up in suburbs, and couldn't go anywhere without a car, so I was very bored and watched a lot of television (though I read a lot of books, too). Currently raising two kids in…

Pulling the ladder up behind you.

Portlander here, I used to work right by the food carts downtown on 10th and Alder. The hospital bracelet guy is one of regulars, he's been running that schtick for literally years…

seems like a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17074148 which has more comments

Former Marine Corps NCO checking in. I'm about to start at Stripe in a few weeks. You're not wrong, but we do show up now and again.

Given that this is about Iran/N. Korea sanctions, why does it get conflated with "tech cold war"?

> when the key bottoms out is probably the best way to go I disagree. One of the greatest benefits of mechanical keyboards is that they actuate before bottoming out. With some prac…

June 26, 2014

You've correctly identified a guarantee that you don't have with npm. In practice, anecdotally, I've never run into this issue, while I have many times and with much pain dealt wit…

The problem is here: "(accepts a 1.0 object but depends on 2.0)" This case actually has nothing to do with nested dependencies. Your time zone lib is returning a datum with one typ…

I think I just mean that a testable unit is a good heuristic for when a piece of code should be pulled out into a separate module. Put another way: when there's enough functionalit…

If you really want to buy into the module pattern, it seems like anything that's enough of a unit that you'd want to test could be in its own module. In the example given, the sum …

At the bottom: "currently maintained by the team at onename.io" https://onename.io/about There's also links to the github repos.

DocPad is a little more involved to get running, but does something like what you're describing: https://github.com/bevry/docpad