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life_is_short

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    Start working on a project Friday afternoon and well through the night. It sets the tone for the weekend.

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    Comment #12761332

    I didn't know go can do deadlock detection. Thanks for this, I learned something new today.

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    > without having to think about threads or synchronization. Just pipe data through the channel! I mostly agree with what you're saying, but note having a channel doesn't mean one s…

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    > provide well-thought out input and drawing primitives This sounds like a cool idea! What primitives would you suggest?

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    A newspaper and Airbnb aren't exactly the same thing. One difference is a newspaper recognizes it can't show reviews of its listings, so it doesn't.

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    Yeah, probably. Now I wonder which of the job posts are 'Old Geek Jobs', for old geeks, and which are not.

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    I found a bug. Job postings aren't sorted by date correctly. For example https://oldgeekjobs.com/jobs/California?page=2 shows jobs posted '2 days ago' while the front page shows jo…

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    There are great historical precedents. The first democracy, Athenian democracy, allowed only 50,000 out of 300,000 citizens to vote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democrac…

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    > for aggregates with variable-length per-group state, we don't have a good size estimate Can you say a bit more why?

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    What's the tldr? After 1000+ words I still can't see it. I wish articles said the main point in the beginning.

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    http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2016/10/11/a-practical-re...

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    Ask HN: Is it necessary to say open-source software comes with no warranty?

    I just looked at the list of open-source licenses. It's a long list that takes time to read and understand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_softwar…

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    In NewLisp's memory management model, I didn't understand if one-reference-only limits what the programmer can do. http://www.newlisp.org/MemoryManagement.html Does it mean it's im…