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As a longtime NYC resident with a vehicle, I experienced first-hand the unending frustration and anger amongst drivers over parking. I saw literal fights break out; windows smashed…

I suspect these companies view upgrading core functionality tech as a cost center to be avoided at all costs and for as long as humanly possible. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it",…

As with most technological advances and innovations, people - even laggards of technological adoption - tend to over-estimate in the near term and under-estimate in the long term i…

and iota: https://github.com/iotaledger/wasp which while not a DSL, also compiles to WASM

I stopped using the term 'technical debt' with non-technical people a long time ago to describe needing to maintain code. One guy even tried to convince me he was correct that the …

> Clojure has other weaknesses which become apparent rapidly. Clojure has lots of strengths which also become apparent the more you works with it: async, thread-first, thread-last,…

I also built a system that extracted structured and unstructured text from images/pdfs. For the generated pdfs, I found pdftotext could pull with 100% fidelity, and so that was 'op…

or you could work with this company, https://werk.co , to help institute flexible arrangements that actually make sense for each employee.

agree. Once I discovered Clojure, it's all kinds of fun to write in! The community is great. The ecosystem now has plenty of robust libraries to handle most any heavy-lifting task(…

> Anyone putting their money in IOTA is an absolute idiot. I bought in when it was trading well under $1. I'm holding long term so I don't much care about today's price, but it _is…

> It's 100% premined, which smells as scammy as Ripple. It's not a coin, it's an entity handing you gift vouchers with their name on it. No scam. There was an announced, publicly a…

kerl comes from the fact it wraps & extends keccack hashing library. So the name is actually quite fitting.

and 'hickory' [ https://github.com/davidsantiago/hickory ] to work with the site data however you want.

To disable that deceptive snooping in 6.0 (Marshmallow): Settings -> Location -> Improve Accuracy -> Toggle Wi-Fi scanning.

Author is projecting. Replaced "me" with "people" in writing this. Considered himself smart; tried to wrap head around Bitcoin, but lacks math/cs/finance background, and or curiosi…

> It's really easy to fall into the trap of giving each customer exactly what they ask for ... this is the sort of product strategy that easily leads to disastrous results. do you …

cancel cancellation fees. problem solved.

cancel cancellation fees. problem solved.

I was a solid proponent of OSX for all development. I've only had to go through 2 macbooks in the better part of a decade, upgrading the OSX versions along the way ... and so, when…

very cool! any idea how this would compare to clojure-wrapping https://github.com/OpenHFT/Chronicle-Map ? Seems like there are some similar design goals between the two.

Their website is using the standard boilerplate angular version of a 'dashboard' theme from Metronic. And their API console page took 7.02 seconds (on FIOS connection) to fully loa…

I did, for exactly that reason. And I'm guessing just about everyone else on HN did, too :) It's a good point, though. "Normal" people should be protected against themselves in the…