chrisoverzero

Someone once said here on Hacker News:

    Before you say anything, ask yourself
    1) Does this need to be said?
    2) Does this need to be said by me?
    3) Does this need to be said by me, now?

I hope you’ll take their sage advice in the future: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39859458

> If you set your hard limit to $20, then Amazon should refuse to create more than 50 secrets. That's a safe behavior which limits your spend to at most $20.

I have 100 secrets and no hard limit. Now I set the hard limit to $20. What does AWS do?

Are you under the mistaken impression that this feature is already implemented in mobile Safari on iOS 17.3? It isn’t.

On iOS 17.4, you’ll be able to see that the divider is thicker and obvious. Long-press on the Safari address bar for an illustrative example. See the gap between “Voice Search” and “Move to Tab Group”?

Christianity would be the largest if they themselves didn’t separate the branches into Catholics, Protestants, etc.

That’s right, JSX is also not HTML.

> I haven't yet found any great way besides email-as-todo list to manage this.

Which is fine. Put them in a To-Do folder. The original formulation of Inbox Zero suggested three actions:

1. Take care of the e-mail right now. Then archive it.

2. If you can take an action, but not right now, move it to “Follow Up”.

3. If you need someone else to take an action, move it to “Hold”.

It’s _Inbox_ Zero, not e-mail zero. Get the inbox – the place for unprocessed things – empty. Get it empty by processing the things. Then go do something other than e-mail.

> Amazing this same story keeps getting reposted every other day.

It keeps happening.

> Why trust software you can't inspect?

Because for nearly everyone, that’s all software.

> Great discoveries are made by employing great discipline over a long time, not by hiring some rock stars. Why else would Elon Musk call one of his most ambitious ventures "the boring company"?

Because it’s a company that makes tunnels. They bore holes in rock. It’s a company that bores – a boring company. It’s nothing more than a stupid pun.

GP isn’t actually saying that a parser isn’t a functor. They’re loudly and performatively saying that they don’t care.

I said nearly the same thing decades ago. Smashed a few friends’ so-called “wireless” telephones and showed them all the wires. Just look out a window; what’re those long, wiry things running between the utility poles, huh?! It’s ridiculous, the level of lying.

`/0` refers to the arity of the function.

To paste a value that’s too long, then remove some part in the middle. Otherwise, it’s truncated.

It’s portable.

> You assume that it's the guy who you frequently see standing near the second mate.

Men wearing steward uniforms frequently hanging around officers do tend to be stewards.

> There is also no indication in the game of who killed John Naples.

Probably the Swedish-speaking man being hauled away from the bloody sword to the lazarette while the captain shouts that he was “twenty years my steward.”

These are not guesses.

The game is completely solvable with no guessing.

> What was the language which used backticks to transform any function into an infix binary operator? Ruby? Perl?

Haskell.

I think you have that backwards. “Two times infinity” is “infinity, two times” or “infinity, twice,” which maps to Infinity + Infinity. “Infinity times two” is 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2… forever.

What open source company? Not Elastic, surely.

> […] obviously paid a PR company to go on an open source charm offensive […]

Please don’t do this here. Consider that others can disagree with you, or that you may simply be wrong.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

> Do you remember ConfigureAwait(false)?

I remember it and still use it, and you should, too. It can be elided in ASP.NET Core, which is the web application framework. Outside of that, there’s no escaping that you have to know what you’re doing.

Your advice is correct for ASP.NET Core (the web application framework), but not for all of .NET (Core or suffixless).

> So long as everything is good and hot when you seal, you’re good.

Good, maybe. Safe, no. Chicken stock is not acidic enough even for water-bath canning – it must be pressure-canned. Anything else is a risk of botulism.

> You can use it in the dark.

You can use Face ID in the dark.

Then don’t turn it on.

You've asserted something like this a few times on HN, and your responses are undetailed enough (or flavored with fake astonishment, like this one) that you seem to think it's obvious.

Isn't the requirement of attribution the consideration in cases like this? Which would make it not gratuitous? Here's open source lawyer and HN user 'DannyBee saying so, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14557737

> We weren’t able to track down a copy of the prompt ourselves to confirm when and where it appears or what it looks like — which seems important if people are getting confused […]

This is speculation presented as news. The confusion certainly appears to be real, but there's no actual investigative reporting.

> “This implementation is difficult to unit test.” Horsepucky.

No, this implementation is difficult to unit test. The rebuttal, “Just make a constructor […]” changes the implementation. The author’s zeal to decry DI frameworks has made him forget for a moment that constructor injection looks the same whether a framework is involved or not.

Here’s the claim:

> [ed] does not have the immediate visual feedback when entering text that even mechanical typewriters have.

…and here’s the counterclaim:

    .s/does not have/does have/g
    p

See how you had to type another command to see the results of this substitution? I don’t think this demonstrates what you want it to.

> It's just a term to refer to your stereotypical middle managers high on their own farts.

It means “young urban professional.”

>If you agree its fine, would you apply the same reasoning to [favorite politician]?

What, like Air Force One? https://twitter.com/USAirForceVIP