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doubleplusgood

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doubleplusgood··on To help model financial systems, some economists are turning to biology
His Laundry Files are excellent as well.
doubleplusgood··on You Will Not Understand This
Sure, but money talks louder.
doubleplusgood··on Postage – A fast replacement for pgAdmin
Could work around it with stunnel until it's resolved
doubleplusgood··on Wasabi – Simple storage solution
It would map better to a Django app rather than Flask
doubleplusgood··on Show HN: Sukhoi – A flexible and extensible Webcrawler in Python
Also it literally means "dry".
doubleplusgood··on Show HN: A virtual machine made with Google Sheets formulas (no script)
Interesting. I'm familiar with Israeli tech companies and it's odd they wouldn't buy in.

בהצלחה!

doubleplusgood··on Show HN: A virtual machine made with Google Sheets formulas (no script)
Oh, that's pretty clever. Thanks for the explanation!
doubleplusgood··on 4MB Laptop How-To: How to put a “grown-up” Linux on a small-spec laptop (2000)
I still have fond memories of building a kernel in winter on a P4. No heater needed. Make menuconfig, because the TCL part was too heavy...
doubleplusgood··on Ask HN: How to get a job when you suck at coding?
As originally built by him, it was indeed just a php website.
doubleplusgood··on The nihilist and optimist programmers (2015)
In many, many circumstances, code that "does the thing [well enough]" is more than enough. Not everyone works on avionics or pacemakers.
doubleplusgood··on Facebook is an attack on the open web
I run Disa as a Messenger replacement
doubleplusgood··on Ask HN: How would you take this business to the next level?
It streamlined the process significantly, lowering the total "handling time" from a couple of hours to ~10-15m in total, which freed up time to tend to custom commissions from clients.

I don't have serious hard numbers before that, as the CRM saw its first commit around sale #6.

doubleplusgood··on Ask HN: How would you take this business to the next level?
My wife has a small business similar to yours, and I ended up building a micro CRM for her, complete with scraping (some of our vendors don't offer an Api), reports, invoicing etc.
doubleplusgood··on Why Did a Chinese Peroxide Company Pay $1B for a Talking Cat?
Login is a legit surname, though[0].

0: http://www.onomastikon.ru/proishogdenie-familii-login.htm (source in Russian)

doubleplusgood··on UK survey of 14-24-year-olds indicates social networks harm mental health
Absolutely agree with this, I've come to realize I was addicted to the feed. It took, and still does, a significant effort to control the effect (mostly by regulating access on a scheduled basis).
doubleplusgood··on Breaking a large AWS spend into understandable pieces
A couple of PB per week, I'd guess
doubleplusgood··on Show HN: Howmanypeoplearearound – Use wifi to calculate number of people around
I never turn off BT on my phone, since I don't want to tinker around with it when I get into the car or turn on a wireless BT headset.
doubleplusgood··on Turris Omnia
I'd definitely get one just for the WiFi boost and the ability to turn it into a caching accelerator proxy for my guest/honeypot VLANs.
doubleplusgood··on YouTube Stars Feel an Advertising Pinch
If you're logged in, you can blacklist specific topics on Google's Ad Settings page[0] quite easily (you can also turn off tailored ads completely).

https://www.google.com/settings/ads/

doubleplusgood··on The Horror in the Standard Library
I'm usually well into #3 before I realize I'm in too deep
doubleplusgood··on Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable
Copied & pasted from an old HN post:

There are three new fields in your profile, noprocrast, maxvisit, and minaway. (You can edit your profile by clicking on your username.) Noprocrast is turned off by default. If you turn it on by setting it to "yes," you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours. You can override noprocrast if you want, in which case your visit clock starts over at zero.

doubleplusgood··on Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable
Can't those be "disabled" via the app manager? I'd flash a custom ROM if I had to deal with FB being a "system app"(!).
doubleplusgood··on My Struggles with Rust
It would just raise an OSError/IOError/TypeError/ValueError and exit (unless caught).
doubleplusgood··on The Horror in the Standard Library
"oh, this config shouldn't be linked to /dev/null..."
doubleplusgood··on The Horror in the Standard Library
I feel lucky to only have reached item 4; I wouldn't feel confident beyond it, anyway.
doubleplusgood··on Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV
Consuming 135g (a cup, give or take) of sugar daily is pretty crazy, nutritionally speaking.
doubleplusgood··on Serverless Takes DevOps to the Next Level
So your code assumes that the network/storage/DB are fault-free? You don't emit logs?
doubleplusgood··on Pavel Durov Has Unfriended Everyone
I don't see why not!
doubleplusgood··on The Boring Company [video]
Probably not even then. Gaia/Sayshell seem way more fun :)
doubleplusgood··on Show HN: Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego
I think it should be named "the Brickolator" :)
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