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Bin packing everywhere! Truck loading?

Minimizing maximum to minimum ratio for structural stability.

naviumon Google's sidebar for rust is the programming language

This is not a great experience for the majority of users. Even suggested questions like "What is Rust written in?" is going to confuse so many people.

naviumon Roblox raises $520M at $29.5B valuation

Just thought of downloading the game to understand what all this valuation is about, but the reviews in the iOS App Store are so so fake, it stopped me right there from installing it.

naviumon A History of APL in 50 Functions

There's not a single code snippet listed on Wikipedia.

naviumon Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted

Maybe visibility:hidden too.

naviumon All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate

This is what happens when a CTO goes for a programming retreat

naviumon Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail?

I've used it for custom domain mailboxes as well. It's ok, has 2FA as well.

naviumon Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail?

Yandex.

naviumon Maintaining code quality when nobody cares

Or more like, you write unit tests even if no one asked you to.

naviumon Maintaining code quality when nobody cares

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. - Henry Ford

naviumon Intel made smart glasses that look normal

Hope this spectre doesn't meltdown.

naviumon SQL Keys in Depth

"There’s no need to manually create indexes on columns already declared unique; doing so would just duplicate the automatically-created index." Is the last part real? Makes me feel like forking postgesql just to save the world from accidental duplicate expensive indexes.

naviumon A growing number of early Facebook employees regret the world they created

Happy to have gladdened you! btw, I'm also in a sea of thrashing downvotes.

naviumon A growing number of early Facebook employees regret the world they created

I mean like there are bigger problems out there man. And plain stupid to focus it all on Mark, he's just having fun.

naviumon A growing number of early Facebook employees regret the world they created

Everyone against Facebook is just jealous. Admit it. You don't want a world that's not connected, and Facebook executed it brilliantly.

naviumon Is Joe Armstrong kidding?

Agree. But that line is the crux! They should have implemented this match to begin with, to functionally make use of maps!

naviumon Is Joe Armstrong kidding?

If you check the errata #77244, that's his ONE SINGLE example of how you can use pattern matching with maps. I smiled as I read the example. But when I tried it, boom! That piece of code does not run on any released version of Erlang, and I am here trying out Erlang to see if I can use it in my enterprise project! The most disappointed I have been while learning any language.