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by autora 4y ago
Considering parent, myself and most people I talk to consider the point of Nest being the ability to control their thermostat when they are out of the house, I don't understand how any system in the 70s or 80s could even work at all li
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by autora 5y ago
Am curious, what is FIRE?
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by autora 5y ago
I've been a programmer for 20 years and you just described my daily struggle with my job so precisely. Is this kind of experience happening to neuro-typical people or is this a very ADHD thing? I ask because I have often wondered if I
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by autora 6y ago
>I'm not sure bars existed in the times of Black Death depends what you mean by a bar? In the UK, taverns certainly existed prior to the Black Death (1346 – 1353). For instance: > Established in the 13th Century, The White Hart I
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by autora 7y ago
oops apologies - wanted to make it clear I was essentially self-promoting but clearly didn't read the rules correctly!
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Show HN: Why Node.js libraries aren't promises by default(nickmeldrum.com)
9 points by autora 7y ago|2 comments
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by autora 7y ago
>Not being glib, just a heaps up: https://github.com/denoland/deno interesting thanks for the heads up - my assumption is though that this is just a wrapper over a V8 engine with typescript compilation on the fly? D
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by autora 7y ago
> I don't know what you mean here, but it is certainly possible for TypeScript code to use JavaScript libraries and vice versa, which is presumably what most people mean by "TypeScript interops with JavaScript". Ah, I can
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by autora 7y ago
> just happens to interop with It does not interop with JavaScript. > and in some scenarios transpile down to JavaScript It always transpiles to JavaScript and always runs as JavaScript. There is no such thing as a TypeScript runt
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by autora 7y ago
>when you think in terms of defining a word, don't you picture how it's written down? Interesting hypothesis. I don't think I do, and my assumption is that most other people don't either? I learnt to speak well before
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JS decorators: monkey patching, prototypes, proxies and middleware(nickmeldrum.com)
2 points by autora 10y ago|0 comments