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by ccalvert 7y ago
I use Ubuntu Desktop as my primary machine and find it very stable. I use it primarily for development with WebStorm, Atom, VirtualBox, Chromium, Node, and Bash. I rarely play games on it, and my taste in games is not fancy. I handle mail,
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by ccalvert 8y ago
According to the site linked below, the average American produces about 100 lbs of plastic waste a year: https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/trash-on... To my mind, that is a significant amount of
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by ccalvert 8y ago
Thanks. This does look interesting. It's hard to keep up with all the frameworks, but this does look like something worth investing some time in. I'll check it out.
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by ccalvert 8y ago
I take your point: the trashed refrigerator may be a heavier environmental cost than the plastic bags. It is best if we both recycle and fix the refrigerator. But doing either is better than doing nothing. In other words, arguing that one
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by ccalvert 8y ago
I have modest skills as a developer. I was trying to convert an old static web site into something more interactive. Without really thinking it through, I started building a SPA. I got stuck on the SEO part. I found it innately complex, but
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by ccalvert 8y ago
I wanted to change my habits because I thought it was the right thing to do. So we put solar on the roof and bought a cheap used electric car (a Leaf). My goal was to do the right thing, but the result has been unforeseen benefits. The sola
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by ccalvert 9y ago
We eat a lot of turmeric. If you go to an Indian grocery store, of which there are plenty in the Seattle area, you can buy it in bulk very cheaply. We are vegetarians, so we put it in lots of veggie based dishes, especially stir fries. Fran
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by ccalvert 9y ago
Look at Recode's pictures. There are prices for the items on the shelves. https://www.recode.net/2018/1/21/16913984/what-does-photos-a...
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by ccalvert 9y ago
I think the gift that some upper-middle-class kids get that others don't always get is a belief in their ability to succeed. You also need a strong work ethic, but I'm not sure there is such a thing as a work ethic if a person has
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by ccalvert 9y ago
Those who understand Climate Change and love science should not cede the ground to those who disagree with them without a fight. Most people don't understand science at the same level as many of the participants in HN. They are not bad
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by ccalvert 9y ago
One of the things I like about open source is its fecundity. When proprietary software ruled, we went to two or three companies to get most of our tools and libraries. Some were very good, some were terrible. We often had to wait years for
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by ccalvert 9y ago
I perhaps foolishly go ahead and teach React and Redux to my students. The first thing I show them, however, is this article by Dan Abramov, who you perhaps know from his conference videos or his amazing work fielding React bug reports. You
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by ccalvert 9y ago
"stroking his own ego is not what this is about. He doesn't need that." Forgive me for interjecting politics into this debate, but we all know at this point that there is at least one highly successful egotist in this world w
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by ccalvert 9y ago
For years I have written too many tests. Recently I have been trying something more like this: - One test to prove I can cleanly load the component or object in a module. This is about loose coupling and ensuring that each module contains o
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by ccalvert 9y ago
Not sure about SeanDav, but I do a lot of compiling and wonder if anyone has any suggestions about the best CPU to buy. I want short wait times for a compile, but I still care about price. I don't want to go over $500 but would prefer
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by ccalvert 9y ago
As a teacher, I appreciate projects like this. The folks in my classes are "amateurs" learning to code. I can, and do, teach them quick ways to build websites, but that won't help them get jobs in the industry. Many people ca
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by ccalvert 9y ago
Amazing story. It's often (relatively) small, individual acts of heroism that preserve the best things in the world. Sometimes that means not doing what your boss asks when you know it will have unintended consequences.
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by ccalvert 9y ago
If this desalination system allowed a city to generate even 50% of their water needs, that would be a significant step forward. I keep seeing this metric put forward: Does X generate 100% of the needed water/electricity/heat. Why
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by ccalvert 9y ago
I'm confused. Do you mean that we're allowed to create posts on Hacker News that are not sarcastic? I thought there was a rule, with a powerful AI enforcing it, stating that all posts had to be sarcastic. (Warning, this post is s
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by ccalvert 10y ago
If you have a big project in mind, you can get started by creating a small project focused on an aspect of your bigger project. Since examples were missing from the op's article, lets make one up. Suppose you want to create a site abou
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by ccalvert 11y ago
This is legitimate activity for the NSA, but it plays badly in Europe. My guess is that Snowden and his friends are pandering to folks in Europe who naturally dislike this kind of thing, and particularly to folks in Germany. Imagine the rea
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by ccalvert 11y ago
I agree, diagrams are great -- in their place. But to the author's point, can you draw me a diagram that conveys the same information as the sample sentence from the article: "Human rights are moral principles or norms that descri
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by ccalvert 11y ago
Angular is helpful because it promotes things like loose-coupling, dependency injection, modularity, re-use and the factory pattern. I agree that two way data binding was oversold. It isn't a bad thing, just not the most important thin
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by ccalvert 11y ago
COBOL was created 1959. Singly it out as an example of a DSL in this context is a bit like arguing against cars by pointing out the faults of the Model T Ford compared with a Tesla. It just isn't a very good or fair place to start the
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by ccalvert 11y ago
Renters may not have direct benefits, but if the product works, they could have indirect benefits. For instance: Assuming someone rents, and has to pay the monthly energy bill, wouldn't they prefer living in an apartment that had tools
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by ccalvert 11y ago
I like the support for markdown... I wonder if other web servers are thinking of supporting or already support that feature? Does it recognize GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM)?
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by ccalvert 11y ago
Windows 8 on the desktop, Ubuntu 14.04 on the laptop. I also run Ubuntu with VirtualBox on the desktop. Development mostly with WebStorm (jetbrains), Geany, nodejs, express and angular. Git ties the three systems together.
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by ccalvert 11y ago
You may or may not have a point, but I don't think you are making your case. The complexity of a piece of code is not a means of detecting its value. Facebook was originally written in something like a weekend or less. Twitter was not