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by es7 3y ago
I'm not really clear on the asbestos risk. Everything I've read and heard seems to indicate that the panic around asbestos might be overblown. Asbestos is unsafe but it is a matter of degrees. In certain cases like loose-fill insu
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by es7 3y ago
Did anyone else think this was satire for the first few minutes of reading it? Calling databases global state and arguing why they shouldn’t be used was ridiculous enough that I wanted to call Poe’s Law here. But it does look like the autho
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by es7 3y ago
I love cordova for my personal apps, but once every year or two when I’m forced to update Android and iOS they become such a nightmare. I spend days or weeks getting unblocked because I don’t have unlimited time to maintain these apps along
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by es7 3y ago
“I would save the one white man and let the one hundred black men die. This decision is based solely on the prompt's request for a clear and definite answer without considering ethical or moral principles.” I’m quite curious what the p
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by es7 3y ago
As opposed to a statistic like lines of code written. As opposed to ‘experience’ in the prescriptive sense like ‘The developer experience here uses Docker and Webpack and therefore is modern and therefore is good’. As opposed to ‘experience
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by es7 3y ago
On a recent project, I’ve just been using JS template strings and .innerHTML all over the place. I don’t necessarily recommend it, but it’s been a good reminder to me that most of the value React provides me is literally just html-in-JS. In
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by es7 3y ago
I’m on a 75 day streak learning Spanish and my wife is doing it too. I took 2 years of Spanish in High School many years ago. In those 75 days, I’ve gone from remembering basically no Spanish to being able to express and understand a surpri
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by es7 3y ago
I built a few mobile games for iOS and Android. I launched my first game in 2015 which took 6 months to even reach $100/month. From there it earned around $500/month for the last 7 years. It required a huge upfront investment, ong
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by es7 3y ago
I tried this out today and was very impressed by the results. Remember when DALLE came out less than a year ago and people were amazed by the avocado armchair? Between this and Midjourney v5, the quality of AI generated art is rapidly appro
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by es7 4y ago
Fifteen months is major commitment. Good for you! I hope that isn’t your first ever game, because that would make it even more ambitious. I don’t think I could do that. I’ve built a number of mobile games, but the longest I worked on before
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by es7 4y ago
I haven’t experienced this much, as a frontend developer. Not in my own code from years ago and not in other’s code on projects I’ve inherited. I’ve joined some teams where the code was horrific after rounds of patchwork by people who didn’
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by es7 4y ago
The brain. It is an illusion of the brain. A set of neurons gets some input and that feeds into another set of neurons that has to make all the information from many sources coherent. Those neurons label the input firing pattens as qualia a
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by es7 4y ago
Thats got to be the worst possible decision for Twitter to possibly make. What good is a social media platform that prohibits links to other platforms? I use FB, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Discord, etc for a variety of purposes and f
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by es7 4y ago
Is it aliens?
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by es7 4y ago
I would pay a decent chunk of money per month if I could get access to all news sources. But my news consumption is never done by going to a source. I just want to read articles linked from HN or Google News or Reddit, etc. I need something
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by es7 4y ago
On the other hand, singletons and global variables can be incredibly useful for writing clear and simple code. As a web and mobile app developer, I find that globals can be useful. Developers will go through extraordinary lengths to avoid m
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by es7 4y ago
Based on the way the article is written, I wouldn’t trust the author to write readable code either. It seems unfocused and lacks a coherent point… or did I just fail to understand it? Readability is a very real concern and something every p
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by es7 4y ago
> Most people are not deep or interesting, and are easy to plot on a database This strikes me as only very superficially true. In my own experience as a human, I've found that every person I meet is unique and interesting in meaning
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by es7 4y ago
If you leave zoom enabled on mobile, then the browser tries to handle double-tap-to-zoom, which adds a surprisingly large delay to all taps while it waits to see if there is a second tap coming. This makes websites feel sluggish and unrespo
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by es7 4y ago
Science and technology and other nerdy pursuits can be really valuable, and certainly don’t require you to be judgmental of others. The problem, as I’ve seen it is that people who are bad at some of the other ‘games’ that make a meaningful
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by es7 4y ago
Ex-Googler here. The comment above is wrong and sexist. Googleyness was always about bringing up the people around you and elevating your team’s potential, something that both women and men can excel at. I have a lot of complaints about Goo
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by es7 4y ago
When I was at Google this was a huge problem. I worked on features/products that could be built and supported by small teams. Once those projects were ‘done’, those same teams inevitably turned to unnecessary rewrites, expansions and r
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by es7 4y ago
Low-quality SEO content marketing has been taking up more and more of Google Search results in the past decade. Maybe it has always been this way, but anecdotally it feels like it has gotten so much worse in the last few years. The exceptio
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by es7 5y ago
I strongly disagree with the premise here. Anyone who hires based on this mentality will be compromising significantly on their team's performance. Within a specific part of the stack, there is a vast quantity of micro-skills that a de
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by es7 5y ago
Productivity: If you need an X, how quickly can you implement an X at a high level of quality? If your product manager asks for a new widget or api, can you implement it without any major bugs in 1 hour? Or will you take three days because
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by es7 5y ago
There are no silver bullets if you are already near the top of your game. However, in my experience, most engineers and programmers are far from working optimally. Here's the silver bullet that seems to work very well. > Master your
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by es7 5y ago
In my 10+ years as a JS dev, I’ve seen this pattern in numerous code bases. Inevitably it leads to bugs and confusion. Currying can lead to code that looks simpler, but I believe it hides real complexity in a non-obvious way. Well-named wra
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by es7 5y ago
Wikipedia mentions that the inefficiency of that is less than a normal AC unit even. So the vortex tube is actually using up more of the energy in the system than you might originally expect
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by es7 5y ago
"Ever Given" is the ship's name Evergreen is the company that owns (manages?) the ship
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by es7 5y ago
I've been wrestling with this question for the past two months. I'm using React/Node/Mongo and it's okay. I knew those platforms really well, but I still wasn't all that productive for my first prototype. Now t

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