heygrady

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by heygrady 9y ago
Babel is both the driving force of innovation and the cause of much of the fragmentation in JS. Babel allows you to use the latest language features and target the oldest environments. The trouble is that there's not a "right way&
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by heygrady 9y ago
Rematch reminds me of Marty.js. I like some of the ideas about providing a createStore wrapper that is more zero-config and using something like redux-actions to make reducers simpler. I have been using my own wrapper around sagas to allow
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by heygrady 9y ago
I've given advice to young professionals in the past in this same vein. I ask, "What magic is it that people love good ideas, yet, you have a good idea and no one listens to you?" The answer boils down to this: if you have a
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by heygrady 9y ago
Write an evolutionary ML bot network that trades stocks in 5 minute intervals. Don't try to compete on the nanosecond micro trading end, just try to beat the market by making "good" decisions in a reasonable, human timeframe.
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by heygrady 9y ago
I wonder why? Is the same phenomenon at play with Trump's approval rating? It's been in the high-mid-30s for many weeks now [1]. 80+ consecutive days at the time of this writing. Even outside of Russia-related scandals (like hirin
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by heygrady 9y ago
> [Streaming is] the big asset [movie studios] could build on! The movie studios likely don't see it this way. Tickets and merchandising are still the two main pillars of the industry. Home viewing is still the bottom end of the mar
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by heygrady 9y ago
High-quality public television tends to make cable and satellite TV less attractive. SkyTV has been far less popular in its primary markets than DirecTV has been in the US. In the US, Comcast and Verizon are more analogous to the BBC in Eng
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by heygrady 9y ago
> The only competition with the streaming service would be piracy. Piracy is the only thing that will lead to a consumer friendly streaming option. If it weren't for music piracy, a service like Spotify might not exist. For video, B
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by heygrady 9y ago
> If all major studios pull their content from Netflix, then it will not have the large library size anymore. Exactly! It is obvious that Netflix and Amazon are pivoting to be more like HBO and Showtime. Apparently, as they reach out to
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by heygrady 9y ago
Most people pay north of $100/mo for cable TV [1]. Depending on your bundle you may pay as high as $150 (anecdotal from friends who have Comcast). If you pay $50/mo for your internet connection you could afford 5 or so $10/mo
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by heygrady 9y ago
Tesla's big advantage is that most other car makers have publicly ridiculed electric cars [1] and heavily promoted the roar of gasoline engines [2]. Electric car sales are widely expected overtake gasoline cars in the next 30 years [3]
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by heygrady 9y ago
I think the term you're looking for is "history" [1] as in, "tech people tend to adopt a historical view of older companies." With extremely few exceptions, the older a company gets the more obsolete it becomes [2].
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by heygrady 9y ago
Gas prices and EV sales are, perhaps counter-intuitively, unrelated [1]. It has been widely reported that low gas prices do not affect EV sales [2]. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/17/demand-for-electric-vehi
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by heygrady 9y ago
City Lab has debunked that notion twice [1, 2]. "[I]t’s important to realize that the situation reflected in this data represents the past, not the present. States across the country are rapidly cleaning up their grids, thanks to cap-a
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by heygrady 9y ago
The idea that electric vehicles are "dirty" because of electricity produced from coal is now widely viewed as a myth [1]. The electric grid in the US (and worldwide [3]) is consistently and rapidly moving away from coal, which inc
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by heygrady 9y ago
Oil companies recently raised their projections on EV adoption by 40% [1]. Many countries are setting aggressive EV quotas, targeting 100% EV adoption in the near future [2, 3]. Perhaps counter-intuitively, oil prices have not historically
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by heygrady 9y ago
There is a long list of companies that are planning to go all electric or to significantly electrify their offerings in the next few years [1, 2, 3]. Chevy/GM is an early entrant into the market because they -- much like Nissan -- need
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by heygrady 9y ago
> it's very possible that most car buyers simply don't want [a Tesla/electric car]. Many surveys have shown that people want electric cars [1, 2]. While the car industry overall has declined [3], the EV segment has continu
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by heygrady 9y ago
Early studies (2012) found that high school students had CTE [1]. When the issue broke nationally a few years ago, early indicators were that high school students were at higher risk than older athletes [2]. There have been some doctors tha
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by heygrady 9y ago
One wonders why you would say divisive things aloud in an otherwise lonely forest. Saying something hurtful, offensive, divisive, unnecessary... is problematic regardless of the size of the audience. You can see that the original "divi
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by heygrady 9y ago
The possibility of concussions is present in [nearly?] every sport. Typically, head injuries are not a core part of gameplay. In the case of soccer, there have been concerted efforts to remove "heading" from practice and from game
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by heygrady 9y ago
This is an easy step that soccer has taken to reduce the occurrences of brain injuries. Anyone who is confused on this issue should note that any jostling of the brain can cause minor, short-term brain damage. It's bad enough to bounce
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by heygrady 9y ago
Your core argument that football builds stronger camaraderie [than other sports or team-like activities] is unsupportable. There is no reason to believe that football is the key ingredient to lasting feelings of camaraderie. What if we just
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by heygrady 9y ago
Feeling camaraderie is not exclusive to football. I felt that same thing being in the marching band and playing soccer. It is a good thing for young people to belong to a team and work together to achieve a common goal. Because it's po
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by heygrady 9y ago
Prescribing someone to a "tribe" based on some kind of arbitrary test is divisive. Examples: - People with red hats on are my friends - People that like chocolate ice cream are idiots - People who let their children play football
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by heygrady 9y ago
Maybe it's too far to prescribe "red v. blue" to this issue but it is indeed divisive. High school football has been controversial for many years because of safety concerns [1]. There is some anecdotal evidence that soccer is
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by heygrady 9y ago
There are community-provided atom packages for all/most of the providers you listed. The point isn't one editor versus another. The point is that Atom should remain plausibly neutral about Github (which is separate from Git or Mer
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by heygrady 9y ago
Installing the bundle as a plugin would change none of that. Editors are half-backed because the proof of concept is easy and the fully realized app is hard. Atom has some good things going for it (minus performance) and this Github bundle
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by heygrady 9y ago
Git support is different than a Github bundle. Github is different than Git.
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by heygrady 9y ago
Bundling these features by default is bad for Atom. It changes Atom from an editor to an advertisement. Maybe Github dwarfs the competition but boxing them out of the editor is unnecessary. This smells like bundling IE with Windows 98.

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