joemaffei

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by joemaffei 4y ago
Spell checking should be a default feature in IDEs. I've seen teammates struggle to find the source of a bug, only to find a spelling error in a variable or configuration setting. I'm not the greatest touch typist, and my IDE catc
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Ask HN: What is the largest known prime in sequence?
10 points by joemaffei 5y ago|7 comments
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by joemaffei 5y ago
I remember an old demo that would play a loop of the chorus of I Say a Little Prayer through the PC speaker. It was hard to believe that the speaker could be pushed to such limits.
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by joemaffei 5y ago
"a disgruntled populace just wants it all to go away." The same thing happened in Brazil. Back to back Olympics and World Cup, billions spent on single-purpose, once-used infrastructure, while the economy was in shambles. No one b
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by joemaffei 5y ago
Portuguese, especially Brazilian Portuguese, retained this nasalization.
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by joemaffei 6y ago
#1 is the usual definition of perfect pitch, and is the most useful. I have heard #2 and #3 referred to as "pitch memory". There is also a rare #0, which is the ability to identify pitches that are out of tune by a small number of
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by joemaffei 6y ago
The only one on the list that can be called an HTML API is drag and drop. All the others are Web APIs. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API
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by joemaffei 6y ago
Another possibility is that companies try to guess your email address. I recently got an email thanking me for buying a lawnmower that I never bought. The buyer's mailing address was in the email, so I sent him a letter. He replied say
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by joemaffei 6y ago
I'm surprised this is the only mention of Hack in this thread so far.
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by joemaffei 7y ago
On mobile, tapping the picture opens it in isolation, allowing you to zoom in on it.
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by joemaffei 7y ago
Flow looks and works almost exactly like IFTTT.
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by joemaffei 7y ago
Because ’a’
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by joemaffei 7y ago
I don’t exactly agree with the initial comment, but an accessibility audit would find a few blunders (like mint green text on a white background, which is very difficult to read)
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by joemaffei 7y ago
> The first AI universe sim is fast and accurate—and its creators don't know how it works This is why Stephen Hawking was very vocal against machine learning. Everything we know today came from a long process of study and documentat
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by joemaffei 8y ago
Not really a preprocessor per se, but look into JSS. Since it’s just JavaScript, you could use the object syntax you asked about.
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by joemaffei 9y ago
Same problem on the in-app browser in Boreal (the iOS Hacker News reader I'm using).