moberemk

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by moberemk 2mo ago
No offence but, “if you find yourself doing the same thing over and over again write a script for it” isn’t exactly novel thinking in the software field…this was the same process when it was a human doing it, we just measure that in time in
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by moberemk 2mo ago
Thank you! I immediately had the same reaction and was disappointed no one else pointed it out, though I'm guessing it's because most people just read the headline before commenting
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by moberemk 2y ago
My first thought looking at that first "new suburb" photo was: where's the sidewalk? And the second photo has sidewalks but no visible amenities. Sure they're denser, and townhouses are at least less materials-intensive
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by moberemk 3y ago
As someone shopping for a PHEV in Ontario right now: yeah it's dire. The Prime I've consistently heard is a 2-3 year wait, with the dealers saying Ontario is getting somewhere around 12 for the province because they're all go
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by moberemk 3y ago
I agree with you everywhere but here: > IMO Molly should be getting public good funding from the ETH ecosystem for being such a good & reliable source It's a generous thought, but it's very bad optics to take a bunch of mon
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by moberemk 3y ago
> There are no moats to being a plumber, a baker, a restaurant... This line is interesting to me, because actually I think there _is_ a major moat there: locality. I don't disagree with the rest of your comment, but for those exampl
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Ask HN: How do we save the planet?
14 points by moberemk 8y ago|16 comments
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by moberemk 8y ago
From my experience, extrapolating retention like that isn't really particularly valuable. It's basically the same as making something up whole-cloth past a certain point--feels more like lying than projecting. (I also read the OP&
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by moberemk 8y ago
Lived in London during and slightly after university: it's not. City's pretty much dominated by cars, there's technically a transit system but it was slow and infrequent, and the way the city is laid out with three major N&#x
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by moberemk 9y ago
I generally agree with all your points, but I also remember the forum posts and I find that SO has at least one big advantage over those: it's really quick to pick out a good answer compared to a long thread. Just the fact that a) answ
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by moberemk 9y ago
Here's a screenshot of the original posting to restore context: https://twitter.com/maybekatz/status/899760806551666690
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by moberemk 10y ago
Two big things: 1) it's a lot faster to send to Pocket with the button > mark as read than managing bookmarks IMO but the real killer feature for me is 2) the offline saving of articles. Pocket is killer when I'm commuting or w
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by moberemk 11y ago
You should check again; it's tucked under the labs section but there's an HTML5 audio player available as a Flash alternative. Doesn't work in Safari though.
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by moberemk 11y ago
Why pay for review though? If you're working on open-source stuff you can try http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ for help, or reach out to some trustworthy people in your network as a fresh pair of eyes.
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by moberemk 11y ago
An example of this: One thing that Windows versions up to at least 7 have always had issues with is that when you rename a file to be the same name with a slightly different case, say after changing an uppercase letter to a lowercase one, E
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by moberemk 12y ago
I like this. Ever since I adopted Lodash/Underscore as part of my workflow I've been finding even basic functional programming techniques to be a huge timesaver and this is a nice, simple toolbelt for that kind of work.
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by moberemk 12y ago
Like other people here have pointed out, this isn't exactly an alert replacement as much as it is a more limited form of modal dialog. And honestly if that's what you need, there's better solutions out there, even in the form
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by moberemk 12y ago
Generators are up there with the let keyword in the list of "things I wish I had (native) access to already" because there's just so many use cases for them. This is definitely one combination I haven't thought of before
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by moberemk 12y ago
I'll have to look into that; offhand would you happen to know if there are any similar laws in Canada currently?
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by moberemk 12y ago
Probably the most interesting part of this article (and the linked article on developing a URL structure for broadcast radio) is the argument in favor of not making human-readable URLs. A part of me really likes the idea of URLs which can b