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by ridicter 9mo ago
I actually forgot that there is solid evidence now that Austronesians made contact with South America. So that's even crazier!
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by ridicter 9mo ago
do you know how far madagascar is from easter island? if you're talking about mediterranean and river travel, yes you're right. but the pacific ocean + indian ocean are utterly massive.
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by ridicter 1y ago
Location: New York Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Typescript, NextJS, React, Python, and million others Résumé/CV: https://visualizeearth.com/ Email: john@vizearth.com I've worke
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Ask HN: Switch Career from Developer to Designer?
1 points by ridicter 2y ago|0 comments
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by ridicter 2y ago
I'm a designer=engineer, and I feel like AI has given me super powers. Design has always been easy for me--it was just the incredible grind of coding that made creating my own thing difficult.
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by ridicter 2y ago
we need at least 8236 more job boards
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by ridicter 2y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote Product Designer and Software Engineer based in NYC/LA. Portfolio: http://visualizeearth.com Looking for part time product design work. I have 12 years of experience in software and design. For the pas
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by ridicter 3y ago
The "context" approach was the whole "Explainer" period that happened in journalism, most famously done by Vox (as another commenter mentioned)--but also many others. What you end up getting is the approved narrative of
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by ridicter 3y ago
We're a few narratives deep. You're responding to the "noble savages" strawman -- the OP article never claimed such. (Moreover, you're responding with a relatively isolated incident of Native Americans driving buffa
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by ridicter 3y ago
I'm someone who is naturally strong at design, but studied CS/software engineering because I ultimately wanted to be able to build my own things. For years I tried to find careers hiring those unicorns -- people who could design a
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by ridicter 4y ago
>The notion of hunter-gather societies living harmoniously in equilibrium with nature that some people seem to view as an optimal societal arrangement doesn't fit very well with this scenario. Where is this notion? I've been in
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by ridicter 4y ago
It's gotten bad enough that if someone with an Indian accent is calling me and it sounds like it's from a call center, I hang up immediately.
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by ridicter 5y ago
The highest point of the maldives is 7ft above sea level. They are migrating en masse to neighboring countries. Bangladesh, similarly, is a very low lying nation without the capital to build seawalls and other protections (as the Netherland
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by ridicter 5y ago
I tried out nhost a few weeks ago and it was great!
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by ridicter 5y ago
Reducing emissions to zero, scarily enough, is the minimum. We actually need to actively remove carbon from the atmosphere in order to prevent further temperature increases, which lag behind CO2 concentration by years.
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by ridicter 5y ago
And they pulled the plug on this thread while it was hot. They'll probably put it back when it simmers down and gets off the front page. YC has a vested interest in crypto. They also have vested interests in carbon removal. I'm ju
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by ridicter 5y ago
Was this removed from hacker news' front page? I don't see it there any more even though this post is ~3 hours old and has 300 points.
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by ridicter 6y ago
I think using managing state with an observable data service is a pretty good option w/o resorting to 3rd party libraries: https://blog.angular-university.io/how-to-build-angular2-app... Alternatively, you could use A
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by ridicter 6y ago
I never used the flex layout package. That's a third party library, and I think sticking with CSS grid + flex makes more sense. (Alternatively, you can just use bootstrap or tailwind or whatever.) RxJS is actually one of my favorite pa
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by ridicter 6y ago
My experience with react with different: you have to spend a large amount of time upfront in order to get the basic features of a single page app. You burn a lot of mental energy figuring out which forms library, router library, etc to use.
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by ridicter 6y ago
As far as sharing JS library code yes, but the baked in typescript support + nx CLI add a lot in terms of usability. 1. nx g @nrwl/workspace:lib data, 2. Modify the typed models/interfaces. 3. Import to backend + front end.
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by ridicter 6y ago
Nest.js + Angular on the frontend is a dream. Nest.js was modeled after Angular and they both use a similar basket of concepts/tools (dependency injection, decorators, first-class TS support). You can build a robust full stack app wit
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by ridicter 6y ago
Location: New York Remote: Preferred, but open to in person Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right gig Technologies: Angular, React, Typescript, Javascript, UI/UX design, Data Viz (D3.js, +), Google Cloud/AWS, RXJS, NX Monorepo,
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by ridicter 6y ago
If you're looking for a fully featured framework, Angular is a joy to work with. React is great too, but the configuration overhead is enormous due to the fact that it's mainly a view library. I realize you are pining for the days
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by ridicter 7y ago
There's a path dependence to everything. Had we started earlier, we would have shaped the curve of possibilities: renewables would be cheaper, storage solutions would have come online earlier, etc. We would have shaped international d
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by ridicter 7y ago
It _is_ a political issue. The technology already exists--courtesy of the scientists/engineers of course. Whether that technology is deployed is a problem of politics. For example, if the price of fossil fuels reflected its true cost t
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Hong Kong protests: Footage shows tear gas being fired into the crowd(cnn.com)
49 points by ridicter 7y ago|18 comments
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by ridicter 7y ago
I see comments pointing out that the majority of plastic pollution in oceans come from Asia/Africa. This is true, but there are two points worth considering: 1) Whenever you pay cheaply for anything made in any third world country, you
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by ridicter 7y ago
>We compared 10 climate policies that stimulate innovation (e.g. carbon taxes, deployment subsidies, cutting fossil fuel subsidies) and found that increasing government budgets for public clean energy research and development (R&D) i
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by ridicter 7y ago
In the United States, meaningful climate action is primarily a political problem to be solved -- not technology, policy, technology research, or policy research. If you're interested in getting involved in addressing climate change, he

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