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NASA discovers mantle plume that's melting Antarctica from below(newsweek.com)
6 points by smac8 9y ago|0 comments
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by smac8 9y ago
Wow, so awesome. I do hope at some point we can see some language improvements to PLPGSQL. More basic data structures could go a long way in making that language really useful, and I still consider views/stored procedures a superior p
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by smac8 10y ago
It can be the primary reason, but it is generally one of a few very good reasons (performance is often another big one, as this article points out). I will say its importance is somewhat contextual though. The 3 principal contextual factors
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by smac8 10y ago
I had forgotten about this actually. Thanks for the reminder :) Curious if anyone has tried using this for real time apps and what their experience was
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by smac8 10y ago
Cool, hadn't seen that. There is also postgraphql, which I have become a big fan of and is a great foundation: https://github.com/calebmer/postgraphql That said, the real-time aspect is what I'm really dying
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by smac8 10y ago
At my last job we finally got our front-end devs to move all client side db work to calls to stored procedures or views. After doing so, nearly all of them fell completely in favor of this method. This is escpecially true with large, comple
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by smac8 10y ago
Because they are interesting and fun to think about? Because they may create new ideas which impact models, frameworks, directions, and analogies of thought in experimental and theoretical disciplines of the same or differing subjects? Beca
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by smac8 10y ago
Second that, MobX has been a total game changer for me. Used redux and really like the philosophy of it, but overall feel mobx is much easier to use while accomplishing just as much, and the simplicity and lack of boilerplate actually makes
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by smac8 10y ago
Apparently! Thanks for linking
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by smac8 10y ago
This is awesome! However, when I add it to my webpack config it does load the dashboard, but afterward still produces all the scrolled output. Anyone now how to remove the scrolled output and just show the dash?
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Elon Musk Wants to Build Entire Solar Roof(money.cnn.com)
2 points by smac8 10y ago|0 comments
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Styling React Components in JavaScript(youtube.com)
2 points by smac8 10y ago|0 comments
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by smac8 10y ago
I find a mix is good. I went without a flux implementation for a while and eventually ran into issues with figuring out what components to implement business logic and typical action reducer type work. I'd say really good advice I wish
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ES6 for Everyone (Wes Bos)(es6.io)
4 points by smac8 10y ago|0 comments
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CSS in React(youtube.com)
1 points by smac8 10y ago|0 comments
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by smac8 10y ago
Not sure what you mean on component state, as I've never heard anyone say that is explicitly harmful, but I think what you might be getting at is the principal in react of creating MINIMAL state such that any logic - for example someth
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by smac8 10y ago
> while wages for the poorest have stagnated. But that means the percent of disposable income spent on food by the poorest might not be falling at all No, that's not true at all. If wages are stagnant and goods are getting cheaper,
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3D Printed Driverless Bus Hits the Road(engadget.com)
1 points by smac8 10y ago|0 comments
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Understanding Redux (or, How I Fell in Love with a JavaScript State Container)(youhavetolearncomputers.com)
4 points by smac8 10y ago|0 comments
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Why use redux over Facebook flux?(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by smac8 10y ago|0 comments
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by smac8 10y ago
Does anyone know any good companies working on technology that identifies and categorizes aspects of the gut microbiome? This is a field I'd be very interested in getting into
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Spacex Completes Hard Barge Landing for Second Time(stateofthestateks.com)
1 points by smac8 10y ago|0 comments
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by smac8 10y ago
One issue that separates software from most other industries is that software is not a physical entity. This makes the desire to change - refactor, add features, redefine use cases, etc - all the more tempting, since the only cost is gettin
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by smac8 10y ago
Yes, but I suppose this is more the JVM than the language itself. The JVM is quite convincing though, hence Clojure, Scala, etc.
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by smac8 10y ago
I'm a fan of Java in some senses, but curious to here what things you discovered in the language or JVM that changed how you thought about programming
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UberEats Shuts Down Delivery in NYC only 1 month after launching(digitaltrends.com)
2 points by smac8 10y ago|0 comments
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by smac8 10y ago
Huh? What's wrong with measuring in price/watt? Price/watt is actually the standard for comparing electricity generation due to not having to create arbitrary units of time to compare with
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by smac8 10y ago
This is awesome, thank you!
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RequestHN: Ability to save favorite posts on profile
2 points by smac8 10y ago|2 comments
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by smac8 11y ago
Just to add a comment on page rank, from what I've heard that is a actually a very small contributor to the overall google algorithm. That is - at least in the way it was originally conceived by Larry Page - PageRank is now only a minu

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