varrock

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by varrock 2y ago
Thank you for breaking it down like this. As someone without an engineering background, your explanation (along with some Googling for terms and definitions) really helped me grasp what happened. You got me wondering: > the whole bridge
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by varrock 2y ago
This is a great example of how a font can really compliment the style you're going for. It fits so well that you hardly notice it at all.
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by varrock 3y ago
> Haven't used MSW, but don't people use it for mocking APIs? Isn't that apples and oranges? At first, I was confused by what OP meant, too, but I think the point is that if you can mock your data easily, then getting your
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by varrock 3y ago
Would either of you mind expanding on this? What kind of roles have you held?
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by varrock 3y ago
The article linked by the commenter above addressed your concern. They mention the toggle should have an _immediate_ state change. I really liked the iOS airplane mode example the article used: > When turning airplane mode on for iOS, Ap
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by varrock 3y ago
Specifically for reviewing a pull request in GitHub, wouldn't the "Hide whitespace" setting reduce some of this noise? I could be mistaken, though, but that's how I interpreted that setting. 0: https://github.
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by varrock 3y ago
> Douglas Downing's Trigonometry Made Easy is also a really great book for non-maths people. > but this book really helped connect trig in an intuitive way. To me, understanding math in an intuitive way is actually how "math
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by varrock 3y ago
The advice in this blog post is specific to college, and the author of this post is in their last year; they certainly have the qualifications to give advice catered to incoming college students. For what it's worth, I've been out
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by varrock 3y ago
I'd argue the link is the most influential and historic element of the web. Its behavior should rightfully be preserved.
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by varrock 3y ago
> The really impressive thing is... if you follow a user profile link to a comment and vote, the vote doesn't count. I've been a Reddit user for a while, but I never knew this. I tried doing a quick search, but it dates back to
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by varrock 3y ago
> The other thing that drove me nuts is lack of care for low-res (aka full HD) displays, where rounding and thin borders leads to visible artifacts in common controls. A designer who uses high-end mac devices will never see these things.
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by varrock 3y ago
> The standard of human interaction will either be meeting IRL or signing communications biometrically. From a convenience standpoint, it seems like we've gotten so technologically advanced that we are starting to move backwards. Is
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by varrock 3y ago
I just had to do this in React, and you're correct in that it makes you write logic around the lifecycles in ways that feels like I'm abusing their lifecycle methods. It's a lot of the reason Framer Motion and React Transitio
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by varrock 3y ago
These are precisely the type of "ahas" I hope to experience, too, when I begin studying computer science. I've been taking introductory college math courses at my community college to fulfill some prerequisites, and a way for
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by varrock 4y ago
It also doesn't trap focus within the dialog.
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by varrock 4y ago
Can you further expand on uploading text docs? I'm not sure I understand why that helped you. Also, what did you get your degree in?
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by varrock 4y ago
> For historical reasons we now call hand computers phones Recently, I've been wondering why the name "phone" has stuck around for a device that has evolved with many more features than that of a telephone. I'm not go
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by varrock 4y ago
On this note, contributing to open source was the best "experience" I've ever gotten as it related to my day-to-day job of maintaining a large, but still growing, project.
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Tips for Mathematical Handwriting(johnkerl.org)
1 points by varrock 4y ago|0 comments
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by varrock 4y ago
I'm not the author, but I thought these were nice illustrations showcasing the various pitches used in the sport of baseball. If I wanted to understand a bit more intricacies involved in the game, I would find these helpful.
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Baseball Pitches Illustrated(lokeshdhakar.com)
4 points by varrock 4y ago|1 comments
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by varrock 4y ago
I'm curious: what do you consider best practices for font-size and line-height, as well as margins between paragraphs? I've recently revamped my website and used an online type scale tool [0] to get my typography, but margins don&
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by varrock 4y ago
I've worked at a consulting firm as a dev where we used React for our all of our projects. Given the nature of the industry, we had a fairly high turnover rate with new devs constantly onboarding and older devs moving out. That, couple
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by varrock 4y ago
Ironically, I have done exactly the two tips you mentioned, and I can confidently say that my life has changed drastically. In fact, so much so, that when I catch up with people who knew me even two years ago, they usually make a comment. O
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by varrock 4y ago
When I first stumbled on a senior engineer browsing HN at my very first internship, I assumed it was a hut for developers. However, the more I've browsed this place over the years, the more I realize the community is much, much larger
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Ask HN: What time do you prefer to exercise?
8 points by varrock 5y ago|11 comments
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by varrock 5y ago
May I ask what you’re doing in your deployment script?
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by varrock 5y ago
I understand, which is why I mentioned it being a hypothetical. Maybe I shouldn't have used myself as an example. It's not something I'm worried about. I've only shared the blog with close friends. That's my intenti
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by varrock 5y ago
I've always wanted to blog because I love to write. However, I've been very hesitant to do so because of exactly what you described: the grind culture. I've felt immense pressure to make every post academic, but I realized th
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by varrock 5y ago
This got me wondering if my favorite game as a kid, RuneScape, also uses Leaflet on their world map for Old School RuneScape (the version I am more familiar with). It turns out they do. Cool! https://oldschool.tools/world-ma

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