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by 65 6mo ago
What the author fails to understand is that merely consuming text is not the be-all-end-all of being an educated citizen. I am wary of trusting an author who is screaming from the rooftops about how the bad thing is coming, how the world su
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by 65 6mo ago
Any website that isn't some landing page or basic blog is going to need human intervention in the code (craftsmanship, essentially). And any website that's a landing page or basic blog already has a million tools for GUI design. I
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by 65 6mo ago
Or read magazines and newspapers from reputable publications. My grammar and writing have improved tremendously from reading quality magazine articles, e.g. stuff from The Atlantic or The NY Book Review or whatever. Both magazines and books
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by 65 6mo ago
Now this is the type of comment to farm upvotes on Hacker News!
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by 65 7mo ago
Clicking buttons is easier than writing a prompt.
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by 65 7mo ago
Maybe PC manufacturers will finally get a wake up call to stop making plastic shitboxes. Maybe Microsoft will get a wake up call too. Though, I kind of doubt it as the incompetence in PC land is comical.
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by 65 7mo ago
Even though my Focal Bathys headphones are more expensive and have worse noise cancellation, I'm still sticking with them because the Airpods Max are so damn uncomfortable.
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by 65 7mo ago
Yup, my Airpods Max don't hold a charge anymore. Right on time for me to buy the shiny new one!
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by 65 7mo ago
I worked at big newspapers as a software engineer. Please do not blame the engineers for this mess. As the article says news is in a predicament because of the ads business model. Subscriptions alone usually cannot cover all costs and ads w
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by 65 7mo ago
To make a different point, a regular consumer does not care about tech specs. They want a laptop that can browse the web, stream Netflix, and maybe open a Word doc. They will be more sensitive to hardware problems in my opinion. A janky tou
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by 65 8mo ago
Not always. That's assuming you have a full viewport modal. There are plenty of instances where you'll have a modal inside of another container somewhere on the page. You also generally don't want to use position: fixed as it
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by 65 8mo ago
The first example of not using absolute positioning isn't a good example because sometimes you do need to absolutely position things, like a modal. Also you can just use display: flex with justify-content: center and align-items: cente
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by 65 8mo ago
You can also just use Tamper Monkey (though you need to add a script called Trusted Type Helper in order to inject CSS into YouTube). I used to use Stylebot but I switched everything over to Tamper Monkey so all my CSS and non CSS related s
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by 65 8mo ago
I mean are we really arguing over milliseconds here? I have never in my life had the thought "NPM search is too slow, I need a faster solution" I have had the thought "NPM search sorted by downloads this week is giving me irr
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by 65 8mo ago
I'm working on a sewing pattern software to make patterns with code. It has a bunch of useful features like chopping up the pattern into a PDF for printing. But the thing that really made this software nice to use is the timeline I imp
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by 65 8mo ago
This app idea has been made a million times and never works. It's also not hard to make a few divs and copy and paste styles from Figma. I wish you luck with your project.
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by 65 9mo ago
I read the Design of Everyday Things and most of it was painfully obvious examples and was overly philosophical. Design is solving problems so they're intuitive for the user. Obviously a door with a handle shouldn't be a push door
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by 65 9mo ago
Seems like a torturous way to spend 8 hours a day if you only enjoy it for the money. Do you at least _like_ you job?
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by 65 9mo ago
And I would argue speadsheets still created more developers. Analytics teams need developers to put that data somewhere, to transform it for certain formats, to load that data from a source so they can create spreadsheets from it. So now in
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by 65 9mo ago
Eh, selvedge denim these days is just a fashion trend. It's fine, yeah. But there are other clothes one has to wear besides denim.
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by 65 9mo ago
Snow Peak has high quality clothing that isn't absurdly expensive. It's very nice and fits well. If you want something higher end I also like Norse Projects. If you want lower end look at Champion - specifically Reverse Weave.
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by 65 9mo ago
Just a tip if you want to prevent shrinkage is to not dry clothes you don't want shrinking. I air dry my pants and any shirts I don't want to shrink.
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by 65 9mo ago
Yes this is always how it's been, especially if you're a front end developer. Changing designs every few months just for the hell of it is what designers do.
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by 65 9mo ago
Seriously. Hacker News is so adamant on Linux it's almost comical. I mean, I get it... this is a site for developers. But I'm a developer and MacOS is great for writing software, the hardware is better than everything else on the
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by 65 9mo ago
Oh great, another one of these dumb posts about how social media is so terrible and RSS, blogs, and HTML are so awesome. I'm getting sick of Hacker News people upvoting stuff like this all the time since it's just the same damn id
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by 65 9mo ago
It says the same few things that always get hive mind upvoted on Hacker News. There is nothing new about this information. Social media bad, Javascript bad, cars bad, old internet good, RSS good, personal websites good, HTML good. If you wa
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by 65 9mo ago
Have you ever considered that some people enjoy investing? Imagine if I said "there are so many more worthwhile things to do than painting" if some famous artist retired.
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by 65 9mo ago
This reminds me of the old meme: > Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. > Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recogn
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by 65 9mo ago
It feels like some variation of this post gets submitted here every week.
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by 65 9mo ago
Patternmaking for Menswear wad immensly helpful for teaching me how to create my own sewing patterns. But like anyone on HN, I draw my patterns with software I made.

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