Mekkanox

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by Mekkanox 2y ago
As a long-time MUI user myself, I had the same "revelation" about Tailwind recently. Before MUI, I worked at a couple startups where we came up with our CSS franken-framework with homegrown utility classes. It's just easier t
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by Mekkanox 9y ago
Indeed. Anecdote: Several years ago I worked on a U.S. GOSS (Government Open-Source Software) project that was a web app that allowed different apps running on different domains to function as "widgets" and allowed cross-domain co
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by Mekkanox 10y ago
That's definitely a viable option for biking around a city that doesn't have favorable spring or summer weather. Can you store your bike inside instead of locking it up on the street? I imagine an e-bike would be at greater risk o
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by Mekkanox 10y ago
Regarding commuting via bicycle: it's not necessarily a problem with traffic, as more with weather. Also it's wrong to compare a single city, Amsterdam, with a bunch of American cities because of drastically different weather patt
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by Mekkanox 10y ago
Washington, DC? I think though that in the surrounding metro area, a SFH costs more on average than in Chicago.
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by Mekkanox 10y ago
I think a majority of the motor vehicles are taxis, buses, private car services, and what does the most damage per vehicle - commercial vehicles. Box trucks take a much greater toll on roads than a bunch of average passenger cars.
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by Mekkanox 10y ago
For at least a few years now, even conventional "slushbox" automatics get better mileage than a manual transmission when in the same car. Lower maintenance costs are usually mentioned as an advantage of manual over automatic, but
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by Mekkanox 10y ago
It's not awkward, and it's totally your prerogative for telling a recruiter for that. If they say "well I won't work with you if you won't disclose that info", then I'd say "thanks for your time, good
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by Mekkanox 10y ago
It was a combination of: 1) The language was created by a researcher (Guido Van Rossum) at a research facility in the Netherlands [1] 2) Network effect - as more machine learning researchers and engineers in academia used it, the need for a
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by Mekkanox 10y ago
Just a quick note for folks interesting in joining 18F: it may be a much more fun place to work as engineer in the government, but it's still the government. You start off with 2 weeks of paid leave accrued per year, and it'll be
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by Mekkanox 10y ago
Fed benefit programs are usually better (lower deductibles, larger provider network) than what a private company going through Carefirst or another provider can get. Depending on how high up you go and how long you stay in, the pension can
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by Mekkanox 11y ago
Note: I can only speak to the DC/MD/VA region but HOV lane privileges for hybrids and all-electrics aren't being granted anymore. The HOV lane on I-66 in VA was always clogged because so many folks bought Priuses that it defe
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by Mekkanox 11y ago
Using ".component-name <insert child tag>" goes against semantic UI conventions and couples your custom styles to the tags instead of the classes in the component. It quickly becomes brittle when trying to update those style
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by Mekkanox 11y ago
Are you me? I'm in the exact same boat. It's not even just SF or NY - companies in Reston, VA or Tyson's Corner won't even consider even a partially remote schedule. I've gone so far as to offer to commute from cent
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by Mekkanox 12y ago
That's the most straightforward solution. I'm working on an Android app that syncs calls and texts to a Rails back-end and I try to keep the sync workflow as simple as possible. As for sync'ing, I found the following to be a