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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
I'm kind of amazed that natural temperature management such as geothermal cooling isn't more of a thing. If you were to design a house with the sleeping spaces below ground, wouldn't you save a lot on cooling and heating cost
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
It's not the best. I had to trawl through a bunch of documentation and filter out old info (modules became namespaces? I think?), and try different formats for the typings file. Tbh there should be a FAQ that is just: Help, the compile
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
I'm digging the rise of well designed, friendly online books about programming. Between Crafting Interpreters, Beautiful Racket and this, there's enough material for a programmer to go very far. Plus it's a lot less intimidat
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
Could you provide a source for the maintainers of redux-form admitting that Redux was a poor fit for forms? I'm inclined to agree and am kind of interested to see their reasons.
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
Language ergonomics is a really underrated feature. I remember having to link system libraries to follow an OCaml tutorial, which was extremely painful. Or running into issues installing Snap for Haskell where the package manager would basi
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
It's pretty incredible how fast Juul took over the market. Even a year or two ago nobody I knew really vaped or smoked. But now Juul has basically made vaping popular. It's super easy to get, lightweight, and amazingly effective
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
On one hand I'm inclined to agree with you. Thin is not always better. On the other hand I'm holding my 3 pound Macbook Pro comfortably and easily. It's light enough that I don't have to think about slipping it into my d
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
I love the short story "The Gernsback Continuum" for this reason. Gibson writes about his rejection of a bright, optimistic, pseudo Aryan future for reality. It's framed as a writer plagued by hallucinations, but I read it mo
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
I'm guessing it's a bad joke about Unix time (starts in 1970)
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
That's fair, but Macbook People Who Like to Think They're Pros But Aren't doesn't roll off the tongue as well ;)
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
I was walking through a computer store recently and I couldn't help but notice how tacky all the computers looked. The Touch Bar may be frivolous, pretty useless and a waste of money, but it blends into the design of the laptop and mos
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
I'm not sure I agree with "great documentation". It's a pet peeve of mine, but I don't like it when the tutorial for a server side program uses ES6 modules and decorators. This means I need to set up a build system
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
I keep on running into this problem where I try to use a new framework/language for backend, like Go, Kotlin, even Node, but I just get so damn bored with writing the same boilerplate. Say what you will about Rails, but at least the ma
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
Practical Typography (written by the same author) has been a wonderful resource for me. Sometime I'll get around to working through this book as well. My high school is actually one of the last places to teach Racket/Scheme as an
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
Yeah, I guess I'm not giving the documentation enough credit here. The main issue I see is all the companies rewriting their applications in React. Because I don't think they see it as a complicated engineering decision with trade
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
This is a great talk by Ryan Florence (one of the creators of React Router) where he basically reimplements the basics of the library from scratch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPJxmZx62gI I'd also just look at the
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
You're not wrong for beginners. They shouldn't use all or any of these tools starting out. But when you reach the point where you understand React and you start to reach the limits of React's features, i.e. inline styles isn&
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by _hardwaregeek 8y ago
Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug and The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. While they're not strictly software or programming related, I really like the concepts of making interfaces that require minimal thought to use and
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by _hardwaregeek 9y ago
When my 70 year old neighbor who can barely operate an iPhone wants to buy crypto, all I can think of is that scene in the Wolf of Wall Street where they're selling people penny stocks. I do think there is a utility for crypto and I do
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by _hardwaregeek 9y ago
Please please make your module name consistent with the package name. I don't want to install beautifulsoup4 only to import bs4. It's really really confusing.
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by _hardwaregeek 9y ago
You can easily add the import statement, named or not, with option-space
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by _hardwaregeek 9y ago
For styling, I'd look into CSS in JS, specifically JSS. Not only are all selectors scoped, you can create functions that return the proper styling. Frankly I think web developers as a whole need to rethink CSS and/or any paradigm