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by abhchand 7y ago
Honestly, it feels like the web is so bloated sometimes. Are the fundamentals really that difficult? We have raw CSS and at most we can have a layer above it that generates manage-able CSS (e.g. SASS). Why introduce all this un-needed compl
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by abhchand 7y ago
The curl project continues to be a fantastically run project - It has stayed focused on one problem area, and only providing enough functionality to solve that set of problems (fancy way of saying it hasn't bloated) - It is well docume
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by abhchand 8y ago
First half of the article that redesigns the navigation is actually pretty good. It got me hooked and i find it valuable. When they started touching the content, I got a lot more hesitant. 1. I can't articulate why , but honestly it&#
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by abhchand 8y ago
> Err nope. This is kind of a flippant dismissal based on the multiple findings backed up by numbers. Yours may be an anecdotal story (and not my place to comment on) but there's no evidence that welfare dependence causes crime. It
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by abhchand 8y ago
Someone on HN previously mentioned that every project they've started with Sinatra, they've regretted down the road that they didn't use Rails. I think the complaints about Sinatra are vaild, in that it needs to limit how par
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by abhchand 8y ago
I'm not sure why this question keeps coming up in the developer community. Is Rails seen as a fad? Thousands of successful sites are built on it. It's incredibly easy to build even a basic app. It's the intersection of develo
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by abhchand 8y ago
> Livingston: Which was your favorite feature? > > Buchheit: That’s hard to pin down. Actually one of the things that we added very early on, which at this point seems pretty obvious, but it turned out to be really nice, is the aut
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by abhchand 8y ago
I love info pieces like this - journalists who really put themselves in a lot of potential danger to get the story. This was a fascinating and insightful look into how music is leveraged as a tool on the south side
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by abhchand 8y ago
That photo of a face just lying on the table disturbs me...
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by abhchand 8y ago
In my opinion it doesn't hurt to re-state common sense sometimes, particularly for 2 reasons: 1. We have so much going on in our head it reminds us that we can simplify it down to a more basic concept. In layman's terms, "get
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by abhchand 8y ago
most of these comments are picking apart the explanation, but honestly this is a great way to introduce kids to the concept and have them "arrive" at the concept of infinity through their own logic.
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by abhchand 8y ago
To save you scrolling - === Alabama - Annual income required to be in the top 0.01 percent: $4.74 million - Average annual income of the top 0.01 percent: $12.20 million === Alaska - Annual income required to be in th
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by abhchand 8y ago
Yeah, totally agreed. And the forced comparison to model, view, and controller components doesn't really hold up that well.