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by adregan 5y ago
I’ll consider a heat pump dryer[0] when mine breaks, which has the potential to make the device way more efficient as the technology improves. 0: https://www.energystar.gov/products/heat_pump_dryer
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by adregan 5y ago
The code layout is so similar that these techniques are surely cousins (same ugly url and all). The only difference is the :target trick. Further, the no-js portion isn’t even the main idea. “Entire website in a single file” is.
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by adregan 5y ago
What's old is new again! Chris Coyer (the owner of CSS-Tricks) made a site using a similar trick in 2010 and there is a screencast of the technique on the same site as the linked article[0]. He did use jQuery to hide and show sections,
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by adregan 5y ago
I'm so frustrated by the state of things as I only subscribed to YoutubeTV because I wanted to watch Mets baseball and media blackouts prevent me from streaming despite my MLB.tv subscription. The price has only risen over the years an
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by adregan 5y ago
You don’t find a character poisoning her husband (maybe to kill him at first) dramatic? That said, I agree they are different, but I love _The Master_ more dearly than most all films. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the source novel for _Inhere
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by adregan 5y ago
> I assume you mean OP? "GP = grand parent, i.e. the post that the post-your're-replying-to was replying to" Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8363625
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by adregan 5y ago
You joke, but the timber market is so oversaturated and the price so low that getting paid not to cut trees for lumber is a real outcome. Rather than clear timber and plant new trees, you can get paid for the carbon they sequester: https:&
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by adregan 5y ago
I agree. Assuming this article is about the author’s experiences in early 2019, Elm has only had one release since then. They wouldn’t have missed out on much at all by shipping with a forked compiler but would have gained a lot of time to
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by adregan 5y ago
I just saw the documentary “The Sparks Brothers”[0], and this story really reminded me of their story. Sparks are a band who have perpetually been ahead of the curve and are generally rewarded in the same way that Lennon and Ono were (ie. n
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by adregan 5y ago
I agree that at large scale, types are one of the few things that keeps a project from completely falling apart (and I love lisp, but I would have a really hard time convincing my colleagues to adopt a dynamic language), but this seems coun
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by adregan 5y ago
I wonder if anyone has any suggestions as to what a software engineer could do to help fight against climate change? I'd love to know if there is a way I could help.
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by adregan 5y ago
> applying worst case scenario visualization I recently learned about "thinking traps" (essentially spiraling out of control imagining terrible outcomes) when my pandemic stress hit an all time high. I learned coping mechanisms
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by adregan 5y ago
> You can do the same way with commuting, enter the bus/subway/train and then do other thing while there, you don't have to wait until you arrive to start doing other things. In my pre-covid life, I often couldn't eve
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by adregan 6y ago
I totally sympathize with younger workers, but coincidentally, I have an opposite experience as an older worker. I stopped building my social life through work `n` companies ago; I'm way more productive at home and my setup is way nice
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Ask HN: Book recommendations about Alonzo Church and his calculus
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by adregan 6y ago
It’s also not compliant in the countries that require the cookie banner.
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by adregan 6y ago
Interestingly, no one asked me what software I used when I created diagrams in the vector graphics app sketch[0], but once I started using ascii diagrams using monodraw[1], everyone wanted to know what I was using. I find the aesthetic extr
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by adregan 6y ago
Have any of y'all given mob programming a try? Several teams at work have adopted the practice and it's been really interesting. Essentially, we camp out in a video chat and work on the same task together. One developer will &quot
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by adregan 7y ago
I've moved desks 6 times (between 2 buildings and 5 floors) in under 3 years. I guess when a company is growing rapidly, you've got to shuffle people around.
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by adregan 7y ago
I'd love to a have a small limited device, but I'd rather not wear an Apple Watch as I prefer analog watches for aesthetic reasons. I suppose I could keep it in my pocket, but that's a little weird.
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by adregan 7y ago
I wouldn't recommend mixing those two libraries as they often do _very_ different things with the same name (eg. `chain` in ramda is `flatMap`) but also because ramda mostly flips the arguments of most functions. For example, `map` tak
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by adregan 7y ago
You don't need lodash/underscore, you need ramda[0]! I been using ramda heavily for tasks like merging data from normalized redux stores and it's been really handy, but it's also great for simple tasks as well. I find th
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by adregan 7y ago
I noticed that my job enjoyment took a hit during a period of heavy interviewing for new devs for all the reasons you mention. A one hour interview required a minimum of 30 minutes prep to read the resume, etc and generate questions. Then a
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by adregan 8y ago
Previous discussion here (article was originally posted on dev.to): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367149
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by adregan 8y ago
That's a great list and echos what I have noticed about developers I want to emulate as well. Any tips on how to be "Maintenance focused more than feature focused" if the culture is focused on pumping out features on tight de
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by adregan 8y ago
You can use the fat arrow syntax to implicitly bind a function to this: handleChange = e => this.setState({ value: e.currentTarget.value })
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by adregan 8y ago
Don't books have 2 columns for each spread of pages? You still have the potential for there to be uneven columns.
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by adregan 8y ago
I'm a developer in his 30s and my time has finally come to be "that guy": We've already gone through this. It's called mystery meat navigation, and it was so prevalent and discouraged that it even has a wikipedia en
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by adregan 9y ago
This single paragraph is all the specifications for a legal ball in baseball[0]: > 3.01 (1.09) The Ball > The ball shall be a sphere formed by yarn wound around a small core of cork, rubber or similar material, covered with two strips
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by adregan 9y ago
I've been slowly creeping towards downvoting for the better part of 2 years as I comment very infrequently. I imagine it'll be anticlimactic once I get there, but it's relatively exciting to be so close—it's the last fro

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