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by aikah 6y ago
> Can we post anything we want on HN? How about spamming Patreon or GoFundMe links on forums and servers? Why not? You are free to put a gofundme link on your profile page on HN. People who make interesting, thought provoking, constructi
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by aikah 6y ago
> Sugar is sugar. What's the difference between a homemade pastry and store bought pastry? You can control the amount of sugar within something you bake yourself for starter.
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by aikah 6y ago
> No, it's not. It's like less than 0.5% of the tax you are paying (considering income tax, social tax, residence/homeowning tax, VAT...). They just keep it because they can rile up /distract people when they increase
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by aikah 6y ago
Yeah, France has the "redevance télé". You have to explicitly refuse any cable service from your ISP in order not to pay it. Otherwise you're screwed. And its cost is significant, I will never pay for such thing.
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by aikah 6y ago
> it handles multi-mapping (eg mapping users and posts from a single query) You can achieve all that with JSON support in SQL, which most RDBMS have. You can then de-serialize JSON rows into Python objects. No need for an ORM.
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by aikah 6y ago
What Apple achieved is very rare in the industry. They achieved both complete horizontal and vertical integration for all their products. Even Microsoft kind of failed to do this. Most computers sold running Windows are not built by Microso
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by aikah 6y ago
You don't need Dapper for Python. Python is a dynamic language. If your problem is hydration[0] it can be done easily, even with Python classes. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13337629/create-an-insta...
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by aikah 6y ago
> This means we can connect to MySQL from the client side! That will be secure, right? ;-) Not really, the MySQL server would need to support something such as webSocket or WebRTC to be able to directly connect to a browser (or just pla
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by aikah 6y ago
> The above code is supposed to show a unique number for each button when the button is clicked. What it will actually do is to show the same number for all buttons, the number being equal to buttons.length. no "let" will work
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by aikah 6y ago
I applied for a front end job once in 2011, it required 5 years of experience with AngularJS. Pretty sure AngularJS released in 2009... And no, the ad wasn't written by a recruiter.
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by aikah 6y ago
> It feels weird to me, that classes were eventually introduced in JS. if you don't put value in the Fraction prototype, then value will be created each time Fraction is instanced. But that's not why class where created. Class
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by aikah 6y ago
How big is Amazon compared to FNAC/Darty, Cdiscount and co? Personally I have never ordered anything there because - when it comes to books, they are not cheaper than at my local bookshop, in fact they are often more expensive. - for h
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by aikah 7y ago
> Diffing isn't really needed - usually you either replace a subtree completely or change a few attributes, which isn't hard to write code for. Replacing the entire page on model change doesn't work for interactive forms
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by aikah 7y ago
> The problem with vanilla JS is not APIs, API is the easy thing. Then the problem is really the API, if one needs to write tons of helpers just to make that thing bearable. Never had to write a framework on top of QT or WPF just to deve
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by aikah 7y ago
Who predicted it 5 month ago? hmm? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21031266 I also predicted a few more controversial things but if you think it terms of ecosystem and cloud market strategy, then it makes perfect sense
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by aikah 7y ago
> The classification of uber drivers as employees mostly means they have to pay more tax and less money goes to drivers and uber. You forgot to disclose the fact that they are getting many perks like properly funding their public pension
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by aikah 7y ago
What language(s) does Spotify use for the backend? not the website or the mobile clients, but the backend itself.
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by aikah 7y ago
Nice. Although one of the hidden power of Photoshop is the ability to open ridiculous large image files without any hurdle whatsoever. The other day a client sent a 5GB comp we had to open to modify some text, I was surprised how well Photo
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by aikah 7y ago
Right! They'll be iterating on the design and correct bugs during next sprint, while their users are stuck in the middle of nowhere. The system works!
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by aikah 7y ago
> ...i...what...but why...that doesn't even make sense?... From the article > Basically, a phone unlocks the car using a combination of cell service and Bluetooth. So when you're out of cell range it can be difficult to unlo
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by aikah 7y ago
> PS - Btw, skeumorphic design is back, watch out for it in the next decade. I think it was seen as cool for some people to talk negatively about skeuo, because it brought clicks. Most of these blogposts criticizing skeuomorphism never u
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by aikah 7y ago
Thanks for your insight, you should write articles/blogposts about that aspect of UI/UX business that rarely talked about unfortunately. Icon relevancy is contextual, that's an important concept. To go further with the idea o
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by aikah 7y ago
https://jsbooks.revolunet.com/
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by aikah 7y ago
My thought exactly... there was a recent thread on HN about how immoral Getty's business model is, sending veiled treats to people regarding the use of content they don't even own at first place. https://news.ycombinato
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by aikah 7y ago
> To be honest, the real pattern is MVW (Model View Whatever). It's not a pattern if it's not clearly identifiable as a pattern, MVC (original) applied to GUI interfaces. ASP.net tried to apply MVC to the web and it resulted i
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by aikah 7y ago
Reaktor does it better and is simpler to learn in my opinion. Max tries to be both high level and low level, which makes it more a tool for engineers than artists.
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by aikah 7y ago
The best solution is to make every language a compile target for a virtual machine or some CLR flavor. Creating yet another "high level" language that compile to all other languages would mean designing something that is the least
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by aikah 7y ago
> Why does everyone always suggest K&R? Because it's the best no bullshit book to learn C, period. Especially coming from garbage collected languages. It's not going to teach you valgrind or GDB, or even compile and link C
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by aikah 7y ago
I mean there is no point quitting Facebook to spend all your time on Twitter or Instagram either... They are objectively as bad, especially Twitter which is 24/7 of nonsense and petty drama and people yelling at each other or organizin
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by aikah 7y ago
Nice. In retrospect, Blender choosing Python for its UI script in and API was really a smart bet, especially given its adoption in the scientific community. This kind of "mash up" is really great.

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