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by ajjenkins 3y ago
Someone shared this yesterday and I didn’t get what what’s interesting about it. It just looked like a normal GoL simulator. I didn’t realize you could zoom in and out. This is so cool. Thanks for sharing.
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
Got today’s word in 77 guesses. According to the game that’s not a good score, but I was impressed I was able to figure it out at all. Definitely much harder than Wordle.
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
This would be so much fun as a feature in Drawful.
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
I like this. TDD purists would probably complain that you don’t assert a specific value, but in practice I know a lot of people hardcode the assert values for their tests based on the test output. So this just automated that, I guess. If I
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
When describing how the boat owner fell off his boat, the author said it could’ve happened to anyone, but it sounds like he was peeing off the side of his boat while the engine was running. I don’t know, but that sounds pretty dumb to me.
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
Can someone explain what’s 4D about this? Is it 4D because the 3D models are animated (moving)?
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
I agree with that too comments that you should avoid having a backend at all for your MVP if you can avoid it (just make a static hosted website with HTML, CSS, and minimal JS). But since you asked about backends specifically, this is what
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
This is my first type hearing about linear types, but my guess is the name comes from the fact that you have to repeatedly “thread” a value through your code to keep using it. If you look at the example for Files, you have to pass the outpu
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
This is really cool. I’ve actually been looking for a tool like this recently. I’ve tried a few other website name generators, but your website gave significantly better recommendations than the other websites I tried. Namelix gave decent r
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
I did use the compare button to compare my times to the average times for those puzzles. My times were all above the average times, which was cool. But, at least with Wordle, I think it spread because people were excited about beating their
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
I agree that this is extremely annoying. It happens to me all the time with the iOS keyboard suggestions. For websites, Google calls the Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) and it’s one of the Core Web Vitals they use for measuring website perfor
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
I’ve played a lot of Flow. I enjoyed the three puzzles for today. I don’t think I would come back every day to do it though. But I rarely play Wordle, so maybe I’m not the right audience. My only feedback is to think more about why Wordle i
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
After thinking about the article some more, I reached the same conclusion. I was trying to figure out why the author wrote this, and my best explanation is that this was an attempt to defend companies that have been labeled “toxic”. Like, “
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
The author gives two examples of jobs they worked at then asserts that all companies are fucked up. I think you need better evidence or at least a more persuasive argument to claim that “all companies are fucked up”. Maybe the author didn’t
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
These are all good points. Thanks for replying.
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
One reason corruption might increase with sortition is that it would be much cheaper to successfully bribe a representative. Most politicians are rich so it’s very expensive to make a bribe worthwhile to them. But if people with less money
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
Can you provide more detail on how this would actually work or somewhere I can read more about this? Like, if there are two people participating and one’s random number is 01 and the other’s is 11 (binary), and you XOR them you get 10. But
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
You should add “Ask HN:” to the the beginning of your post title.
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
I agree with the other comments suggesting React. I actually typically recommend just plain HTML and CSS for most projects. But it sounds like you’re building something with a lot of interactivity, so something like React (or Vue or Svelte)
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
I’ve never heard of the author until today, so I don’t have any bias against him, but I think his argument makes a lot of sense. Personally, my preferred solution to polarization is voting reform (I actually think approval voting would be
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
It’s not clear in the article, but if this is all from the same company, this sounds like a really bad company to work for. The author is probably right that they’re being treated unfairly because of their autism (which is wrong), but I’d b
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
I recently learned about deques in Python (other languages may have it too) which is like a linked list but it keeps pointers for the first and last elements. This allows you to insert/read/remove elements from the beginning or en
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
Left brain vs. right brain thinking is another myth about the brain that seems to be much harder to dispel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_functi...
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
This looks cool. I could see myself using this once it’s a bit further along. This looks most similar to Clerk. For me, the best service is the one with the best SDK and documentation. I was excited about Clerk because they have SDKs for Re
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
Definitely agree with other answers that you should look into classless CSS frameworks. You can see a list of popular options here: https://www.designinspiration.info/classless-css-frameworks/ You can get pretty far wi
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
It would be helpful if you had a comparison table that compares Dethrone to the competitors you mentioned. I like Slack and Discord, so I’m not sure why I should be seeking out an alternative. Most of the features highlighted fall under the
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
I really like this idea so I downloaded it and convinced my friend to download it too. But I think it’s broken. I tried adding an activity, but I just get a grey screen that says Activity at the top.
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
I tried Rogaine (minoxidil) and it didn’t work for me. I thought about trying oral finasteride, but I read that a small percentage of people experience sexual dysfunction as a side-effect, which didn’t seem worth the risk to me. But I did s
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by ajjenkins 4y ago
It would be nice if there was a Give Up button. I got down to 30 possible words but could not for the life of me think of what they could be. I was craving that “Ohhhhh!!!!!” feeling when you see what the remaining possible words are.
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by ajjenkins 5y ago
I haven’t used it myself, but Next.js is a popular choice if you want to use React. It’s primarily a front end framework, but can do all of the things you mentioned in your post. But probably not the best if you’re looking for something to

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