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by awhitty 4y ago
Saman worked on many things at Mapbox, most notably to me is the interface for Studio [0], which continues to be an impressive expression of a really advanced set of features for map design. He also explicitly mentioned a stint as an engine
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by awhitty 4y ago
You might live in California and have certainly seen the drought, but the lake didn't go dry due to drought. The lake was fed by diverting water from nearby San Francisquito Creek. The university chose to stop filling the lake for recr
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by awhitty 4y ago
Right, I agree it’s much nicer to write JavaScript now than ever before. Merely pointing out that it’s not meant to be a compiled language. As a community we continue to expect a build step to exist when it really doesn’t have to for a broa
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by awhitty 4y ago
Folks who write JavaScript today might not remember a time when it was normal to write JS and ship the same files verbatim to end users. We’ve seen a Cambrian explosion of new syntax, new tools, and new ways to build applications using Java
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by awhitty 4y ago
Also bought a Matrix Portal and have had a lot of fun with it! Dabbled in writing a raytracer for it, but I don’t know enough about ARM nor C++ to optimize it for decent frame rates. Now the thing runs a newton’s cradle simulator using Box2
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by awhitty 4y ago
Thanks for the link! That looks really stellar actually. Excited to see how it shapes up.
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by awhitty 4y ago
This project looks interesting! I have used a similar project called tsoa [1] and have appreciated that it generates an OpenAPI spec that can be consumed readily by many other clients, even outside the JS ecosystem. Does TRPC have plans for
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Safe Units: Type-safe TypeScript units of measure(github.com)
3 points by awhitty 4y ago|0 comments
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by awhitty 4y ago
The page loads within 500ms for me without cache, fonts and all. It doesn't show animations, flashing content, mailing list modals, etc. Navigating between pages is near-instant. The site isn't collapsing under its own weight. Com
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by awhitty 5y ago
The author [1] was somewhat recently featured on Hacker News [2] for their Fishdraw [3] project, if you're wondering why their name might look familiar. Always a treat to see what they come up with next! [1] https://lingdong
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by awhitty 5y ago
The author mentions, “Watch out for HPIB-only plotters!” — I forgot to take that advice when I bought a plotter from a scrap shop a few years back and thought I was completely out of luck. Spent a fair amount of time googling, and I ended u
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by awhitty 5y ago
I rarely comment on HN, but I'm happy to come out of the woodwork to second this! Django was my first exposure to Web development also around the 0.96 days. I couldn't have found my way into what has become a career without the fr
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by awhitty 7y ago
Completely unrelated to maps, but I really enjoyed your talk about the origins of the "else" keyword at !!Con West a few months back! Thanks for picking that topic. Really got me thinking.
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by awhitty 7y ago
That sounds like a reasonable approach! Thanks for the note. To be honest, we use LESS fairly simply for the things it provides like variables, mixins, and nested selector syntax. We otherwise haven't had a need to make our stylesheets
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by awhitty 7y ago
Hey! Author here. After talking to folks who have taken on similar projects at their jobs, I realized there wasn't much discussion around how to happily pull off a UI refresh or redesign, and I wanted to share the philosophy we used to
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by awhitty 7y ago
Hey! Author here. After talking to folks who have taken on similar projects at their jobs, I realized there wasn't much discussion around how to happily pull off a UI refresh or redesign, and I wanted to share the philosophy we used to
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by awhitty 8y ago
Do you have an article in mind about the game designers hired for policy proposals? I’m curious to learn more about the practice.
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by awhitty 8y ago
Happy they designed the robot with a replaceable battery! I received an Ollie as a gift back in 2014, and the battery is flat-out dead. Wish I could still fiddle with it. I’m a bit surprised Sphero is using Kickstarter for this campaign — t
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by awhitty 8y ago
I think it’s inappropriate to make (or imply) a call to action in a public forum to violate the privacy of a public figure (or anyone, but a public figure in this case). There’s low probability that Tim’s personal accounts or devices are ea
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by awhitty 8y ago
This kinda reminds me of my favorite sci fi book I read in 2018: Permutation City by Greg Egan. The book explores simulated consciousness and the tensions that crop up when intelligences that think and feel and want to live are computed on
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by awhitty 8y ago
The solution will rattle you! At least it did me. I happened to blindly stumble upon it while trying various approaches, but I’d love to know what sort of intuition it takes to find the solution short of brute-forcing/lucky-guessing it
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by awhitty 9y ago
I would love a resource like that! We went through a very similar process on my team [0], and I was pleased to see this post validating some pain points we had seen. > In hindsight, we chose the correct trade off. This is key, and I thin
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by awhitty 9y ago
Hey! Author here. Happy to answer any questions or go into any details about our approach. I know this post was pretty broad, but we'll be publishing more deep dives with code examples soon.
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How We Are Migrating to React and MobX Without a Rewrite(heap.engineering)
2 points by awhitty 9y ago|0 comments
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by awhitty 10y ago
This seems like a Reddit witch hunt leaking into HN.
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by awhitty 10y ago
I agree with your perspective here and also think this qualifies as "from scratch." Would it still be "from scratch" if they bought all the components they used in this write-up as one kit?
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by awhitty 10y ago
I'd also like to point out that the comparison between Apple and a cult has existed since at least 2004. [1] [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cult_of_Mac_(book)
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Women in tech is not just a pipeline problem (2015)(medium.com)
6 points by awhitty 10y ago|0 comments
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by awhitty 10y ago
See also: http://www.litterati.org
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by awhitty 11y ago
The closest this article gets to a location is the quote mentioning the proximity to I-15. NYTimes reports it's a suburb of Las Vegas [0] [0] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/automobiles/faraday-fut

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