bigethan

10 ms·

61.
by bigethan 11y ago
I would love it if they could add the 'trash' icon to messages in Inbox.
62.
by bigethan 11y ago
s/A man/Oblivious Sheraz/
63.
by bigethan 11y ago
about 3 years ago HN was about 50/50 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3785277 I'm always amazed at companies that don't train their people. It's easier to say "they couldn't use HAVING in
64.
by bigethan 11y ago
Seriously. CSS loading/parsing is render blocking. By loading CSS that isn't needed immediately asynchronously in a way that will use the browser cache if it's available, it makes the page visible much faster. It feels like
65.
by bigethan 11y ago
I started reading this thinking, why does everything have to be owned? This borders on the absurd. And then I thought, hey, someone should put in a helipad and start live streaming Thursday Night Monkey Knife Fights! So yeah, now I kinda g
66.
by bigethan 11y ago
Funny, I thought that 'BigCommerce' was a fake name like "Acme Corp" or "Foo Co". Versioning APIs is hard. Anyone have any good reading / experience to share? How do you prevent too much code duplication
67.
by bigethan 11y ago
If it does just the numbers 3, 5, 7, 9 for ع and خ and ح and ق - that's what everyone I know is doing online
68.
by bigethan 11y ago
I'm loving learning Arabic with http://orangeorapple.com/Flashcards/ The website looks underwhelming, but the app is amazing. The more I use it, the more it's flexibility impresses me. There are lots of opt
69.
by bigethan 11y ago
Previous discussion from 7 months ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558976 Whenever I see a trolley go by in SF with dozens of people simultaneously filming video (and that trolley runs dozens of times a day)
70.
by bigethan 11y ago
I'm curious how google strongly penalizes SPAs for being slow to load. The content may be indexed, but if your visitors are on a mobile network, that initial visit (or a visit with stale cache) is going to be crappy. It's great th
71.
by bigethan 11y ago
if you move the split from the bottom to the right side, it fits great... Unless I'm missing something?
72.
by bigethan 11y ago
Feels a bit like the url hash bangs google foisted on us back in the day. three years from now, new devs will be asking "Why does is this cookie named '$Secure-...' kinda like they were asking "Why do our urls have &#x2
73.
by bigethan 11y ago
This feels like Elon Musk opening a Denny's restaurant. You do other stuff, why get into this business, especially if they're just rebranding the Zillow mortgage feed. There's a lot of money to be had (a well qualified mortg
74.
by bigethan 11y ago
These sort of things are awesome, but always make me lament the loss of the Library of Alexandria. How much more would we know about the world, and what could we be doing now if humanity still had access to that knowledge?
75.
by bigethan 11y ago
Anyone have any advice for getting better at remembering things with songs/wordplay/etc? I can never come up with anything good at the moment and end up never remembering. eg: I meet someone named Jane Doe, and then while trying t
76.
by bigethan 11y ago
> And who wants to hire a 45 year old junior web developer? That sounds pretty awesome, actually. Who wouldn't want to add that wealth of experience to their web repo?
77.
by bigethan 11y ago
>Wouldn't the government approval issue be more of a socialist factor? One uses money to manipulate the people in charge of socialist government programs. I'd bet that the dental lobbyists are stronger in their niche than the
78.
by bigethan 11y ago
It'd be impossible for a dentist to go rogue if the main lobbying group for the dentists wasn't allowing any new treatments to get government approval. Also, I'd argue that capitalism is what causes the entrenchment of indust
79.
by bigethan 11y ago
They aren't outwardly evil. Put on a happy face and turn the screws where the customer can't see or control. Like all capitalist companies that want to maximize profit.
80.
by bigethan 11y ago
Related: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/upshot/is-the-economy-real... (plus a great gif in the header) When economists are unsure what exactly is going on, what does that mean? There's the quote
81.
by bigethan 11y ago
... because Javascript and external APIs can now do so much. If I can do everything with JS on the visitors browser, why not host some shell HTML on S3 and never worry about a server? Maybe hit AWS Lambda if need be for one specific thing?
82.
by bigethan 11y ago
The thing that always pulls me back to wordpress is the ease of creation and hosting. Drag an image into your text, and pop it's uploaded, hosted, and linked to. Write something in the interface and bam it's online and reliabl
83.
by bigethan 11y ago
Relatedly(?) When I had a diesel car, I bought and stored a small barrel of biodiesel in the basement of our apartment (saving like $0.05 a gallon!). I was told that diesel doesn't burn except under extreme pressure, and that you coul
84.
by bigethan 11y ago
"The lack of certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is seen as a major hindrance for international sales." no kidding. China's current reputation (fast and default to crappy quality without extreme
85.
by bigethan 11y ago
s/Against Disabled// This study has been done with people using names that are, black, foreign, feminine, etc. If you're different, some people are gonna think differently. When there's a "pipeline" little
86.
by bigethan 11y ago
Sorry to TL;DR but 50 page PDFs can be opaque for discussion. The presentation takes a while to get around to it, but it's a way to see your browser history using cert pinning/redirection. Specifically (ab)using features in the br
87.
by bigethan 11y ago
I'd argue that the product page doesn't sell properly if everyone is freaking out over possible issues. If they've solved for obvious problems, they should discuss those solutions a little. Otherwise it's not much more
88.
by bigethan 11y ago
Very Star Wars. Seems perfect for deliveries around a large office campus where theft, maps, and smooth sidewalks are all very manageable. Though I don't know how much profit is in that market.
89.
by bigethan 11y ago
> If they were to commonly transport high value goods, theft would be a huge issue. That was my first thought as well. Get a van and a sledgehammer and wait a few blocks away from their depot in the morning. Sure they could phone home,
90.
by bigethan 11y ago
what country?

More ›