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Ask HN: Help me pick a front-end framework
141 points by bjackman 4y ago|176 comments
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> Meta’s infrastructure plays an important role in supporting our products and services.
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Seems like the other commenters understand this already but it took me a while to figure it out so for anyone else that's confused: IIUC by "natural ordering" they mean you can tell the ordering just by looking at the IDs. Fu
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I think both are true: there _is_ such a thing as expertise and it's worth making huge sacrifices to develop it. But you cannot be an expert in every aspect of an endeavour that you are involved in. You have to be winging it in some re
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Only when it's on 0. It "wraps around" (but if you go down from one, you need to release and touch again for this to happen).
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Have you tried selecting a ring and then holding the "reduce power" button for a moment? I've found on some units this is a faster way to get to full power. And I had one where holding the up and down buttons together skips t
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I'm slightly surprised to report a 100% score. However, I think I'm actually recognising DALL-E-2's _style_, and not "this picture is CG". It feels more like I'm identifying the work of an artist I'm very
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For [Ex-]Googlers: I thought this sounded a bit like Capacitor and indeed it is mentioned in this page: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/bigquery/inside-capac... (I don't think there's a direc
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> The big problem seemed to be competition. It seems like the more predictable something is, the more the market will squeeze insurers' margins on insuring that risk. Holes-in-one probably follow a pretty regular probability distrib
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FWIW, a counterpoint: I work in C++ (80) and Go (no line length limit) at Google and I barely even think about it. I just write code however feels natural and then run 'hg fix' before sending for review. I would definitely not imp
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Indeed - the packing peanuts use case and styrofoam use case are very different! Former is already solved by starch (dunno why polymer peanuts still exist, maybe we should ban them), latter seems a great deal harder, that's the claim m
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I've actually never seen the phenomenon through this lens, but I like it! I think the clearest indicator that this is going on is when you can circumvent the process arbitrarily. Two example memories spring to mind: In a visa office: &
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Sibling comment has some evidence to the contrary but I've always thought of it as a Java marketing term. It lets you write generic classes e.g. "I can write a generic container class that automatically works for any contained typ
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I'm actually curious what the strategy is here. To my knowledge only FB, Google and MS do megascale monorepo, and Google and MS already have a solution. Are there now other companies outgrowing Git that Facebook is hoping to build a co
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I've been using Go for a couple of years now and it's funny: I do not love Go, I just work effectively in it. I am not passionate about it, but I recommend it for absolutely all appropriate use-cases. It doesnt go for intellectual
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I read an epigram by Martial when I was at school, it translated to: You shave your head to conceal your baldness. How will you conceal your impotence?
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Re falling asleep during MRI - I was a subject in a study where for about an hour you had to lie in a machine and repeatedly indicate which of two pictures depicted a larger object. They said subjects falling asleep was a big problem! I fin
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In my city there is a team that goes around the bike racks marking tyres with chalk. If they find chalk still on the tyre next time they tie a note to the bike saying you need to move it. If they find the note still there next time they rem
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In the Vietnamese example "Bạn khỏe không?" ạ and ỏ have tone markers, but (the way Vietnamese orthography was taught to me), ô does not. That is a totally different letter than a naked o. I wonder if distinctions like this
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Not sure if this is common knowledge (??) but I feel I should note here: in my job we absolutely do not consider containers to be a security boundary[1]. On the other hand I still tend to use them for isolation on my personal boxen, because
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There seems to have been a lot of "let it crash" formerly at Google. My main experience with this has been one of annoyance, e.g: - An old library we were using for a nice-to-have feature started crashing our server when an ACL ch
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Here in Zürich, and I think many parts of Europe, the rule is simple: to be regulated like normal bikes the motor can't push you past 25km/h. With this limit I have not personally had any issues with E-Bikes/scooters being a
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I don't eat fish, but I have heard that when modern flash freezing is done properly, you cannot tell the difference from actual fresh.
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I've recently ordered this book which I believe deals with the topic of your question: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651/subprimeattenti... Haven't read it yet, looking forwards to it!
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Data point: I've been using Emacs for about 5 hears. I've got a setup that works very well for me but every time I open my .emacs I hate Emacs lisp even more. Decided to give VSCode a go, my take is: - It's really slow (notic
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I have been thinking a lot lately about the point "such an attitude represents a tremendous degree of disrespect of our forepersons". The other day I watched "Cargo" on Netflix, in which after a civilisational collapse,
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Cool story! I wonder if the mission engineers do a lot of operational training for incidents like this: for example the SREs at Google do "tabletop" role-playing exercise to practice incident response. Would be cool to hear simila
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Funny detail: I really did not understand GCL until I read about CUE and also JSonnet, which I believe are both by post-GCL ex/Googlers. Once I understood those languages, I started to get a handle on GCL. "GCL is like a fucked up
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Starlark has taken over the build system (as it was originally built for) and a small number of other systems at Google. There are a couple of other internal languages that found success in specific domains. But GCL remains the most common
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Signs also tend to be expressed by the hands' position/movement in relation to _other_ body parts. Edit: OTOH fingerspelling ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspelling ) might be a more feasible usecase!

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