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by chmln 9y ago
Flow capitalizes on its soundness, but its not as useful when the error messages are so cryptic. We tried adopting Flow at a company I worked at, but dealing with gibberish errors and the huge meaningless stack traces was a productivity sin
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by chmln 9y ago
Violence doesn't have much to do with inequality. They might be weakly correlated, but you'd have to go far beyond that to establish causality.
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by chmln 9y ago
This might be somewhat negative, but I don't quite see what problem the library is solving. It looks like as if Express wanted to become more like Koa (obvious from the context object). Frankly, it has missed out - koa's simplici
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by chmln 9y ago
> guess it requires a degree of sensitivity that I'm not bothered with - sort of like people who claim they can't hear mp3 because they can only enjoy CD quality audio (not saying it's not true for them, just that luckily
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by chmln 9y ago
Theyre OK, but I find the dev tools on chrome have a much better UX. I particularly dislike the console in FF which is just one tiny input at the bottom of the window. Overall ff devtools also seem slower to open and clunkier.
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by chmln 9y ago
What exactly breaks for you every couple of weeks?
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Google is killing off Android's emoji blobs(theguardian.com)
5 points by chmln 9y ago|0 comments
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by chmln 9y ago
> Both it and dart vm are limited to relatively small memory footprints (think 1GB) which just isn't good for some workloads and problems. This hasn't been true for a while now. node --max-old-space-size=8192 server.js See also
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by chmln 9y ago
> The Syrian case aside, another sign that we’re entering into a danger zone, Homer-Dixon says, is the increasing occurrence of what experts call nonlinearities, or sudden, unexpected changes in the world’s order, such as the 2008 econom
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by chmln 10y ago
Could also be due to the disproportionally high rates of crime among black men. That should never be an excuse for prejudice, however. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-... https:/&
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by chmln 10y ago
> Nowadays I'm on a Xubuntu box, and I've managed to have zero system-wide configuration. That's awesome. In most cases, you don't even need to customize much. I was arguing about the ability to customize that'
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by chmln 10y ago
Windows is pretty bad on high DPI screens, and even third party tools don't help. There's inconsistency everywhere, and most older software is just blurry. Chocolatey is nowhere near as good as e.g. pacman. You mentioned disabling
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by chmln 10y ago
> They look good (and are good if you are programming on them) but the UX is still lacking a lot. (Never mind the confusion of the different flavors, packaging systems, and configurations). How can plaintext configs be confusing for a co
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by chmln 10y ago
Well, no one's 100% safe from discrimination lawsuits. However, looks like such practices are not considered discriminatory by law. > Two federal laws, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and the Fair Housing Act (FHA), offer pr
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by chmln 10y ago
The new major version 8 of Node.js coming out in April will be a great performance booster for those who started using async/await and more: - Node upgraded v8 to 5.7 [1] & async functions as fast as promises [2] - Optimizations in
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by chmln 10y ago
> Not everyone can just switch jobs, not everyone is in a career in demand like that. Career is a choice. But of course, most people don't have 100% job security. >Also, the fact that you suggest that dish washers shouldn't
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by chmln 10y ago
> http://www.businessinsider.com/difference-swedish-american-w... >1. Practically everyone takes a summer vacation in Sweden >2. In Sweden, it's somewhat easier to be a working parent >3. Coffee breaks are s
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by chmln 10y ago
> The work culture in America is toxic for the workers, requiring job hopping, long hours, and relatively little gain These are quite the sweeping claims you're making for all ~125 million american workers. There are so many factors
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by chmln 10y ago
This. A large company without females at all would be quite suspicious, to say the least.
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by chmln 10y ago
What about other men-dominated (thus sexist), well-paying industries? Are you also concerned about the lack of female plumbers? Construction workers? Miners, perhaps?
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by chmln 10y ago
For those who'd like a GUI instead of tabbing fields, I'm a big fan of Insomnia. [1] https://insomnia.rest
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PHP 7.1: new features(php.net)
12 points by chmln 10y ago|0 comments
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by chmln 10y ago
Anecdotally, I find GTK3 title bars much more aesthetically appealing. [1] If you like title bars, why not just openbox --replace? > I promise, people can spare 10 pixels of vertical space so that they can see the name of the application
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by chmln 10y ago
Well, HN is where rather technical discussions take place. And from a technological viewpoint, some people here may find that swapping gzip/etc for brotli is not that astonishing. After all, she didn't invent or implement Brotli,
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by chmln 10y ago
> the experience of using PS was superior to that of bash As a Linux dweller, I'm genuinely curious about this one. I've found PS inferior in just about any use case.
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by chmln 10y ago
The primary role of the government is to serve its own people. No country has an obligation to spend money on foreign aid, accept refugees etc involuntarily. Everything costs money and you'd guess most taxpayers aren't enthused of
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by chmln 10y ago
Most importantly, employers in capitalist economies have no financial incentive to discriminate, given equally capable candidates. Race is intertwined with culture, values, and beliefs. With culture being an integral part of the company, it
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by chmln 10y ago
> strong bias against women Where exactly? > wages are lower than men Yes, Ive come across this study, which simply compares average wages. Contrary to popular belief, this doesn't at all imply getting paid less for the same job.
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by chmln 10y ago
Looks nice. But Wiplo costs $108/yr, more than I pay for Github, and that is for a nice-looking to-do list with some features. Trello is free unless you need power-ups. Long live Trello.
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by chmln 10y ago
Callback hell is gone with promises, and async/await is shipping in ES7. what's wrong with es6 syntax and dependencies? I haven't used elixir, but I see a lot of discontent with JS. Almost like its trendy to hate JS and cons

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