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Mysterious Antennas Are Appearing in Utah's Hills and Officials Are Stumped(vice.com)
3 points by cpeterso 4y ago|1 comments
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Migrating our largest mobile app to React Native(shopify.engineering)
94 points by cpeterso 4y ago|113 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
If you keep your product backlog groomed, your team can use Kanban and always be working on the top priority. Sprints add overhead to create a separate backlog that, in my experience, seems to roll over sprint to sprint.
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by cpeterso 4y ago
What does ncpa.cpl do? I assume it’s part of the Control Panel, but a cursory Google search doesn’t return any useful explanation.
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Ask HN: What have you read recently that changed your mind about something?
3 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Evan’s book is a bit of an academic slog, but I finally felt like I understood how object-oriented design should work. An easier introduction I recommend is InfoQ’s “Domain Driven Design Quickly”, available in print or a free PDF ebook: ht
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by cpeterso 4y ago
What does “structure” mean in regards to VC funding?
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by cpeterso 4y ago
If you like David Cronenberg's work, definitely check out his son Brandon Cronenberg's films "Antiviral" and "Possessor".
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by cpeterso 4y ago
For folks interested in legacy software systems (and managing the teams managing these systems), I highly recommend Marianne Bellotti's "Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)". The au
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We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online(blog.cotten.io)
39 points by cpeterso 4y ago|3 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Reading PDF files (using PDF.js) is being tested in Firefox Nightly for Android. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1754499
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New minerals discovered in massive meteorite reveal clues to asteroid formation(ualberta.ca)
45 points by cpeterso 4y ago|8 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Or use Google’s Duplex AI to call businesses and, pretending to be human, just ask for their hours. Though Google canned Duplex just a couple weeks ago: https://www.engadget.com/google-duplex-on-the-web-shutdown-a...
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Adobe couldn’t figure out how to monetize Flash, other than selling the Flash authoring tool to Flash designers, a dying breed, for a few hundred bucks or bundled in Adobe’s Creative Suite. Adobe tried selling Flash video DRM, which got un
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by cpeterso 4y ago
As someone who worked on Macromedia’s and then Adobe’s Flash Player team, I thank you for sharing your experience preserving your Flash content! Did you investigate Haxe or OpenFL?
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by cpeterso 4y ago
You can turn off the “javascript.options.baselinejit” and “javascript.options.ion” (Ion is the optimizing JIT) preferences in about:config , but you are definitely voiding the warranty and running an untested configuration by doing this!
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Freeze rv: segment in Firefox UA string to 109 to avoid erroneous IE11 detection(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
2 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments
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Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative(blog.mozilla.org)
396 points by cpeterso 4y ago|256 comments
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Epic Games agrees to pay $520M over Fortnite privacy violations(abcnews.go.com)
2 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Firefox and Chrome froze the macOS version in their User-Agent strings, too, because jumping from “Mac OS X 10.15” to “Max OS X 11.0” broke quite a few websites’ UA parsing code that never expected a value other than 10.
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Fingerprinting of WebMIDI devices is already happening in the wild. It was discovered because Firefox prompted for WebMIDI access on some random e-commerce websites, whereas Chrome silently allowed websites to access MIDI devices. https:&#
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by cpeterso 4y ago
The language was developed by people in London. > The big reveal on why it’s called “Pony”? Back in the flight sim days, when I would make my friends groan by telling them yet again about all the things I was going to do when I wrote a
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by cpeterso 4y ago
> The maximum [_BitInt] value is provided by a new macro BITITNT_MAX Why “BITITNT” instead of “BITINT”? I hope this is a typo, but “BITITNT” is repeated in the example code.
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Worth reading: The Games Outcomes Project was a 5-part series analyzing the results of a 2014 survey of hundreds of game developers to determine how teamwork, culture, leadership, and project management contribute to game project success or
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Another alternative is a streaming JSON format like JSONL (newline-delimited JSON). You can parse one record/line at a time, but still have the structure and named fields of JSON. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JS
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Over a decade of anti-tracking work at Mozilla(blog.mozilla.org)
67 points by cpeterso 4y ago|16 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Rust’s documentation describes how new versions of the rustc compiler are bootstrapped: https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/buildings/bootstrappin... Stage 0: The stage0 compiler is usually the current beta rustc com
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by cpeterso 4y ago
What do you mean by "scaffolding in the app"? Are you still using Duolingo?
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Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish?(bloomberg.com)
163 points by cpeterso 4y ago|246 comments
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Apple Scales Back Self-Driving Car and Delays Debut Until 2026(bloomberg.com)
1 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments

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