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by davidjnelson 7y ago
What I do is write them all down in an evernote note. I have 50+ ideas in there. At one point I went through and decided which was most interesting. I still add new items to the list, but at least it's out of my head and I can go ba
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Lots to be grateful for.
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Ashley Homestore has a bunch of great sofas without those chemicals. For mattresses, look for online retailers selling latex mattresses.
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Lol document.write in a table in Netscape 2. Still remember my first experience with a buggy js implementation :-) My favorite early js story is writing a “life cycle of stars” app in 4 hours in 1997 and getting a full high school semester
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Understanding how async await is implemented in javascript (2018)(wanago.io)
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
> Work by mobile phone This one has the potential to help people in impoverished countries make a living wage. Would be really great if a company made this happen.
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
It’s a nice piece on breaking out of the conditioning of society and gratefully embracing our time on earth by living fully and taking risks. Some nice quotes from wise people: > But as Alan Watts once reminded us, “This is the real secr
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Going for a hike in nature. Both the exercise and the nature are great for your health.
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Frontend framework comparisons: React: http://eliot-jones.com:5690/Home/Trend?id=React&allwords=tru... Angular: http://eliot-jones.com:5690/Home/Trend?id=Angular&allwords=t... Vue: http:&
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
This is really cool. Seems the backend is a bit slowed down with the traffic. Would be cool if the graph had more horizontal space on a small phone without rotating it and re running the query.
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Also was trying to compare multiple terms.
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Something I’ve observed with languages he designs are that they end up with a ui form builder. I wonder if that will happen with typescript. It’s harder, because they’d either need to pick a framework, or design it for at least react, vue
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
This is great. Reminds me of Bret Victor’s work.
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
I was thinking arbitrage too. But from the perspective of buying ads where you find a way to make more money from the traffic than the ads cost.
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
> Social media use was tied to loneliness as well, with 73% of very heavy social media users considered lonely, as compared with 52% of light users. That’s ~20% more loneliness from heavy social media users!
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Go is a solid choice since it sounds like you prefer backend work. Great language, crazy fast, tons of jobs.
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
I wonder if there’s a failsafe way you can prove it’s off when they want to turn it off.
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
> Given free transcription and the drive of remote work to video conferencing, we’re about to witness a Cambrian explosion of cataloged meeting information. What was previously oral knowledge will be automatically documented by machines.
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Was just looking at this out of curiosity the other day and in California the equivalent plan to what you’d get from employment to cover a family is $1,500/month from anthem. This is the platinum ppo from the exchange. $15 doctor vis
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The Benefits of a Lunch Hour Walk (2015)(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Doesn’t solve the issue with calling an api that doesn’t return a promise, but the tslint rule “no-floating-promises” flags missing awaits which is quite useful. Also useful is flagging awaits that don’t return a promise, which can be done
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Evernote isn’t perfect, but it works well enough.
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Serverless Next.js at the Edge(serverless.com)
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
This is awesome- is Or will there be a social component so you can do it with a group?
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What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers? (2017) [pdf](microsoft.com)
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Discussion from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6129148
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The Most Important Software Innovations(dwheeler.com)
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Ask HN: What ten high technologies are you most thankful for?
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Good old cgi, brings back memories :-D Back in the day this little book I wrote on it had 500,000 people read it http://expertwebinstalls.com/cgi_tutorial/index.html Remember parsing Apache logs to see who visited your
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
That was important, sure, but cgi was way earlier.

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