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by davidjnelson 7y ago
If you're changing something that's working, but a bug could corrupt your data, you should probably test that :-)
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
> In my view, governments should impose an immediate ban on targeted political advertising to restore trust in our public discourse. I hope this happens really quickly. It’s truly critically important.
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Gaming is definitely the big use case for windows. Also, an ok os if you don’t want to pay through the nose for top end upgradeable hardware or run a Linux desktop or hackintosh. Haven’t tried desktop Linux in 20 years, hopefully it’s gott
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Inside Look At A Modern Web Browser Part 1 of 4 (2018)(developers.google.com)
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
This series is also quite good, a bit more modern: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/09/inside-bro...
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
This one is quite good. I posted it to Hn 6 years or so ago but it didn’t get upvotes: https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowser...
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Breakthrough in understanding the chills and thrills of musical rapture (2016)(theguardian.com)
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
It’s cool to have options. Hope Stadia works out and a lot of people enjoy it. There’s something really fun about building a pc and overclocking it and modding the games though :-) Also, having all your mods and saves on your own backups
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The State of the Octoverse 2019(octoverse.github.com)
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Can second redux-first-router being fantastic.
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Oh, cloudflare is amazing. A few really great things it does: free(ish) bandwidth, ddos protection, cdn caching, configurable page rules to apply all sorts of things such as granular caching, workers including a key/value store databa
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Rails/Postgres/Heroku/Cloudflare is a great stack. You have the option of scaffolding for quick and dirty mvp test stuff, and you can use something like react_on_rails to do universal rendering of react, which is pretty grea
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
“Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill” by Matthieu Ricard Phenomenal book by a molecular biologist turned monk who talks about happiness being a skill that can be developed through practice. Powerful, well groun
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Stuff you use more often tends to get memorized, less common stuff googled when you need it. When it’s memorized you do save a lot of time. I’d say if you’re really experienced in a language you rarely google syntax because 95% of it has
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Algorithm Visualizer(algorithm-visualizer.org)
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Meditation is very fulfilling. Insight timer has a bunch of free meditations. If you don’t have a partner that’s certainly worth finding. Eating healthy plants and hiking in the woods/park are great for you and feel good. Any of yo
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
> Your job as a designer is to focus on the user experience journey and understand what those users expect to happen - not what you want to happen. This is a very delicate balance of design “give and take”, hence why simple designs alway
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Anyone can experience hardship. Resilience is a powerful force to overcome it. It doesn’t solve all problems obviously, however a growth mindset[1] is still invaluable. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset#Fixed
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Would a bastion host help here?
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
I’ve noticed the key is lots of zoom one on ones. It’s so productive and fun, and you don’t feel lonely. Also, meditation helps a ton - it’s easy to feel lonely in a crowd if the inner experience is out of whack, regardless of the external
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AWS-Rails-Provisioner: Deploy Rails on AWS Fargate, Aurora, VPC, Codepipeline(github.com)
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Unnecessary Complexity (2016)(milandobrota.com)
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The Healthiest, Anti-Cancer Foods: G-Bombs (2017)(drfuhrman.com)
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Scooters, scooters everywhere :-)
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Free website hosting popular in the nineties.
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Sorbet-Rails: Tools to Make the Sorbet Typechecker Work with Ruby on Rails(github.com)
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Sorbet: A fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby(github.com)
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
This works in reverse too. If you have 900 recruiter emails you can send them a typeform/wufoo with questions relating to what you care about in a job.
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Esx: Up to 75% Faster React Server Side Rendering(nearform.com)
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by davidjnelson 7y ago
Oh wow, you built a product in 3 months that makes 1mm/year, you know Perl, sql and JavaScript, you’ve built 30 websites, you’ve run 3 successful businesses, you’ve built a framework to build web apps quickly? When can you start?

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