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by desert_boi 6y ago
Picking "Public Ivyies" is stacking the deck a bit, no? My "third tier" school has a median of about half of what Harvard does. https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?142115-Boise-State-U...
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by desert_boi 6y ago
My experience in Hamburg, Germany was that getting an apartment in the city was waiting for someone else to die. Getting an apartment in Boston took me two weeks. In Germany, it took two months. Germany, at least, keeps costs low by using t
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by desert_boi 6y ago
They probably mean the idea that once you're in PnP, you can "kind of, sort of" peer into zipfs deps, but not in the same way that was possible in bare node_modules. That said, I think yarn 2's PnP + zero installs ( http
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by desert_boi 6y ago
If you go to public school in the American West, it can be even cheaper. Boise State was $6K a year without room and board. It is a football team with a school attached though.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
> housing availability The real bottleneck in most American metros is more people than not loath density and want a garage and a yard. Without changing that, or finding a way to make it work, it's hard for the States to absorb peopl
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by desert_boi 6y ago
An em is historically based off the width of the letter M in a typeface. https://iamvdo.me/en/blog/css-font-metrics-line-height-and-v... is a fun deep dive into font sizing, which is pretty hairy.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
Chrome got in in May finally...Firefox has had it for years. One thing I really missed in Chrome and Safari.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
I've been rolling io-ts into an app I inherited and have been porting to TypeScript. If you know a little Haskell/Scala type FP, the docs are plenty. I think the lib could definitely have a shallower learning curve for folks comin
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by desert_boi 6y ago
Metro populations are very different than center city populations. In the US, the center city is often crippled financially and politically by burbs around them that don't pay to use infrastructure. Most large cities (Houston being a n
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by desert_boi 6y ago
As an American having lived in a 380 sq ft. studio in Hamburg, I can say the build quality of concrete walls was lovely. It was the quietest place I've ever lived, 7 stories a block from two parks. I lived on a two lane street, and no
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by desert_boi 6y ago
I think Washington must be including Northern Idaho (Pacific Time) as part of its territory. Also Nevada is in Pacific Time as well.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
Boise is converging with the coasts in terms of pricing and its infrastructure is depressingly inadequate. The local paper ran a story saying that the median house price in the city proper went up $15K in one month[1] and wages are not budg
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by desert_boi 6y ago
I'm an American who worked in Germany. I interviewed in the the Netherlands, but was horrified by how low pay was in the industry.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
with ESLint and Prettier on top.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
Cargo ships also burn fuel with depressingly low pollution standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil#Bunker_fuel
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by desert_boi 6y ago
Portland, OR is famous for hating both sprawl and density. NIMBYism is something all Americans can get behind.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
Mormons in my hometown vastly outnumbered Catholics. The joke was that Catholics could barely manage singing in unison, but Mormon hymn books were printed with four parts.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
Recently LDS was still the endonym. The exonym is almost universal for non-Mormons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exonym_and_endonym
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by desert_boi 6y ago
Average household size in the Mormon heartland of Utah (3.3) and Idaho (2.6)[1] are much higher than many places in the developed world (and even the hinterlands of the US). It's unfortunate that this has lead to zoning where a populat
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by desert_boi 6y ago
I believe so. I always wondered why `go mod` existed until we had dependencies break fairly frequently from a certain domain and were forced to vend the dependency.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
I fortunately have had my eye on the exit for a while, and am set to leave soon. The rest of my current team isn't so lucky.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
What happens when t-shirt sizes end up mapped to the same point values when evaluation time comes around? My current company is in a belt tightening cycle, and recently introduced stack ranking. Implicit metrics are still metrics, even if t
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by desert_boi 6y ago
In most tech cities in the States, that's the main mix. https://www.economist.com/business/2020/06/20/will-silicon-v... Facebook in this article's paywalled chart even has more asian employees
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by desert_boi 6y ago
Western American English has 14 vowels and some parts of Eastern have 15 (the caught/cot distinction).
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by desert_boi 6y ago
Running a dryer in my Northern German apartment in the summer was miserably hot. I can see why they're rare in places without widespread AC.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
The meme about Web Components being the future is older than React at this point.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
Who's to say you can't use Sass variables _and_ CSS variables? My current shop is moving to switch our sass color function `color.get()` to either dump hardcoded hex or a css variable usage based on a param. It currently just does
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by desert_boi 6y ago
Corporations are people too, my friend.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
Zero processing is a little generous, for things like like ES Module support (and interop), ts-node can be a struggle to get going.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
Until your global installs get stale/conflict with new global installs. npx is pretty handy for this problem though.

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