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Huge helium discovery 'a life-saving find'(ox.ac.uk)
290 points by emilong 10y ago|187 comments
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by emilong 10y ago
Explaining something in a way a toddler can understand sounds a lot like writing code to me. Computers have only as much context as they have libraries/instruction sets and you have to "explain" the rest in those terms.
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by emilong 10y ago
No idea on the accuracy of this, but this article claims there's a company ( http://www.neuvokascorp.com/ ) making basalt rebar at the same price as steel: http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/06&#x
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by emilong 10y ago
Failure of a startup doesn't mean you're a failure or even that you failed in this instance. There are many reasons why a startup can succeed or fail. Either way, if you've shown you learned from the experience, I think you&#
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by emilong 10y ago
Can you give an example of the kind of question or discussion you're looking for? Might help folks narrow down their answer.
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by emilong 10y ago
I actually hope this is true as a consequence of them storing salted hashes for passwords. That is, Github should not ever see my password, only validate that I know what I entered previously.
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Encryption Security May Not Be Secure Anymore (Possible AES Crack)(yournewswire.com)
11 points by emilong 10y ago|14 comments
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by emilong 10y ago
One way to generate UUIDs in a more index-friendly way, at least in Postgres, is to use uuid-ossp's uuid_generate_v1mc() function. They end up sequential, so maybe not the best if you need total unpredictability, but the lower order bi
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by emilong 10y ago
My first thoughts exactly. I'd be very surprised if there were not at least one introvert on that team (there's an awful lot of us!) and would love to get their perspective. Introversion isn't always obvious. I'm guessin
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by emilong 10y ago
This is great news. In general I'm hoping this makes it easier to do browser testing in more CI services, rather than isolating this type of testing to services that have to specialize in it just to get it to to work. One (minor?) bene
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Rendering Back End Requests with React(blog.boldlisting.com)
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by emilong 10y ago
Fair point in the article about SEO for technologies being an issue when trying to find help. "Lambda" has a good chance of leading to irrelevant results, even if there was a lot of experience with it documented online. It's
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You are not your tools(medium.com)
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So you’ve screwed up your Redux store – or, why Redux makes refactoring easy(blog.boldlisting.com)
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by emilong 10y ago
letsencrypt.sh is great. It has easy support for existing CSRs and can do dns-01 verification (i.e. making sure you control the domain via a DNS secret rather an http get path/secret). I wrote up a usage tutorial for the latter with Ro
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ES6: Using more const and making const more constant(blog.boldlisting.com)
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by emilong 10y ago
Just one data point: I never heard of it or honestly thought to look for such a thing. Might just be a marketing issue? BTW, I _have_ heard of React Storybook ( https://github.com/kadirahq/react-storybook ) and happened
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Ask HN: Balancing flow with timeouts?
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by emilong 10y ago
I've been using Node in production for a few months now, having come from Ruby (Rails & Sinatra) immediately before, but having used JavaEE and PHP before that. I find it... fine. For error handling, bluebird's typed error cat
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by emilong 11y ago
In addition to redux-saga ( https://github.com/yelouafi/redux-saga ) which others have mentioned, redux-loop ( https://github.com/raisemarketplace/redux-loop ) is another interesting "declarative
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Connecting Redux to your API(blog.boldlisting.com)
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by emilong 11y ago
Bold | http://boldlisting.com/ | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | FULL-TIME We’re a small, well-funded, early stage startup tackling the $50B+ market of residential real estate looking to bring on our second engineer. Node back
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Declarative Dependencies for Unit Testing Node.js Services(blog.boldlisting.com)
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by emilong 11y ago
"Performing these kinds of image manipulations efficiently is essentially a solved problem. There are many freely available software toolkits that would be more than sufficient for our needs. However, our server infrastructure doesn&#x