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by epicide 8y ago
I have spent many hours on many versions of WebPack for code that has gone to production for a large company. I cannot give any more detail than that. WebPack 1.x was very powerful but very difficult to understand and configure. There weren
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by epicide 8y ago
Seems so, but you can actually use Workflow today (without running a beta version of iOS).
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Exactly. The obsession with "innovation" is how you get feature creep. You can improve something by copying it and figuring out how to do it easier/cheaper/quicker.
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The point isn't that the west hasn't copied things. The point is that the west puts emphasis on originality and "innovation" and downplays the value of copying. Learn to do it right (copy), then figure out how to do it b
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by epicide 8y ago
This dovetails with the case for enterprise open source quite nicely. We continually make more and more complicated things. The time in which we iterate also decreases. I can see the argument that patents were useful at a time where an iter
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by epicide 8y ago
For a few things ("I'm leaving work" messages, in particular), I've had good luck with Workflow[0][1]. Unfortunately, it's all manually programmed and no learning, but it is decently intuitive and powerful. [0]: ht
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by epicide 8y ago
I think you're assuming that HTML (and maybe CSS) is the foundation layer of the web. I would argue that JS is part of that foundation. Sure, historically, JS came (much) later, but things change over time. E.g. Java was originally des
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by epicide 8y ago
I'm really struggling to find a good use for this. Putting content in a blog post means the author thought the information was worth at least copying and pasting (and possibly even editing). A lot of blog posts aren't even worth t
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by epicide 8y ago
They seem to have left it intentionally pretty vague in order for people to fill in these sorts of gaps. If they meant "don't use experimental technology at work" then they should say that. If they are trying to imply it by g
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by epicide 8y ago
It might as well have just said "get off my lawn" and nothing else. It starts with a list of things that everybody obviously wants, goes on to give very specific examples with absolutely no backing or evidence, and finishes with s
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by epicide 8y ago
I like that the intro paragraph discusses the pros and cons of vanilla vs plugins. For those that want to take a look at some more vanilla approaches to some common tasks, Max Cantor has a great talk about that on YouTube [0]. [0]: https:&
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by epicide 8y ago
I think the best approach is to only take a few photos of an event. Just enough to be memory triggers. Increasingly, we see people spending more time worried about photos than just enjoying the thing they are photographing. For events that
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by epicide 8y ago
I'm convinced most of this pricing is aimed at businesses.
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I'll preface this with the fact that I completely agree with your sentiment. > it's still not even a physical book (so why so expensive?) I have never written or published a book, but my understanding is that the cost of writin
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by epicide 8y ago
He could have been compensating for his vision. If he were color blind, he probably figured out something was wrong with his vision even if he didn't know what to call it.
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by epicide 8y ago
> It's never been the most efficient way of doing something, and it requires very advanced technology to accurately understand what people are trying to say It seems like a lot of times when people talk about chatbots, they really m
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by epicide 8y ago
Lately, I've found using a VPS and setting up my own VPN is a bit cheaper (and safer? assuming you don't want anonymity). Vultr has a $2.50 a month box with a few European locations. You only get 500gb of transfer per month on tha
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by epicide 8y ago
Exactly. "Best" practices don't always turn out to be the best, after all. "Better" practice might be a better (heh) fit. It's often more useful to look at anti-patterns and avoid those (still with a grain of s
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by epicide 9y ago
I've seen some people make the argument that they want to use their editor for quick edits to single files, which is a fine use-case. However, VS Code is really not designed to be optimized for that case. It's really about editing
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by epicide 9y ago
These are helpful tips for VS Code. If you don't (want to) use it, then this has nothing to do with you. Nobody is trying to sell VS Code to you.
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by epicide 9y ago
I think their point was that the person has to be at your house. E.g. they can't systematically and remotely try the door handle of homes halfway around the world.
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by epicide 9y ago
I have to admit, for better or for worse, YouTube is getting better at predicting new things for me to watch. That is probably because I consistently follow very narrow types of channels and watch those channels as my main form of video con
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by epicide 9y ago
I actually have started face to face conversations like that, but admittedly had tone of voice to soften it. I can see how it can sound harsher than intended in text-only.
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by epicide 9y ago
> Just imagine game developers shipping a GPU with their game just to be sure it is the same OpenGL version. Electron apps aren't shipping you hardware. I think the more apt analogy would be installing a specific version of DirectX
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by epicide 9y ago
You've clearly never tried to support more than one browser. That's the big benefit of Electron packing its own browser: you know exactly what engine it's running in and which version of said engine. It's not dependent o
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I think his point is that it's not garbage from the user but garbage that the user needs to use. It's not as simple as invalid input or a bad copy/paste. The user likely cannot correct the CSV.
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> There are solution that follow standards and have been tested in audits. I don't think their point was that you can get text vs images.
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by epicide 9y ago
The features you list sound like something that should be implemented by an email client not an email host. I realize they have their own client, but that is really just a means to an end as it is obviously not their core business. On top o
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by epicide 9y ago
It can't delete an automatic or manual backup I've made of all/some of my email. I think the argument is that you have a way to export and retain emails while there is nothing you can do with messages on FB other than screens
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by epicide 9y ago
Maybe I'm biased towards FastMail, but I'm kinda glad they made it obvious it was an ad (small lead up as to why, then they hit you with a "use our product instead"). I wouldn't say it's worth linking on HN (ex

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