ericwood

14 ms·

121.
by ericwood 6y ago
There's a similar-ish tower in Texas, although the company that owns it seems to be doing something different with it: https://texashillcountry.com/mysterious-tesla-tower-texas/
122.
by ericwood 6y ago
I find this universally true in every corner of the stack and it has more to do with experience than anything else. It’s hardly “all front enders do this always.” Still, to my point, the tools mentioned here have existed for a very long tim
123.
by ericwood 6y ago
This gets parroted a lot around here but the last 5 years or so there's really only been a few major players in the framework space. Maybe the "framework of the day" mentality was pretty strong in the early 2010's but th
124.
by ericwood 6y ago
Moving is expensive, and leaving a city means leaving behind existing support networks (friends, family, etc.). I'd imagine many people don't have that kind of mobility and moving is simply not an option.
125.
by ericwood 6y ago
Crawling and caching is pretty common for any service that offers unfurled previews to avoid sending extra traffic to sites that may not be able to handle it, and in many cases I'd imagine retrieving the pre-extracted cached version to
126.
by ericwood 6y ago
That's personal preference! I've found the sliding to be faster and more precise in my day to day usage but I wouldn't expect everyone to feel the same way.
127.
by ericwood 6y ago
You can tap and immediately slide without lifting your finger to do that! I feel the same way and this is the closest thing the touchbar has to a killer feature.
128.
by ericwood 6y ago
Whatever. The dude’s a PHD in mechanical engineering with a very specific focus needed by this lab. It screws us over and it also screws over the lab. We should be so lucky to welcome an engineer like him into our country.
129.
by ericwood 6y ago
This has been extremely disappointing news for our family. My sister's boyfriend is an Irish citizen and recently got a job at a large national lab in the same city as us, visa sponsorship and everything. They were supposed to be here
130.
by ericwood 6y ago
It's not so much the pain it brings, so much as the fact that a lot of the original inconsistencies and querying it was invented for are either gone or integrated fully into the native APIs. http://youmightnotneedjquery.com&
131.
by ericwood 6y ago
I'm not a huge fan of atomic CSS, but part of the idea behind it is it solves the "ever-inflating CSS bundle" as well as the "where do I put this CSS" problems, both of which are issues on large projects.
132.
by ericwood 6y ago
Correct, Lemur is just a remote. I've heard great things about TouchOSC, which would fill a similar role at a fraction of the cost: https://hexler.net/products/touchosc
133.
by ericwood 6y ago
I don't have much visibility into that but the Squarespace ad on their homepage is absolutely a clue :)
134.
by ericwood 6y ago
I used to work on Squarespace's templates team, and this is a very real problem we talked about with some frequency. There's a few solutions, one of which is designing more around text, but in many instances people still want the
135.
by ericwood 6y ago
Denver also, as of last year, encrypts its police channels, which makes any sort of outsider oversight impossible.
136.
by ericwood 6y ago
You're right, there is something to be said for this billboard being more about building name recognition than anything else...I just worry that they're jumping the gun on it a bit, and honestly would have loved to have seen somet
137.
by ericwood 6y ago
There's one by us and my wife and I were talking about it the other day while stopped at a light...I'm not sure who the target audience for the billboard is, honestly. There's no mention of what DuckDuckGo is. In tech circles
138.
by ericwood 6y ago
Mark Klein, the whistleblower for all of this, wrote a great book on his experience that I highly recommend: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6625940-wiring-up-the-bi...
139.
by ericwood 6y ago
I don't know; having recently submitted apps (and multiple updates) to both platforms, Apple consistently has updates approved within 24 hours (almost always much faster than that). The initial review for Google Play took nearly a week
140.
by ericwood 6y ago
Not familiar with Ionic, honestly, and React Native has been around a few years and supported all the use-cases we'd want, and I've been doing React for a number of years, so a familiar environment was a huge win. Energy consumpti
141.
by ericwood 6y ago
It seems to be more and more a niche tool. I don't think there's really anything better for situations where you have a small startup that needs an app, has JS experience, but can't justify a full-time mobile dev for each pla
142.
by ericwood 6y ago
It's around 8 emojis per row; FlatList can do multiple columns out of the box, but in order to allow scrolling through all categories I was forced to use SectionList to get the headings. Chunking the larger data array into groups of 8
143.
by ericwood 6y ago
This seems to be one of those react native holy grails; I've been building an emoji picker similar to the one Slack uses but it's been a chore! I recently discovered Modalize, and it's working fairly well, but for a long Sect
144.
by ericwood 6y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting the increased wages bit from; a significant number of companies have been forced to cut wages or furlough their employees. Maybe some people are getting raises, but that is very very far from the
145.
by ericwood 6y ago
Last summer I started working at a place that does this, and it's been great, for the reasons you mentioned! We have tuesdays and thursdays set up as remote days, with meetings highly discouraged. Half my team has a decent commute, and
146.
by ericwood 7y ago
The closest I've come is auxparty.com; the Spotify integration is great and being able to pull from your own playlists makes queuing tracks a lot easier.
147.
by ericwood 7y ago
This definitely resonates with me. These sorts of constructions have been an obsession of mine for as long as I can remember. There's a very specific feeling they conjure that I've never been able to put into words either, and I&#
148.
by ericwood 7y ago
What I'm saying is that it goes beyond socializing; if I'm cut off from other people and heads-down all the time I get depressed and it's counter-productive. I socialize plenty outside of work, but I am happiest and most prod
149.
by ericwood 7y ago
I mean, clearly it's not working for a large chunk of people, otherwise this article wouldn't keep appearing on the front page of HN regularly. What I'm saying is there's a way to meet in the middle.
150.
by ericwood 7y ago
These conversations always seem to be extremely one-sided, and it's frustrating. I wouldn't even classify myself as an extrovert; it's a continuum and people fall all over the place. Ultimately, though, an ideal office needs

More ›