ericwood

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by ericwood 7y ago
It's not necessarily just to idly chat with other people, but has more to do with where you get your energy. I find I'm most productive and energized when surrounded by other people. Conversation is a part of it, and the ability t
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by ericwood 7y ago
Tangentially related: what resources would y'all recommend for learning modern-ish C? I'm planning out a microcontroller project and reading through avr-libc I'm realizing my C skills have completely atrophied since college a
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by ericwood 7y ago
While American resistors are usually labeled with colored bands, the Russian resistors are green cylinders with their values printed on them One nice thing about Russian ICs is that the part numbers are assigned according to a rational s
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by ericwood 7y ago
Or, as was my case, going to therapy will help you come to the realization that your job is what was making you unhappy. I couldn't imagine many therapists would try to convince you to stay somewhere that was causing stress/anxiet
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by ericwood 7y ago
Moment is somewhat the defacto standard for date manipulation in JS; it's to the point where most engineers I know will reach for it the minute they have to do any date/time work. This isn't too far off from a lot of people&#
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by ericwood 7y ago
The most common way to do this is to have the Photos app on MacOS set to "download originals," then use whatever backup solution you like best. I highly recommend setting this up. Last month through some sort of iCloud glitch my f
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by ericwood 8y ago
I constantly had this problem, especially at intersections, and actually read recently on twitter (I wish I could dig up the details!) that transmitters the MTA uses to communicate with trains occupy a similar part of the spectrum. This par
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by ericwood 8y ago
This is fantastic. I've been super fascinated with the Long Lines program and would love any suggestions y'all have for additional reading that's in a format like this. There's a lot of great info on long-lines.net, but
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by ericwood 8y ago
This was me. I was actually packing for a move today when I found an old hard drive that has a backup of my homedir on my family's old win98 machine which has all my old BASIC games and programs. At the time I channeled all my boredom
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by ericwood 8y ago
It's got W3C backing, but it's one of those things (like web MIDI) that only Chrome has bothered to implement. The APIs aren't intended to be proprietary to just Chrome. https://www.w3.org/community/web-b
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by ericwood 8y ago
Apple used to have a few of these sorts of effects scattered throughout iOS back in the skeuomorphic days; the volume slider in particular made heavy use of it https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/13/3082329/i
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by ericwood 8y ago
Awesome, thanks for the confirmation! You're much braver than me :)
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by ericwood 8y ago
When it says "disconnect Spotify in Facebook" does that mean deleting the Spotify app? Doing so warns me that it could potentially delete my account, which worried me enough not to go through with it.
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by ericwood 8y ago
I like the reasoning behind this, but am surprised it doesn't include resets for the (fairly opinionated) user agent styles for lists, which I'd argue for most sites get used more often than tables.
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by ericwood 8y ago
People really enjoy pulling this up every time a JS framework is talked about, and it's really tiring. I say this as someone whose entire job is writing "vanilla JS" without any sort of framework! People do have a tendency to
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by ericwood 8y ago
Fairly sure; the ad was literally “hey _____ employees, please hire me!” with a video and everything. I believe you can filter down to “works at X company” in the ad targeting. It’s possible they did some sort of other broader targeting, th
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by ericwood 8y ago
Someone recently did this for my employer, but instead of targeting just the CEO they targeted every employee working here with a Facebook ad. I have a lot of mixed feelings about it but at the end of the day I don't think they earned
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by ericwood 9y ago
Most grocery stores use off-the-shelf tech for this sort of thing; our business model made a lot of that not feasible and there was a decision made early on to build it ourselves, if anything because the tech we developed could have its own
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by ericwood 9y ago
I used to work at Blue Apron...sending people boxes of perishables is actually a very tough problem to solve and there was extensive tech powering the warehouse side of things. We had a fairly large engineering team working on these problem
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by ericwood 9y ago
I use Apple Pay quite a bit in NYC! From my experience, most contactless NFC readers at payment terminals accept it just fine, but maybe I've been lucky. I even use it in cabs!
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by ericwood 9y ago
They recently released the Monologue, which supports it.
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by ericwood 9y ago
I really like this, but I wish it wouldn't create a history entry for every single parameter that gets changed. Modifying the URL in place is totally sufficient (and I think it's great that you can link directly to results).
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by ericwood 9y ago
I'm having trouble taking what they say seriously. I was the tech lead of a project that appeared on this site. Since it launched (and after hiring an actual UX researcher!) we've identified some serious UX antipatterns and places
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by ericwood 9y ago
"Progressive enhancement" is the term you're looking for. I also mix it up in my head a lot.
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by ericwood 9y ago
I have this one sitting out and it's a joy to flip through: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed The beauty of Soviet brutalism: A photographic record of 90 weird and wonderful buildings from the last decades of the USSR https:
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by ericwood 9y ago
He was the lead engineer of the analog synthesizers department; I doubt he would have had much say in this even if he was there.
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by ericwood 9y ago
Amazon filed for a trademark, not a patent.
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by ericwood 9y ago
I'd say that's very acceptable given it's a promotion page for a JS library that shows live examples of the library in use.
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by ericwood 9y ago
This somewhat related and equally fascinating look at Scanimate, a video synthesizer used for all kinds of idents and motion graphics in the 70s and 80s is a fun watch: https://vimeo.com/172607783
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by ericwood 10y ago
Pretty sure this is partially a joke based on the whole "nodeJS is close to the metal" thing: https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says/status/234856345579446272?l...

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