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by gramstrong 8y ago
This quote from Atticus Finch has made the rounds recently, so I'm feeling very trite in reposting it, but: I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's
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by gramstrong 8y ago
Judging by some of these popular comments, I never want to show HN anything that I build in my free time , ever.
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by gramstrong 8y ago
This makes me feel really sad. While my grandparents were still alive, I put off visiting them for literal years. They lived overseas and I combated for too long trying to justify the cost of travel for the length of time that I could affor
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by gramstrong 8y ago
When humans ingest opioids like oxycodone, they ultimately end up excreting traces of the drugs into the toilet. Those chemicals then end up in wastewater. And while many contaminants are filtered out of wastewater before it's release
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by gramstrong 8y ago
Android has had split-screen for a while (and anecdotally, it works with google apps)...just sayin'
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by gramstrong 8y ago
Just curious what intrigues you about this framework in ways that React does not?
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by gramstrong 8y ago
Maybe it's overkill, but hardly anymore than the V8 engine is for most websites. Compilation to WebAssembly will be at zero or little cost to the developer, so it shouldn't matter either way.
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by gramstrong 8y ago
I will say that our marketing and sales teams probably did a poor job of communicating the capabilities of the app to our customers. I'm not even sure if most of them knew how it worked. I don't think our customers found the PWA f
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by gramstrong 8y ago
I'll pipe in with my experience. I worked for a company that built applications for a mostly non-technical customer group. We built a very small PWA for them to perform some daily record entry, which often occurred out in the field or
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by gramstrong 8y ago
You can't donate to NPR (at least, not easily)... You can argue that donations to local NPR stations helps free up revenue for NPR the organization, but donations don't directly translate in to anything that NPR does.
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by gramstrong 8y ago
This is great. Wasm really seems to be picking up steam. Any examples of a Rust crate that has already been published to the npm registry?
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by gramstrong 8y ago
Phooey. This comes off as unnecessary gate-keeping. How does anyone do science, ever? They use tools for measurement, tools for analysis, tools for record keeping...all of these functions can be captured within a GUI. Doing science doesn&#x
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by gramstrong 9y ago
> inherently secure Who told you that? I don't think "inherently secure" is a thing in the tech industry.
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by gramstrong 9y ago
Are we really at the point of "needing" Facebook? edit: BBC taking the "Social" part of "Social Networking" too literally.
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by gramstrong 9y ago
Bellingham had a local provider (PogoZone) pop up and they seem to be becoming more and more competitive with Comcast around here. Unfortunately, they service from a cell tower from which my house is obscured by a large hill. I have heard g
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by gramstrong 9y ago
Not by tracking, really, but I'd assume by population sampling. Rough counting of a species in an area or on a migration path, and then comparing it to historical data.
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by gramstrong 9y ago
I might have used it to debug Ada, which is like Pascal, back when I was in school.
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by gramstrong 9y ago
We're talking crypto investors here. The ones that preach diversification, and then sell every single one of their alt coins when the bitcoin bubble is deflating.
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by gramstrong 9y ago
A short term domestic investment for a long-term tax benefit. The headlines made immediately after the new legislation is passed are what will stick with people the most. I'm not saying this is definitely the case, and I would love to
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by gramstrong 9y ago
I accidentally left a (mostly) empty application service running on Azure for about 7 months on their Pay-As-You-Go plan. I racked up over $500 in charges that I didn't know about, and I felt robbed. In reality, I'm just kinda dum
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by gramstrong 9y ago
Hmm, if the parents were paying tuition, rent and other expenses, how could they have possibly qualified for food stamps as dependents?
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by gramstrong 9y ago
This is hardly my experience at all. Maybe in the first ~6 months after they rolled out the chips nationwide, but not anymore.
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by gramstrong 9y ago
Once web components become standardized. So...2030.
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by gramstrong 9y ago
Yet when the entire primary source is published the only bias is between your own ears. This was true, up until the point Julian Assange started providing political commentary every day on Twitter. There are also other ways of being biase
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by gramstrong 9y ago
This isn't v5 of "Angular" though, this is more v4 of Angular 2. Angular 2 became just "Angular" a while back, and Angular 1 became "AngularJS", I suppose to distinguish them as two separate products. Ther
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by gramstrong 9y ago
That's a poor analogy for agile. A better one would be knowing that you need to build a bridge, pave a road, and demo a building. You determine that for this sprint, you need to build that bridge, because it's blocking off commute
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by gramstrong 9y ago
Plenty of U.S. citizens have their own baseball team. Mine is the Seattle Mariners (and they STINK).
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by gramstrong 9y ago
Apple and Microsoft are actually dragging their feet to embrace PWA's until they can be regulated by their app stores and monetized. It's actually really annoying if you're interested in developing PWAs, because one of the ni
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by gramstrong 9y ago
A custom element is just an HTML element, so it is a part of the HTML standard. If you log the object you can see it has all of the same properties as an HTML element, plus whatever you've extended it with. So all emitting events and e
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by gramstrong 9y ago
Is listening for the event really expensive? Honest question. We update the UI when it happens, so I don't think relying on the success/failure of network requests is reasonable for us anyways.

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