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by habosa 6y ago
Just want to point out that Hacker News has an excellent setting you can enable to limit your session frequency and length. I've found it very useful.
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by habosa 6y ago
Is there a good estimate for what fraction of people have a mental illness (diagnosed or undiagnosed)? I bet higher than 1%
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by habosa 6y ago
I do miss the flash aggregator websites (newgrounds, etc). There is no format today that lets you package up an interactive web experience and let someone else embed it for you. That was a huge deal because while Flash was easy to get your
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by habosa 6y ago
Website nit: the "npm install --save-dev candymail" installs this as a devDependency which is normally reserved for development tools like TypeScript, linters, etc. Things which are not needed at runtime. Your library is definitel
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by habosa 6y ago
60% effective but 100% effective at preventing severe illness . That's really what matters. It's not about making sure nobody gets the virus (none of the vaccines can offer that) it's about making sure we can live with this
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by habosa 6y ago
Data Insurance. Almost every company out there is collecting tons of data, but 90% of companies don't have an IT department capable of keeping it safe and compliant with the latest regulations. Companies thought data was an asset but a
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by habosa 6y ago
This is a key point and I'd love to hear someone's thoughts on how you build an app with this framework that's snappy even on a high-latency connection.
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by habosa 6y ago
I wonder what sort of due diligence is done on the business practices of these small brands. There are a LOT of scams on Amazon and to succeed in the marketplace many brands have to be willing to do some shady things (buying reviews, swappi
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by habosa 6y ago
Unfortunately because the media gives such fawning press coverage to IPOs that "pop" the companies also want it to happen. No executive wants to have the IPO that dips on Day 1. Now if they were thinking rationally they'd rea
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by habosa 6y ago
Congratulations to them and to all Jetbrains employees. They managed to do two really hard things which most developers flirt with at some time or another. 1. Create a new editor/IDE that's actually better not just different. I
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by habosa 6y ago
I remember a previous study showing that junior doctors were actually associated with better results since they were more recently trained and had less ingrained habits/biases. Don't know if it applied to surgery though.
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by habosa 6y ago
Googler here: I did a true 20% project once. I was filing a ton of bugs about Android internally and the process was crappy, so I found another person and we started working on an app to report bugs directly from the phone. This went from n
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by habosa 6y ago
Googler here: for those of you who have ever used Firebase this is the language that powers Cloud Firestore / Cloud Storage security rules. Specifically in our rules everything after the "if" is Common Expression Language. Se
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by habosa 6y ago
Sure! Some things that come to mind in no order: * Food - an incredible an ever-changing restaurant scene, from cheesesteaks to 10-course tasting menus. And all much more affordable than fine dining in most US cities, plus free BYOB is extr
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by habosa 6y ago
Every city is special in its own way. Very few cities have anything truly irreplaceable, but it's a combination of small differences that make a city special. My two favorite cities in the US are San Francisco and Philadelphia. Many pe
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by habosa 6y ago
In the last 10-15 years San Francisco gained a ton of residents that didn't want to be there at all. They moved there because the job opportunities in tech were too hard to turn down. I had some friends like this, they just never reall
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by habosa 6y ago
It's a high risk and very high variance bet. The odds are terrible but for 99.999% of people it's the only bet you can make with "instantly project me into the top echelon of wealth" levels of upside. There's value
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by habosa 6y ago
Eat Out to Help Out will go down as maybe the dumbest policy in COVID times in any nation. They paid us to eat at restaurants ... basically the highest risk activity.
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by habosa 6y ago
These look like great improvements! I've been using Tailwind one a medium-large solo project and I can confidently say the whole project is MUCH better designed than it would have been without Tailwind, while still looking very custom
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by habosa 6y ago
Has anyone managed to get good results from this thing? I can only get wood-textured junk.
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by habosa 6y ago
I'm no design expert but this advice is really thin and not that useful. Trust me that using a color palette generator is not the One True Way! Also there's no advice on how to pick a base color, just "pick one". Second
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by habosa 6y ago
You always think that if one of these people joins your company it won't matter to you. You won't see them in the halls and they probably won't do "normal" work. My wife used to work at Dropbox when Guido worked the
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by habosa 6y ago
Ok so let's say you actually want Apple to do this kind of security for you (I don't, but let's say). Currently they do a synchronous check before you launch any binary. Why don't they instead just log every binary signa
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by habosa 6y ago
Here's an idea: log all opened binaries somewhere and then every hour or so check them against the list. Never block me from opening something, but warn me about bad stuff on a regular basis.
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by habosa 6y ago
Googler here but opinions are (obviously) my own. I've got a few issues with this but my biggest one is the combination of Drive/Docs/Gmail storage with my Photos quota. I have 18GB of that stuff ... so I'm done before I
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by habosa 6y ago
Firebaser here! Just want to say this is (in my personal opinion) pretty cool and even though it's the "competition" you're doing something unique and we'll take the comparison as a compliment.
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by habosa 6y ago
Disclaimer: I work in Developer Relations at Google. At most large tech companies (Google, Microsoft, etc) the documentation is the responsibility of the Developer Relations team. Apple has always been an outlier: they never had a Developer
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by habosa 6y ago
Local newspapers make a good chunk of their money by placing "public notices". Basically every time a law changes or something like that, there's a requirement that it be published in local newspapers. There's a startup
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by habosa 6y ago
Some more context: https://twitter.com/marak/status/1320465599319990272 The author lost all of their stuff in an an apartment fire. If you value the open source work (I love faker.js) and want to donate, PayPal pa
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by habosa 6y ago
I've heard that bananas can be caused to ripen rapidly by exposing them to ethylene gas. This means you can transport them green so they don't bruise and then quickly turn them yellow when they arrive at the destination for sale (

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