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by haukur 10y ago
Indeed, you're thinking about this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_saga
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by haukur 10y ago
In Icelandic (which hasn't changed much since the settlement of Iceland) it's "fjörður". In Old Norse it would've been "fjörðr".
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by haukur 10y ago
Hvalsey, hvalur and ey are still correct in modern Icelandic.
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by haukur 10y ago
> Fix the display for code that indents with tabs. Hidden feature: you can actually add ?ts=2 (or 4) to the URL. It would be nice to be able to configure it, though.
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by haukur 10y ago
You can convert a component to static markup with react-dom (the same package used to attach the app to the container element).
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by haukur 10y ago
If you want a single-page app feel to your website, build it as a single page app from the beginning. Bolting something like turbolinks on top of an existing website will probably give you more headaches than it's worth. You can't
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by haukur 10y ago
I was going to say the same thing. "What Do You Care What Other People Think", another Feynman book, is also pretty good.
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by haukur 10y ago
> work for a US or Israeli company Why an Israeli company? I assume you mention the US because of the salary in SF and other tech hubs, but it doesn't seem to be comparable in Israel, nor higher than in cities like London, Berlin or
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by haukur 10y ago
It can be very helpful to define all the different states (as props) for the set of components you're building. The data can be static or the result of dynamic calls to API endpoints (both approaches have benefits and trade-offs). For
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by haukur 10y ago
The idea behind this change seems to be centred around using a modern font no matter what device the user is on while not sacrificing performance. The trade-off here is brand consistency, but if the alternatives are to use an archaic font o
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by haukur 10y ago
I prefer GitHub myself. I tried using GitLab for my private projects, but their service is usually very slow. Taking 15 seconds to load a page is just not acceptable, in my opinion (this is not an exaggeration - their average page load ti
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by haukur 10y ago
Actually, Wikipedia says the number of stars is estimated at 10^12 (a trillion).
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by haukur 10y ago
Location: Icelandic citizen looking to move abroad (no visa required within Europe). Remote: Yes! Willing to relocate: Yes! Technologies: - JavaScript (ES6), Ruby, Python, HTML5, CSS3, SQL - React, Redux, Polymer, Lodash, Webpack, Backbone.
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by haukur 10y ago
For those interested, there are written records about these voyages dating back to the 13th and 14th century. The events took place some 300 years earlier, however. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_of_Erik_the_Red h
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by haukur 10y ago
As an opposing data point, at my previous employer we built the API with Node.js.
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by haukur 10y ago
You write CSS files and import them in your component. By using Webpack you would do something like this in your component: import CSSModules from 'react-css-modules'; import styles from './styles'; /
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by haukur 10y ago
There is nothing preventing you from using (React) CSS modules & state/props. Use the allowMultiple option if you need more than one classname (base classname + modifier).
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by haukur 10y ago
Location: Icelandic citizen looking to move abroad (no visa required within Europe). Remote: Yes! Willing to relocate: Yes! Technologies: - JavaScript (ES6), Ruby, Python, HTML5, CSS3, SQL - React, Redux, Polymer, Lodash, Webpack, Backbone.
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by haukur 10y ago
What I meant to say was that I felt Rails was too rigid for some purposes, especially creating single-page applications. It's true that Rails wasn't built with that in mind originally, but it seems that it's becoming a bit ea
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by haukur 10y ago
I think using Webpack still requires reading a lot of source code and examples, the docs aren't quite there yet. But it seems they're improving - the last time I checked the page you linked, it was completely empty!
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by haukur 10y ago
I've been working on React projects lately and also spent a lot of time gluing together all the different libraries and setting up a proper build process via Webpack. I've also worked on Rails projects in the past, and I have to s
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2M concurrent clients on Phoenix (Elixir) benchmark (40 core, 128GB)(twitter.com)
12 points by haukur 11y ago|1 comments
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A 2D vector library written in ES6(github.com)
1 points by haukur 11y ago|0 comments
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by haukur 11y ago
That works until a method you reference in the migration changes or doesn't exist anymore. For instance, a model you're working with might not expose some of the methods you're working with or a library has been modified, but
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Wall Street on the Tundra (2009)(vanityfair.com)
2 points by haukur 11y ago|0 comments
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by haukur 11y ago
Bankers are being tried, see, for instance: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/02/13/uk-iceland-bankers-...
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Iceland-based OZ set to launch, aiming to give YouTube a chill(pcworld.com)
4 points by haukur 12y ago|0 comments
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by haukur 12y ago
> we reached the point of having an astrologist in the loop for international decisions. I'm a little bit curious, did you mean to say astronomer or does the US government have an astrologist advisor?
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by haukur 13y ago
Funnily enough, the first chapter recommends the standard library as idiomatic Ruby code.
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by haukur 13y ago
I recommend the EasyMotion plugin. It allows you to do this via ,j or ,k (assuming your leader key is set to ,). If you want to move to a specific character in a line you can also use the w/b and f/F motions (with a leading comma). https:/

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