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I revisited rails this past week for the first time in nearly 10 years. So much easier to quickly develop an app on than what I have been doing. I feel done with the whole SPA thing unless there's no other way to build the app. But n
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Clocking in an out of any headline in the document tree is a great feature.
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But we’ve waited too long for multithreading to merge them now.
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I used to be into a ton of different things, I still find a lot in the world fascinating. But it's too much. Over time I have been slowly carving out the life I want to live. Cutting out the distractions that are only mildly interestin
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> The first social media platform, called SixDegrees IIRC, iam.bmezine was in 1994. Granted, it was a lot more esoteric/niche because you either had to pay or submit an image of a body modification to their gallery.
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Right- it’s almost always the regular 4 things. When they’re a young teenager, and they’re trying to kill themselves, and you have to lock up all the sharp objects, including the knives you cook with every day, constantly watch them, which
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> And I do not mean waiting in the few overcrowded clinics that take Medicaid because Medicaid reimbursed very poorly so providers do not accept it. Sorry you had a bad experience with that growing up. Really. As a parent I can’t say I s
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<3 Farts and poop talk all the time. There was a post in the past where someone talked about “the function game”. You think of what the function does. The other person gives you “input”, and you give them back “output”, and they try to f
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> Everyone seems to think there are a million qualifications they have to meet before becoming a parent. "We need to have a house, and 100k in savings, etc etc etc." And yes, it's good to be prepared. But also, as long as
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> If you’re focused on these experiences as the defining characteristics of being a parent, you’ll completely miss the big picture. Right. Because that’s the easy part, when they’re babies. At first I didn’t believe my friend’s dad when
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I am put off by QR code menus. The last thing I want is a need to use my phone if I’m sitting at a table with people.
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How long has parking been something that needed an app?
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I’ve been using razor pages. For me it takes the abstractions I enjoyed with aspnet MVC, with less of the boilerplate- controllers, etc
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After looking for enough time, it may be worth it to make some compromises, pick one and try building your application with it. You may never find “the” framework. Lately my default has been AspNet Core and C# (or F# if I’m feeling frisky).
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Really! The flagship web framework for Elixir, “Phoenix” is pretty well made https://www.phoenixframework.org/
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Probably going through Rainer König‘s org-mode tutorial series on youtube. I like that it’s all with vanilla org-mode. That way you can dig deeper into anything he’s doing in the org-mode docs or on worg. I don’t have a very rigid workflow
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For me it was org-mode. Emacs is basically my org mode interface.
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I always go with 11x engineer. It’s even better than 10x
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> How does not studying CS relate to being able to build a CPU/compiler/ray tracer? I think it directly relates. University or not, I’m pretty sure you’ll need to study some amount of computer science to do this. And then sligh
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A lot of professional programmers, including myself, did not study computer science at a university.
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When I was younger my car broke down and I did not have the money for the replacement part. So I rode my bike to work for 5 months. This was quite enjoyable most days, it was only 3.5 miles each way. On rainy days, I packed a 2nd set of clo
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by jcpst 4y ago
As a recovering former SPA enthusiast, coming back to the simplicity of HTML/CSS/JS over the past few years has been a breath of fresh air.
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Woah- I am not alone on this. I have a dotcom modular system, did JI tuning research in college, and dream of buying a patina vehicle from the fuel crisis era and converting it to EV.
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A real-time quoting system for intermodal shipments, that added millions in booking revenue every year.
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Not sure what the best way is. Here's the very basics of digital marketing: * build something great * build a list of people interested in that thing * Keep them engaged by giving them value * occasionally ask them to buy stuff And the
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Cool to see Sevish on the front page of HN. He was inspiring to me on my microtonal journey. I started with Harry Partch and Ben Johnston’s compositions and writings. Here’s a work of mine that focuses on 7-limit JI intervals: https:/
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> I can code up my dream ideas with ease, what i don't know how to do is market anything or get users. That is the key. If you learn marketing strategies, you will be able validate ideas, grow a customer base, test what works and do
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At my work, we have a system about that large. We have about 50 or so capabilities/domains. Some of the bigger ones, like Orders or Quoting have 100s of services. Some may only have a few dozen. Many of these capabilities have their ow
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Kind of like this recent HN post, “Fractal Tasks and the Journey through the Forest of the Infinite”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33481368 I have a lot of music gear, including one of those analog modular synthesiz
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“Many people predicted this would be a permanent acceleration that would continue even after the pandemic ended.” It’s not over yet.

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