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by luketheobscure 1y ago
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but Ballmer essentially made that money by simply not selling his Microsoft stock.
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by luketheobscure 1y ago
It's interesting how quickly my brain developed an AI detector for written language (this blog post screams ChatGPT). I wonder if it will stay effective, or if LLMs figure out a way around it? Or maybe it's just that this is the n
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by luketheobscure 2y ago
Is there a term for this style of writing? It's like a longform linkedin post. I don't mean this as a criticism, it just seems like written language is evolving to better capture our diminishing attention spans.
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by luketheobscure 2y ago
> Tech is a poor fit for agriculture. Incorrect. I worked for an Ag tech company for almost a decade. Ten years ago, farmers were downloading high resolution satellite imagery of their fields directly to their GPS enabled precision spray
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by luketheobscure 2y ago
It is a batteries included _front end_ framework. You don't need to worry about compiling, routing, code splitting, etc. Most of the things you described should be handled by the back end service
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by luketheobscure 2y ago
This is an unfortunate comparison. I actually chose Next.js because of its similarity to Rails - it's a batteries included, opinionated framework that favors convention over configuration (though it's not sold that way since these
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by luketheobscure 2y ago
Honest question - have you ever tried to use the actual web components API? It very much feels like a set of primitives to build a framework on top of. I can't imagine the amount of boiler plate you would need to write to just use web
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by luketheobscure 2y ago
I'm surprised this wasn't on the front page. This caused quite a bit of trouble for me.
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by luketheobscure 2y ago
An alternative interpretation of the Marshmallow Test is that it is a measurement of trust as much as it is of self control. If you don't believe that the researchers are going to give you the two marshmallows, then you're not goi
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by luketheobscure 2y ago
It's me... tried out cloudflare this morning. Bad timing.
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by luketheobscure 2y ago
Thank you so much for letting me know. Tried out cloudflare this morning, rolling it back.
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by luketheobscure 2y ago
We certainly do performance tests, and we also don't auto-update. The issue here was it was a slow leak, so it took time and significant load for the pattern of errors to present itself.
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The process that kept dying: A memory leak murder mystery(lukedeniston.com)
28 points by luketheobscure 2y ago|8 comments
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You Probably *Do* Need ESLint-Prettier(lukedeniston.com)
1 points by luketheobscure 3y ago|1 comments
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by luketheobscure 3y ago
A rebuttal to a popular piece advising against using ESLint as a formatter.
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by luketheobscure 3y ago
Reminds me of when filmmakers in the 90's rediscovered the Fisher-Price Pixelvision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL2000
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by luketheobscure 3y ago
There are a large number of very incorrect statements in this article. > True to its de-facto tagline, change detection in React is “just JavaScript.” Then in the example, the author updates a variable with `setCount(count - 1)`. That&#x
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by luketheobscure 3y ago
> Do people not merge master into their branch before pushing? All that seems like mostly problem caused by having too long living branches. On projects with a high commit velocity and a large team, simply merging main and running the te
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by luketheobscure 3y ago
I'm not sure why those sections were flagged for low contrast. Manually checking the contrast for those colors at https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ shows that they are all WCAG AAA compliant.
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by luketheobscure 5y ago
I had a few tasks last month that https://nginx-playground.wizardzines.com/ really helped with.
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by luketheobscure 5y ago
While we celebrate individuals, in my experience real work is done by teams of people, and there’s lots of research that shows heterogenous teams perform better than homogenous ones. I’ve seen teams where a single toxic “rock star” destroys
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by luketheobscure 5y ago
The problem with this approach is that it pushes out a lot of people, especially women and minorities. When you are conditioned from birth to believe that you belong somewhere, a bit of criticism like this is easily brushed off. White men e
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by luketheobscure 6y ago
I ported several large code bases off of CoffeeScript last year, mostly to JavaScript, but some to TypeScript. Simply being able to use ESLint is worth it (CoffeLint wasn't even close). I wrote CoffeeScript for years but I don't m
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by luketheobscure 7y ago
What makes a talk memorable, or inspiring? Technical content aside, what makes some talks better than others? Giving a talk is easy, giving an _excellent_ talk is difficult.
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Ask HN: What makes a great tech talk?
8 points by luketheobscure 7y ago|5 comments
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by luketheobscure 7y ago
Tailwind is fantastic. Everyone goes through the initial shock of complaining about the "ugly markup", the violation of separation of concerns, etc. But I've worked in enough large codebases to tell you that the ones that use
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Loudness war(en.wikipedia.org)
272 points by luketheobscure 7y ago|172 comments
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by luketheobscure 7y ago
When emoji use follows a strict convention (something like https://gitmoji.carloscuesta.me/ ), it can make it easier to scan a list of commits and get a rough idea of where the development focus is (i.e., hardening vs. featu
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Margaret Atwood Discussing the Handmaid’s Tale in 1986(studsterkel.wfmt.com)
4 points by luketheobscure 7y ago|1 comments
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by luketheobscure 9y ago
"NSURLSession oh so helpfully auto-fucking-matically decided I would probably—no, definitely—want to send those cookies in every single request my app did after that. Forever and always." I imagine it honors the "expires&quot

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