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by m_fayer 8y ago
My clients, as a whole, are a bottomless well of various IT needs. This is by design.
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This article hit a rare perfect note for me, I wish there was more documentation like this out there. Instead, the choice is often between very basic introductory stuff, API docs, and step by step "how to build a todo list" tutori
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by m_fayer 8y ago
FB and friends are selling a product that's pleasurable, possibly habit forming, has big negative externalities, and presents all sorts of non-obvious risks to consumers. This is the textbook case for regulation. Some future iteration
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Accessibility for the disabled is important. But since the theme here is to encourage design that doesn't presume the audience to be like the designer (probably educated urban middle class and up young adults), I'd like to add &qu
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MetaGo: fast cursor movement/selection for keyboard focused users in vscode(github.com)
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Would be a strong contender for "turtles all the way down" of the year.
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Yeah. It sounds like a euphemism to me. Like "I want to do something that's at best ethically murky because I'm trying to not have to work for a buck." It doesn't help that the only people I hear use this term are m
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Ascetic types may indeed become uninterested in the day to day grind of the world at large, but they are very much seeking some culturally-specific version of exaltation or enlightenment. The utter inability to ever feel anything but detach
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Are there any metrics that measure the difficulty of achieving a given station in life, or maintaining that station once it's achieved? Difficulty in terms of hours worked as well as more ephemeral difficulties, like organizational com
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Ask HN: How to do front end development for a CLI app?
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How I understand empathy in our context: in addition to privacy and security, have empathy for your real user, who chances are is not the middle class educated fashionable 20-something from the Google commercial. Your real user might be eld
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That's exactly right. The fact that "wall posts" is in that list gives you a false notion of the granularity of the items in the list. One of those is not nearly as granular as the rest - if you assume that it is, like I did,
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If we weren't maintaining safe global shipping and other elements of global stability on the sly and with a self-serving twist, maybe the vacuum would have caused the global community to come together to achieve the same ends, in a mor
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Thinking that this spending is ok based on your reasons amounts to a tacit acceptance of a huge amount of dishonesty, I find it quite cynical. This is a totally ass-backwards way to do stimulus and domestic investing, with the upside that i
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by m_fayer 8y ago
We're 21st century plumbers.
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OSS analytics packages are unfortunately such a rarity - Piwik seems to be the only serious game in town. All I really want is an anonymized picture of feature uptake and some inkling as to how well we're doing in the UX and perf depar
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Let AI help you be more productive with Microsoft Azure CLI(azure.microsoft.com)
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I think this is a wonderful point. I have elderly parents who depend on the web and mobile apps for a lot of the logistics of their everyday life, so I see the harm that this causes. The constant forced updates (looking at you, Windows) rep
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by m_fayer 8y ago
I know the anxiety you're referring to. I eventually started aggressively pruning my to-read list every once in a while, deleting articles that looked appealing when I came across them and impulsively hit "read later" but on
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Do you really have someone who would be equally comfortable/effective with a large complex PWA, on the scale of, say, Trello - and with a beautiful boutique site (say, for a sophisticated web-native publisher), with lots of motion, inf
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by m_fayer 8y ago
My 2 cents: One of the hats I wear is what I'd call a "frontend app developer," corresponding to the second role mentioned by OP. I work with vue/webpack/etc. I have a passable knowledge of HTML/CSS. Give me a
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A new day for chemistry: Molecular CT scan could speed drug discovery(sciencemag.org)
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RoslynPad – A cross-platform OSS C# REPL(github.com)
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Impatient: Seriously Powerful Linq Query Translation(tuespetre.github.io)
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Spreadsheets for Developers – strangeloop talk (2014) [video](youtube.com)
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by m_fayer 8y ago
I was going to reflexively downvote this but it doesn't quite rise to the level of bad faith that I look for before I downvote. But, I'd ask you to recheck your impressions every couple of years, especially if a technology seems t
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by m_fayer 8y ago
This is inspired by Vue/Angular. If you're familiar with those and dig into the docs you'll see that it's conceptually very similar. Nothing like Web Forms.
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It seems intuitive to me that the thing you pour your intellect, attention, and care into for 7-9 hours a day 5 days a week should be meaningful and fulfilling. On the other hand, hanging meaning and mission over one's head seems like
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by m_fayer 8y ago
I think this really depends on where you are. When I first developed post-infectious IBS 15 years ago, I went to quite a few Gastros who knew nothing but: scopes, check for ulcers, tumors, diverticula, etc. - and when it all came back negat
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by m_fayer 8y ago
Doctors in Germany are heavily encouraged to produce a phd thesis during their education. The way that usually plays out: they struggle to do good science while laboring to complete a degree that essentially has them memorize an encyclopedi

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