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Product overview: https://www.f4map.com/
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Why is measuring productivity easier to do in the office? Don’t your coworkers have deliverables? How does being in the office make it easier to tell if those deliverables are complete?
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I love that this comment defines productivity as lunches, jokes, playing board games, and going to the pub. Though, I agree all those things are more fun than sitting at a computer.
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Yes, Wii had a web browser and a JavaScript API for the Wiimote. I prototyped a simple web game for my Wii at the time.
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HeyLaughingBoy is right about patterns being built into frameworks we use today (can’t reply to that comment because it’s nested too deeply). Rails is an example. I’ve seen a number of talks and articles by DHH that emphasize patterns and t
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You’re lucky to be programming now! I’ve thought about this a lot because I grew up with an Apple IIc in my house, but didn’t learn to program C until 2001. My parents didn’t know how to program. We learned to use the computer for typing an
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It helps because apps are often used to view or edit files. By “files” I mean things like word doc files, photoshop files, Apple Keynote files. Many people like working with files and saving them locally, rather than on a server. With SQLit
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Check out “SQLite as an application file format”, https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
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Browser support is currently limited to Chrome and Edge. Firefox and Safari don't support this yet. Source: https://web.dev/file-system-access/#browser-support Here's a better overview of the sqlite3 WASM pro
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Regarding technology as a savior—it isn’t, but it can help. Steve Jobs described the computer as “a bicycle for the mind”. Bicycle technology allows a human to move faster than a cheetah ( https://www.travelwriter.nl/english-
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GDP doesn’t need to grow indefinitely. It measures industrial output, but not wealth or prosperity. Here are economists whose perspectives you may find offer a way out of the trap it feels like we’re in: Mariana Mazzucato ( https:/&#x2
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Cool project! A true, open source alternative to Postman will be valuable. It seems like you’ve got the major elements in place. Unsolicited UX notes… I read Hacker News on mobile, so tried the app on mobile and ran into some challenges. In
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What question is so urgent? What’s the consequence of waiting 30 minutes, or until tomorrow, for an answer?
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Additionally, Netflix falls into one category of website DHH writes about: unpredictable, significant bursts of traffic. When they publish Tiger King during the pandemic there’s a spike in streaming no one could have predicted. When people
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> multicloud usage is becoming increasingly unwieldy Is anyone having a good multicloud experience? Any advice to share about keeping workloads portable across clouds?
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Kirby’s Pinball Land [1] is one of my favorite pinball games for this exact reason. 2D camera angle. Each table is divided into a set of full-screen partitions. I’ve never understood the appeal of 3D tables from bad camera angles. [1]: htt
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Wikipedia article links to the key websites, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard) I had less luck finding Matter with DuckDuckGo. Evidently a competitive search term (which is to be expected).
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Exactly. Apple needs more killer apps for iPad. With the Pencil, touch, LiDAR, and Pro Motion display, iPad is the best platform for design… but it’s potential is unrealized. Plus, otherwise PC-only companies already buy Macs so that design
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Wouldn’t be surprised if Apple Freeform matures into a Figma competitor https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/06/06/apple-offers-snea...
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Are you adopting the TH3 approach for your codebase? One of the distinguishing things about SQLite is the DO-178B TH3. Not sure if any other open source database have that. http://www3.sqlite.org/th3.html
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D&D game with same sort of virtual sets used in The Mandalorian(polygon.com)
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Applications like you’re describing should consider less DOM and more Canvas API. The apps aren’t documents. They’re more like video games. DOM manipulation and rendering usually degrades performance more than the JavaScript. One essay on t
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You want what you want today because of the experiences you have lived. If you’d lived a different life, you’d want different things and the “you” asking this question on HN wouldn’t exist. Thankfully you do exist, so keep taking in new exp
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Actually, I was wondering if you drag, resize, or organize desktop windows ( https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline... ) to do things that aren’t possible on iOS. Though, I also use Windows for gami
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Out of curiosity, do you use a lot of windows? I’ve used a Mac my whole life. Recently, I’m using 4-finger swipe to switch full screen apps. I’m also choosing the “snap” layouts over dragging windows around. It’s useful to have 2 folders on
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NASA has teams of engineers focused on supply chain and reliability. Supply Chain Risk Management, https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/supply-chain-risk-manag... “NASA’s Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) progr
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This site has info about QR capacity: https://www.qrcode.com/en/about/version.html Edit: this is probably the best answer though… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32461230 or the microfiche su
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It could possibly happen in robotics or home automation. SparkFun could get there, or Adafruit.
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Can you recommend a reference for this? Was trying to explain why credit is important to someone who doesn’t want a credit card.
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Thanks. You summarized the paper better than the article this discussion thread is about. On closer reading, CSAIL had people write the articles and used natural language processing to detect “linguistic fingerprints of the Wikipedia articl

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