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by mch82 4y ago
The cost of nuclear energy seems seriously understated. Nuclear waste storage costs the US $6B per year and we still don’t have a long-term storage plan. We’ll incur this cost for hundreds or thousands of years. https://earth.sta
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If the code is yours, then absolutely. If your code depends on other open source code, then probably (but double check). Charge for the app on the App Store. Post the code online under an open source license (for example, on GitLab.com). Ad
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XP - http://www.extremeprogramming.org/ ShapeUp, as n42 commented - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31534642 Product Development Flow by Don Reinertsen - http://reinertsenassociates.com&#x2F
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People just need to start chipping away at it. Eventually it’ll exist. My favorite inspiration for “chipping away at it” is https://ephtracy.github.io/ who has been slowly building up the coolest 3D art tools one commit at
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Probably some truth to that. A lot of these are also probably paintings he did for practice, never planned to show publicly, and just never threw away. Then, after he died, people found them and sell them as Picasso originals.
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You hit the key points. - the arc of a career - the historical period - influence on other artists > could the masses still be convinced his art is good in modern times? Probably not because those contextual factors would be different. T
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Good eye! He was evidently a fan. https://www.pablopicasso.org/picasso-and-van-gogh.jsp
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Skilled artists often get bored with photo real art. Why paint if a camera phone is within reach. Artists also often resist optimizing for commercial success (“selling out”). I understand why you might not like the later paintings (or at le
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This is agile: https://agilemanifesto.org/ If the result isn’t “working software” created with “customer collaboration”, while “responding to change”, then it’s not agile. There are also twelve principles ( https:/&#x2
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Checkout Firefox Developer Edition, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ Create an HTML file and open it up in the browser without a web server (though some advanced stuff will need a web server r
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I wish more people would write about how to do this.
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Your answer is a good one. I’m optimistic that remote work can help society reverse course on the constraints that have trapped people into loneliness. We got into the habit of commuting during our free time, working far from home. We somet
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My bet is that as soon as someone popularizes a way to manage state across a set of web components the pendulum will swing back to the “Vanilla JS” approach. It’s so nice to work on web apps without having to install NodeJS, builders, cli t
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Building on your comment, frameworks have described themselves as “polyfills”. Polyfills used to be libraries that added modern browser features to old browsers. Then, Angular and React began using polyfills to add future features to moder
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Exactly (though a diagramming tool could implement PRs in the future) What might be cool is a graphical editor that uses Mermaid as a file format.
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Neat!
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I don’t get the XKCD reference either. It’s the opposite. There are many ways to diff database schemas but, as I understand the doc, this utility actually compares the data stored in a database with the data stored in another database havin
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https://sparkfun.com tutorials. The key is to think of electronics components like functions. Each component has inputs and produces outputs. PCBs aren’t a necessary step unless you want to make many copies of your work. They ba
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Is there a good tutorial for setting up a pipeline like you’ve described using? Really cool!
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Not looking to sell them, but will check out the groups.
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Is there any need for original OS X install discs? I’ve got a set headed to electronics recycling. Edit: from around 2001
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by mch82 5y ago
This review is misses for me due to these two quotes: > I’m using this Macbook almost exclusively with the lid closed, with a USB-C adapter to connect my keyboard/mouse/monitor. > However, that keyboard doesn’t have the Opti
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by mch82 5y ago
Claris Works on Macs in the 1990s is the best database product I’ve ever used. It was amazingly user friendly. I used it to make form letters & reports. Claris Works prioritized the application layer of the database and hid a lot of the
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by mch82 5y ago
> why did they upgrade in the first place? New games and game updates often require Switch system updates. Two examples: Animal Crossing DLC requires a system update. Rocket League seasons usually require a game update.
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How come we don’t have plaintext symbols for the formatting basics: bold, italic, color? Maybe we could expand Unicode based on lessons learned from Markdown/typesetting & the formatting characters could be added as non-printing c
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From another point of view, our society has major market inefficiencies around resource allocation that we need to figure out. As a society, we absolutely need a free and open web (modern telecommunications). We also need other things like
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Of course. Mozilla is competing for the same talent as Google, Microsoft, and Apple. Browsers are the most important software at those companies because most other software runs on them. The Hacker News community doesn’t seem to appreciate
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I think society just got scared by the pace of progress and change, then decided to tap the breaks.
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Quite an insightful comment!

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