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by morley 9y ago
If you love coffee, the best alternative to coffee is decaf. If you buy directly from a great roaster, you'll hardly be able to tell the difference. I'm not sure I'd be able to in a blind taste test (decaf if anything takes a
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by morley 9y ago
I'm guessing too many people know about the "email jeff@amazon.com" hack, and that they now forward everything from there to customer service.
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by morley 9y ago
I noticed the site is reporting JS and CSS sizes AFTER gzip, not before. That seems unnecessary. Browsers will download the compressed version, so it's the compressed version that determines the page speed.
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by morley 9y ago
I lived on the L train for 7 years up until recently. In my estimation, shoving onto the train just wasn't worth it. It makes the ride much more miserable for people in the car, and it delays the line even more. The second point is imp
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by morley 9y ago
Cisco charges an arm and a leg for its videoconferencing devices, which are basically fancy versions of this. I'm okay with Facebook trying out a cheaper version for the average consumer. If they fail, it's their money; if they su
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by morley 9y ago
There are ways to debug minified JS in production, sourcemaps being one of them. In addition to the speed difference, there's a significant payload size difference: something like 1.5+MB for the dev build, vs 70kb for the production bu
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by morley 9y ago
The other side of this coin is that, for these "low-cost workers," the goat farm gig is probably better than their alternatives. > Workers on this farm get strip-searched. If they're caught with drugs or tobacco, or get in
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by morley 9y ago
I've heard Blizzard does the same thing for valuable random drops (like legendary drops in Hearthstone and Diablo 3): instead of being random, there's a proc rate so you can't get screwed by chance.
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by morley 9y ago
Has anyone here worked on a Glass app? How is the UI programmed? Does it require a special programming paradigm like VR, or are these instruction manual HUDs basically just PDF viewers?
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by morley 9y ago
70mm has already long-since proved itself to be a lucrative mass-market format: it's called IMAX.
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by morley 9y ago
We basically already have intelligence augmentation; it's just in the form of computers and smartphones. Interestingly, despite widespread adoption of both, there's still some people "smarter" (i.e. better at certain tas
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by morley 9y ago
Are there any examples of (good) non-market-produced information? The only such example I can think of is state-owned media, and I can't think of any situation where that has been or would be a good thing.
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by morley 9y ago
I'm really curious what his streaming software looks like. I've always been interested in how stream video gets composited and what tools are available, but I'm too lazy to look into it.
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by morley 9y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but is there any evidence that this is actually a 0day attack? I didn't study the last outbreak that closely, but it seemed like it was a vulnerability that had been patched, but affected computers tha
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by morley 9y ago
The performance bottlenecks I mostly see as a frontend engineer are those related to the browser (execution speed, DOM manipulation, and painting). I'm curious what workloads wasm can improve, since I assume it'll mostly deal with
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by morley 9y ago
Plus, decaf from a good roaster is indistinguishable (at least to my limited palette) from normal coffee. It's definitely no longer the 70s where the only decaf option is watery Sanka.
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by morley 9y ago
I was wondering why they specifically chose Julia for this (since I know little about Julia at all), and found an answer in a previous article: > Julia has two main advantages from our perspective. First, as free software, Julia is more
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by morley 10y ago
In my experience, a LOT of developers learn that React is a good framework because (a) it's component-based, and (b) the virtual DOM. So my guess is that a lot of developers hear the lines "React is the V in MVC, it has components
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by morley 10y ago
The full-screen modal-with-windowshade newsletter prompts are super annoying. But I realize bloggers will always want to "expand their reach," to use the distasteful marketing term. I'd much prefer the prompted blinded in fro
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by morley 10y ago
As much as Coffeescript gets maligned, its best feature (that hasn't been replicated, not even here) was the existential operator: friends = user?.friends?[0]?.friends It would even work properly with functions: friends = ge
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by morley 10y ago
> You just need to be able to spot an actual issue. My problem with the article is that it's extremely hard for humans in general, and critics in particular, to accurately model the alternative. I think that's the heart of what
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by morley 10y ago
I've never heard the phrase "the best offense is a good defense," but I have heard a great many times the phrase "the best defense is a good offense." I don't have any data to back it up, but inclined to believ
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by morley 10y ago
OkCupid | Senior Frontend Engineer | NYC | Onsite and full-time | https://www.okcupid.com Come work on our React / Redux / Webpack frontend and help millions of people find love / get laid. Full description: http
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How OkCupid organizes its multi-page React app(tech.okcupid.com)
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by morley 10y ago
Here's Richard Garfield giving a talk about Luck vs Skill in game design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSg408i-eKw
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by morley 10y ago
I don't think I could write a comment that's a stronger explanation than what Guillermo Rauch wrote: https://rauchg.com/2015/pure-ui TL;DR: It's not about the HTML in Javascript; it's about being ab
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by morley 10y ago
I consider myself a minor, amateur metalhead (to which I'm sure a real metalhead would take umbrage), and I have to look up the definitions of black and death metal every few months to remember the difference. It doesn't help that
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by morley 10y ago
Why does Google deserve the shit for stopping people from taking money from them? I wouldn't think to give a department store shit for pressing charges against someone who smashed up a bunch of merchandise, whether or not the act was p
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by morley 10y ago
The article is a little light on detail of how those high profits come to be. Is it maximizing the amount of produce you can grow, or is it choosing the highest-margin produce, or is it something you do on the sales or marketing side? Is it
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by morley 10y ago
The browser would have to save the source text for EVERY tab it opens, regardless of whether you view source or not. That seems more onerous than making a separate request for the source code every once in a while.

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