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by nfw2 4y ago
This is a bit of straw man because the author is specifically dismissing certain genres of fiction like romance and thrillers, rather than fiction as a whole. It's hard to argue that books like The Da Vinci Code, as much I enjoy them,
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by nfw2 4y ago
I meant that with JS, you could make a browser game, which would be a better experience.
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I watched the Creedence Clearwater Revival (most successful band in the world in 1969) documentary on Netflix, and it's striking how "uncool" they seem, especially John Fogerty. It's not surprising that savant-like weird
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You could actually play the game
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- Site proudly uses no javascript Embedding the game into the browser using JS and WebGL seems like the obvious way to let people experience it easily. Most people aren't going to download it.
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by nfw2 4y ago
Which Dropbox thread? Not everyone on HN has been here a long time
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Law is cool because it's like math, but because language is less precise than math, the rules are more malleable, and there is more room for creativity.
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by nfw2 4y ago
Legal theory is a joy I discovered much later in life. The LSAT brain-teaser questions are also pretty fun. I've considered switching careers (now in my 30s), but I expect the realities of the job are much less thought-provoking.
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by nfw2 4y ago
That's reductive. My parents were white liberal hippies who didn't push me at all. I got C's in school and a perfect math SAT and SAT 2. To be fair, I did spend a lot of time thinking about math because I liked it.
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I would also be interested in reading that thesis. I was thinking a while ago that going to grad school to work on something like that would be cool. One thing that occurred to me is that shifting focus may work better as a gradual activat
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by nfw2 4y ago
I agree that a lot of UI/UX professionals have dubious qualifications. That said, talented designers can arguably be a company's most valuable employees. Product design is the axis on which many tech companies compete, not techno
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It is both amazing and terrifying how skillfully these bots can lie.
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by nfw2 4y ago
Not super-opinionated on this, but let me try to steelman the JWT case. Yes, to perform session invalidation with JWT requires some amount of centralized state, so a perfectly-decentralized auth system is not actually possible. However, usi
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by nfw2 4y ago
There is only haptic feedback if you hold it, not if you tap it.
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That's justifiable on the home screen, but the protection for the button on the notifications screen that I can only activate: 1. unlocking my phone 2. swiping down from the top 3. clicking on a small button in the bottom corner not so
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by nfw2 4y ago
Turning off the phone is useful if you are low on power and don't have a way to charge. I do this sometimes when traveling or in the city. When I go through open apps, it is usually to get back to something I was doing, rather than to
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I am not talking about myself personally. Users like my mom, who have trouble navigating AirBnb, are going to have trouble remembering 8 different swipe actions, even if they go through a tutorial. A designer needs to anticipate users ski
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The actions listed in the article are fairly non-essential, but many fundamental iOS functions also have discoverability issues, as well as some head-scratching design choices. For example: - seeing notifications requires swiping down spec
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by nfw2 4y ago
And if your hand-rolled solution is big, you'll also have trouble extending/modifying it. The argument was that hand-rolled code doesn't break on its own, and my point is neither does framework code.
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If JSF has abstractions that encapsulate arbitrary units of logic running on the client, then it is a frontend framework, by definition of frontend framework. If it doesn't, then we aren't talking about the same thing. Also vanil
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by nfw2 4y ago
A lot of technology has started with gaming driving much of the early development, including PCs, graphics, AI, and the internet. Whether Meta can execute on the metaverse bet is fair question, but I expect most of the changes they are envi
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by nfw2 4y ago
A company can just stick to one version of Angular in perpetuity if it wants to. The code in some Angular X.X.X release will always be the same, and the Angular org can't magically break your code by releasing a new version of it.
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by nfw2 4y ago
What I originally meant by the "component-centered model" of React is not that it gives you a prefab list of elements to include on a page. I meant that it gives a framework for organizing custom logic to coordinate the behavior o
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The purpose of a React component is more than just rendering HTML nodes. Furthermore SSR can only do so once per page load
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If you mean framework devs, I disagree that they don't care about you. Frameworks are generally free and open-source, so creating a valuable product for the community is arguably all they care about. Maybe meeting the specific domain
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The thing I've found about working with React (and the web frameworks like Vue and Svelte), is that once you embrace a component-centered model, it makes virtually all web development easier, even relatively simple projects. There cert
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Sure, but no one could argue that Tesla is a Theranos-like operation. Arguments can be made about whether Tesla's valuation is reasonable, but it's certainly a legitimate car manufacturer.
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you read my mind :)
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I also know nothing about the subject, but just to play devil's advocate here, doesn't SpaceX show that a startup could potentially solve hard physical engineering problems more effectively than established incumbents?
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Jared Friedman has recently said each batch generally has over 10% solo founders. So, it would be considered a meaningful concern, but certainly not a deal-breaker, especially if the founder is technical. https://www.ycombinator

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