nicbou

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   by nicbou 4y ago

   This is something I enforced in a big rewrite at a previous company. People would take a full API response, and pass bits of it around with mutations. Understanding what the object looked like 5 functions deep was really hard. If the API ch
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   by nicbou 4y ago

   I didn't expect to see you here! You are undoubtedly an inspiration, at least to me. I love your content. It makes me want to build stuff!
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   by nicbou 4y ago

   This is fine for me. My iPad is a mostly disconnected device on purpose. It's truly just a notebook.
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   by nicbou 4y ago

   It comes down to what you want to do with your tablet. I want to replace paper books and notebooks. The iPad is unrivalled for that. If I need a machine to type on, I need a full OS on a full laptop. I just pack both.
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   by nicbou 4y ago

   It's great for reading, sketching and taking notes. It's not a development machine, though some people try really hard to make it so. I never found a good solution, so I pack my iPad Mini and my Macbook. I just need stronger legs.
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   by nicbou 4y ago

   It's not just about getting it to run. The devil is in the details: sleep mode, bluetooth, power usage, etc etc. Usually, the first 90% went great, and the last 10% took whole weekends to fix.
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   by nicbou 4y ago

   By tablet stuff, I mean reading, taking notes and sketching. No app ecosystem does it like iPad OS'. The problem with the Surface Go isn't the hardware, but the fact that it runs Windows, a system that just isn't made for the
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   by nicbou 4y ago

   I disagree with using time on page as a metric. If you can answer the question in half the time, good for your readers. In many cases, people want the tl;dr only, so I try to give them that first.
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   by nicbou 4y ago

   I tried a Surface Go 2 then bought the latest iPad Mini. There's truly no equal for doing tablet stuff.
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    My timeline thing. It gathers all my crap and puts in onto a timeline. It's a more fine-grained version of scrolling to a specific date on my photo stream. https://github.com/nicbou/timeline It serves no purpose,
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    That’s not a lot of distance. Japanese bikes will reach 60k with basic maintenance and nobody will bat an eye.
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    That's really cool! You put more work into this than w3w for sure
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    Do they? Flower, flour, ants, hence, its, hits, tits, lead, led, lead, let, lit. It's especially hard in a language where spelling doesn't always suggest the wright pronunciation: read and read, lead and lead. Sometimes, the combi
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    Some might https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/uptown-squirrel/
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    I've never seen the numbers explained so succinctly. It's a terrifying difference.
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    The GPS coordinates system has a lot of buy in already
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    Or flour, flower, floor... GPS coordinates are better.
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    > Another fraud is "spare parts available ONLY to 'certified technicians'" witch means repair is as expensive a get a new gear. It blows my mind that some vehicle repair manuals are basically impossible to find.
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    But this is essentially correct. It's pointless to design a component to outlast a device's useful lifespan by a decade. I've heard it phrased differently: anyone can build a bridge that stands, but it takes a good engineer t
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    That's a good point. I don't feel bad about cheating. I was always aiming for a reduction. If we all managed a 20-30% reduction, it would help. It would also become a lot easier as businesses would have to cater to these concerns.
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    This is a really fine onboarding experience. I love your approach.
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    The electric shaver is one of the last things I'll remove from my pack. Shaving manually is a pain in the butt.
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    I'd be one of those people, I guess. I silently make my own life difficult to reduce my carbon footprint. Less meat, less flying, less plastic. Many people in my social circle do the same. The environment became part of their decision-
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    I can confirm. Flying is dirt cheap in Europe. It makes travelling by train far less appealing, since it's slower and more expensive. I hate flying, but trains are rarely a convincing option. They ought to be.
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    Why do you assume malice?
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    It would be nice to have a few template graphs to help us understand the end result (and learn how to edit graphs). I love how you can use the tools without first giving any information about you.
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    I can't speak for others, but I refuse to use most mobile apps. Websites run in a much smaller sandbox with an ad blocker. I can trust them to stop running code on my device after I close the tab. It won't try to hijack my attenti
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    It's not wasteful. The energy is used for something, not deliberately wasted.
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    This goes both ways. It's also fine to ignore your open source users, or refuse their requests. What will they do, fire you? Stop paying you? If they don't like it, it's on them.
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    by nicbou 4y ago

    Notability will pop your block off