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by peterjmag 10y ago
I guess what I was trying to say is that I wish the JS world had had its own gofmt/refmt from the get-go. But since it didn't, the community's still pretty undecided more than 20 years after the language came into being, and
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by peterjmag 10y ago
even though StandardJS's decisions don't match the style predominant in the JS community I find it particularly ironic that there's a reasonably popular fork called semistandard. [1] In all seriousness though, I'd real
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by peterjmag 10y ago
This is one of those surprisingly subtle things that's particularly difficult for native speakers to explain, and things are complicated even more by the fact that British English and US English vary slightly in their usage. I personal
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by peterjmag 10y ago
What do you think about the recent Airbnb ban here in Berlin? Do you think it's done anything to improve that situation or at least "stem the tide"? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe&#x2
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by peterjmag 10y ago
Agreed. The USPS also provides address verification / normalization services. [1] Though I'm honestly not sure those are as comprehensive as certain other countries, as you mentioned. Germany has the Meldepflicht [2] for instance
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by peterjmag 10y ago
Can confirm—DigitalOcean is great at remote work. I'm consistently impressed by how well connected I feel, despite being across the ocean from our HQ in NYC. People really care and put in the effort to make it work. It also definitely
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by peterjmag 10y ago
it came in handy whenever a student emailed me their homework as a pile of JPEGs. Gotta admire this guy's resourcefulness—and patience. If I were a professor, I'd probably just reject the assignment outright if a student sent me
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by peterjmag 10y ago
This is great! I like that the focus is on companies (regardless of their hiring status), rather than job listings. When I started searching for remote positions a while back, I was more interested in finding a good company first, not nec
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by peterjmag 10y ago
Down for me, but Google's cache caught it: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Aretra...
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by peterjmag 10y ago
A 14 foot dunk[1]? That'd be a pretty impressive jump. [1] http://i.imgur.com/H81YlNl.png
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by peterjmag 11y ago
Another interesting argument for micro-modules: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10#issuecomment-1...
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by peterjmag 11y ago
Direct link: http://www.kleegestaltungslehre.zpk.org/ee/ZPK/BF/2012/01/01... Unfortunately, it appears to be down at the moment.
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by peterjmag 11y ago
Was it this one? http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/01/...
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by peterjmag 11y ago
Cracks me up that he mentions painting as little more than a side note. "Oh yeah and I paint sometimes too." This from the guy who went on to create what is arguably the most famous painting in the history of art.
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by peterjmag 11y ago
I found myself nodding along (if not necessarily agreeing 100%) until I got to this: I could have done the whole thing Taco Bell style if I had only manned up and broken out sed, but I pussied out and wrote some Python. I know this articl
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by peterjmag 11y ago
Well, I'm not sure I'd call them "asinine". Like any icon set, they require a bit of learning—they're not necessarily meant to be immediately recognizable to a first time user. They address a different problem: it&#
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by peterjmag 11y ago
Cool! Just bought it. And I agree, you should try raising the price! =)
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by peterjmag 11y ago
I love this. I've been thinking about a very similar issue for a while now, and I'm still trying to organize my thoughts into a blog post or something, but here's the basic idea: Hire more juniors. Or cross-train people from
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by peterjmag 11y ago
Agreed! This saved us all kinds of headaches in a large project at my old company (not open source in this case, but still helpful). I left a similar response on Medium before I noticed your comment: https://medium.com/@pete
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by peterjmag 11y ago
Good catch. I live in Berlin and use this sometimes, and I hadn't actually noticed that disclaimer before. (For future reference, it's under "Position der Fahrten" on [1].) Munich's live S-Bahn map[1] takes a slight
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by peterjmag 11y ago
"Small wander" that no one's caught it yet! :)
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by peterjmag 11y ago
Interesting choice of header image. I kept wondering when the author was going to talk about Soundcloud, but it never happened—turns out it's just a random photo of a startup office. (Looks like Soundcloud's old Berlin office? Not
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by peterjmag 11y ago
It's pretty well hidden, but you can still compose messages in a new window. For new messages, hold down Shift when clicking on the Compose button, or just hit Shift-C (but only if you have vim-style keyboard shortcuts turned on[1]). F
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by peterjmag 11y ago
Oops, wrong link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10524479
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by peterjmag 11y ago
+100. And an extra +1 for teaching me a new word (bloviate). =) I wrote a bit more in response in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10523788
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by peterjmag 11y ago
(For context: I started writing this as a reply to gyardley's comment[1], but I thought it might be more appropriate as a direct response to the OP instead.) I just wanted to add that you don't necessarily have to make a big dent
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by peterjmag 11y ago
Hi Christopher! :) Thanks for expanding. To clarify, I didn't mean to imply that moving to another closed source solution was the wrong decision. In fact, Discord seems like a great tool for the job. I just wanted to use the migration
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by peterjmag 11y ago
It's not as simple as "just use IRC". Even in cases where an IRC channel is both available and relatively well-promoted, some communities still seek out other tools. The first example that comes to mind is Reactiflux, a rathe
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by peterjmag 11y ago
Can you expand on that first point? Do you mean that you'd prefer that your Chrome extensions not sync across different machines? Or that you just use a different browser when you want to work without a bunch of extensions enabled? For
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by peterjmag 11y ago
Agreed. I'm gonna hazard a guess and say that they do it in order to avoid the cost of supporting older versions of their internal APIs. Interesting contrast to Facebook's engineering team, who maintains mobile apps for at least t

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