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by petilon 7y ago
OK, so plugins can enhance code editing. But what about compile-time checks? With TSX, if you have a mis-matched tag the TypeScript compiler will give you an error.
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Excerpts from the story: To get the flying public equally comfortable with the MAX, Boeing needs also to counter a recurring theme on social media: the idea that software shouldn’t have been needed in the first place and that the plane’s l
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Boeing’s fix tames the ‘tiger’ in the 737 MAX flight controls(seattletimes.com)
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Cost savings came from not retraining pilots and not requiring airports to be redesigned, and so on. Boeing needed to use a larger engine for the new plane because larger, hotter engines burn less fuel. When the engine is made larger the wi
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I wish developers of TypeScript would learn from Go. TypeScript is awesome, but it is getting larger and larger and larger with every release. Soon it will become like the US tax code, and no one person will know the entire language.
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It hasn't died, the logic holds, and Tesla is still promising self-driving is actually imminent. In addition to the most data, Tesla also has the best self-driving computing hardware you can buy today. (See autonomy day https:/&#
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But they just delivered "Smart Summon" feature where the car drives itself to you in a parking lot. The rollout of this feature has been glitchy. But it gives them a lot of data which they will learn from and improve. Once they fi
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Tesla is already selling "Full Self-Driving Capability" for $6000. Excerpts: Coming later this year: Recognize and respond to traffic lights and stop signs. Automatic driving on city streets. Fine print includes this: The activ
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Elon Musk. How many companies has he created or is running? Zip2, PayPal, SpaceX (a rocket company? that takes guts), Tesla (a new car company to compete against GM, Ford, Mercedes, BMW etc? that's nuts!), SolarCity, The Boring Company
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by petilon 7y ago
Samsung ATIV Book 9 series is the best laptop I've used. Better industrial design than Apple. Fantastic "retina" display. Fantastic backlit keyboard. Unfortunately it is hard to find now. The 12" version is still availab
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Another egregious example: Frontier Communications adds a $3.99 "Internet Infrastructure Surcharge" for internet service, on top of the advertised price. But internet infrastructure is what the advertised price is for, so why isn&
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by petilon 7y ago
Here's the perfect React replacement for you: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder It is a 200-line library, and you get React's templating technology, which is the best part of React. You can use jQuery f
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Original press release that is the basis for the story: https://www.dana-farber.org/newsroom/news-releases/2019/new-...
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Here's the part that resonated with me most: A particular type of complexity is over-engineering, where developers have made the code more generic than it needs to be, or added functionality that isn’t presently needed by the sy
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In practice if they can't or decided not to apply for a green card they leave after 6 years.
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Yes, the TN-1 visa.
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This article is comparing the average salary of junior engineers (because H-1B employees tend to be junior, they move off of H-1B into green cards after a few years) with the average salary of software engineers as a whole.
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It is not just language. It is skin color (some are fair skinned like Europeans, some are dark skinned like Africans), food (North and South Indian food are very different), clothes, religion (which is very important in India), income level
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Compatibility, longevity, reliability and simplicity are what they bring to the table. Compatible because it is a W3 standard implemented natively by all browsers (including upcoming Edge). Even if your company has applications built using
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If this page is about components then there is a major omission here: Web Components. HTML custom elements are the way to go if you want to build reusable components that work in any framework. Custom elements are easy to write and are the
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On a somewhat related topic: Google changed gmail URL to mail.google.com from gmail.com. I think this is for easier tracking of users--it is easier to set cookies that are shared by all Google apps and sites.
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EVERYTHING beautiful is skeuomorphic. The page turn in iBooks, page curl in maps, cover flow, the shred animation in older versions of Passbook, the date picker in iOS 6, rotating settings gear (when updating iOS 6), the Time Machine interf
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The most amazing writing on this topic (i.e., how Apple ruined iOS) is by Michael Heilemann, Interface Director at Squarespace. Unfortunately he took down his blog. You can catch pieces of it on web archive though: https://web.a
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Let's consider Jony's performance on software design first. This is what some prominent people have said about iOS 7: The Verge wrote in their review: "iOS 7 isn't harder to use, just less obvious. That's a momentou
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> Ive is, to state the obvious, preternaturally talented. But in the post-Jobs era, with all of Apple design, hardware and software, under his control, we’ve seen the software design decline and the hardware go wonky. These two sentenc
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You don't need a complicated toolchain. This 200-line lib let you create and use Web Components using JSX syntax, just like React.js: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder
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California is drying up too. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/depleting-the-water/ Our planet's groundwater is being pumped out much faster than it can be replenished.
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The cells in our body depend on two essential minerals for normal function: Calcium and magnesium. Cells go into ON state when calcium goes in, and OFF state when calcium goes out. Calcium doesn't go out on its own: magnesium has to go
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So if I am understanding the results correctly, lowering cholesterol beyond a certain limit can increase morbidity. The results are not at all surprising. The science behind cholesterol and statin drugs is not settled science. Drug companie
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I am not seeing enough calls for Boeing's CEO to resign. Boeing put profits ahead of safety; now the company's reputation is in tatters, and the company will likely will end up buying back all the 737 MAXs. The CEO needs to go.

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