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Flutter: cross platform API for mobile apps(flutter.io)
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i've been building web-based software since 1998, when I had to manually parse http requests on stdin (and read headers from env variables) in a C application running as a cgi-bin plugin, remembering to end the stream with two \n chara
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who gets paid to support that ecosystem, and who does the paying? as a simple example, I use the hapi.js server framework (because it is awesome). At one point, it was supported by Walmart Labs. It isn't anymore - it's mostly supp
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One of the central problems of trust is that simple solutions don't scale well. Back in the day, one acquired a .com address by sending someone an email, because everyone knew everyone. cross-env has had 1.3 million downloads in the la
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Why would the malicious user advertise the email associated with crossenv as kent@doddsfamily.com and not kent@dodds.family? Attacker could control the latter and hand you an evil cert?
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I'm working on a node-based REST endpoint. It's nothing special - it looks up stuff in the database, does CRUD things, pokes postgres, has a cache layer in redis, a websocket for handling sidechannel stuff like model update events
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as a gen-x person, I love my library. I don't know how much of this is "San Francisco, tech stuff" or how much is broadly available, but I'm able to get books online via amazon (with a 3 week borrow period), quite a few
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you should check to see if your library has online services - mine lets you renew online, even if it is overdue (unless there's a waiting list).
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huh, I'd been eying a fluidstance board (put off a bit by the price), but those indoboards are way cheaper. Thanks!
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you might want to try a balance board. i've been meaning to get one myself - they apparently are good for low-back pains.
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I have an ergotron sit-stand desk, and a high-quality foam pad to stand on. I started my standing experiment with an ikea hack (just a small lack table with a shelf attached for a keyboard). I liked it enough that i invested in an ergotron
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i came here for the algaerithms, was disappointed.
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thirded. I love the customizability of iosevka, in particular the ability to turn on / off ligatures and manipulate the appearance of the @ glyph.
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this isn't "no plans to support wayland" - these drivers are built to support wayland. It's the Xwayland translation layer they're talking about here, which (I think - my understanding is a bit thin here) is for run
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I'm somewhat bummed about this - I am a big fan of ShareLaTeX, and have been using it for quite some time. I absolutely love that the whole thing is built on an open-source engine (not just the latex part - you can self-host if you w
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Ah, kingdomino got an award. I got a copy last year from a friend who picked it up at Essen. It is excellent. Pretty easy to learn, plays in 15 minutes, hidden depths to strategy. Great gateway game, and not too expensive either. My only ho
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But that's 385 / month revenue? On a setup that's what, $3400 to buy, for seven 1070s? Seems like asking for 10 months to cover capex is a bit thin, given the price instability.
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Yeah, I'm in the same boat - I have a redis I use for caching auth tokens and some other values for a small service, and it doesn't take much ram at all. (5-10 MiB)
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While this is true, we should specifically address people that aren't white men here. There's a pervasive myth that the STEM pipeline is to blame for why so many tech employees (especially engineers) are white men. See, for exampl
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Yup. I have to manually screw around with doordash URLs because the login button on their site breaks when I block analytics libraries.
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I learned python 2 by reading an earlier version of the book. I already knew how to program in general (20+ years experience), and the book was a little basic. Still, as an intro to a language (I was new to python entirely) it was worthwhil
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One could imagine just putting a text entry field for gender, so as to not other any gender identity that doesn't align with the male-female binary. One could also imagine putting other fields in for respondents to self-identify as tra
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http://www.r-word.org/
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I have no strong opinion about the alcohol rule. Personally, I don't drink at work (or work functions) as I have seen the deleterious effects of same. Feels like a liability issue as well. I'm also super-supportive of a harassment
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Chipotle is nowhere near the quality I can produce in my own kitchen, even setting aside its recent correlation with e coli outbreaks. This price is also precisely the same price point (around $10 per person per meal) that these services pr
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I subscribe to sunbasket. Here's some reasons. I like cooking I don't have time to shop frequently I like meal planning, but I don't like meal-planning 7 days a week I don't care to go out to eat and spend a bunch of tim
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The printer uses the yellow supply from your ink or toner. There have been reports of some printers refusing to print monochrome when the yellow is empty, presumably for this reason. Anecdotally, my yellow always runs out earlier than my C
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for the most part, they didn't go for bigger than 27 very often. At the time Saxe started studying them in the late 1970s, they were living very close to nature, and often didn't have cause to need to accurately count higher than
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If this stuff is interesting to you, you should read about Geoff Saxe's work [0] with the Oksapmin people of Papua New Guinea. This book is newish (and I haven't read it, but I've read almost all of the studies the book is bu
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Very cool. I've run into a number of these sorts of bugs in my own code - usually the kind of thing where we have multiple people concurrently trying to edit one single data item. My node / javascript framework does some decent ca

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