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by ripley12 7y ago
Yeah, that would be nice for UIs that can use Solarized Light. I experimented with it as a full UI, but it just didn't look quite right to me – I ended up only using it for light mode code snippets.
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by ripley12 7y ago
Shameless plug: I did the same thing to my personal website and wrote about it with light/dark screenshots: https://www.reillywood.com/blog/dark-mode/ I like working in Solarized Dark, so I wanted my website
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by ripley12 7y ago
Thanks! I've added some modern links to Sakila+Pagila to the postgresql.org wiki (which was woefully out of date) https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Sample_Databases
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Ask HN: What are the best sample databases for Postgres?
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by ripley12 7y ago
The CMU Database Group: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnBsf2rH-K7pn09rb3qvkA It's mostly run by Andy Pavlo, a professor at CMU. Full recordings with slides+notes of class lectures, and lots of talks by visitin
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by ripley12 7y ago
> a component-based approach to UI development This is actually something that bothers me a lot about Angular. Yes, you can extract components, but the process of doing so is a lot more... heavyweight than in React. In React, I can trivi
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by ripley12 7y ago
My background is mostly .NET and web. I like VS Code a lot for JS/TS, but I hesitate to recommend it for C#. Using it about a year ago, I felt like I was missing a lot of the power of "real" Visual Studio and many language fe
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by ripley12 11y ago
That is an interesting link, thanks. I do wish it was better about providing sources though.
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by ripley12 11y ago
"muni is wildly expensive compared to any other competent city" This is just so not true. Transit is much more expensive in both Tokyo and London. Agreed about SF transit being awful though.
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by ripley12 11y ago
Amen. What bothers me about the "AirBnB is taking housing units off the market" line of thinking is that the people claiming this is a Big Deal almost always ignore policies that prevent larger amounts of housing from ever being b
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by ripley12 11y ago
You may want to read Greg Morrow's UCLA dissertation on urban planning in Los Angeles for some context: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6k64g20f#page-1 This graph (p. 3) shows that zoning changes in LA since
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by ripley12 11y ago
"limited housing" is the key point. Most North American municipalities have painful and binding limits on the number of housing units allowed: http://www.metafilter.com/148375/Anyone-have-a-Pop-up-blocke... B
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by ripley12 12y ago
Wasn't clear why you mentioned civil engineering in that context though. Also, IME it applies to the larger American companies in the Vancouver market (Amazon, MS) as well.
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by ripley12 12y ago
Wow, that is hugely different from my experience at UBC CS. I graduated in 2011, when did you finish? "The loss of community with the rest of your class" - I didn't notice much community to begin with. It's a big program