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by roberttod 8y ago
This is such a departure from the industry norm, trying to figure out what works best and focusing on that configuration. It looks like Google already struggle keeping the product maintained and nice-to-use, I imagine these options make it
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by roberttod 8y ago
I just went through my Inbox to figure out why I still use email. For personal stuff, I think WhatsApp, Messenger, iMessages are clear winners. 90% of my emails seem to be marketing I'll never read or notifications I ignore. I try my b
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by roberttod 8y ago
I've worked as a remote tech lead for a couple of years and I often find myself at 6pm New York time asking an important question to someone in London, 11pm their time. Slack is bad for this, I wonder what people make of me DMing them
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Probability of success won't help you succeed(medium.com)
2 points by roberttod 8y ago|0 comments
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by roberttod 9y ago
But how much energy will it use when scaled to the throughput of physical currency? Probably still not as bad but Bitcoin is still far less efficient than credit/debit transactions at that scale. There are some great crypto alternative
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by roberttod 9y ago
My thoughts exactly. On the evolutionary timescale we have been studying animals for a miniscule amount of time. Unless some "new behaviour" is caused by human influence, I am very sceptical of claims like this. "Orcas have l
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by roberttod 9y ago
> In a city, the satellite’s signals reach the receiver both directly and by bouncing off of one or more buildings. The direct signal and any reflections arrive at slightly different times and if they overlap, they add up to form a sort
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by roberttod 9y ago
I wish in JavaScript that inequality operators would always return false if either side of the operator needed coercion, at least then this sort of scenario would be predictable (and a little more JavaScripty than throwing an error). As it
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by roberttod 9y ago
It's existence is one of the clearest examples of over-engineering existing. However, fitting a multi touch screen into a few mm's of laptop is technically impressive.
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by roberttod 9y ago
> The point isn't to ship code, it's to learn. Honestly I don't care if it ever ships. And even when I do release one, I don't care if nobody uses it except me. The objectives for a side project are subjective, and so
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by roberttod 9y ago
As much as I love the engineering behind the touch bar I never saw a good reason for it. I think context switching buttons is poor UX, you shouldn't need to look at the keyboard when you're using it. I miss the days I could quickl
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Setting up Node.js with a database, part 1(medium.com)
2 points by roberttod 9y ago|0 comments
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by roberttod 10y ago
Perhaps freeze all sensors at the last known value when entering a pin and when typing into password fields.
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Tutorial: Creating and managing a Node.js server on AWS, part 2(medium.com)
2 points by roberttod 10y ago|0 comments
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Tutorial: Creating and managing a Node.js server on AWS, part 1(medium.com)
6 points by roberttod 10y ago|0 comments
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Why strenuous runs may not be so bad for you after all(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by roberttod 12y ago|0 comments