skrebbel

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811.
by skrebbel 2y ago
Yes. It goes over the river.
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Last xmas my kids and I stayed over in Wuppertal on the way back home from family just to check out the Schwebebahn and it didn't disappoint! It makes what would otherwise be a relatively ordinary Ruhrgebiet-style German city (ie mostl
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by skrebbel 2y ago
jullie
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Hey, I'm a foreigner, the nuances of American history and regional culture are lost on me. If y'all can call my country "Holland" even though that's like calling the US "Carolina", then I can refer to the
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by skrebbel 2y ago
As a non-native English speaker, I love "y'all" because it lets me directly translate our word for, well, "y'all" to English. I seriously struggle to formulate sentences such that it's clear from context t
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Hey nice! That's gotta be new-ish too, right? Last I checked I had to log in. Thanks!
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by skrebbel 2y ago
I like this a lot. I don't use AI a lot and I often find it annoying, so I don't eg feel the need to install the OpenAI mobile app (which I assume exists). Having ChatGPT in my WhatsApp (I live in a place where WhatsApp is everywh
818.
by skrebbel 2y ago
I simply don't understand how she codes the app and writes the newsletter and does social media marketing for StoryGraph and flies all over the world to do keynotes at ruby conferences. I'm very impressed.
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Looks like a pretty cool app! "Amazon-free Goodreads" is a pretty good pitch. I'm curious how freemium model works out for them though, I could imagine a lot of people thinking the free version is good enough for them.
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by skrebbel 2y ago
> That's not annoying People found it plenty annoying when NL was as car centric as the US is now. In some potential future when everybody has an EV you might not be against banning ICEs from city centers either. The annoyance is no
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by skrebbel 2y ago
> I personally don't even own or need a car This is likely due to similar "annoying" regulation in the past, eg making space for bike lanes, investing in public transit and giving it more space than cars, and so on. These
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by skrebbel 2y ago
This is what I come to HN for
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by skrebbel 2y ago
I'd like to just put a drive-by comment as to how thoroughly, deeply impressed I am with all this. Taking any product from idea to completion is very hard, and these both look like very non-trivial products with deep challenges in desi
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Just to chip in with the drive-by website feedback, I just realized that (I love everything about this and) I have no idea how big either the espresso machine or the grinder is. I think I'd really need some realistic (ish) kitchen phot
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Fwiw I agree with most of what you said, but as a business owner I can't let this one slide: > In the end all the discussion should be about the code - if it is not about the code you are discussing the wrong thing. The code is impo
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by skrebbel 2y ago
You can also just coach engineers to ship iteratively directly, rather than treat them as hopeless basket cases and use deadlines as a workaround. I mean stuff like, teach them to ship when it's better (and not when it's perfect),
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Got any experience to share in this regard? I can imagine plenty roadblocks but it's not immediately obvious to me that trust doesn't scale.
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by skrebbel 2y ago
> Also your last line (Deadlines are poverty) suggests that it’s a term you use a lot in your company - want to expand? Nah, I just invented it to make the comment feel more edgy. Your question made me realize that that's the only r
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by skrebbel 2y ago
I'm cofounder of https://talkjs.com , and I strongly disagree. We do not believe that Parkinson's Law universally holds, and in fact we do not use deadlines at all. If I'm not mistaken, the standard lore goes as f
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by skrebbel 2y ago
WhatsApp uses your phone as the primary message store. Its architecture is more similar to SMS than to typical DB-driven client-server apps. Their servers are only designed to pass messages through, not persist them (they persist them only
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by skrebbel 2y ago
I never suggested "really understand", I talked about democratization which is used here to mean "to make available to all people". To remind, I'm solely writing all this in support of the comment that "democ
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Taylor Swift did exactly this, though for different reasons.
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Yeah but functions are available to all people. I mean, it's an abstract mathematical concept. When you find a 30% discount sticker on an item in a store and compute in your head what the resulting price is going to be, you're a
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by skrebbel 2y ago
"omnibar" is just chrome's slightly pretentious name for the address bar.
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by skrebbel 2y ago
I tried the stackblitz demo you linked to and I don't get it, why is "this element lets people author terrible user-hostile webpages" an indictment of the element? I mean you can make a user-hostile page with divs too. People
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by skrebbel 2y ago
fwiw i'm surprised by the downvotes too (and upvoted it to compensate). that said, complaining about downvotes is usually frowned upon here.
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by skrebbel 2y ago
What do you mean by "connection" in the context of SQLite?
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by skrebbel 2y ago
The idea that I have to "self-assess the value" of everything I create, and if I don't, I effectively lose my rights to it, sounds absolutely terrifying to me. This proposal completely misses the fact that most creatives are
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by skrebbel 2y ago
It implements the HTML Canvas API. That's not necessarily better or worse, it's just potentially helpful if you've got lots of Canvas-based code lying around you want to run outside a browser environment.
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by skrebbel 2y ago
I'd love to learn more about how your 2 day implementation did fillText (incl full unicode rendering, proper text shaping etc)

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