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   by spraak 8y ago

   So true! For that I like taking quick notes of what I'm reading or at least highlighting points that stand out and then later go over the notes alongside the book. The highlighted bits can even be somewhat arbitrary, as it still helps
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   by spraak 8y ago

   I think that's a great idea, but seems conflicting to the mindset that the almond farmers have (and most conventional farmers). That is, that's a more whole system mindset (see also permaculture) where farmers growing acres upon a
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   by spraak 8y ago

   > Sails.js is probably the closest thing to sane in the JS web framework ecosystem Whoa, that's where you lost me. Sails has a reputation for being horrible, and after working on a production app using Sails, I agree. Perhaps you we
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   by spraak 8y ago

   > Software development should strive to be a proper, rational, engineering discipline. Well, to use an analogy from civil engineering, I don't think choosing a programming language is always as critical as which type of concrete you
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   by spraak 8y ago

   Well, that does make this less romantic, but personally that was a romanticism that I put over the situation from my own bias rather than anything in the article. That is, there are many stories with idealists that use no modern tools, but
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   by spraak 8y ago

   What happened in the interview where you owed money? I've never heard of anything like that
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   by spraak 8y ago

   Recently I implemented a wrapper function that given an object returns a Proxy which has a get method that recursively calls itself with the accessed object path and finally returns the object and logs the full path. (The code is not compli
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   by spraak 8y ago

   > Using nothing but a smartphone for all my home computer usage would be a major setback. But that's not the analogy here. This is for the "last mile". Perhaps a more appropriate analogy is using a lightweight laptop (rath
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   by spraak 8y ago

   Your first analogy (50lb computer) is nonsense because that's exactly the point I'm saying: computers that fit on your pocket and are just a few grams can easily render a webpage. Who thinks that a 50lb computer is nice unless it&
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    by spraak 8y ago

    > If you have a city of single-family residences (and three quarters of Americans do live in single-family residences), it's really hard to not build for cars. Yes, and how those cities are designed are a big part of the problem.
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    by spraak 8y ago

    This book is really amazing in its level of detail and specificity and incredible how it's still relevant.
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    by spraak 8y ago

    From the_gastropod below: > Cars are not the only solution here. Transporting a single disabled person does not require a 100+ horsepower 2-ton vehicle.
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    by spraak 8y ago

    Waterline (for Sails.js) is horrible. Last I looked there's no way to do a kind of `deepPopulate` (requiring an inner join)
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    by spraak 8y ago

    I hope you can hire a designer and frontend engineer soon! I understand it's an experiment but the site looks 15 years outdated. In any case it seems interesting, good luck!
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    by spraak 8y ago

    I mean, I agree but that's a rude way to tell the above poster you disagree
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    by spraak 8y ago

    Do you run your own server?
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    by spraak 8y ago

    What does Slack as a company use to communicate when Slack the product is down? :>
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    by spraak 8y ago

    That's really interesting. How does it however wait to vote until you press the up or down arrow?
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    by spraak 8y ago

    Thanks that was a good laugh (I know, hindsight etc. etc.)
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    by spraak 8y ago

    Thanks for your perspective. I think cost is interesting, because the cost of conventional building with air conditioning and heating doesn't seem to factor the long term earth or environmental cost. My suspicion is that these actually
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    by spraak 8y ago

    At risk of sounding like a ludite or troll, why aren't these used in modern times? Earth architecture is so efficient and cost effective, it seems.
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    by spraak 8y ago

    Also check out "The Now Habit". Sounds corny but it really identifies the baste causes of procrastination and has some great tools for overcoming it. I can't say I'm completely cured yet, but it did help me to read it.
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    by spraak 8y ago

    This is pretty in line with how the book "The Now Habit" presents it.
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    by spraak 8y ago

    Thanks for sharing this! I really felt like it must be older and more common than critics claim.
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    by spraak 8y ago

    Yeah I've always wondered why that has happened in Britain but not so much in the US in that people on different ends of the country can often sound not too dissimilar,
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    by spraak 8y ago

    > in your downvoted opinion? I think this is going against the rules or etiquette of HN
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    by spraak 8y ago

    [REDACTED]
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    by spraak 8y ago

    Not to say one is better than another, but this guy got $7990 from his case https://blog.legalist.com/i-won-8-000-from-equifax-in-small-...
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    by spraak 8y ago

    This is so totally useful to me. I have a meeting in an hour with my team about how we're going to approach this
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    by spraak 8y ago

    It is also sneakily mutable at times. Some methods will mutate the original object - the cause of a few bugs I've investigated recently