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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
"The human brain, which accounts for less than 2 percent of the body’s mass, uses 20 percent of its calorie budget, or three bananas worth of energy a day. That’s remarkably low, given that spikes require a lot of energy." What is
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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
As people have stated here, the forests need to burn. Ponderosa Pine, which covers a lot of the Western U.S., burns at a cycle between 5-25 years. [1] However, we could and already do, control the natural process this through prescribed bur
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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
I've never had any major problems with a gTLD and email but I have had colleagues have spam filtering issues. I have used a .io domain and I haven't had a problem, although we don't email too frequently. I must say it is some
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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
This needs a potentially NSFW tag. Looked at this while working and quickly had to close it due to some questionable content.
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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
"Protocol buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data." [1] Interesting, I figured Google was handling data serialization in their own way, and now I know[2] [1] https:&#x2
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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
"you’d expect it to do something pretty deep right?... Nope. It reads in a string and writes out a string." We're all just doing the same thing in one way or another :) Good work and nice article.
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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
Definitely look at this before you use React Native. RN makes heavy use of flexbox for layouts, and if you come from living in a world of <div style="position: relative; margin-left: x;"> then it can be a bit foreign. As for
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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
It's likely that there are many factors at work. You'll hear everything from changes in diet, too much TV, too much social media, too much time in front of the iPad, etc. As an anecdote to perhaps corroborate yours, it felt imposs
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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
I haven't had to rely a lot on math skills for a large portion of my career. For most "full-stack" stuff I've been involved with, it barely gets any higher than algebra. However, I've found math creep up though here
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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
I never studied math in college, in fact I barely studied math in high school. It was always daunting to try to parse the notation and figure out how the abstract symbols corresponded to some piece of reality. When I became a self-taught de
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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
"Research has shown that users are already desensitized to privacy and security warnings." This along with the quote below are my biggest takeaways from this article: "it can be difficult to avoid information leakage through
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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
Having worked with dc.js and D3 for interactive visualizations, I'm eager to try something else like this that could simplify charting. When recharting via an API, a lot of code needs to be written to handle it. With Vega though, at le
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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
"In 1985, about half of Americans said they had a close friend at work; by 2004, this was true for only 30 percent" This decline precedes the Uberization of work (where people work more part time gigs with less coworkers around).
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Ask HN: What was it like to be a developer after the crash of 2008-2009?
12 points by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago|6 comments
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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
If this proves to be a correction that eliminates some startups that don't have a business model then so be it. Startups shouldn't be owned as some sort of novelty items by investors or acquirers, they should be revenue producing.
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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
I just started learning React and it's great how libraries like these are almost making the construction of front-end web components into a DSL via JSON schemas.
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by sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
I primarily use AngelList and filter based on my skill set.